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With the launch of vSphere™ 4, a new certification will be available. The VMware Certified Professional (VCP) on vSphere™4 beta exam will be available 30 days post GA. Candidates eligible for the beta exam will be contacted directly by VMware.

Paths to VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4

Distributed Virtual Port Groups (DV Port Groups) are port groups associated with a vDS and specify port configuration options for each member port. DV Port Groups define how a connection is made through the vDS to the Network. Configuration parameters are similar to those available with Port Groups on Standard Switches. The VLAN ID, traffic shaping parameters, port security, teaming and load balancing configuration, and other settings are configured here.

Distributed Virtual Uplinks (dvUplinks) are a new concept introduced with vDS. dvUplinks provide a level of abstraction for the physical NICs (vmnics) on each host. NIC teaming, load balancing, and failover policies on the vDS and DV Port Groups are applied to the dvUplinks and not the vmnics on individual hosts. Each vmnic on each host is mapped to a dvUplinks, permitting teaming and failover consistency irrespective of vmnic assignments. This is illustrated in the following Jing movie.

I’m in the middle of delivering the “VMware vSphere 4 : What’s New” course. This hands-on training explores the new features of vSphere 4 as well as how to upgrade to vSphere 4. I made a little movie with my Mino Flip. In this video you’ll see the complete vmguru.nl crew.

At the end of the day, Erik Scholten a Solution Architect for Centric Managed ICT Services, interviewed me about my about the first vSphere training day. You can watch the complete interview here.

DB2 Express-C 9.5.2 (free to develop, free to deploy, free to distribute) contains a full-function DB2 data server, which provides an entry-level product for the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market. It comes with simplified packaging, and is easy to transparently install from within an application. It is available on Linux and Windows platforms, is fully compatible with, scalable to, and has all the autonomic manageability features of its higher priced family of offerings.

These documents describe how to configure an IBM DB2 v9.5 for Linux, Unix, and Windows (LUW) Data Server to Work with vCenter Server. These configuration tasks are mandatory to use a DB2 database with vCenter Server.

db2_prereq_connection_configuration.txt

DB_and_schema_creation_scripts_DB2.txt

After creating a Distributed Switch I was looking at my storage and noticed a new folder called “.dvsData”. It looks like this folders contains the configuration of the Distributed Switch. I think it will be used when the vCenter server is down. I extracted one of the files so you can take a look at it. 134 :-)

Chris Akerberg, President & COO, Vizioncore is pleased to introduce Vizioncorum – the official blogging site of Vizioncore. Why did Vizioncore take this step to launch this site now? As virtualization becomes more mainstream, they felt it would be very valuable to the community to voice their expertise and knowledge and make it available to both those new to virtualization and those longer-term users of the technology.

The Vizioncorum Blog Panelists are Jason Mattox, David Feathergill, Scott Herold, Thomas Bryant, Brad Wagner and the Vizioncore Sales Engineers.

http://vizioncorum.com/

I’m prepping the upcoming delivery of the “What’s New in VMware vSphere 4” training course. I decided to migrate the existing virtual adapters like the kernel port group and the service console port group from a vNetwork Standard Switch to a vNetwork Distributed Switch. I also switched over the virtual machines by configuring virtual machine networking on a vNetwork Distributed Switch.

This is a short walk through from the ESX configuration guide.

VMware Data Recovery provides complete data protection for your virtual machines. Learn more about VMware Data Recovery at http://www.vmware.com/products/data-recovery/

In this How-To Video Series, Hyper9's own Zahid Ghauri walks the user through the search process in the Hyper9 product. The search language itself is a simple, yet powerful syntax that allows the VI Admin to create multi-clause, proper name and/or key word based search queries. You can do something as simple as "VM" or a phrase like "Microsoft Exhange". Multiple terms can also be combined to form more complicated queries. Watch this video for a step-by-step guide to start learning about all of the powerful queries you can perform in the Hyper9 product.

Here are some video highlights from VMDoug’s recent trip to New Jersey and then Orlando for VMware Partner Exchange 2009. At the end of the video you will see a TweetUp organized by @Scott_Lowe and @RBrambley at the Veeam booth.  Some VMware Partner Exchange Twitter folk actually showed up: @sbeaver, @ edsai, @vseanclark, @dsiles and @thinlaunchmike

Photos from all over the World (Aarhus, Austin, Bulgaria, Israel, Lausanne, London , Pune and Palo Alto Behind the Scenes) taken by VMware employees, kicking off the vSphere launch.

       

icomasoft announces the release of its VI PowerScripter Professional v1.5. The latest release of icomasoft’s VI automation software is best positioned to rapidly address automation, management and compliance requirements across Virtual Infrastructures. IT administrators will experience a better control of their virtual infrastructure, increased IT compliance and substantial time-savings in routine management tasks.

Visitors of VMworld Europe 2009 have realized the benefits of icomasoft’s powerful automation software and ranked the respective session “Managing VMware with PowerShell” among the best Top 3 Sessions of the most important virtualization event in Europe. VI PowerScripter Professional v1.5 is designed to manage virtual infrastructures on different platforms and provides a high degree of automation. It can easily adapt and execute complex tasks automatically, even providing a scheduler for recurring jobs.

Chad Sakac, EMC Vice President, VMware Technology Alliance, explains the tight integration between EMC PowerPath/VE and VMware vSphere and points out its dramatic performance and availability potential. Learn how your infrastructure behind vSphere can meet your performance and availability requirements.

PowerPath/VE will be available in June. Pricing starts at $2,100 per physical server for new PowerPath customers and $1,430 for current customers.