Eric Sloof

VMware has announced a new free product which enables you to move and control your virtual machines and vApps in the cloud. The vCloud Connector will be available for download in Q1 2011.

VMware announced it has reached a milestone in delivering the enterprise hybrid cloud with the availability of VMware vCloud Datacenter services from BlueLock and Colt and beta services available from Verizon. VMware also introduced VMware vCloud Connector, a free plug-in that will allow all VMware vSphere administrators to immediately begin deploying and managing virtual machines (VMs) across VMware vCloud Powered cloud services from within the VMware vSphere Client. 

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vcdc-feb2011.html

ESX/ESXi includes an SNMP agent embedded in hostd that can both send traps and receive polling requests. such as GET requests. This agent is referred to as the embedded SNMP agent. By default, the embedded SNMP agent is disabled. To enable it, you must configure it using the vSphere CLI command vicfg-snmp. In this video I'll show you how to enable the SNMP agent.

This video is also added to my iTunes channel which can be found at Online VMware Training. It looks great on an iPad.

VMware offers world-class Desktop certifications designed to validate and recognize individuals with the technical capabilities and real-world experience needed to increase efficiency, reliability, and availability when delivering desktops from the datacenter as a managed service.

The VMware Certified Associate 4 – Desktop (VCA4-DT) is the first step toward gaining expertise in desktop virtualization and earning the respect and recognition that comes with being VMware Certified. The exam is designed for Desktop System Administrators who seek to demonstrate their ability to manage, monitor and troubleshoot desktop deployments and VMware View components, as well as their knowledge of adjacent, complementary technologies to VMware solutions.

http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=19733&ui=www_cert via William Lam

In this video I'll show you how to manipulate the slot size in a VMware vSphere HA cluster. You can set advanced attributes that affect the behaviour of your VMware HA The cluster.The das.slotMemInMB advanced value defines the maximum bound on the memory slot size. If this option is used, the slot size is the smaller of this value or the maximum memory reservation plus memory overhead of any powered-on virtual machine in the cluster.

This video is also added to my iTunes channel which can be found at Online VMware Training. It looks absolutely awesome on an iPad.

This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP® software solutions on VMware
vSphere 4. These guidelines only provide general recommendations and do not target any specific size or type of SAP solution implementation.

VMware has created separate best practice documents for the individual areas of storage, networking and performance. (See the Resources section for a list of these publications.) SAP also has created a variety of technical notes, published in the SAP Marketplace, for more information about virtualizing SAP solutions on VMware virtual infrastructure. Reference numbers of these notes are identified in this document, and you can refer to these additional technical notes in conjunction with the information provided here.

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10086

 
VMware vSphere is the industry’s most widely deployed virtualization solution. The current release VMware vSphere 4 is considered the most robust and sophisticated virtualization product. This book is the only one of its kind to clearly and concisely show you how to create a vSphere 4 implementation so that it is tailored to meet a company’s needs and resources. Expert authors share with you the factors that influence and shape the design of a vSphere 4 implementation. You will learn how to make the right design decisions for your company.

Explores the newest release of VMware vSphere, the industry’s most widely deployed virtualization solution Details the overall design process, server hardware, network layout, security, storage infrastructure, application ownership, and more Reviews everything you need to know in order to make the right decisions for using VMware vSphere 4 to meet your company’s needs Shows you step by step how to use tools such as VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat, VMware vCenter Server Role Based Access Controls, CapacityIQ, vKernel, and more Packed with real-world examples, VMware vSphere 4 Design shows you just how the design for your company should ideally look—and how you can achieve that goal.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470922028