Wednesday, September 12. 2012
VMworld TV - Achter de schermen (Dutch)
VMware vCloud Networking Poster Available for Download
Vyenkatesh (Venky) Deshpande: During VMworld 2012 (US) we released a brand new networking poster. This poster is a reference to all things related to vSphere Standard Switch (VSS), vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS), and Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) technology. It provides you information on the different components, terminologies and parameters of VSS, VDS, and VXLAN. It also explains the advanced features of VDS and discusses some best practices.
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/09/vmware-vcloud-networking-poster.html
VMworld TV - Wrapping up VMworld 2012 - San Francisco
2012 VMware Hands-on Labs - Content Catalog Available Online
http://hol-cme.cloudfoundry.com/index.html
Tuesday, September 11. 2012
Eric Sloof interviews Frank Denneman and Duncan Epping
Free self-paced training - vSphere What's New [V5.1]
- Support for hardware version 9, the latest CPU performance counters and virtual shared graphics acceleration designed for enhanced performance.
- For better space efficiency vSphere supports storage space reclamation for VDI.
- Support for VXLAN
- Enhanced vSphere Distributed Switch that supports:
- Network health check
- Backup and restore
- Rollback and recovery
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol support
- Single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV)
- VMware vSphere vMotion® without the need for shared storage configurations.
- VMware vSphere Data Protection for simple and cost effective backup and recovery,
- vSphere Replication enables efficient array-agnostic replication of virtual machine data over the LAN or WAN.
- vSphere Web Client
- vCenter Single Sign-On
- VSA enhancements
- Support for Additional Disk Drives
- Increase Storage Capacity Online
- vCenter running on the VSA Cluster
• Security: Inclusion VMware vShield Endpoint to eliminate the agent footprint from the virtual machines, offload intelligence to a security virtual appliance, and run scans with minimal impact.
• Automation: Two new methods for deploying new vSphere hosts to an environment make the Auto Deploy process more highly available than ever before.
http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edu&a=det&id_course=149391