Manfred Meier over at VMwareDirectory has launched a new utility. The vGuestExplorer is a Windows Explorer style tool which can copy files and folders to and from Virtual Machines, even without Network connectivity.
It connects through PowerCLI and VIX API to the ESXi Host or vCenter Server and lists all Virtual Machines with running VMware Tools. The files are retrieved and managed by VMware Tools on the Guest Virtual Machine. It will save you time, creating and connecting ISO files or disks to Virtual Machines to transfer files.
Friday, September 27. 2013
VMware vCloud Hybrid Service explained by Chris Colotti
In this VMworld TV video the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service is explained by Chris Colotti.
VMware vCloud Hybrid Service is a secure, dedicated hybrid cloud service operated by VMware, built on the trusted foundation of VMware vSphere. The service supports existing workloads and third-party applications as well as new application development, giving IT a common platform for seamlessly extending its data center to the cloud.
vCloud Hybrid Service is available in two service types—Dedicated Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud—and includes five primary service components:
- Compute (vCPU and vRAM)
- Storage
- Internet bandwidth
- Public IP addresses
- Production support
Wednesday, September 25. 2013
Interview with Darla Hershberger about VMware Log Insight
VMware vCenter Log Insight delivers automated log management through log aggregation, analytics and search, extending VMware’s leadership in analytics to log data. With an integrated cloud operations management
approach, it provides the operational intelligence and enterprise-wide visibility needed to proactively enable service levels and operational efficiency in dynamic hybrid cloud environments.
VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5 Technical Preview 2 - What's New
Tuesday, September 24. 2013
Interview and Demo with HyTrust at VMworld 2013
Despite its name, the HyTrust Appliance is not a physical piece of hardware. It’s a VMware vSphere-compatible virtual appliance that’s deployed right alongside the rest of your virtual infrastructure. It can be deployed on the same hypervisor that it is actively protecting.
HyTrust Appliance sits in the management plane of the virtual infrastructure. In other words, it sits between the administrators of the virtual infrastructure—the virtualization admins, the network admins, the application owners—and the virtual infrastructure itself. From this centralized vantage point, HyTrust Appliance intercepts all administrative requests for the virtual infrastructure, determines whether or not the request is in accordance with the organization’s defined policy, then permits or denies the request as appropriate.
Monday, September 23. 2013
Now available as Rough Cut - Networking for VMware Administrators
The Rough Cuts service from VMware Press gives you exclusive access to an evolving manuscript that you can read online or download as a PDF and print. A Rough Cuts book is not fully edited or completely formatted, but you'll get access to new versions as they are created.
Overview
Increasingly, virtualization administrators and architects must have a deep understanding of networks. However, many have come to virtualization from other IT backgrounds, and do not have the knowledge they need to interact effectively with network specialists or solve problems with virtual networks. Networking for VMware Administrators fills this crucial gap, illuminating the core concepts required to "speak the language" of networking, and showing exactly how they apply to VMware vSphere.
Overview
Increasingly, virtualization administrators and architects must have a deep understanding of networks. However, many have come to virtualization from other IT backgrounds, and do not have the knowledge they need to interact effectively with network specialists or solve problems with virtual networks. Networking for VMware Administrators fills this crucial gap, illuminating the core concepts required to "speak the language" of networking, and showing exactly how they apply to VMware vSphere.
Drawing on their extensive experience architecting, delivering, and troubleshooting virtual networks with VMware, Cisco, and other technologies, Christopher Wahl and Steve Pantol address all this and more:
- Physical networking: concepts, models, Ethernet, hardware, protocols, VLANs and routing/Subnetting
- Virtual switching and how it differs from physical switching
- vSphere standard and distributed switch concepts, terminology, configuration, and design
- Third party switches, including Nexus 1000v: architecture and overview
- Storage networking: use cases, design, and configuration
- Other design scenarios: 1 Gb Ethernet, 10 Gb Ethernet, blade servers, converged traffic, and virtual NICs
Upcoming Book Release – Networking for VMware Administrators by Christopher Wahl
Interview with Bruce Davie about VMware NSX at VMworld 2013
Meet Bruce Davie, Lead Architect for NSX, for a walkthrough about VMware's new product: NSX. What it is, how to use it and best practices, all in one video.