Tuesday, September 30. 2014
Running Arista vEOS inside VMware Workstation
Designed to provide a foundation for the business needs of next-generation datacenters and cloud networks. Arista EOS provides extremely robust and reliable data center communication services while delivering security, stability, openness, modularity and extensibility.
This unique combination offers the opportunity to significantly improve the functionality and evolution of next generation data centers. Arista EOS Central (EOSC) offers access to articles, architectures, tips, examples, and support to deliver real-world solutions that bridge the gap between what vendors build and what users want.
Monday, September 29. 2014
VMware Horizon 6 Reference Architecture
This reference architecture provides guidance for implementing a VMware Horizon 6 deployment that supports 2,000 – 10,000 users with an existing server and storage infrastructure. Although hardware is specified for 2,000 users, you can scale the deployment up to 10,000 users using the pod and block architecture approach.
This reference architecture combines the technologies of standard rack mount server hardware running on EMC VNX storage leveraging VMware View Accelerator (to accelerate existing SAN) with VMware ESXi 5.5and Horizon 6 software to produce a highly efficient, robust, and scalable next-generation virtual workspace deployment. This document includes information on View, VMware Mirage 5.0, and VMware Workspace Portal 2.0 running on top of VMware vSphere 5.5.
Sunday, September 28. 2014
Web 2.0 Applications on VMware Virtual SAN
Virtual SAN is a distributed storage product that leverages the combination of SSDs and magnetic disks to provide a hypervisor-integrated, scalable storage solution.
While Virtual SAN achieves impressive I/O performance with micro-benchmarks, Virtual SAN is also capable of performing well with a variety of workloads.
This paper presents the results of experiments with Cloudstone, a Web 2.0 benchmark in vSphere 5.5.
While Virtual SAN achieves impressive I/O performance with micro-benchmarks, Virtual SAN is also capable of performing well with a variety of workloads.
This paper presents the results of experiments with Cloudstone, a Web 2.0 benchmark in vSphere 5.5.
Saturday, September 27. 2014
Free Book - Virtualization 2.0 For Dummies
Virtualizing your servers was the first step to achieving cost savings, high availability, and greater IT efficiency. But as your business is evolving and growing, your virtualized infrastructure needs to do the same - leading to the next-generation data center running on Virtualization 2.0.
In Virtualization 2.0 For Dummies®, we will explore:
- How Virtualization 2.0 can deliver improved visibility, optimized planning and more predictive control through capacity management and performance monitoring
- A deep dive into virtualization beyond the server, including operations management, virtualized backup, storage, and networking
- How to prepare your IT environment for the next steps in your virtualization journey, with advice on storage options and security
- Technical tips, best practices, and links to in-depth resources to help you save time setting up, managing, and troubleshooting
Friday, September 26. 2014
Getting Started Guide for NSX vSphere
This document provides step-by-step examples that demonstrate how to set up the following network services in NSX for vSphere:
- Logical Switches
- Logical Distributed Router
- Distributed Firewalls
- Logical Centralized Routers (Edge) with Dynamic Routing and with many-to-one NAT
- Logical Load Balancers (Edge)
At the end, you'll have the following logical network deployed in your lab:
Wednesday, September 24. 2014
Cool Tool - VMware Certificate Toolkit
VMware Certificate Toolkit allows VMware admins to generate faster SSL certificates for VMware products. This tool is not based on OpenSSL, it Java cryptographic API to generate VMware supported SSL certificates.
Please don't use this tool in production environment before a Release Candidate version. VCT is available on source forge.