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Sunday, March 18. 2012
vCenter Operations - Dashboard Overview
Saturday, March 17. 2012
vCenter Operations - Heat Maps & Event Management
Join VMware's Ben Scheerer diving deeper into the vC Ops capacity planning and management capabilities.
Friday, March 16. 2012
501 Release Notes
vSphere 5.0 U1 Release Notes
- Support for new processors
- Support for additional guest operating systems
- New or upgraded device drivers
- L3-routed NFS Storage Access
vCD 1.5.1 Release Notes
- Firewall rules can be configured with CIDR blocks, IP ranges, and port ranges
- Added system notification for lost connection to AMQP host
- Enhanced cell management tool and log collection script
- Support for AES-256 encryption for VPN tunnels
- Increased the retention maximum for vCenter Chargeback history
SRM 5.0.1 Release Notes
- Forced failover to allow you to recover virtual machines in cases where storage arrays fail at the protected site
- Added support for IP Customization of Ubuntu
- VMware VSA Support (Virtual machines that reside on the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) can be protected by SRM 5.0.1 using vSphere Replication (VR). VSA does not require a Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) to work with SRM 5.0.1)
vShield 5.0.1 Release Notes
- Enhanced reporting and export options
- New REST API calls
- Improved audit logs
- Simplified troubleshooting
- Improved vShield App policy management
- vShield App High Availability enhancements
- Enablement of Autodeploy (Stateless ESXi)
Configuration Manager 5.5 Release Notes
Chargeback Manager 2.0.1 Release Notes
Heartbeat 6.4 Update 1 Release Notes
- vSphere Guest Summary dashboard
- Virtual Environments Change Management dashboard
- Virtual Environments Compliance Posture dashboard (previously named Security Posture)
- Cloud Infrastructure Suite Integration (CIS) tree
Chargeback Manager 2.0.1 Release Notes
- Upgraded the Apache Tomcat server to version 6.0.35
- vCenter Chargeback Manager fails to validate XML API requests
- Upgrade fails with database connection error
- Usage of some of the computing resources are reported as zero
- Enhancements to the vCloud Director Data Collector
- Enhancements to the VM Instance Cost job
- Report schedule generates duplicate reports
Heartbeat 6.4 Update 1 Release Notes
- Support for vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1
- The ability to install vCenter Support Tools
VMware View 5 Evaluator’s Guide
The purpose of this document is to support a self-guided, hands-on review of VMware View 5. The content is intended to show how easily you can set up a VMware View 5 environment so you can evaluate both new and important capabilities. These capabilities include creating and managing virtualized desktops, and validating the suggested use cases.
The guide is divided into the following main sections:
- Key New Features of VMware View 5
- Description of VMware View Components
- Setting Up a View Evaluation Environment
- Evaluation Tasks
This document assumes you have basic knowledge of VMware vSphere 5, and are comfortable configuring networking and storage in a virtual environment. After you install the product, this document guides you through in-depth deployment scenarios. This guide is not intended to substitute for product documentation. For detailed information regarding installation, configuration, administration, and usage of VMware products, please refer to the online VMware documentation. You may also consult the online Knowledge Base if you have any additional questions.
Free version of Veeam ONE
Veeam is pleased to offer a free version of Veeam ONE, its single solution for powerful, easy-to-use and affordable virtualization management. Now everyone can experience the benefits of realtime monitoring, change tracking, documentation and management reporting used by more than 50,000 VMware professionals.
Veeam ONE Free Edition includes all the core functionality of the full version of Veeam ONE, including full data collection, multi-user support, and a Microsoft SQL Server backend. There are no limits on the number of hosts, virtual machines (VMs), users or the size of your data archive. By simply installing a purchased license key, Veeam ONE Free Edition can easily be upgraded to the full version of Veeam ONE to gain these and other additional capabilities:
- Alarm modeling and custom alarms
- Full access to the knowledge base
- Management of guest, host and vCenter processes
- Historical change management beyond the most recent 24 hours
- Microsoft Visio reports for multipathing, network, vMotion and datastore utilization
- Automated report generation and distribution
This PDF details the features and differences between Veeam ONE Free Edition and the full version of Veeam ONE.
Principled Technologies Report - View 5 Compared to Citrix XenDesktop 5.5
This report shows that in a true apples-to-apples comparison where lossy and lossless policies are applied equally to both platforms to yield a comparable user experience, VMware View 5 demonstrates equal or better efficiency in bandwidth consumption and in client and server side CPU utilization when compared to Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 on common office applications. This advantage in efficiency can translate into great density, better user experience and lower cost for an organization using VDI technologies.