The App Volumes FAQ provides answers to critical questions about using App Volumes in your data center. Question categories include requirements and maximums, installation and configuration, storage, management, using App Volumes with Remote Desktop Session Hosts (RDSH), and troubleshooting.
Friday, August 19. 2016
vRealize Network Insight Overview
vRealize Network Insight provides IT operations teams peerless visibility, contextual analytics and micro-segmentation planning and modeling capabilities for their VMware NSX based software-defined data centers.
You can now deploy NSX over any physical compute and networking system with confidence. vRealize Network Insight connects the virtual and physical layers through cross domain, cross layer, cross vendor visibility and analytics. vRealize Network Insight makes NSX operations extremely simple and robust. Download the solutions brief here.
See how VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security to help IT maximize their NSX investments.
Tuesday, August 16. 2016
Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere Availability and Recovery Options
Running Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere offers many options for database availability and disaster recovery utilizing the best features from both VMware and Microsoft. For example, VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) can help to reduce planned downtime and balance workloads dynamically, and VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) can help to recover SQL Server databases in the case of host failure.
At the application level, all SQL Server features and techniques are supported on vSphere, including AlwaysOn Availability Groups, AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances, database mirroring, and log shipping. SQL Server availability features can be used inside of a virtual machine just as you would on a physical server, and combined with vSphere features to support flexible availability and recovery
scenarios, applying the most efficient and appropriate tools for different use cases.
AlwaysOn is a collection of high availability and disaster recovery features introduced in SQL Server 2012 that minimize Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and maximize availability of databases. SQL Server AlwaysOn branding encompasses both FCIs and AGs. The following table lists SQL Server availability options and their ability to meet RTOs and RPOs. Before choosing any option, evaluate your business requirements to determine which ones best meet your specific needs.
Download this new technical white paper written by Niran Even-chen: Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere Availability and Recovery Options
New Technical White Paper - Horizon FLEX Deployment Considerations
This VMware Horizon FLEX Deployment Considerations paper is intended to help administrators address important matters that may arise during the installation and setup of VMware Horizon FLEX.
This document contains information on topology and best practices. It is to be used in conjunction with the existing Horizon FLEX Administration Guide and Horizon FLEX Client User Guide. For more information on the challenges and use cases that Horizon FLEX addresses, see the VMware Horizon FLEX Solution Brief.
VMware Horizon FLEX is a policy-based, containerized desktop solution that allows IT administrators to create, secure, and manage local desktops to meet the needs of workers with their own unmanaged computers. End users work within a restricted virtual machine (VM) on their endpoints and can either be connected to or disconnected from the enterprise network.
Monday, August 8. 2016
NSX feature walkthrough
These walkthroughs discuss the concept of network virtualization and describe the benefits and features of VMWare NSX.
VMware NSX - This series demonstrates the various features of VMWare NSX, including Manager, Gateway Service, Firewall, Monitoring & Troubleshooting and CMS integration.
NSX for vSphere - Learn how to use the features of VMWare NSX, including VXLAN, Network Virtualization and VXLAN to VLAN bridging services.
Security and Compliance - This series discusses the security challenges of adopting an SDDC, how to add a distributed firewall using VMWare NSX Network Virtualization and the benefits of the NSX service composer.
NSX Partner Integration - These walkthroughs demonstrate the extensibility of VMWare NSX and its integration with third-party Gateways and security features.
NSX and Log Insight - These series showcase the compatibility between VMware NSX and Log Insight.
Integration with VMware Components - These walkthroughs demonstrate the benefits of integration of NSX operations with other VMware components.
NSX 2.0 - This series of walkthroughs showcase the security, automation, application continuity and operational capabilities of NSX.
Sunday, August 7. 2016
Free e-learning course - vRealize Business for Cloud Fundamentals
This free course provides an overview of VMware vRealize Business for Cloud Standard and VMware vRealize Business for Cloud Advanced. It explores the IT management challenges that vRealize Business for Cloud is designed to solve and outlines the key features of the product suite.
This course introduces the vRealize Business for Cloud architecture, deployment best practices and business use cases. It also provides an introduction to the installation procedures for vRealize Business for Cloud 7.0.
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Identify the role of vRealize Business for Cloud
- Align the features of the vRealize Business for Cloud Standard and vRealize Business for Cloud Advanced editions with business use cases
- Describe the high-level architecture of vRealize Business for Cloud
- Describe the installation and configuration procedures for vRealize Business for Cloud 7.0
- Describe the usage of vRealize Business for Cloud in private and public cloud cost management