Saturday, September 29. 2012
Mike Laverick's VMwareWag - vSphere Storage 5.1 - Part 1 with Cormac Hogan
In part one Mike Laverick discusses with Cormac Hogan the new vSphere5.1 features on the area of storage including: VMFS File Sharing increased, Space Efficent Sparse Virtual Disks, New vSphere Storage APIs and Support for 5-node MSCS Clusters. Follow Cormac at http://www.cormachogan.com and at @VMwareStorage
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Friday, September 28. 2012
VMware Labs presents its latest Fling - VIB Author
The VIB Author tool allows ESXi administrator to create custom VIBs at the Community Supported level. VIB stands for vSphere Installation Bundle and is a way of packaging programs that run on ESXi hosts. The custom VIBs can then be used in house, or made available to a wider audience.
Key Features
- Create VIBs using custom VIB descriptor files and custom payload files
- Sign and verify a VIB
- Extract and display VIB information
- Publish the VIB as an offline depot ZIP file
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Video - DynamicOps vSphere
DynamicOps’ products and technology extend VMware’s current capabilities by enabling customers to deploy and manage cloud solutions across VMware-based private and public clouds, physical infrastructure, multiple hypervisors and public clouds. Using DynamicOps’ groundbreaking Operations Virtualization technology, organizationally-aware cloud platform, and extensive out-of-the-box functionality, customers realize fast time-to-cloud value and respond to market demands quickly and economically. Enterprises boost IT efficiency and easily embrace consumerization by empowering users with personalized, instantly available services.
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Thursday, September 27. 2012
VMware vSphere 5.1 Documentation Center - PDF and E-book Formats
VMware really did an outstanding job with the availability of vSphere 5.1 information at the new vSphere 5.1 Documentation Center. It offers a wide range of documents in searchable HTML format but also offers all guides in PFD, ePub and mobi format. It even has a link to one downloadable zip file with all the vSphere 5 PDFs you need.
ESXi and vCenter Server 5.1 Product Guides:
- vSphere Installation and Setup
- vSphere Upgrade
- vSphere vCenter Server and Host Management
- vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
- vSphere Host Profiles
- vSphere Networking
- vSphere Storage
- vSphere Security
- vSphere Resource Management
- vSphere Availability
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- vSphere Troubleshooting
- vSphere Examples and Scenarios [pdf | epub | mobi]
Zip Archives of ESXi and vCenter Server Documentation
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