Wednesday, November 28. 2012
VMworld TV - Extensive vCenter Operations Demo
Saturday, November 24. 2012
New Book - VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Application virtualization improves the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed.VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. ThinApp eliminates application conflicts, reducing the need and cost of recoding and regression testing.
In this book you will learn about how application virtualization works and how to deploy ThinApp packages. You will learn how to update and tweak ThinApp Projects before distribution. This book will then cover design and implementation considerations for future ThinApp projects.
This book is written in practical tutorial style and it offers learning through vivid examples and. Each chapter contains step-by-step instructions about everything necessary to execute a particular task. The book is designed so that you can read it from start to end for beginners or just open up any chapter and start following the recipes as a reference for advanced users.
This book will be useful to developers, System admins and consultants who want to install and manage a virtualized app environment using VMware ThinApp 4.7
You can read the first sample chapter "Application Virtualization" written by Peter Björk here. Peter Björk has many years of ThinApp experience. He started out working with Thinstall, and continued after VMware acquired the product in 2008, renaming it ThinApp. Peter supports ThinApp in the EMEA region. As a teacher, Peter has educated many ThinApp packagers around the world. Peter lives in Sweden with his wife and two kids, a boy and a girl.
Tuesday, November 20. 2012
Free Elearning Course - VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 Fundamentals
- Install SRM 5.1
- Connect the sites
- Configure inventory mappings in SRM
- Configure placeholder datastores
- Configure datastore mappings
- Configure vSphere Replication-based protection groups in SRM
- Create, edit, execute, test, and remove a recovery plan in SRM
- Discuss reprotect and failback
- Describe SRM alarms
- List administrative tasks
Setting up Protection is the second module, that demonstrates how to install VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and set up the protected site. This module discusses how to prepare for an SRM deployment; install SRM; configure SRM; configure vSphere Replication; and create protection groups.
Managing Disaster Recovery is the last module that demonstrates how to create, configure, test, and run disaster recovery plans. This module discusses features that are new in version SRM 5.0 and later, such as reprotection and automated failback. Finally, this module also discusses SRM alarms and some administrative tasks.
http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/courses.cfm?ui=www_cert&a=det&id_course=154960
Thursday, November 15. 2012
VMware vSphere Multi-Hypervisor Management Demo
Mike_Laverick says Multi-Hypervisor Manager (MHM), as you might know there’s been a “Fling” on the VMware Labs for sometime, that allows you to manage Windows HyperV hosts from vCenter. That fling is going to be discontinued and supported in the web-client. It will be a free component with Standard vCenter and support Windows HyperV 2008, and will support Windows HyperV 2012 when it finally ships. It will have a little bit more functionality that the original fling – it will be able to create new VMs on the Windows HyperV host and will more seamlessly integrate with vCenter. PMHM will ship as service that you add to your environment if you need it.
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0 Release Notes
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0 | 19 Nov 2012 | Build 901315 | Product Download
This video was recorded at the VMworld 2012 Europe Barcelona and shows the Multi-Hypervisor Manager in action. (I'm the guy holding the microphone asking nasty questions :-))
Wednesday, November 14. 2012
Getting Started with vSphere Web Client Programming - Setting up your development environment
- Setting up the development environment
- Fundamentals of creating User Interface extensions
- Fundamentals of creating Data View User Interface extensions
This video shows developers how to set up a platform for developing vSphere Web Client (VWC) solutions. It does this by:
- Listing the vSphere environment necessary for developing VWC solutions
- Listing the tool-chain required for developing VWC solutions
- Showing a screencast of the download, installation, and configuration of the tool-chain
- Showing a screencast of importing the VWC SDK (Software Development Kit) sample code into an STS (SpringSource Tool Suite) project
Source: https://blogs.vmware.com/kb by Graham Daly - Graham Daly is a Multimedia Specialist within the Global Support Services (GSS) Knowledge Management group at VMware. He is responsible for managing, maintaining and producing video tutorials for the VMware KBTV YouTube channel. Graham has been at VMware since 2006.
Tuesday, November 13. 2012
VMworld 2012 Europe Demo - VXLAN and the vDistributed Switch
Cloud computing services have experienced rapid growth over the past few years because they can keep costs down by allowing multiple tenants to share system resources. One requirement of making this multiple tenancy possible is to provide each tenant with network isolation. Segmenting the traffic using VLAN is a typical solution to this problem. However, service providers also need to keep up with customer demand by being able to move workloads to those servers that have spare resources.
To do so, network traffic needs to be encapsulated so that the workload is not tied to the underlying hardware. This can be a problem because the networking architecture ties the workloads to the underlying hardware, which restricts the movements of these workloads and limits where these workloads can be placed. In addition, segmenting the physical LAN using VLANs does not scale beyond a certain limit.
Virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network encapsulation mechanism that enables virtual machines to be deployed on any physical host, regardless of the host’s network configuration. It solves the problems of mobility and scalability in two ways:
- It uses MAC in UDP encapsulation, which allows the virtual machine to communicate using an overlay network that spans across multiple physical networks. It decouples the virtual machine from the underlying network thereby allowing the virtual machine to move across the network without reconfiguring the network.
- VXLAN uses a 24-bit identifier, which means that a single network can support up to 16 million LAN segments. This number is much higher than the 4,094 limit imposed by the IEEE 802.1Q VLAN specification.
- A virtual machine configured with VXLAN achieved similar networking performance to a virtual machine without VXLAN configured, both in terms of throughput and CPU cost.
- vSphere 5.1 scales well as we add more virtual machines on the VXLAN network.