- Allocation-based Capacity Planning
- Greater Scalability
- New and Improved Widgets
Tuesday, April 9. 2013
Video - VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7: Overview of What's New
Thursday, April 4. 2013
Latest Fling from VMware Labs - StatsFeeder
The default persistence mechanism is comma-separated values, but the user can extend it to persist the data in a variety of formats, including a standard relational database or Key-value store. StatsFeeder is written leveraging significant experience with the performance APIs, allow the metrics to be retrieved in the most efficient manner possible.
Instructions on how to edit the sample configuration file are provided within the file itself. To get you started VMware has included a sample configuration file called sampleConfig.xml, which has the following properties:
- Output all statistics to a CSV file called output.csv
- Provide statistics output every 10 minutes, and roll the output files every hour
- Metrics are retrieve for real-time data over the vCenter inventory for both hosts and VMs. A basic set of metrics are specified
The package includes the .jar file, a sample .xml configuration file, a shell script for running StatsFeeder on Linux, and a .bat file for running StatsFeeder on Windows.
Tuesday, April 2. 2013
VCAP-Desktop Design Exam - Ready to Schedule
- Determine technical requirements for a VMware View-based design
- Create VMware View-based desktop and desktop pool designs that meet requirements
- Define the VMware vSphere-based infrastructure requirements for a View Design
Monday, April 1. 2013
New Training Course - VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V5.1]
This five days of instructor-led training with 25% lecture and 75% hands-on provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere environment. This workshop also increases your skill and competence in using the command line to analyze problems. The workshop is based on VMware ESXi 5.1 and VMware vCenter Server 5.1.
At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in vSphere 5.1 and be able to do the following:
- Troubleshoot SSL certificate issues.
- Troubleshoot networking issues.
- Troubleshoot storage issues.
- Troubleshoot single sign-on issues.
- Troubleshoot vCenter Server issues.
- Troubleshoot ESXi host issues.
- Troubleshoot VMware vSphere High Availability cluster issues.
- Troubleshoot VMware vSphere vMotion issues.
- Troubleshoot virtual machine issues.
- Use the VMware vSphere Web Client, the command line, and log files to diagnose and correct problems in vSphere.
The content of this course is based on frequently reported problems by customers. Rick Blythe over at VMware Support Insider says: The course covers troubleshooting areas related to trends we are seeing in support requests. Taking this class can help you avoid issues and respond quickly when they occur.
Datasheet: VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop
Friday, March 29. 2013
vCloud Automation Center Videos
VMware vCloud Automation Center (also known as vCAC) is comprised of three modules: Virtual Resource Manager (VRM), External Cloud Manager (ECM) and Physical Resource Manager (PRM).
Together, these modules provide an enterprise-wide system for provisioning virtual, cloud and physical machines and for comprehensively managing the machine lifecycle from user request and administrative approval through decommissioning and resource reclamation, while dramatically improving resource cost control and management. Built-in customization and extensibility features also make vCloud Automation Center a highly flexible means for customizing machine configurations as needed and integrating machine provisioning and management with other enterprise-critical systems.
VMware vCloud Automation Center Documentation
Thursday, March 28. 2013
New Technical White Paper - VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study
Resiliency is a key aspect of any infrastructure—it is even more important in IaaS solutions. This technical paper was developed to provide additional insight and information regarding the use of VMware vSphere PowerCLI to automate the recovery of a vCloud Director–based infrastructure. In particular, it focuses on automation of the recovery steps for vCloud Director 1.5–managed VMware vSphere vApp workloads.
The recovery of management components can be achieved using VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and will not be discussed. It is already available in the original VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study. vSphere PowerCLI is a powerful command-line tool that enables users to automate all aspects of vSphere management, including network, storage, virtual machine, guest operating system (OS) and more. Included since the release of version 5.0.1, vSphere PowerCLI introduced support for vCloud Director.
vSphere PowerCLI is distributed as a Microsoft Windows PowerShell snap-in and includes more than 300 PowerShell cmdlets, along with documentation and examples.This technical paper discusses the use of PowerShell and PowerCLI to automate the recovery of vCloud Director resource clusters.