Saturday, April 7. 2012
Technical Whitepaper - Creating a foundation for Oracle as a Service
Friday, April 6. 2012
New Book - VMware Cookbook: A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use
- Follow best practices for installing VMware and vSphere in your environment
- Discover how to secure and monitor your network
- Understand disk, SSD, and SAN storage implementation and configuration
- Get solutions for using vCloud Director and vShield
- Configure logical and physical networks
- Learn how to clone and migrate servers
- Gain valuable tips for configuration and fine-tuning
- Use the distributed resource scheduler, shares, and resource pools to learn resource management
Wednesday, April 4. 2012
Webinar - vCloud Director, Nexus 1000V and VXLAN Technical Deep Dive
Today’s virtualized data center demands that multivendor solutions integrate and work together. VMware vCloud Director facilitates easier deployment of virtual machines to suit the scaling needs of a cloud-enabled data center. One of the key functions of vCloud Director is to provide networking as a managed, allocated resource. vCloud Director uses the advanced features of the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switch to provide a scalable, highly secure, and agile cloud solution for private enterprises as well as service providers.
Kendrick Coleman has also created a nice write-up: Implementing vCloud Director 1.5.1 and Cisco Nexus 1000v 1.5
Monday, April 2. 2012
Video Awesomeness - VMware has released 3 hours of free online training
Saturday, March 31. 2012
VMware Technical Journal - March 2012
The VMware Technical Journal is a new online publication. VMware is looking forward to producing future journal issues at regular intervals to highlight the R&D efforts taking place in several different areas of engineering. Their first issue includes papers related to distributed resource management, user experience monitoring, and statistics collection frameworks for virtualized environments, along with several other topics. In future issues they will highlight other areas of VMware R&D, including Cloud Application Platform and End User Computing, and research collaborations with academic partners.
- Introduction by Steve Herrod, CTO
- VisorFS: A Special-purpose File System for Efficient Handling of System Images
- A Software-based Approach to Testing VMware® vSphere® VMkernel Public APIs
- Providing Efficient and Seamless Desktop Services in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
- Comprehensive User Experience Monitoring
- StatsFeeder: An Extensible Statistics Collection Framework for Virtualized Environments
- VMware Distributed Resource Management: Design, Implementation, and Lessons Learned
- Identity, Access Control, and VMware Horizon
- VMworld 2011 Hands-On Labs: Implementation and Workflow
Friday, March 30. 2012
New Training Course - VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [v5.0]
- Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for the large and sophisticated enterprise.
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment.
- Optimize the performance of vSphere components.
- Troubleshoot faults and identify their root causes.
- Use a command-line interface and the vSphere Management Assistant to manage vSphere.
- Use vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts.
This course prepares the student for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Administration [V5] certification (VCAP5-DCA). Completion of this course also satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional 5 exam.
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