Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX-TTM Data Center environment.

In this course, you are introduced to workflows of various networking and security constructs along with several operational and troubleshooting tools that help managing and troubleshooting your NSX-T Data Center. In addition, you are presented with various types of technical problems, which you will identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic process.

VMware has released a VRA new training course, during this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vRealize® Automation.

I'm delivering this training course at Zaventem Belgium from the 24th of June till the 28th of June 2019. This class has been guaranteed to run. If you're interested you can register here. I'm looking forward to meeting you!

You learn about the configuration and use of the vRealize Automation platform, including self-service provisioning and the creation of catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, software components, and on-demand VMware NSX networks.

This course also covers interfacing vRealize Automation with other systems using VMware vRealize Orchestrator to leverage workflows, creating approval cycles, and managing machine lifecycles to conserve resources.

In addition, you will better understand and know how to achieve the benefits of automation as a component of the software-defined data center.

This two-day course explains how to use and configure VMware vRealize Operations version 7.0 to work with VMware vSAN 6. This course explains the concepts and practical applications of vRealize Operations in reference to vSAN.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• List and describe the uses of vRealize Operations when applied to vSAN
• Use the product UI to navigate through built-in vSAN specific dashboards
• Review the built-in vSAN specific dashboards for key vSAN information
• Create your own vSAN specific dashboards
• Assess performance and optimize vSAN workloads 
• Perform vRealize Operation capacity optimization
• Assess policies related to vSAN
• Perform vSAN troubleshooting using vRealize Operations

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VMware has released a new version of the Horizon Toolbox. This new version supports auditing of:

• Sessions:  Shows historical concurrent session trend for the last 2 days, last week and last month. Shows current virtual desktop connections by desktop pools, and shows virtual application connections by RDS (Remote Desktop Service) Farms.
• Usage:  Shows accumulated use time of users for the last 2 days, last week and last month.  Shows all connections (user name, pool/farm name, machine name, connection time, disconnection time) for the past 2 days, last week, and last month.
• Snapshots:   Shows parent virtual machines of linked clone desktop pools and descendant snapshots in a tree view. The snapshots not in use by linked clone pools are marked in grey so that the View administrator can remove the snapshots, not in use.
• Clients:  Shows statistics for operating systems and versions of View clients in different types of view styles. Show View clients IP addresses.
• End users actions: show agent-side users' actions about USB storage, Client Drive Redirection, and Clipboard

It also has support for Console Access and a Power Policy:

• Console Access lists all VMs for desktop pools, and you can filter VMs by VM name or DNS name. Clicking the VM name, the vSphere console for that VM will pop out.

• Power Policy lists all desktop pools and their power policies. Power Policy can power on all VMs in a desktop pool with some schedule, like 8:00 AM on all work days. You can set up a power policy for each desktop pool.