TextWrangler is a super-powerful all-purpose (free) Mac text editor and UNIX server administrator's multitool. Oh, and like the best things in life? It's free. TextWrangler is a general-purpose text editor for light-duty composition, data-file editing (where the data files consist of plain [unstyled] text), and manipulation of text-oriented data. TextWrangler supports working with both plain-text and Unicode files (with the exception of files written using right-to-left writing systems, such as Hebrew or Arabic).
Tuesday, June 25. 2013
Cool Mac Tool - TextWrangler
Cool Mac Tool - Fugu SSH
Fugu is a (free) graphical frontend for the text-based Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) client that ships with Mac OS X. SFTP is similar to FTP, but the entire session is encrypted, meaning nothing, including passwords, is sent in the clear. Fugu provides a friendly, intuitive interface for OpenSSH's SFTP client, featuring secure drag-and-drop file transfers, remote file editing and remote file preview.
Fugu allows you to take advantage of SFTP's strong encryption without having to sacrifice ease of use. Additionally, Fugu can make secure file transfers using Secure Copy (SCP), and can create SSH tunnels to facilitate secure interaction between machines.
Friday, June 21. 2013
VMware Academic Program (VMAP): Technical Journal - Summer 2013
Steve Muir - Director - VMware Academic Program: Happy first birthday to the VMware Technical Journal! We are very pleased to have seen such a positive reception to the first couple of issues of the journal, and hope you will find this one equally interesting and informative. We will publish the journal twice per year going forward, with a Spring edition that highlights ongoing R&D initiatives at VMware and the Fall edition providing a showcase for our interns and collaborators.
Topics
- Memory Overcommitment in the ESX Server
- Redefining ESXi IO Multipathing in the Flash Era
- Methodology for Performance Analysis of VMware vSphere under Tier-1 Applications
- vATM: VMware vSphere Adaptive Task Management
- An Anomaly Event Correlation Engine: Identifying Root Causes, Bottlenecks, and Black Swans in IT Environments
- Simplifying Virtualization Management with Graph Databases
- Autonomous Resource Sharing for Multi-Threaded Workloads in Virtualized Servers
Monday, June 17. 2013
Now available as Rough Cut - VCP-Cloud Official Cert Guide
The Rough Cuts service from VMware Press gives you exclusive access to an evolving manuscript that you can read online or download as a PDF and print. A Rough Cuts book is not fully edited or completely formatted, but you'll get access to new versions as they are created.
VMware has offered the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) exam since the early 2000s but has recently expanded their offerings to include the VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) and VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certifications.
Even more recently, VMware has increased the certification tracks to include End User Computing (EUC) - also known as “Desktop” - and Cloud certifications and has renamed the core virtualization track to Data Center Virtualization (DCV). This means that anyone with the legacy “VCP” certification is now considered VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) holders.
Even more recently, VMware has increased the certification tracks to include End User Computing (EUC) - also known as “Desktop” - and Cloud certifications and has renamed the core virtualization track to Data Center Virtualization (DCV). This means that anyone with the legacy “VCP” certification is now considered VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) holders.
What is common to each track is that there is a progressive certification path that takes the candidate from VCP to VCAP to VCDX. What’s involved with each step on the path?
The Official VCP-Cloud Cert Guide is a key component to studying for the certification on VMware vCloud Suite. With more than 200,000 VCPs currently in the marketplace, and VMware’s vCloud Director suite becoming the standard for private and hybrid cloud deployments, this guide will assist existing VCPs secure their VCP-Cloud certification, as well as assist new administrators interested in procuring the certification on vCloud Director.
Rough Cut - VCP5-Cloud Official Cert Guide: VMware Certified Professional - Cloud
Rough Cut - VCP5-Cloud Official Cert Guide: VMware Certified Professional - Cloud
Integration of Log Insight with the vCenter Operations Management platform
In this video you will see the integration of Log Insight with the vCenter Operations Management platform. VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1 introduces integration with vCenter Log Insight (GA available in Q3 2013) and the vCenter Web Cleint. Log Insight can be configured to send alerts to vCenter Operations Manager about vCenter Server objects. In the vSphere UI, vCenter Operations displays links to launch Log Insight in-context from the alerts details page and from the objects details page.
Integration of Log Insight with the vCenter Operations Management platform extends operational visibility and proactive management capabilities across infrastructure and applications in a dynamic, hybrid cloud environment. Integration also helps you maximize ROI and value by bringing unstructured data (such as syslog files) together with structured data (such as metrics and key performance indicators), offering a significantly enhanced solution for end-to-end operations management.
Thursday, June 13. 2013
New Technical White Paper - End Your Data Center Logging Chaos with VMware vCenter Log Insight
Although vCenter Log Insight can be used as a standalone log consolidation and analysis tool, it’s greatest strength (and biggest differentiator) is its tight integration with vCenter Server, vSphere, and vCenter Operations Manager. No other virtualization-management tool can give you such a complete view of your data center operations by correlating virtualization performance events and system log entries across the vSphere infrastructure.
Another of vCenter Log Insight’s great strengths is that it can also manage physical servers, storage, and network devices. vCenter Log Insight is extensible, because you can add third-party content packs (made up of numerous fields) or your own content packs.Both large enterprises and small and midsized businesses (SMBs) should use vCenter Log Insight to consolidate their log data to gain strong analytics and troubleshooting capabilities.
VMware vCenter Log Insight is useful for monitoring, troubleshooting and securing your data center, and it’s quick to set up and enjoyable to use. In addition, vCenter Log Insight offers unique integration with vCenter Operations Manager to give you a complete view of your virtual infrastructure.
Another of vCenter Log Insight’s great strengths is that it can also manage physical servers, storage, and network devices. vCenter Log Insight is extensible, because you can add third-party content packs (made up of numerous fields) or your own content packs.Both large enterprises and small and midsized businesses (SMBs) should use vCenter Log Insight to consolidate their log data to gain strong analytics and troubleshooting capabilities.
VMware vCenter Log Insight is useful for monitoring, troubleshooting and securing your data center, and it’s quick to set up and enjoyable to use. In addition, vCenter Log Insight offers unique integration with vCenter Operations Manager to give you a complete view of your virtual infrastructure.