Eric Sloof

These walkthroughs discuss the concept of network virtualization and describe the benefits and features of VMWare NSX.

VMware NSX - This series demonstrates the various features of VMWare NSX, including Manager, Gateway Service, Firewall, Monitoring & Troubleshooting and CMS integration.

NSX for vSphere - Learn how to use the features of VMWare NSX, including VXLAN, Network Virtualization and VXLAN to VLAN bridging services.

Security and Compliance - This series discusses the security challenges of adopting an SDDC, how to add a distributed firewall using VMWare NSX Network Virtualization and the benefits of the NSX service composer.

NSX Partner Integration - These walkthroughs demonstrate the extensibility of VMWare NSX and its integration with third-party Gateways and security features.

NSX and Log Insight - These series showcase the compatibility between VMware NSX and Log Insight.

Integration with VMware Components - These walkthroughs demonstrate the benefits of integration of NSX operations with other VMware components.

NSX 2.0 - This series of walkthroughs showcase the security, automation, application continuity and operational capabilities of NSX.

DRS Doctor is a command line tool that can be used to diagnose DRS behavior in VMware vCenter clusters. When run against a DRS enabled cluster, it records information regarding the state of the cluster, the work load distribution, DRS moves, etc., in an easy to read log format.

The goal of DRS Doctor is to give VI admins better insight into DRS and the actions it performs. It is very useful for analyzing DRS actions and troubleshooting issues with very little overhead. This is also an easy way for support engineers to read into customer environments without having to rely on developers to debug DrmDump logs in order to troubleshoot simple DRS issues.

DRS Doctor connects to the vCenter server and tracks the list of cluster related tasks and actions. It also tracks DRS recommendations generated and reasons for each recommendation, which is currently only available in a hard-to-read format in DrmDump files. At the end of each log, it dumps the Host and VM resource consumption data to give a quick overview of cluster state. It also provides an operational audit at the end of each log file.

VMware vRealize Log Insight delivers the best real-time and archive log management for VMware environments. Machine learning-based Intelligent Grouping and high performance search enables faster troubleshooting across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

vRealize Log Insight can analyze terabytes of logs, discover structure in unstructured data, and deliver enterprise-wide visibility using a modern Web interface.

This eLearning course describes the features of VMware vRealize Log Insight that help in the automated management of logs. The course describes how to install, configure, and use VMware vRealize Log Insight 3 to collect and analyze logs. 

This course also explains how vRealize Log Insight 3 can be integrated with other solutions for monitoring, troubleshooting, and securing a data center.

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Explain how vRealize Log Insight 3 delivers real-time log management for your data center and why it is important
• Deploy the vRealize Log Insight 3 virtual appliance
• Perform visual analysis of the logs to identify probable issues and troubleshoot them
• Explain the non-vSphere data sources
• Configure vRealize Operations integration with vRealize Log Insight 3

This "What's New" vRealize Automation lab will give you the chance to explore the exciting new features in the newly-released vRealize Automation version 7.

You will have the chance to learn about the updated deployment architecture, wizard based installation facility and improved vIDM Identity Management service.


You will explore the new Converged Blueprint Designer and create your own multi-tier, NSX Micro-Segmented blueprints, deploy Software Components, integrate with external lifecycle systems like Puppet and learn about the updated vRealize Orchestrator.

You'll even have the opportunity to create external approval workflows through the Event Broker extensibility engine and an external ITSM tool, and learn about troubleshooting your vRealize Automation environment using the new Log Insight content pack.

• What's New Overview
• Architecture, Installation and VMware Identity Manager
• Converged Blueprint Basics - IaaS, NSX and Application Authoring
• Converged Blueprints Advanced - XaaS, Dependencies and Parameters
• Mission Extensible: Event Broker for Lifecycle Extensibility
• Enhanced vRA Troubleshooting with Log Insight 3 

Use VMware Log Insight and NSX to determine applications flows on any application. Take the logs and provide Microsegmentation around the workload. Tier Security Groups to enforce and then use custom DFW tags to make these into visual charts. By Anthony Burke from VMware.

VMware Virtual SAN 6.1, shipping with vSphere 6.0.0 U1, introduces a new feature called VMware Virtual SAN Stretched Cluster. Virtual SAN Stretched Cluster is a specific configuration implemented in environments where disaster/downtime avoidance is a key requirement.


This guide was developed to provide additional insight and information for installation, configuration and operation of a VSAN stretched cluster infrastructure in conjunction with VMware vSphere.

This guide will explain how vSphere handles specific failure scenarios and discuss various design considerations and operational procedures.

Network and data center virtualization offer today's IT organizations immense opportunities to reduce costs, improve agility, and drive business value. But the field is evolving at a breakneck pace: many decision-makers and implementers are struggling to understand and choose among the options now available to them.

This book will cover both the "how" and the "why" of network virtualization. You'll learn how it works, which technologies comprise it, where to find your best opportunities to gain value, and how to leverage it your own enterprise. Replete with use cases and specific examples, VMware Network Virtualization offers unprecedented insight into how network virtualization works in the context of the datacenter. Coverage includes:

• The history, evolution, status, and future of Virtual Networking and Software Defined Networks
• Prerequisites and preparations for effective network virtualization
• Using next-generation data center network design to improve scale, availability, resiliency, and performance
• The rise of the virtual data center: reducing equipment and management costs, while improving user experience
• Key characteristics of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
• Using network virtualization to provide secure, efficient application access across organizations and functions
• Migrating workloads without changing IP addresses or networks
• VMware technologies for network virtualization: vSphere, vCNS, NVP, CloudStack, vCloud Director and more
• Architectural considerations: public/private clouds, IaaS, and hybrid tenancy
• Automation and integration opportunities

Ever wondered what happens after VMworld closes for the day? Well wonder no more, for the intrepid Eric Sloof and VMworld TV have braced the onslaught of evening parties to give you a rare insight into what really goes down when the sun does!

VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) is a specific configuration within the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). These configurations are commonly referred to as stretched storage clusters or metro storage clusters and are implemented in environments where disaster and downtime avoidance is a key requirement.


This best practices document was developed to provide additional insight and information for operation of a vMSC infrastructure in conjunction with VMware vSphere. This paper explains how vSphere handles specific failure scenarios, and it discusses various design considerations and operational procedures. For detailed information about storage implementations, refer to documentation provided by the appropriate VMware storage partner.

vRealize Operations is the ultrasound of your datacenter. Without proactive monitoring tools, we can only analyze what is on the surface, which means we typically respond to IT system issues only after there is a major incident. When we have vRealize Operations, it gives us a set of tools that helps us analyze the health, risk, and efficiency of our environment. 

Using a tool like vRealize Operations can assure that you are getting the most out of your VMware vSphere investments by providing proactive insight into the operations of your datacenter. Additionally, It provides capacity planning and trending into your data center environment, and helps ensure you have the required resources to meet the business demand.

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