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Tuesday, October 13. 2015
After VMworld, the parties begin!
Wednesday, July 8. 2015
VMware vSphere 6 Metro Storage Cluster Recommended Practices
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.
Tuesday, June 23. 2015
New Book - vRealize Operations 6 Administrator's Companion: Performance Monitoring Capacity Planning Right-Sizing
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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Tuesday, June 9. 2015
Free e-learning course - VMware User Environment Manager: Fundamentals
This free eLearning course describes the key benefits of VMware User Environment Manager and how it can benefit an organization. Students will get an overview of the installation and configuration process as well as insight into the key elements of the user interface.
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Explain how the UEM product works.
- Explain the features and benefits of UEM.
- Explain the installation and configuration process of UEM.
- Identify the interface elements of UEM.
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Friday, May 22. 2015
Free e-learning course - VMware Integrated OpenStack Fundamentals
OpenStack is a framework for delivering cloud services. As a cloud operating system, OpenStack controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter.
VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) is a VMware supported OpenStack distribution that makes it easier for IT to run a production-grade OpenStack-based deployment on top of their existing VMware infrastructure. VIO enables IT admins to quickly and easily deploy and operate a production grade OpenStack cloud while giving developers the standard OpenStack APIs on a reliable platform.
This e-Learning course provides an overview of the features, architecture, operations, troubleshooting, and management of VIO. This course introduces the learners to the OpenStack project and to the high level features of VIO. It also provides the learners an insight into the architecture, deployment, and consumption of VIO, and demonstrates, at a high-level, how to operate, troubleshoot, and manage VIO.
At the end of this course, you should be able to perform the following tasks:
- Describe OpenStack and how the open source project community works
- Describe how OpenStack fits in the VMware Software Defined Data Center (VMware SDDC) vision
- Identify business use cases for OpenStack and VIO
- Analyze how VMware addresses the challenges of deploying, operating, and maintaining OpenStack deployments
- Describe the key features and functions of VIO
- Describe the architecture of VIO
- Analyze how enterprise-grade features are materialized using VIO
- Demonstrate how VIO can be used to deploy, operate, and maintain cloud environments
- Demonstrate how VIO integrates with vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Business Manager, and vRealize LogInsight
Monday, March 9. 2015
VMware Virtual SAN Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual
The purpose of this document is to fully illustrate how Virtual SAN works behind the scenes: whether this is needed in the context of problem solving, or just to more fully understand its inner workings.
The recommendation when triaging Virtual SAN is to begin with the Virtual SAN Health Services. Once an issue is detected, the Health Services highlights the problem and directs administrators to the appropriate VMware knowledgebase article to begin problem solving.
Please refer to the Virtual SAN Health Services Guide for further details on how to get the Health Services components, how to install them and how to use the feature for troubleshooting common Virtual SAN issues.