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VMware vSphere 5.0 Documentation

VMware vSphere™ 5.0 (“vSphere”) introduces many improvements and new features to extend the benefits and capabilities of vSphere 4.1. These advancements build on the core capacities in vSphere to provide improved scalability; better performance; and easier provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting. This paper focuses on the following new features and enhancements:

• Virtual machine enhancements
• Improved SSD handling and optimization
• Command-line enhancements
• VMware® ESXi™ firewall
• vSphere Image Builder
• vSphere Auto Deploy server
• vSphere Host Profiles
• VMware vCenter™ Update Manager

VMware View Bootcamp

VMware is organizing a nine-part VMware View Bootcamp: every day a new video is published for you to view. At the end of this bootcamp, you will have a good understanding of the VMware View solution, how to roll it out and how to optimize View in your environment. A free e-book of all the presentations is included in this bootcamp series. A hope I can download the free e-book Smile. Because I am going on Holiday next week.

VMware View Bootcamp Series

Design Considerations Guidelines for VMware View – Overview

  • Speaker – John Dodge, Sr. Manager PSO Services, VMware
  • Overview of the technical considerations to keep in mind while you’re designing a View environment

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Storage Deep Dive – Considerations and Best Practices

  • Speaker – Jim Yanik, Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware
  • How to design your storage infrastructure to fit your environment
  • Sizing and workload considerations

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Network Considerations and Best Practices

  • Speaker – Shannon McFarland; Consulting Engineer for Data Center technologies and Enterprise IPv6 design on Cisco’s Consulting Engineering team in the Office of the CTO, Cisco
  • Network requirements for LAN and WAN
  • Bandwidth requirements deep dive
  • Security considerations – Security Server, AV, Encryption, Authentication

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Optimizing the Base Image for VMware View

  • Speaker – Todd Dayton, Staff Product Manager, Desktop Product Management, VMware
  • How to build and tune your desktop image
  • User and workload considerations
  • OS specific tips (XP, Win7)

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Delivering Applications

  • Speaker – Heath Doer, Sr Systems Engineer, VMware
  • Packaging and updates (applink and appsync)
  • Best practices-storage, image management and application deployment
  • Application migration, application conflict and compatibility

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PCoIP Implementation Overview and PCoIP Tuning Best Practices

  • Speaker – Chuck Hirstius, PSO, WW Advanced Services, VMware
  • How to optimize PCoIP for different types of workloads
  • How to optimize for LAN, mobile and remote users
  • Bandwidth requirements

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Automating View 4.5 with Powershell

  • Speaker – Tom Elliot, Sr. MTS, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
  • Introduction to View PowerCLI
  • Setting up an environment and basic tasks
  • Creating your own scripts
  • Integrating with vSphere

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Leveraging Security Server for PCoIP

  • Speaker – Mark Benson, View Architect, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
  • Introduction to Security Server

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VMware View’s Reference Architecture

  • Speaker – Mac Binesh, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
  • Review of RA for stateless desktops
  • Description of test environment, equipment and lab results

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    ThinApp VMware View 4.6 Client

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    Edit Package.ini

    Add the following line under:
    [VMware View Client.exe]
    Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc.exe
    ;Change ReadOnlyData to bin\Package.ro.tvr to build with old versions(4.6.0 or earlier) of tools
    ReadOnlyData=Package.ro.tvr
    WorkingDirectory=%ProgramFilesDir%\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\
    ObjectTypes=VMware_VDM_Client;VMware_VDM_Client.1
    Shortcuts=%Desktop%;%Programs%\VMware;%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

    Commandline=%ProgramFilesDir%\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc –serverurl viewdemo.wardvissers.nl

    Open Project Folder:
    Remove the following Folders

    %AppData%
    %Common Desktop%
    %Common Programs%
    %Desktop%
    %drive_C%
    %Local AppData%
    %Personal%
    %Profile%
    %Program Files Common%
    %SystemRoot%

    Then Click on Build

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    Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) 6.0 Beta: Accelerate the adoption of Microsoft private and public cloud platforms

    Planning your journey to the cloud just got a bit easier. The next release of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0 Beta—includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both public and private cloud platforms. With MAP 6.0 Beta, you now have the ability to identify workloads and estimate the infrastructure size and resources needed for both Windows Azure and Hyper-V Fast Track. Also new to MAP 6.0 Beta is the Office 365 client assessment, enhanced VMware inventory, and Oracle schema discovery and reporting. Expanded assessment and discovery capabilities from MAP help you streamline planning for your next migration project. Plan what’s next with MAP.

    New features and benefits from MAP 6.0 Beta release help you:

    · Analyze your portfolio of applications for a move to the Windows Azure Platform

    · Accelerate planning to private cloud with Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track onboarding

    · Identify migration opportunities with enhanced heterogeneous server environment inventory

    · Assess your client environment for Office 365 readiness

    · Determine readiness for migration to Windows Internet Explorer 9

    · Discover Oracle database schemas for migration to SQL Server

    Download the beta materials on Connect:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=219165

    Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Jump Start

    The “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” Jump Start is specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology pros. This cutting-edge course features expert instruction and real-world demonstrations of Hyper-V, many components of the System Center Suite, including VMM 2012, and a myriad of VDI solutions. This course is designed for Data Center Managers, IT Professionals, IT Decision Makers, Network Administrators, Storage/Infrastructure Administrators & Architects. Expert IT infrastructure consultant, Corey Hynes, and Microsoft Technical Evangelist, Symon Perriman, leveraged an engaging "team teaching" approach which makes the class as entertaining as it is educational Smile

    Virtualization Jump Start (01): Virtualization Overview
    Virtualization Jump Start (02): Differentiating Microsoft & VMware
    Virtualization Jump Start (03a): Hyper-V Deployment Options & Architecture | Part 1
    Virtualization Jump Start (03b): Hyper-V Deployment Options & Architecture | Part 2
    Virtualization Jump Start (04): High-Availability & Clustering
    Virtualization Jump Start (05): System Center Suite Overview with focus on DPM
    Virtualization Jump Start (06): Automation with Opalis, Service Manager & PowerShell
    Virtualization Jump Start (07): System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
    Virtualization Jump Start (08): Private Cloud Solutions, Architecture & VMM Self-Service Portal 2.0
    Virtualization Jump Start (09): Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Architecture | Part 1
    Virtualization Jump Start (10): Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Architecture | Part 2
    Virtualization Jump Start (11): v-Alliance Solution Overview
    Virtualization Jump Start (12): Application Delivery for VDI

    Download all the Video’s:
    Video: WMV | WMV (ZIP) | PSP
    Audio: WMA | MP3

    Now only finding some spare time to watch’s these video’s Winking smile

    System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta Evaluation

    System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 delivers industry leading fabric managment, virtual machine management and services deployment in private cloud environments. Virtual Machine Manager 2012 offers key new features that include hypervisor creation and management, network management, storage management, private cloud creation, self-service usage and service creation. It features deep investments in server application virtualization, service design and service modeling all of which can be used to efficiently offer an on-premises private cloud.

    Feature Summary

    • Fabric Management
      • Hyper-V and Cluster Lifecycle Management – Deploy Hyper-V to bare metal server, create Hyper-V clusters, orchestrate patching of a Hyper-V Cluster
      • Third Party Virtualization Platforms – Add and Manage Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX Hosts and Clusters
      • Network Management – Manage IP Address Pools, MAC Address Pools and Load Balancers
      • Storage Management – Classify storage, Manage Storage Pools and LUNs
    • Resource Optimization
      • Dynamic Optimization – proactively balance the load of VMs across a cluster
      • Power Optimization – schedule power savings to use the right number of hosts to run your workloads – power the rest off until they are needed
      • PRO – integrate with System Center Operations Manager to respond to application-level performance monitors
    • Cloud Management
      • Abstract server, network and storage resources into private clouds
      • Delegate access to private clouds with control of capacity, capabilities and user quotas
      • Enable self-service usage for application administrator to author, deploy, manage and decommission applications in the private cloud
    • Service Lifecycle Management
      • Define service templates to create sets of connected virtual machines, os images and applica tion packages
      • Compose operating system images and applications during service deployment
      • Scale out the number of virtual machines in a service
      • Service performance and health monitoring integrated with System Center Operations Manager
      • Decouple OS image and application updates through image-based servicing
      • Leverage powerful application virtualization technologies such as Server App-V

    System Requirements

    • Supported Operating Systems:Windows 7 Enterprise;Windows 7 Professional;Windows 7 Ultimate;Windows Server 2008 R2;Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter;Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
      • Windows Server 2008 R2 (full installation) Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter x64
      • Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate x32, x64
      • Windows Remote Management (WinRM) 2.0
      • Windows PowerShell 2.0
      • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
      • Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7
      • SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter
      • Windows Deployment Services (WDS) – (Version on Windows Server 2008 R2)
      • Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP2 64bit

    Download System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta Evaluation HERE

    VMware Workstation 7.1.4

      What’s New

      Support for Windows 7 SP1

      Security Fixes

      • Workstation 7.1.4 addresses a local privilege escalation in the vmrun utility

        VMware vmrun is a utility that is used to perform various tasks on virtual machines. The vmrun utility runs on any platform with VIX libraries installed. It is installed in Workstation by default. In non-standard filesystem configurations, an attacker with the ability to place files into a predefined library path could take execution control of vmrun. This issue is present only in the version of vmrun that runs on Linux

        The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2011-1126 to this issue.

          Other Resolved Issues

          • In Workstation 7.1, the default main memory VA cache size (mainMem.vaCacheSize) for 32-bit Windows guests was reduced to accommodate 3D emulation memory requirements. However, the reduced value resulted in performance loss. For 7.1.4, the default main memory VA cache size has been be increased to 1000 MB and performance is improved.

          • Because Workstation failed to identify more than 10 USB host controllers in newer Windows guests, some USB devices did not appear in the Removable Devices menu. Now Workstation shows all USB devices in the Removable Devices menu as long as they are connected to the first identified 16 USB controllers.

          • When using the Capture Movie option, the captured video stopped playing around the 1GB mark if the video file exceeded 1GB. Now you can capture and play video files that are greater than 1GB. 

          • On Windows host systems that have more than 4GB of memory, Workstation sometimes crashed during cryptographic operations, for example, when performing disk encryption.

          • VMware Tools upgrade could be started by a non-administrator user from the VMware Tools Control Panel in a Windows guest. In this release, only administrator users can start VMware Tools upgrade from the VMware Tools Control Panel. To prevent non-administrator users from starting VMware Tools upgrade from a guest by using other applications, set isolation.tools.autoinstall.disable to TRUE in the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file.

          • When a virtual machine running on a Windows host was used to access an Omron Industrial CP1L Programmable Logic Controller, Workstation generated an unrecoverable error.

          • When using NAT virtual networking on Windows hosts, the traceroute command did not work when used within virtual machines.

          • Workstation crashed with an access violation when a user tried to open the sidebar after closing all tabs in Quick Switch mode. 

          • The VMware Tools HGFS provider DLL caused a deadlock when making calls to the WNetAddConnection2 function from an application such as eEye Rentina in a Windows guest operating system.

          • There was no option to disable guest time sync when a host resumes. Now you can set time.synchronize.resume.host to FALSE in the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file to disable guest time sync when a host resumes. See VMware Knowledge Base Article 1189 for other time sync options.

          • Setting a hidden attribute on a file in a shared folder from a Windows guest on a Linux host failed with an error. This problem caused applications such as SVN checkout to fail when checking out to shared folders on Linux hosts from Windows guests

          VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter

            VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter provides basic virtualization management capabilities for non-vSphere hypervisor platforms towards enabling centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous virtual infrastructures. It also simplifies and enables easy migrations of virtual machines from non-vSphere virtualization platforms to VMware vSphere.

            Features

            • Management of the following Microsoft Hyper-V platforms:
              • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
              • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) with Hyper-V role enabled
              • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
              • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V role enabled
            • Familiar vCenter Server graphical user interface for navigating through and managing non-vSphere inventory
            • Ease of virtual machine migrations from non-vSphere hosts to vSphere inventory
            • Compatible with VMware vCenter Server 4.0 & 4.1
            • Scalable up to management of 50 non-vSphere hosts

          For more detailed information refer to the vCenter XVP Manager and Converter Technology Preview Release Notes and Installation Guide (included in zip file download).

          VIDEO’s

          Installation

          Host Operations

          Convert HyperV VMs to vSphere

          Guest VM Operations inside HyperV

          Download: HERE

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