An Introduction to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service
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Network Connectivity and Virtual Appliances - vCloud Hybrid Service
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Creating a Fault-Tolerant Three-Tier Application - vCloud Hybrid Service
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City of Melrose Accommodates for Future Growth with vCloud Hybrid Service
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Planview Growing New Business in the Cloud with vCloud Hybrid Service
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by Kevin Lubojacky, VMware SE, Mid-Market Team

vSphere Host Profiles are an often overlooked valuable feature for virtualized environments. Whether your environment is growing rapidly and adding hosts has become a management nightmare, or there have been too many cooks in the kitchen, and host configurations have gone awry, vSphere Host Profiles can save both time and headaches by creating a template for common host settings. As many of you may know, small inconsistencies between hosts in your environment can cause real problems in the ability to implement common vSphere features.   This is a common discussion I have with my customers.  Below are some advantages and the process for creating host profiles to help you continue advancing your IT infrastructure.

Host Profile Advantages

Host Profiles work by taking an accurate known host configuration and applying those settings to other hosts in your environment. Profiles contain the configuration information that most administrators manually enter when configuring a host, such as, storage, virtual switches, domain, time and vSphere features.   Applying Host Profiles is typically applicable to the addition of a new host or to satisfy the need to easily enforce consistency amongst hosts.   By applying the Host Profiles, you will be able to automate compliance to your configurations.  In turn you will be able to simplify your operational management and reduce errors caused by any misconfiguration.

The Simple Process for Creating Your First Profile

Below I will outline the process of – extracting a profile from a known configuration, checking the profile against another host in the cluster and ultimately applying the profile to create consistency.  The current requirements for Host Profiles are, ESX 3.5 and vCenter 4.0 or later, combined with an appropriate Enterprise + vSphere license.

From the vSphere Web Client, navigate to Rules and Profiles/Host Profiles. Click the green plus symbol and select the host with the configuration you wish to use as the profile (your blueprint) for other hosts in your environment. At this point you are able to provide a name and description for the profile.

Once the profile has been extracted, right-click the profile and attach the cluster or hosts you wish to associate with the profile. It is important to note, this action only references the profile to the hosts, but does not make any changes just yet.

Now that the profiles are associated, right-click the actions tab and select “Check Host Profile Compliance.”  This action will scan the hosts attached to the profile and report back on the inconsistencies. If your host is joined to a domain, you will receive a message stating “Host may require some additional settings.” Simply fill in the credentials for the domain admin and this should clear up.

Once the compliance check is complete, each associated host is designated as either compliant or not complaint. If not compliant, the compliance section can be expanded to show an outline of the differences between the current host settings and the attached profile.

Once the differences are reviewed, you then have the option to enter the host into maintenance mode allowing the profile to be enforced. Once in maintenance mode, it may be necessary to manually migrate your VMs running on this host to another resource.

Once the host is in maintenance mode the host profile can be enforced. You are provided a summary of changes to be applied to the host. Click finish.

After the profile is enforced, the host should be in compliance and can be brought out of maintenance mode allowing VMs to be migrated back either manually or with the assistance of the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).

As you can see, the process for creating and enforcing vSphere Host Profiles is fairly simple and yet also very powerful.

In addition to harvesting a profile from a known configuration, it’s also an option to edit an existing profile. This could be very useful for task such as, adding a datastore to all hosts, or nearly anything that would typically require a manual update to all hosts. Host profiles can also be used in conjunction with Auto Deploy to rapidly add host to your environment.

I encourage you to check out this link which I often provide to my customers to learn more about the Host Profile feature.

http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/host-profiles.html

If you haven’t virtualized yet, I encourage you to go here for more information that can help you understand the benefits you’ll gain for your IT infrastructure.

How has the Host Profile feature helped you?  I look forward to your comments.

Kevin Lubojacky

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By Girish Manmadkar, VMWare Professional Services Consultant

In years past, some IT managers were not ready to talk about virtualizing SAP due to technical and political reasons. The picture is very different today, in part because of the increased emphasis on IT as a strategic function towards ‘Software–Defined Data Center’ (SDDC).

Virtualization and the road to SDDC expands the cost and operational benefits of server virtualization to all data center infrastructure—network, security, storage, and management. For example, peak workloads such as running consolidated financial reports are handled much more effectively, thanks to streamlined provisioning. Integrating systems because of company acquisitions are more easily managed due to the flexibility offered with virtualized platforms. And finally customers are leveraging their virtualized SAP environment to add additional capabilities such as enhanced disaster recovery/business continuity or chargeback systems.

Many customers have been realizing virtualization benefits ever since they moved their SAP production workloads to the VMware platform. As IT budgets continue to shrink, the imperative to lower operating costs becomes more urgent—and virtualization can make a real difference. Server consolidation through virtualization translates directly into lower costs for power, cooling, and space—and boosts the organizations “green” profile in the bargain.

Organizations Benefit from Virtualizing SAP

The main requirement for any IT manager supporting an SAP environment is to ensure high availability —even a few minutes of downtime can cause loss of dollars, not to mention angry phone calls from executive management as well as frustrated users. VMware virtualization takes advantage of SAP’s high-availability features to ensure that the SAP software stays running without any interruption and helps keep those phonelines quiet.

Greenfield SAP deployments are a great way to start building the environment right from ground zero by utilizing a building-block approach. You will start seeing the benefits of flexibility, scalability and availability of the newly built environment on VMware.

Upgrades comes with two scenario’s

• A. SAP hardware refresh cycle
• B. An SAP Application and/or database upgrade

Upgrades are a part of every SAP landscape and they can be complex and require long-term efforts. I have seen that most of my customers who go through their standard physical environment for SAP upgrades, spend many man hours or even days – if they have the hardware available at their disposal. However, in the virtual environment, the provisioning process is pretty rapid and can be executed in minutes, including the deprovisioning to reclaim required resources back in the resource pool which makes the upgrade process that much more streamlined and efficient. When going through an SAP upgrade – a very time and cost sensitive project, it is very important to provide required resources to the development team in a timely manner.

Time to Move

Let’s say that you’ve decided to virtualize your SAP environment—now the question is timing. I have seen many customers take the SAP upgrade and/or platform or hardware refresh as possible opportunities to move to the virtual platform.

A planned SAP upgrade can be a good time to move. I have seen some customers cash in on the planned move to SAP NetWeaver & other add-ons to virtualize their entire SAP landscapes—with savings of more than half of their capital expenses.

A hardware refresh is a great time to move. Many customers take advantage of the change in hardware to also consider a migration to virtualization at the same time. It allows customer to integrate the hardware refresh and virtualization projects to minimize disruptions and combine staff training for new hardware and software.

SAP Requirements: Security,Compliance and Disaster Recovery

Challenges like compliance and security policies often require substantial infrastructure changes, that can highlight the inherent inflexibility of the existing traditional hardware platform and persuade top management to invest in infrastructure. Many customers have successfully implemented VMware-provided solutions to ensure the security and compliance of their SAP environment so that they can experience the benefits from virtualization.

Disaster Recovery
A Business Continuity plan is imperative for many of our SAP customers. Disasters – a natural or man-made disaster severely impacts operation which impacts the bottom line. Which of course, is the reason why executives often order a review of the company’s disaster recovery/business continuity plans. VMware understands this importance and the risk which is addressed by VMware Site Recovery Manager product.

So is virtualizing your platform for your SAP environment too risky? All IT projects have risk. Is it so risky to pass up the benefits of virtualization? In my opinion, no – not if you follow the advice and methodology offered by my colleagues, David Gallant (Business as usual with Tier 1 Business Critical Applications? – Not!) and Eiad (Knowing Your Applications is Key to Successful Data Center Transformation). I ask you – if you haven’t already virtualized your SAP environment, why not explore it now? There’s been so many advances in technology and alliances, you can’t ignore it any longer.

Girish Manmadkar is a veteran VMware SAP Virtualization Architect with extensive knowledge and hand-on experience on various SAP and VMware products including various databases. He focuses on SAP migrations, architecture designs, and implementation, including disaster recovery.

Today we unveiled vCloud Hybrid Service – A VMware-owned and operated public cloud designed to help our customers seamlessly extend their private cloud resources beyond the data center. Now that I’m able to talk about the service, let me pull back the curtain on part of the architecture and technology behind vCloud Hybrid Service.

When the vCloud Hybrid Service architecture team began designing the service we followed two core tenets; simplify the physical aspects of the design and use VMware software wherever possible and practical. The goal was to deliver a high-quality cloud service that fully embraced the concepts of the software-defined data center.

vCloud Suite 5.1 was in development while we were designing the vCloud Hybrid Service architecture, and fortunately for us many of the new features in the vCloud Suite were directly applicable to our design tenets. For example, we saw an opportunity to use the vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) software capabilities to radically change our networking design.

The resulting network design is simple from a physical perspective. Basic switching and routing capabilities are provided by hardware while more complicated functions are provided by the vCNS Edge appliance in combination with VXLAN. Throughout the course of our development period, we worked closely with the vCNS engineering team to refine our design and deploy it in production.

The vCNS software suite is a feature-rich-networking platform, and here are some of the numerous capabilities we used from vCNS Edge:

• Load Balancing – Used to provide Internet facing services to customers
• SNAT – Used to provide outbound access where required
• SSL and IPSec VPN – Remote access capabilities
• Routing – Routing between internal networks as well as to the Internet
• VXLAN – Isolate customer networks allowing for bring-your-own address space
• APIs – Manage and deploy virtual network infrastructure through automation

In combination, these capabilities provide resilient, high performance core networking services for our customers. Most of these features are also available for customers to employ directly in their vCloud Hybrid Service cloud environment, and all of the vCNS networking technology we are using is available today for on-premise deployments.

The end result is that we now have an agile, programmable network infrastructure that will provide an easy road to upgrade as we continue to expand the capabilities of vCloud Hybrid Service. I’ll cover other parts of our vCloud Hybrid Service architecture in future posts – but in the meantime, feel free to comment below around what’s important to you in a cloud service’s networking infrastructure.

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Last month we announced a new SSL Certificate Automation tool to help everyone with the implementation of custom certificates. Yesterday, we released the second version of it (version 1.0.1). This is a minor update which aims to simplify the replacement of certificates further by adding Certificate Signing Request (CSR) functionality to the tool. This functionality allows a user to quickly generate certificate requests (and consequently the private keys) for submission to the Certificate Authority.  The CSR functionality was the largest portion of manual steps, and as a result the update reduces the number of steps by over 15.

In addition, there are several minor bug fixes which were fixed which impacted tool functionality.

For further details and to download the latest version of the SSL tool see: Deploying and Using the SSL Certificate Automation Tool (2041600)

We hope these additions provide useful for everyone!

I am happy to announce the availability of the VMware vCloud Networking and Security – DMZ Design and Deployment Guide. This paper highlights how securing a virtual DMZ environment using vCloud Networking and Security can be a strategic enabler to your organization as it helps you to reduce your capital expenditure and increase agility, while building a cloud ready, secure and scalable environment for business applications. The paper also highlights the different design approaches to securing business critical applications and enables you to make the choice that is most suited to your organization in the cloud journey. Further, it gives prescriptive configuration guidance to help you get started with the deployment of your preferred approach.

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AUTHOR: Padmaja Vrudhula

Tomorrow VMware announces the launch of the VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™ — a true hybrid cloud solution connecting and integrating on-site and off-site IT environments through a common management platform with a design that ensures all (new and existing) applications run the same way. This type of a hybrid cloud solution ought to make most IT personnel and leaders take notice for numerous reasons. (To join the live online event, register here.)

Different industries require different types of business agility. For example, a retailer undergoing aggressive expansion may require the ability to quickly set up new store operations. A financial services company pursuing an acquisition strategy needs to be able to assimilate new entities to quickly realize synergies and benefits. An online gaming company may need the ability to quickly set up a platform in anticipation of a wave of new gamers following the release of a new hit game. In the past few years, to accommodate these types of requests, IT has found itself in a de facto service broker role. The increased sophistication of end users coupled with the ubiquity of external cloud service providers has forced internal IT teams to meet the needs of application developers, QA testers, and even production users as quickly as it takes to enter a credit card number. Therefore, how can IT organizations, which still have the dual task of maintaining the physical environment and an existing virtual environment, transform to meet such expectations?

With vCloud Hybrid Service, VMware utilizes many of the same products our customers use to setup, operate, and manage their existing internal cloud(s). Migrating workloads into the VMware hybrid environment takes no additional process, people, or technology work on the part of customers. This design capability is in stark contrast to decisions to consume from other service providers. In those instances, assuming IT had a say in the matter, there is a completely different set of tools, processes, and skills utilized to manage the external cloud environment; further straining already constrained IT resources.

Yet, the more likely scenario for organizations running workloads in an externally hosted environment is that the decision was made by end users, while their IT organization suffers the consequences of supporting them, at costs often not readily apparent to the business. VMware vCloud Hybrid Service will provide a remedy to this scenario by allowing IT to proactively identify criteria for workloads to be migrated into an external environment. This results in several benefits for the overall enterprise: operational cost savings, ability to utilize existing processes (change management, incident management, help desk), leverage existing skill sets, meet customer SLAs, and provide agility to the business. This list is a small fraction of the outcomes of having a proactive approach to consuming external cloud services. Ultimately, IT can add vCloud Hybrid Service into its service toolkit to better execute on the service broker role.

An enterprise CIO I used to work with used the comparison that IT was like the electric company: no one noticed unless the lights went out. It was his way of highlighting the essential nature of technology services. However, in the era of cloud computing, the “new IT” provides a lot more than just “juice.” IT organizations are becoming one element of the competitive advantage companies seek in the marketplace. This is one of the reasons why hybrid cloud is such a key component the CIO’s toolkit. Leveraging a hybrid cloud solution empowers IT organizations to continue to rise to meet the challenges of their business users, eliminate the “cowboy” mentality of end users making IT decisions, and continue to meet the quality standards for day-to-day operations.
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Padmaja Vrudhula is a strategist with VMware Accelerate Advisory Services.

VMware Accelerate™ Advisory Services can help you define your IT strategy through balanced transformation plans across people, process, and technology. Visit our Web site to learn more about our offerings, or reach out to us today at: accelerate@vmware.com for more information.

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An optimized service definition process can make or break the success of hybrid clouds or Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC). But even if you have tools and processes in place to enable automated provisioning, you still need key stakeholder agreement on the makeup of standard services and resource configurations.

• Standardized services need to meet the needs of those who request and consume the services.  But they also need to make sense to those in IT responsible for both automation that delivers the services and ongoing support.
• Standardization helps increase flexibility at the business process level. But rigid service definitions can also inhibit those who both consume and deliver the services.

So how can you meet the needs of multiple groups and find common ground when it comes to defining services?

Find out by joining our next #CloudOpsChat on “Reaching Common Ground When Defining Services” taking place on Thursday, May 30th at 11am PT.

The event will be co-hosted by two CloudOps pros who have helped multiple VMware customers reach common ground:

• John Dixon, Consulting Architect at GreenPages (see John’s posts on GreenPages Journey to the Cloud blog)
• Khalid Hakim, Cloud Operations Architect at VMware

During the chat, we will answer the tough questions:

• What service components should be included in a standard service definition?
• What components can be flexible for modification around the edges?
• Are there obvious points of abstraction that help balance standardization and flexibility?
• Are there recommended approaches to getting multiple groups of users to reach consensus?
• Are there recommended approaches to balancing the needs of both IT and service consumers?
• What happens if key stakeholders don’t reach consensus?

Here’s how to participate in #CloudOpsChat:

• Follow the #CloudOpsChat hashtag (via TweetChat, TweetGrid, TweetDeck, or another Twitter client) and watch the real-time stream.
• On Thursday, May 30th at 11am, @VMwareCloudOps will pose a few questions using the #CloudOpsChat hashtag to get the conversation rolling.
• Tag your tweets with the #CloudOpsChat hashtag. @reply other participants and react to their questions, comments, thoughts via #CloudOpsChat. Engage with each other!
• #CloudOpsChat should last about an hour.

In the meantime, feel free to tweet at us at @VMwareCloudOps with any questions you may have. We look forward to seeing you in the stream!

by Monty Zarrouk, Product Marketing at NetApp

How will this improve patient care?

VMware® AlwaysOn Point of Care™ architecture helps solve customers’ problems by providing ready access to patient information from any terminal or mobile device. This allows clinicians to make informed decisions regarding treatment plans while protecting the confidentiality of patient information. Providing access to clinical applications in a virtual environment, healthcare providers maintain continued access to their desktop as they move from patient to patient, floor to floor, or building to building. Just like any sector, technology dictates a successful organization. And healthcare is no different. Medicine is changing, and a virtual desktop can mean all the difference in a patient’s outcomes.

Why did NetApp introduce VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care for healthcare?

We recognize the technology that is transforming the medical profession, and NetApp constantly strives to keep the data storage architectures up to speed with the latest technology. The NetApp reference architecture for VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care is purpose-built for healthcare organizations to address the high-availability and disaster recovery needs of mission-critical clinical desktops. To reduce deployment risk, NetApp has designed, developed and lab tested a validated configuration that combines VMware Horizon View™ AlwaysOn Point of Care, NetApp® storage, Cisco® Unified Computing System™, F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controller, and Imprivata single sign-on solution, for delivering clinical desktops and patient care applications as secure, non-stop services. This combination of technologies makes it possible to deliver high-performance workspaces over high latency and low-bandwidth connections. This helps healthcare organizations integrate their networking, computing, storage and virtualization resources.

What makes VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care different and distinct?

VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care provides a virtual desktop environment that is secure, cost effective, and easy to deploy, providing clinicians with:

• Non-stop access to desktop with fast logon times
• Desktops that follow the user in the event of a site failure Connectivity to desktops from any endpoint device from anywhere
• A familiar interface to sustain the same application workflow Knowledge that they are viewing the correct patient at the correct time and correct location, resulting in increased patient safety

This helps solve customer problems by providing high availability to clinical applications within the provider environment, delivering response times that meet or exceed application requirements and provides the appropriate security and compliance measures demanded by healthcare environments.

How can VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care help hospitals comply with the HIPAA and HITECH act requirements?

Many hospitals are looking for a cost-effective data storage infrastructure that is easy-to-deploy, and maintains patient privacy with its secure access. NetApp storage and management solutions work in concert with VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care to provide simplified and centralized medical data sharing and archiving across the continuum of care. NetApp helps you reduce compliance risk through improved recordkeeping, monitoring, and oversight. Clinicians can dedicate quality time to patients, knowing that IT has the right controls in place to ensure that state and federal compliance requirements that affect patient care and privacy are met (such as HITECH, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, the EU Directive, the Affordable Care Act and others).

Link to NetApp Reference Architecture for VMware AlwaysOn Point-of-Care – Technical Report

Link to NetApp Reference Architecture for VMware AlwaysOn Point-of-Care – Solution Brief

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VMware Data Recovery
Migrating restore points from VMware Data Recovery to vSphere Data Protection (2051891)
Date Published: 5/16/2013

VMware ESX
Support for Hot Add Memory and Hot Add vCPU specifications on different editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 (2051989)
Date Published: 5/15/2013
ESX/ESXi log messages: Out of interrupt vectors (2050783)
Date Published: 5/17/2013
Updating ESXi/ESX 4.x using vCLI fails with the error: SOAPFault, Authenticate timeout (2005091)
Date Published: 5/14/2013

VMware ESXi
ESXi 5.x install does not detect the on-board network adapter or local USB device (2019943)
Date Published: 5/14/2013
ESXi host fails with a purple diagnostic screen mentioning: delayed_work_timer_fn vmk_SPLockIRQ (2052130)
Date Published: 5/16/2013
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch Release ESXi500-201305001 (2051211)
Date Published: 5/16/2013
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi500-201305401-BG: Updates esx-base (2051212)
Date Published: 5/16/2013
VMware ESXi 5.0 Patch Image Profile ESXi-5.0.0-20130504001-no-tools (2051214)
Date Published: 5/16/2013
Windows 8 virtual machine freezes at restart when rebooted (2051279)
Date Published: 5/17/2013
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 virtual machines running on AMD based hosts panic on boot (2004691)
Date Published: 5/14/2013
vMotion migrations fail when using multiple VMkernel ports for vMotion in different IP subnets (2052092)
Date Published: 5/15/2013
VMware ESXi 5.0 Patch Image Profile ESXi-5.0.0-20130504001-standard (2051213)
Date Published: 5/16/2013
VMware Tools checkvm utility does not report correct virtual hardware version (2020027)
Date Published: 5/14/2013
ESXi 5.x hosts disconnected when vCenter Server 5.x is installed with non-default heartbeat port (2048768)
Date Published: 5/13/2013

VMware Horizon Mirage
Removing the Windows.Old directory after User Profile or Windows 7 Migration with VMware Horizon Mirage (2050882)
Date Published: 5/13/2013
Horizon Mirage Client uploads through an F5 load balancer or IPSec VPN network device fail due to frequent disconnects (2047574)
Date Published: 5/13/2013

VMware Horizon View
USB redirection may not work on cloned images after upgrading master image from Horizon View 5.1 to 5.2 (2051801)
Date Published: 5/14/2013
Using Horizon View HTML Access with VMware Horizon View 5.2 fails with the error: This desktop does not support the requested display protocol (2045003)
Date Published: 5/17/2013

VMware Service Manager
Windows Application Event Viewer for VMware Service Manager 9.x reports the error: Query ‘Table oc_nopreserve’ does not exist (2051760)
Date Published: 5/13/2013
Cannot edit the Arguments section in an existing Transform in VMware Service Manager 9.x (2051656)
Date Published: 5/13/2013
Field configuration in the Bindings tab within a Transform in VMware Service Manager are lost when using a pre-existing transform (2051657)
Date Published: 5/13/2013

VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager
vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.5 Web UI is inaccessible when installed on a customised operating system (2051806)
Date Published: 5/13/2013

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
vCenter Converter Standalone fails with the error: Unable to detect disks or volumes on the source machine. Make sure that the source is a supported Linux distribution (2033255)
Date Published: 5/14/2013

VMware vCenter Server
Registering vCenter Server on vCenter Operations Manager fails with the error: vCenter Operations Standard cannot perform this operation (2006197)
Date Published: 5/14/2013
vCenter Single Sign-On fails to install if any domains in the environment have unsupported characters in the domain name (2041856)
Date Published: 5/17/2013
Overview of disconnecting vCenter Server sessions (2019525)
Date Published: 5/14/2013
Unable to edit or create a host profile after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 (2019844)
Date Published: 5/14/2013

VMware vCenter Update Manager
Downloading patch definitions in vCenter Update Manger 4.0 fails with the error: Unknown Failure (2006173)
Date Published: 5/14/2013

VMware vCloud Automation Center
Reports in VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1 show only one character on each page (2051802)
Date Published: 5/13/2013

VMware vCloud Director
Gateway IP allocations in vCloud Director do not show all the external IP addresses (2051987)
Date Published: 5/14/2013
Packet loss during data transfer between virtual machines when using vCloud Director network interface (2007086)
Date Published: 5/14/2013

VMware vCloud Networking and Security
Upgrading to vCloud Networking and Security patch 5.1.2b best practices (2051860)
Date Published: 5/13/2013

VMware vSphere Data Protection
Data Integrity Check fails to complete in vSphere Data Protection 5.1.x (2051287)
Date Published: 5/16/2013

VMware vSphere Replication
Virtual machines replicated with vSphere Replication cannot be restored using backup software (2051924)
Date Published: 5/17/2013

VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
The vSphere Storage Appliance Manager tab fails to display in Internet Explorer with the error: Action canceled (2005237)
Date Published: 5/14/2013
Determining VMware vSphere Storage Appliance build and version number (2005301)
Date Published: 5/14/2013

Assigning an IP address and a DNS host record  need to be accomplished during the provisioning process.  VMware vCloud Automation Center supports a number of methods for assigning IP addresses.  These include dynamically assigning them via DHCP,  statically assigning them from a pool of IP addresses stored in vCAC network profiles or allocating them from a custom database.

Many companies use Infoblox IP Address Management  (IPAM) to simplify and automate the process of IP address management.   Infoblox provides a vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) plug-in that can be called from vCloud Automation Center to automate the end-to-end provisioning process including the process of providing an IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) and assigning a DNS host record.    The result is virtual machines provisioned in a matter of minutes instead of days without the errors that can be introduced by manual processing.  The Infoblox plug-in also automates the process of de-allocating an IP address if a virtual machine is deleted as well as removing its DNS host record

Resources
Here are some additional resources to help you better understand the capabilities delivered in this integrated solution and also how to download and configure the Infoblox plug-in to work with vCloud Automation Center.

• Demo Video: vCloud Automation Center Integration with InfoBlox IPAM   (3:44)
• Demo Video: vCloud Automation Center Integration with InfoBlox IPAM – with narration  (9:24)
• The Infoblox IPAM plug-in and installation instructions (82:47)
• The Infoblox IPAM plug-in step-by-step instruction video (41:32)

This and other vCO plug-ins that work with vCloud Automation Center can be found on VMware Solutions Exchange.

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Hi folks,

We have a new video today which is brief and straight to the point. This video is specifically geared towards first-time users of our VMware Fusion product.

This video discusses and demonstrates how you can license VMware Fusion.

In this brief video tutorial you will learn how quick and easy it is to license your VMware Fusion product installation on your Mac operating system.

For more information, see VMware Knowledge Base article Licensing VMware Fusion (2014287).

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This is a guest post from vCloud Service Provider, Bluelock.

If you’re evaluating disaster recovery (DR) options you’re likely looking several options including traditional warm or cold-site solutions, cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) DR and maybe even the age-old choice of simply crossing your fingers and hoping for the best.

When you’re classifying DR options, think of RaaS as the solution that protects your entire application, not just your virtual machine (VM) or the data within that VM. Cloud-based RaaS leverages consistency groups for application protection; meaning your entire application is recovered as a whole. The data is all recovered at the exact same point in time, so there’s less work needed from your team to stand your application back up after a declaration.

Even though cloud is in the name, the solution isn’t just for workloads currently hosted in the cloud. In fact, cloud-based RaaS can be used as a recovery solution for any VMware-virtualized workload, including those that live in your internal hosting environment.

If your company is new to cloud and wary of the learning curve, RaaS is the easiest on-ramp for new cloud customers.  It allows organizations to learn about cloud’s flexibility, automation and self-service capabilities while keeping the scope manageable for any size department. The primary workload remains in your company’s internal datacenter, while the application is replicated and protected in the cloud.

If you want to learn how RaaS just might be your perfect choice for reliability, affordability and ease of use, register to attend How to Implement a DR Strategy that Works: Recovery in the Cloud, a webinar on Wednesday, May 22nd from 2 – 3 p.m. EDT.

In this hour-long webinar, Bluelock’s Chief Technology Officer Pat O’Day will show you how Recovery-as-a-Service can turn your disaster recovery plan from a pipedream to a reality.  Crossing your fingers won’t even cross your mind after this session.

What you’ll walk away knowing:

Cloud makes DR easy and affordable.

Recovery-as-a-Service is a software-enabled recovery solution that is easy to install, has no agents and maintains a low barrier to entry. It’s easy and it works with any VMware-virtualized environment. With RaaS you’ll bulldoze any roadblocks that kept your team from implementing a DR solution in the past.

Cloud-based DR leaves you confident your entire application is protected.

Your data is important, but not as important as recovering your data in the context of the rest of your application. Cloud-based RaaS protects the entire application holistically and replicates at the hypervisor layer to ensure your workloads stand back up, ready to go immediately. Your team won’t have to put the puzzle pieces together after a declaration, because it will stand back up as a complete picture already.

RaaS prevents costly data and revenue loss with testable, reliable protection.

RaaS promises easy, affordable testing within its solution so you won’t have to take our word that your applications are protected; you’ll see it for yourself. In this webinar you will learn exactly how easy and affordable testing is by hearing the client success stories that will show first-hand how RaaS changes not only how the DR game works, but the way it’s played as well.