Pernixdata FVP – a revolutionary hypervisor software aggregates server side flash across an entire enterprise to create a scale-out data tier for the acceleration of primary storage. By optimizing reads and writes at the host level, PernixData FVP reduces application latency from milliseconds to microseconds. By doing this completely independent of storage capacity, PernixData’s software gives virtual administrators unprecedented control over how they manage application Performance
Die Veeam Backup Free Edition enthält die volle Bandbreite an Wiederherstellungsoptionen einschließlich Instant File-Level Recovery (IFLR) – Sofortwiederherstellung auf Dateiebene. Sie können nicht nur die komplette VM oder einzelne VM-Dateien wiederherstellen – Sie können auch in die VM hineinschauen und einzelne Guest-Dateien wiederherstellen. Mit der Veeam Backup Free Edition wird eine Reihe der Funktionen der kostenpflichtigen Veeam Backup &Replication Vollversion bereitgestellt
Before configuring the ESX hosts you need to actually install the VMware vSphere 5 ESXi Dump Collector that will act as the repository for any system dumps from ESX
esxcli –s ESXHOSTNAME system coredump network set –interface-name vmk0 –server-ipv4 192.168.48.135 –server-port 6500
esxcli –s ESXHOSTNAME system coredump network set –enable true
esxcli –s ESXHOSTNAME system coredump network get
During the installation of the Windows vCenter Single Sing On (SSO) service you must provide a password for the SSO admin user named “admin@System-Domain”. If you forgot the master password and have no other admin account there is no supported way to reset the SSO Password – you need to reinstall your VMware vSphere vCenter environment
Certification Oracle – has not certified any of its products on VMware vSphere (or on any third-party platform below the operating system)
Support Oracle – support policy states that “Oracle will only provide support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running on VMware
License all CPUs in a VMware Host – Oracle products are licensed by physical core or socket and for these products Oracle does not have a virtual CPU-based licensing mechanism. In a VMware vSphere environment the consequence of Oracle’s licensing policy is that customers must license all physical cores or sockets in the VMware vSphere host
Fully Licensed VMware Cluster – multiple hosts are typically clustered together enabling virtual machines to move freely between the VMware hosts by means of vMotion so all VMware hosts in the cluster have to fully licensed to run the Oracle products
VMware Horizon View is the only end-to-end solution that simplifies IT management increases security and increases control of end-user access while decreasing costs by centrally delivering desktop services from your cloud. Horizon View enables highly available scalable, secure and reliable desktop services unmatched by physical PCs – delivering the highest-fidelity performance and user experience across locations, Horizon View with PC over IP (PCoIP) gives users a rich personalized desktop for access to data applications unified communications and 3D graphics
A free Kindle copy of the VMware vSphere 5.0 Clustering Deepdive – today and tommorow, Thursday June the 6th you can download the Kindle copy for free
Virtual machine storage provisioning historically has imposed operational challenges. Monitoring datastore capacity and I/O load has proven to be very difficult and as a result is often neglected. During the provisioning process for virtual machines virtual disk datastores are often randomly selected leading to hot spots and over- or underutilized datastores – VMware vSphere 5.1 Storage DRS was a new feature introduced in VMware vSphere 5.0 that provides smart virtual machine placement and load-balancing mechanisms based on I/O and space capacity
VMware Workstation 9.0.2 Release Notes
VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 Release Notes
The VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is a unified data center platform that provides unprecedented automation, flexibility, and efficiency to transform the way you deliver IT. Compute, storage, networking, security, and availability services are pooled, aggregated, and delivered as software, and managed by intelligent, policy-driven software. Self-service, policy-based provisioning, automated infrastructure, and application and business management complete the picture. The result is a data center optimized for the cloud era, providing unmatched business agility, the highest SLAs for all applications, dramatically simpler operations, and lower costs
Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware virtualized environments. Oracle Support will assist customers running Oracle products on VMware in the following manner: Oracle will only provide support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running on VMware. If a problem is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support will recommend the appropriate solution on the native OS. If that solution does not work in the VMware virtualized environment, the customer will be referred to VMware for support. When the customer can demonstrate that the Oracle solution does not work when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required. If the problem is determined not to be a known Oracle issue, we will refer the customer to VMware for support. When the customer can demonstratethat the issue occurs when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required
NOTE: For Oracle RAC, Oracle will only accept Service Requests as described in this note on Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later releases
VMware vSphere 5.1 enhanced vMotion now removes the shared storage requirement for live migration and allows combining traditional vMotion and Storage vMotion into one operation – the „shared nothing“ unified live migration feature offers administrators significantly more simplicity and flexibility in managing and moving virtual machines across their virtual infrastructures compared to the traditional vMotion and Storage vMotion migration solutions
VMware Horizon Mobile enables enterprises to securely provision and manage corporate mobile workspaces on Android smartphones in isolation from employees‘ personal environments. This dual-persona solution makes corporate data more secure and enables enterprises to take advantage of employee-owned mobile devices
VMware Scripted is a fast and lightweight code editor with an initial focus on JavaScript editing. Scripted is a browser based editor and the editor itself is served from a locally running Node.js server instance
