- vCO Videos – VMware Education
- VMware vCenter Orchestrator Community
- vCenter Orchestrator Plug-ins
- vCO Team
- vCO Portal
- VMware vCO Blog
- vCO Documentation
- vCO VMware Solutions Exchange
- vCO Developer Center
- vCO Plug-in SDK
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Cloud Computing, Networking & Security, SDLC, VMware, Microsoft, AWS, and Related Technology Topics
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Showing posts with label Free. Show all posts
VMware vCO Resources (v.2)
General Availability - VMware vCenter 5.0 Update 1b Patch
- Detailed information regarding resolved and known issues and enhancements can be found in the VMware vCenter 5.0 Update 1b Release Notes
- VMware vCenter 5.0 Update 1b Patch is available for download here
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General Availability of VMware vCenter 4.0 Update 4a Patch
- Detailed information regarding resolved and known issues and enhancements can be found in the VMware vCenter 4.0 Update 4a Release Notes
- VMware vCenter 4.0 Update 4a Patch is available for download here
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
VMworld 2012 – Top Most Popular Breakout Sessions
Here is the link for accessing the videos and below is the information for the sessions.
- NET2207: VMware vSphere Distributed Switch—Technical Deep Dive | Pdf
- STO2980: vSphere 5 Storage Best Practices | Pdf
- VSP1168: Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure | Pdf
- VSP1800: vSphere Performance Best Practices | Pdf
- VSP2825: DRS: Advanced Concepts, Best Practices and Future Directions | Pdf
- VSP1683: VMware vSphere Cluster Resource Pools Best Practices | Pdf
- STO1430: Tracking Down Storage Performance Issues: A Customer’s Perspective |Pdf
- EUC1305: What's New and What's Next for VMware View | Pdf
- VSP1232: Avoiding the 19 Biggest HA & DRS Configuration Mistakes - 2012 Edition | Pdf
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
Tags:
Clustering,
ESX Server,
ESXi Server,
Free,
Security,
Storage,
VDI,
Virtual Center,
Virtualization,
VMware
Microsoft Private Cloud Labs
“Core Capabilities Addressed in the Guided Labs:
- Provide resources through self-service requests
- Drive consistent Service Delivery
- Provision additional cloud infrastructure
- Delegate cloud resources
- Create consistency through service templates
- Perform a standardized application deployment to test
- Stage application resources
- Self-service deployment of an application to a production environment
- Gain insight and visibility through reporting
- Monitor infrastructure
- Taking corrective actions in the infrastructure
- Reduce time to resolution with application performance monitoring
- Deploy an update to service instance
- Explore creating dashboards”
You can find more information about the Microsoft Private Cloud Labs here.
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Microsoft Private Cloud Evaluation Software
“A Microsoft private cloud dramatically changes the way your business produces and consumes IT services by creating a layer of abstraction over your pooled IT resources. This allows your datacenter to offer true infrastructure service capability as well as optimally managed application services.
Microsoft private cloud solutions are built on System Center and Windows Server.”
You can get the software here.
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
HP Software Delivery Repository for VMware – Image Builder, VUM, ESXCLI and ESXi 5
“Overview
Welcome to the HP vibsdepot. This site at http://vibsdepot.hp.com provides our customers and partners with online access to the HP developed VMware® Bundles for use with VMware® vSphere 5.0 Image Builder, Update Manager (VUM) and ESXCLI. It is assumed you are familiar with these applications and command line utilities and if needed should refer to the VMware® vSphere 5.0 documentation along with VMware.com for further information.
The HP bundles that are provided on the vibsdepot are an important solution for the management and configuration of HP Industry Standard Servers and are already integrated in the HP Customized VMware® ESXi 5.0 image available at https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPVM09.
For a list of HP supplied drivers and versions used in HP Customized VMware® images reference the list at http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware-esxi/driver_version.html.
You can also easily install the HP Bundles from vibsdepot on your VMware® ESXi 5.0 image as offline bundle ZIP files with ESXCLI and VUM or integrated as part of your customized ESXi 5.0 image creation with Image Builder.
Use Cases:
- Directly add the vibsdepot with Image Builder PowerCLI command "Add-EsxSoftwareDepot http://vibsdepot.hp.com" for all the bundles or with any specific bundle subdirectory by appending the respective <bundle-directory> to the URL
- Directly connect VUM to "http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml"or for a specific bundle subdirectory via
http://vibsdepot.hp.com/<bundle-directory>/index.xml
- Download (or copy)"http://vibsdepot.hp.com/" for all the bundles or any specific bundle subdirectory to your local VMware® depot
- Download (or copy)"http://vibsdepot.hp.com/" or a specific <bundle-directory>/<offline-bundle-name>.zip to you local management console or to the host and use the ESXCLI command”
You can access the site here.
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer Tool
“With the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool, you can read your Active Directory structure through LDAP. The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool automates Microsoft Office Visio to draw a diagram of the Active Directory Domain topology, your Active Directory Site topology, your OU structure, your DFS-R topology or your current Exchange 20XX Server Organization. With the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool, you can also draw partial Information from your Active Directory, like only one Domain or one site. The objects are linked together, and arranged in a reasonable layout that you can later interactively work with the objects in Microsoft Office Visio.”
You can download the Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool here.
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
New Free Quest vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer
“You can run the Quest vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer both on already deployed desktops as well as on reference machines (templates / golden images), where our best practice is to apply the optimizations to the latter. No matter where you run the Quest vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer it’s important to always test the optimizations applied by the Quest vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer in a test environment! Even though we have put a lot of work into creating the list of optimizations, not all optimizations will make equal sense for everybody. For example, if you use Windows Search regularly, you might not want to disable the service. Finally, it should go without saying that the Quest vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer should be run as an administrator.”
You can download Quest vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer here.
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Microsoft File Server Capacity Tool - v1.2
“File server capacity planning and performance troubleshooting are critical aspects of high-level network administration. File server capacity planning tools can be valuable in choosing new hardware for purchase, identifying the capacity of existing hardware, locating existing bottlenecks, and planning for resource expansion in advance of resource exhaustion.
The throughput capacity of a file server can be expressed either as the maximum number of operations per second or a maximum number of users supported by the configuration. These values are influenced by several factors, some of which include processor speed, available memory, disk speed, network throughput and latency, and the speed with which SMB requests are processed.
This release is an updated release to v1.0. It includes support of File Server in the Windows Clustering configuration. Windows Clustering allows system to be built with redundancy, which provides high availability to tolerate hardware failures. With a two node clustering, you could setup more than one virtual file server instance, and have FSCT clients run load against all the instances. In this release, a new section “Running FSCT against a singleton Windows Cluster” will describe the setup and steps for running against a Windows Cluster.”
You can download the Microsoft File Server Capacity Tool here (64b) and here (32b).
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Video Links from the VMware Technical Publications YouTube Channel
New Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 Download!
“iSCSI Software Target is an optional Windows Server component that provides centralized, software-based and hardware-independent iSCSI disk subsystems in storage area networks (SANs).”
You can download the new package here and find additional information by reading Jose Barreto’s blog posts: The Basics of the Virtual Disk Services (VDS), Configuring the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target, Step-by-step: Using the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target with Hyper-V (Standalone, Full, VHD) and Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 for Windows Server 2008 R2 available for public download.
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
Administrando VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.0 - Free
“Este libro te enseñará cómo instalar y configurar el producto VMware Site Recovery Manager. También cubre en detalle los procesos de failover y failback y te servirá de guía para la puesta en marcha del producto. En este libro no se incluye ninguna teoría sobre la gestión de proyectos que caracteriza a una gran cantidad de libros de TI. Es práctico y técnico, y presupone que ya estás bastante familiarizado con VMware vSphere 4. Con él, aprenderás los puntos fuertes y debilidades de VMware Site Recovery Manager. No solamente te mostraré las trampas y errores más comunes a los cuales te enfrentarás, sino, algo que considero más importante, por qué suceden y cómo solucionarlos.”
Puedes bajar el libro gratuitamente en este enlace.
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
Quick list of useful links (Virtualization & Others)
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Microsoft Disk2vhd v1.61 (New Version) - Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs)
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VKERNEL Free VM Tools Page (ESXi, ESX, vCenter, etc)
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New vSphere 4.1 Windows Active Directory Authentication Video by David Davis
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Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 (New Version) - Network Monitor 3.4 is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. Version 3.4 is an update and replaces Network Monitor 3.3. Network Monitor 3.x is a complete overhaul of the previous Network Monitor 2.x version
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Prepare your Domain for the Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller by Daniel Petri
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New Microsoft Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT v3.2)
“Overview
- The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.2 (ADMT v3.2) simplifies the process of migrating objects and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory® Domain Service (AD DS) environment. You can use ADMT v3.2 to migrate users, groups, service accounts, and computers between AD DS domains in different forests (inter-forest migration) or between AD DS domains in the same forest (intra-forest migration). ADMT can also perform security translation (to migrate local user profiles) when performing inter-forest migrations.
System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2
- ADMT can be installed on any computer capable of running the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system, unless they are Read-Only domain controllers or in a Server Core configuration.
- Target domain: The target domain must be running Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2
- Source domain: The source domain must be running Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2
- The ADMT agent, installed by ADMT on computers in the source domains, can operate on computers running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2.”
The new version of Active Directory Migration Tool can be downloaded here and its guide “Migrating and Restructuring Active Directory Domains” here.
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
Great Free Resources for VMware Environments from Vizioncore
Vizioncore recently made available the “Top 10 Virtual Performance Mistakes” WebEx session for download and I must say that it is a great free resource. Also, this page provides more links to other free tools mentioned in the presentation.
Feel free to download the WebEx session here and the Pdf here.
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
HP Learning Center – Classes (Free)
Here you can find the list of all the classes that are currently available in the HP Leaning Center. Three of the ones I like are:
- Virtualize your infrastructure: operations
- Virtualize your infrastructure: planning
- Evaluating desktop virtualization solutions
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
PHD Virtual Patch Downloader
“Patch Downloader simplifies the task of downloading patches for various ESX versions by automating the task. If a user does not want to, or cannot, use Update Manager (because they do not have a license or do not have internet access from the ESX/VC hosts) they must download patches manually from the VMware website through a Java Download manager. It's easy to miss a patch, and painfully slow to find and select the ones you want. These downloaded patches go on an HTTP or FTP repository, or are copied direct to each host over SSH, and the esxupdate utility is used to patch the ESX host.
With Patch Downloader, you just open the app, select the version of ESX from the drop down, and select a file repository (folder, drive map, SMB share, etc.) where you want to download the patches. It lists all of the available ESX patches as well as information about each including description and severity of the problem it corrects and the impact to the VM/Host. The patch grid can be sorted by column so it's easy to bring all the CRITICAL patches to the top, for example. When you click download, it will download all of the VMware ESX patches you select to the repository, but skip any that are already there – simplifying your ESX patch management by keeping your ESX patch repository up to date.”
You can download PHD Virtual Patch Downloader here.
Posted by Gabriel Maciel
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