The snow has finally melted and spring has arrived. It’s been an exciting month at VMware that included the announcement of Horizon 6 as well as the release of vCHS – Disaster Recovery (RaaS). There was also the Heartbleed vulnerability that hit the web like a fireball. April’s edition of the Scoop may be the best yet. I’ve collected a variety of articles that will be good reading material for sitting in the backyard and enjoying a sunny spring afternoon.
On the back of the vCHS – DR (RaaS) announcement, I give you a few vCHS articles, in particular on how vCHS is different than other public cloud providers.
- vCloud Hybrid Service – How It’s Different from AWS
- How vCHS is Different: 10 Capabilities that exist on vCHS that don’t exist on AWS
- vCHS – Disaster Recovery Tutorial Videos
- Bring Your Own Licenses to the Cloud
I can’t forget about Horizon 6 which I am very excited about. VMware continues to push the bar on end-user computing. Some highlights include application publishing using Windows RDS as well as vCAC support for View.
- Introducing Horizon 6 – Office of the CTO
- Four Key Innovations in Horizon 6
- Horizon 6 VSAN Integration
- Horizon DaaS (Desktop as a Service) Demo
- VMware will pair AirWatch EMM with Horizon
- VMware vSphere Mobile Watchlist
I was working with a customer yesterday who was not using DRS. They had all the proper licensing but was not taking advantage of one of vSphere’s core technologies. At a minimum, turn DRS on and set it to Manual. At the very least you’ll receive recommendations on where to move workloads based on resource utilization in your vSphere cluster. On the heals of that, the following article asks the question, why are you not using HA monitoring?
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VMware and VMUG are hosting two awesome events, hopefully in a city near you. The VMware Tech Talk (formerly Knowledge Series) is hosting a Horizon 6 event and VMUG is hosting an NSX Series.
A few storage articles…
- VSAN Interoperability with vCAC
- VSAN and vCenter Operations Interoperability
- Designing a Custom Storage Dashboard using vCOps
As always, I love reading about how to succeed, in both life and business.
- Top 3 Networking Mistakes People Make
- Top 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself
- 10 Rules of an Incompetent Professional
That’s it for the structured data, below a few articles that I found useful and worth sharing. Enjoy the warm weather that spring has brought us.
- Quiescing Oracle Databases on Windows for backup with vSphere Data Protection Advanced
- Backing Up SQL Databases with vSphere Data Protection Advanced
- vSphere Distributed Switch – Network Monitoring
- vSphere Distributed Switch – Backup and Restore
- vCNS Edge DHCP
- vCNS Management Pack for vCOps Now Available
- Top 20 vSphere 5.5 Support Topics
