vCloud Automation Center enables customized, self-service provisioning and lifecycle management of cloud services that comply with established business policies. It provides a secure portal where authorized administrators, developers or business users can request new IT services as well as manage existing computer resources from predefined user-specific menus.

Download VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1

[PDF] VMware vCloud Automation Center – datasheet

[VMware Training] VMware vCloud Automation Center Foundation

FREE Instructional Videos on VMware vCloud Automation Center

Part 68: My vCloud Journey Journal – Installing vCloud Automation Center 5.1 (HomeLab)

Part 69: My vCloud Journey Journal – vCenter Setup with vCloud Automation Center 5.1

Download the VMware vCAC Icon Pack

The Integration of vCloud Director with vCloud Automation Center

vCloud Automation Center – VMware community

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VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes 230 – Live from Silicon Valley VMUG

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Angelo Luciani

** Special Live Broadcast from the Silicon Valley VMware User Group – May 1, 2013 **

Hosts
John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer
Mike Gordon Laverick, VMware @Mike_Laverick

Guests
Manjeet Bavage, @Mantraaz Silicon Valley VMUG Leader
Ravi Venkatasubbaiah, @ravi_venk Silicon Valley VMUG Leader
Adam Zimman, VMware

News
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to unveil vCloud Hybrid Service May 21st
EMC World 2013 – IT Technology Conference
IT Conference and Expo | Interop Las Vegas 2013
Part 68: My vCloud Journey Journal – Installing vCloud Automation Center 5.1 (HomeLab)

Link to Audio Recording
Silicon Valley VMware User Group – May 1, 2013

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Record registrations & huge turnout #svvmug ROCKS #vmug

— Mantraaz (@Mantraaz) May 1, 2013

Over 540 attendees. Over 150 labs – Amazing event here in the Silicon valley #svvmug #vmug

— Mantraaz (@Mantraaz) May 1, 2013

Thanks to everyone who made the #svvmug a great success #VMUG

— Silicon Valley VMUG (@SVvmug) May 5, 2013

Looks like @lamw was here #svvmug twitter.com/alanrenouf/sta…

— Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf) May 1, 2013

Meet the new Mr & Mrs Laverick! twitter.com/Mike_Laverick/…

— Mike Laverick (@Mike_Laverick) May 5, 2013

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VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes 229 – Network Virtualization, Spousetivities

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Angelo Luciani

Hosts
John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer

Guests
Scott Lowe, VMware @scott_lowe
Crystal Lowe, Spousetivities @crystal_lowe

News
Silicon Valley VMUG User Conference – Wednesday, May 1, 2013
EMC World – May 6-9, 2013 at The Venetian
Pivotal has launched
New Community Competition – Are you the next Virtual Design Master?
Flipboard users – Three cool magazines – consider subscribing

Link to Audio Recording
Network Virtualization, Spousetivities

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Spousetivities – The fun side of technology conferences

VMworld Call for Papers Voting Is Now Open

VMworld Convince Your Boss Letter

VMware NSX Network Virtualization

VMware vCloud Networking and Security

[PDF] VMware vCloud Networking and Security

[PDF] VMware vCloud Networking and Security Overview

Martìn Casado – (Stanford, twitter, Grace Murray Hopper Award)

Bruce Davie – Office of the CTO Blog

Brad Hedlund – (blog, twitter)

vSoup Podcast – Bandwidth Envy with Greg Ferro #31. [From John: I do want to apologize to Greg and thank him for letting me use him as a straw man in this podcast. You should really listen to the entire vSoup podcast to get his take, rather than what I took away from it and used to start discussion on this podcast. Greg is the networking expert, after all.]

Last year, the number of virtual ports exceeded the number of physical posts

Key technologies to consider – OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, Overlay protocols – STT VXLAN, NVGRE, L2 vs L3, Routing vs Swtiching – Scott Lowe

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VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes 228 – Windows XP 1-year support countdown

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Angelo Luciani

Hosts
John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer
Mike Laverick, VMware @mike_laverick

Guests
John Obeto, Logikworx @johnobeto
Betty Junod, VMware

News
New Community Competition – Are you the next Virtual Design Master?
Canonical and VMware Collaborate to Enable OpenStack Clouds with VMware Technologies
Socialcast by VMware Advances Enterprise Social Networking With New Capabilities
Flipboard users – Three cool magazines – consider subscribing

Join us as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of VMworld US!

Link to Audio Recording
Windows XP 1-year support countdown

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Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 – Support Ends April 8, 2014

VMware Horizon Mirage

[PDF] Windows 7 Migration Using VMware Horizon Mirage

[PDF] ADAC e.V., Europe’s Largest Automobile Insurance Association, Completes Desktop Migration in 15 Days

Windows lifecycle fact sheet

[PDF] VMware Horizon Mirage 4.0 Reviewer’s Guide

Forrester: Windows 7 powering 21 percent of corporate desktops; XP still at 60 percent – Jun 17, 2011

VMware Horizon Mirage is a layered image management solution that separates the PC into logical layers which are owned and managed by either IT or the end user. Update IT-managed layers while maintaining end-user files and personalization. Snapshots and backups of layered desktop images enable quick recovery or rollback in case of failure.

VMware Mirage Architecture and Use Cases

Follow VMware Horizon Mirage on twitter @vmwaremirage

VMware ThinApp deep dive: Deployed vs. streaming execution modes

VMware Horizon Suite combines physical, virtual and mobile management

FREE eLearning VMware Horizon Mirage Fundamentals Now Available

VMware Horizon Mirage links

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VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes 227 – Flings, View Pool Manager, VDI Calculator

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Angelo Luciani

Hosts
John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer
Mike Laverick, VMware @mike_laverick

Guests
Dana Nourie, VMware @DanaNourie
Andre Leibovici, VMware @andreleibovici

News
VMworld 2013 Call for Papers is open – Tuesday, March 12, 2013 – Friday, April 12, 2013
vExpert 2013 applications are open – Deadline for applications is April 15, 2013, no its now April 22, 2013
US VMUG User Conference - Find one near you
Podcast – #185 – Becoming a VMworld Speaker [Tips]
vMUGGING Thoughts – Mike Laverick blog post
New Community Competition – Are you the next Virtual Design Master?
Xceedium Extends Xsuite for VMware
VMware director: ‘IT goals haven’t really changed over the last decade’
Flipboard users – Three cool magazines – consider subscribing

Link to Audio Recording
Flings, View Pool Manager, VDI Calculator

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VMware Flings – Our home for collaboration & innovation

What is a Fling - Apps and tools built by our engineers that are intended to be played with and explored.

Follow VMware’s Academic Program (VMAP) on twitter

Some popular flings

Mike Laverick’s favorite fling - ThinApp Factory

View Pool Manager – is a Fling that allows VMware View administrators to easily manage users across desktop pools and security groups.

View Calculator

VMware ROI TCO Calculator

The VDI Market continues to hike up, transforming itself… [Blog]

How to: Automate Horizon Mirage tasks via API and PowerShell [Blog]

vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script

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VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes 226 – vSphere Security Hardening Guide

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Angelo Luciani

Hosts
John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer

Guests
Mike Foley, VMware @mikefoley

News
VMworld 2013 Call for Papers is now open
VMUG Italy User Conference – The Debriefing
vExpert 2013 applications are now open
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
New Community Competition – Are you the next Virtual Design Master?

Community Events
vBrownbag Podcast
VMUG Local Meetings – Check it today!
AdaptingIT – Lauren Malhoit Podcast
Virtualization Security Roundtable
vCatchup Podcast – Craig Waters
Geek Whisperers (John Troyer NEW Podcast)
Establish your Cloud Cred!
Join the Conversation on Google+ Communities – Software-Defined Data Center

Link to Audio Recording
vSphere Security Hardening Guide

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Podcast – #185 – Becoming a VMworld Speaker [Tips]

The VMware Innovation Awards

vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Release Candidate now available

Security and Compliance Community Forum

vSphere Security Hardening Report Script Updated for vSphere 5.1

vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script [VMware Fling]

Security Advisories, Certifications & Guides

I would encourage you to post your reply in the Security and Compliance Communities forum but if you have more sensitive concerns, send it to me at mfoley@vmware.com. The intent is to publish the final GA copy in two weeks with any changes/updates incorporated so get your inputs in as soon as possible!

[PDF] Public Draft (Revision B – Release Candidate) of the vSphere 5.1 Security Hardening Guide available

VMware vCloud Networking and Security

Compliance moves at the speed of legislation, security MUST move at the speed of network. -Texiwill

[Blog Series by @vCenterGuy] - vCenter Single Sign-On Part 1: what is vCenter Single Sign-On?

vCloud Suite 5.1– SSO Resources (via @alanrenouf)

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Hey @jtroyer, I don’t think @mike_laverick and I are making it to the podcast tonight twitter.com/hansdeleenheer…

— Hans De Leenheer (@hansdeleenheer) April 3, 2013

VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes #225 – PowerCLI

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Angelo Luciani

Hosts
John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer
Mike Laverick, VMware @mike_laverick

Guests
Alan Renouf, VMware @alanrenouf

News
Online VMware Forum 2013 – Tuesday, April 23, 2013
EMC, VMware Prep Big Data Analytics Spinoff
VMworld 2013 Call for Papers is now open.
Bare Metal Cloud for your Auto-Lab – Mike Laverick
New Beta Program offering: VMware Hosted Beta

Link to Audio Recording
PowerCLI

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PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 Now Available

vDS Export/Import with PowerCLI

One of the great new features introduced in vSphere 5.1 was the ability to export and import the configuration of your vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) and port groups to a file

Guest Post: Finding your way in the PowerCLI Community

VMware vSphere PowerCLI – Community

PowerScripting Podcast–What’s new in PowerCLI 5.1 R2

PowerCLI Lab Online – Sign up now for the public beta

vCloud Director PowerCLI – snap-in for vCloud Director

vSphere PowerCLI Documentation

PowerCLI 5.1 and the future

[Blog - January 26, 2009 ] vDiagram – Draw your VI with one script

PowerGUI – PowerGUI is the freeware tool administrators need to speed PowerShell adoption

Onyx – VMware Fling

Trainsignal – VMware vSphere PowerCLI Course

[Book] VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration