Tomorrow, on June 7th (Pacific Daylight Saving time), VMware will host its first ever Global Support Services (GSS) Virtual Customer Support Day. Join us for a comprehensive and highly educational seminar in which our Senior Technical Support Engineers will share "best practices" as well as tips and tricks of the trade. You will get a chance to get answers to your questions directly from our GSS experts in a Q&A session following each topic. The Support Insider blog has all the details and a link to register at blogs.vmware.com/kb
While we’re talking about learning the nuts and bolts, the vCoud team has published a full-length video taken from a vCloud Director Essentials training course, in which you get to see step-by-step, how to…
- Monitor tasks and events in vCloud Director, at multiple levels, just like you already do in VMware vCenter or vSphere.
- Monitor blocking tasks, used when you have integrated vCloud Director with other management tools, connected through an AMQP broker, like RabbitMQ.
- Check the status of provider and org vDC cloud infrastructure usage.
- View vCloud Director log files from the command line.
Check out blogs.vmware.com/vcloud for all this training goodness.
Also, last Friday the security team has released the vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide. In this release, the guide has been revised from the ground up based on customer requests and feedback. It is being released exclusively in spreadsheet format to make it easier to follow the recommended steps.
All guidelines now use the same set of metadata, and a new standardized and extensible identification scheme. This will enable customers to more readily adapt the guide to suit their particular environment by selecting the specific guidelines and fields that are of interest to them, and also help them in the generation of standard checklists and similar documents.
To read more and to download the vSphere Security Hardening Guide, visit blogs.vmware.com/security
And finally, the VMUG full-day user conferences are all over the place this month. One is happening as we speak, in New York City, another is scheduled for tomorrow in Philadelphia, then we move on to Seattle, Vancouver, Minneapolis and Wisconsin through the rest of the month. If you wonder what a VMUG user conference is, I like to compare them to mini-VMworlds, where you have your keynotes, breakout sessions, and socialization with industry colleagues from your geographic area. Go to myvmug.com to find a VMUG conference near you and to register.
