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Week 46 already, the end of the year is closing in. I hope, those who celebrated it, have digested their turkey by now as today us geeks can start hunting for those cyber monday deals. I put up one together with Frank Denneman, the price of the paper copy of the vSphere 5.1 book dropped significantly. (limited time offer)

Anyway, this is the last TM Update I will be doing… My colleague Ken Werneburg aka vmKen is taking over, but more details around that later this week. Thanks for tuning in and enjoy the TM show 🙂

• VMware Innovate magazine edition available for download! (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/SnLC04
• WHIPTAIL Announce 4.1.1 Update (Cormac Hogan) http://bit.ly/XTXoFx
• Thinking about a stretched vCloud Director deployment (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/WrgGvH
• VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) 5.1 VCDB & SSODB Password (William Lam) http://bit.ly/UKBKhw
• (Alternative) VM swap file locations Q&A – part 2 (Frank Denneman) http://bit.ly/V7tFHr
• vCloud Suite – VSA 5.1 Remote Office/Brach Office Consideration & Successful Deployment Series – Part 3 (Rawlinson Rivera) http://bit.ly/10F0Mmo
• vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive only $17.95, limited time! (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/Tfs90o
• resxtop fails to connect to a vSphere 5.1 host (William Lam) http://bit.ly/WrgTiy
• Want to do some VMware Hands-on Labs but don’t have the kit? (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/WQ11uK
• Alternative Way of Extracting VIN (vSphere Infrastructure Navigator) Information (William Lam) http://bit.ly/V1fWMI
• vSphere 5.1 – VDS New Features – BPDU Filter (Venky Deshpande) http://bit.ly/Tfsy2X
• What is that poweron file in my .vSphere-HA folder? (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/YhU1HC
• VXLAN – Supported Business Use Case Scenarios (Rawlinson Rivera) http://bit.ly/V2c5Vl
• Installing the VSA Cluster Service on the vMA Appliance (Rawlinson Rivera) http://bit.ly/Rd6OZO

Enjoy, Duncan.

Many of the VMware Tech Marketing folks were at a VMUG last week, hence the reason the volume is slightly lower than normal… I am guessing though it will go up again this week!

Blog posts:

• Warning: Latest OS X updates causes issues with Fusion 5.0.x! (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/xJrOiRsj
• VMware feature request (Frank Denneman) http://t.co/LmvpVKBz
  Auto Deploy Host Booting From Wrong Image Profile (Kyle Gleed) http://t.co/Mi0biteq
• vSphere 5.1 SSD Monitoring reporting N/A for certain fields (Cormac Hogan) http://bit.ly/TXc8zx
• vCloud Suite – VSA 5.1 Cluster Service Consideration & Successful Deployment Series – Part 2 (Rawlinson Rivera) https://t.co/FSdjhbXl
• vSphere Metro Storage Cluster – Uniform vs Non-Uniform (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/5vgYSQJ8
• What is Software Defined Storage? A VMware TMM Perspective (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/SgtJY2Mt
• VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Evaluation Videos (Jeff Hunter) http://t.co/dfmB7qsB
• VM swap file locations Q&A (Frank Denneman) http://t.co/tmy8eK8d
• Auto Deploy Adding Host to vCenter Using IP (Kyle Gleed) http://t.co/zf1inDoW
• The VMware Hands on Labs Online Public Beta is now open(Andrew Hald) http://bit.ly/UOymWH
• Setting up vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 Edge Firewall (Ranga Maddipudi) http://bit.ly/XpHMta

Enjoy, Duncan.

Good morning (afternoon or evening depending on where you are)! Another TM Update and two specifics I want to call out this week. First and foremost our newest team member Ranga Maddipudi published his first official blog article. Once again congrats and welcome. (NAT deployment using vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 Edge (Ranga Maddipudi) http://bit.ly/WSVsgb ) Ranga will be part of the Tech Marketing vCloud Networking and Security side of the house.

Secondly, I published a blog article with all of the speaking engagements Tech Marketing his currently planned for November –> http://t.co/7wlux4X0 . Point your customers over to this, and if you happen to be at one of those events, stop by and say hi!

Blog posts:

• @VMwareStorage – November Speaking Engagements (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/fwNE3gzN
• Which vSphere client should I use and when? (Justin King) http://t.co/PFWNAnwJ
• Storage Profile – vCloud Director (Rawlinson Rivera) http://t.co/YBS0ELoa
• Technical Marketing Speaking Engagements – November 2012 (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/7wlux4X0
• What’s new in PowerCLI 5.1–Datastore Clusters (Alan Renouf) http://bit.ly/SpEoqN
• VMFS File Sharing Limits increased to 32 with vSphere 5.1 (Duncan Epping)   http://vmwa.re/19i
• VAAI hw offload and Storage vMotion between two Storage Arrays (Frank Denneman)  http://t.co/gRHEsTZd
• vCenter Operations Manager – Caught out by new Solution Licensing step (Cormac Hogan)  http://t.co/94wW4dt2
• Please take the time to fill out this AWS Integration Survey (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/i5AkPU1F
• Extracting Information from VIN (vSphere Infrastructure Navigator) Part 1 (William Lam)  http://t.co/qjqlx6Lp
• How do I configure an HA vpxd.das advanced setting? (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/me1Krewx
• Heads Up! VSA Manager 5.1.x – Install Error 2896: Executing action failed (Cormac Hogan)  http://t.co/LwEWvaol
• NAT deployment using vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 Edge (Ranga Maddipudi) http://bit.ly/WSVsgb
• Resizing an IDE virtual disk, part two (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/kmbV8YKs
• “Execution Aborted” Error When Deploying an OVF Template (Kyle Gleed) http://t.co/8qcy5T8L
• vSphere HA compatibility list, how do I check it? (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/8l3UJLtt
• VAAI Comparison – Block versus NAS (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/4G5Qsgtm
• vSphere Inventory Searching and Tagging (Justin King) http://bit.ly/SEtPA8
• Extracting Information from VIN (vSphere Infrastructure Navigator) Part 2 (William Lam)  http://t.co/c1aqJuBV
• Using Storage Profiles with vCloud Director (Tom Stephens) http://bit.ly/SBuxOM
• VMware Remote Console (VMRC) 5.1 SDK Download Now Available! (William Lam) http://t.co/VbhGGYIK
• VSA Cluster Service Considerations  and Successful Deployments (Rawlinson Rivera) https://t.co/0BhTOQdF

Enjoy, Duncan.

It seems like “post VMworld holiday season” is over again. A nice list of fresh content and I expect many more cool articles to come next week. If you have don’t so yet, please sign up for the Phone Home beta program.

Blog posts:

• vMotion bug fixed in vCenter server 5.1.0a (Frank Denneman) http://t.co/WfVAtLNP
• “Using #PowerShell v3.0 CIM cmdlets with #VMware #ESXi Hosts” (Alan Renouf) http://t.co/RiJg80sr
• Snapshots with vCloud Director 5.1 (Tom Stephens) http://t.co/bKuHsdLj
• Working with CA signed certificates in your vSphere environment? (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/raPtY6HI
• Beta customers wanted for ‘Phone Home’ feature (Tom Stephens) http://t.co/qR50IcpF
• Restart virtual machine by HA? Destination: cluster or resource pool? (Frank Denneman) http://t.co/j0aH9ULA
• Bandwidth requirements for long distance vMotion (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/GqgRbyoJ
• Why is the siocActiveTimePercentage counter only ever 0% or 100%? (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/NDUQvAP1
• Considering VSA for ROBO? Please read this! (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/2utme55y
• Heads Up! If running VSA 5.1, you do not need VSA 5.1.1 (Cormac hogan) http://t.co/cKJADIja
• vSphere 5.1 Storage DRS Multi-VM provisioning improvement (Frank Denneman) http://t.co/fStHovpS
• VXLAN basics and use cases (when / when not to use it) (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/jBJvfndH
• vSphere Replication Videos (Ken Werneburg) http://bit.ly/RApiRX
• vCenter 5.1.0A Readme (Justin King) http://bit.ly/Tsu7Jk
• Connection Timeout when PXE booting HP DL380G7 (Kyle Gleed) http://bit.ly/Vsnb5A
• vSphere Replication 5.1.0.1 patch released (Ken Werneburg) http://bit.ly/UtybdF
• Snapshots with vCloud Director 5.1 (Tom Stephens) http://bit.ly/SMEDzK

Enjoy, Duncan.

Quick TM update, just back from the US and recovering from a long flight.

Blog posts:

• Autoscaling in vSphere survey! Help us out. (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/VphqBIi2
• Tech Preview of EMC’s XtremIO Flash Storage Solution (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/DfDNJqCm
• The State of vSphere Clustering by @virtualirfan (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/q6uOmaie
• Monitoring Storage I/O Control activity with new vSphere 5.1 counters (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/MPnQjDOh
• Survey time… (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/gsRojmL7
• Stop vs Pause with vSphere Replication (Ken Werneburg) http://t.co/lSnJxOOB
• Managing Multiple Session Timeouts for ESXi (Rawlinson Rivera) http://t.co/hBc0Sl9H
• Atlantis ILIO – Diskless VDI & Services Feature Review (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/c2u2zop6
• VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 – Evaluation Videos (Venky Deshpande) http://bit.ly/WUENHP
• Stop vs Pause with vSphere Replication (Ken Werneburg) http://bit.ly/Tj5O0s
• vCloud Director 5.1.1 Released! (Tom Stephens) http://bit.ly/RrpscF
• Update to vSphere vCenter Server, version 5.1.0A released (Justin King) http://bit.ly/SSrPFl
• VSA v5.1.1 Released (Cormac Hogan) http://bit.ly/Q15UPD

Enjoy, Duncan.

Quick #tmupdate before I catch my flight to Palo Alto… Some might notice it, some might not. There is a new name listed below, Rawlinson Riverra! Welcome to the team Rawlinson. Make sure to follow his blog and follow him on twitter.

• Adding Non-Supported ESXi Builds to VIN (vSphere Infrastructure Navigator) (William Lam) http://t.co/XD4Kno6p
• Partially connected datastore clusters – warnings and how to solve it (Frank Denneman) http://t.co/xKVgwkXW
• vSphere Data Protection (VDP) and vSphere Replication (VR) Interoperability (Jeff Hunter) http://t.co/xyoN9XxQ
• Meet the PowerCLI Team (Alan Renouf) http://t.co/FHaW0vaQ
• How to make your own RUN DRS shirt (Frank Denneman) http://t.co/8RRGhPfP
• Spotted a RUN DRS t-shirt at VMworld and wondering where to buy them? (Duncan Epping) http://vmwa.re/191
• Using the New vCloud Networking and Security to Load Balance Multiple vSphere Web Client Servers (William Lam) http://t.co/NCvoeIyC
• A admission control is not a capacity management tool (Frank Denneman) http://t.co/X8We6vL5
• vCloud Director 5.1 & Storage Profiles (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/WUkZ4xWB
• vSphere HA fail-over in action – aka reading the log files (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/xsPChQAQ
• vGhetto Lab #NotSupported Slides Posted (William Lam) http://t.co/g42vEb88
• VMworld #NotSupported lightning talk slides – Hacking SRM (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/QM688YrN
• Storage DRS and alternative swap file locations (Frank Denneman) http://t.co/1hjK2Vug
• Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) Tech Preview [with video] (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/xHylCW40
• Nested Virtualization APIs For vSphere & vCloud Director 5.1 (William Lam) http://t.co/MNd2nk2a
• Database clustering support for vCloud Director added in version 5.1! (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/PHMX7jsY
• vSphere 5.1 – VDS Feature Evaluation Videos (Venky Deshpande) http://t.co/kOAErVwC
• Architecting Storage Offerings for vCloud Director 5.1 (Rawlinson Riverra) http://t.co/FLloYBS9
• vSphere 5.1 Storage DRS load balancing and SIOC threshold enhancements (Frank Denneman) http://t.co/Qe3A9nsB
• vCloud Director 5.1 & Storage DRS (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/zlMsG9Ao
• What’s New in VMware Vsish for ESXi 5.1 (William Lam) http://t.co/X0HwlmjR
• vSphere 5.1 Auto Deploy Overview Videos (Kyle Gleed) http://t.co/XPNn48Nt
• Want to have a vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive book for free? (Frank Denneman) http://bit.ly/SamIlh
• Moving On: New Role, More Passion (Rawlinson Riverra) http://bit.ly/VnK3Ea

Enjoy, Duncan.

Due to VMworld Barcelona it is a short list this week, nevertheless some useful blog posts…

Blog posts:

• Some questions about Stretched Clusters with regards to power outages (Duncan Epping) http://vmwa.re/18u
• Cool iPad app: VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal (Duncan Epping) http://vmwa.re/18v
• VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal – iPad App (Alan Renouf) http://t.co/auEPWRbr
• vSphere 5.1 DRS advanced option LimitVMsPerESXHost (Frank Denneman) http://vmwa.re/18w
• VSA Cluster Service Considerations (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/ajj8Cvwl

Enjoy,Duncan.

Just one more week before VMworld Barcelona. I hope you are ready, I know we are. many of the Tech Marketing folks will be there, so make sure to catch our sessions!

Blog posts:

• vCenter Single Sign-On Part 1: what is vCenter Single Sign-On? (Justin King) https://t.co/pDkrQsof
• A tweet says more than a 1000 words (Duncan Epping) http://t.co/Vi6Y8qv5
• Nice advanced ESXTOP tip from #VMworld session INF-VSP1423 (Duncan Epping) http://vmwa.re/14b
• Violin Memory & 1 Million IOPs from a single VM (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/8BIjWRai
• Configuring Additional VCSA 5.1 as vSphere Web Client Servers (William Lam) http://t.co/DDEpj8rf
• Call for speakers for Lightning and NotSupported talks at VMworld Barcelona (Duncan Epping) http://vmwa.re/14c
• Quickly Configuring the New vCenter Orchestrator 5.1 Appliance (William Lam) http://t.co/XW4rVKNP
• Heads Up! Fibre Channel & vSphere 5.1 Web Client Users (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/ZGwSksx2
• Cool Tool update: RVTools 3.4 (Duncan Epping) http://vmwa.re/14d
• Identifying Non-Default Advanced & Kernel Settings Using ESXCLI 5.1 (William Lam) http://bit.ly/Uu8KsI
• Introducing the VIB Author Fling (Kyle Gleed) http://bit.ly/UzVcMd
• 2gbsparse Disk Format No Longer Working On ESXi 5.1 (William Lam) http://t.co/GjRmrWxt
• Do RDMs still rely on LUN ID? (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/pbnTrjji
• Storage DRS demo available on VMware TV (Frank Denneman) http://bit.ly/P3J1dL
• Can’t connect to the vCloud Director 5.1 Virtual Appliance? Try this… (Tom Stephens) http://bit.ly/SRr4dD
•  Creating Custom VIBs For ESXi 5.0 & 5.1 with VIB Author Fling VMware Labs (William Lam) http://bit.ly/SQvneC
• Lossless OVF Export in vSphere 5.1 & vCloud Director 5.1 (William Lam) http://t.co/J8i67kAh
• Nimbus Data’s new Gemini Array & vSphere Integration (Cormac Hogan) http://t.co/9h2Po2JH
• X-Large Edge Gateways and vCD (Tom Stephens) http://bit.ly/SrpSSj
• Does XenApp (or VDI) on vSphere 5.x Still Require a HIMP Adjustment? (Mark A) http://bit.ly/QoSNTh
• Having Difficulties Enabling Nested ESXi in vSphere 5.1 (William Lam) http://t.co/3TvGVyM3

Enjoy,Duncan.