Cloud infrastructure technical marketing material for February 9th-15th

vSphere Blog

• The PowerCLI & vSphere Web Client SDK Hands On Lab Is Now Available! – http://bit.ly/XqPEbw – William Lam
• PEX 2013 – vCloud Networking and Security Sessions – http://bit.ly/Y6tmdg – Vyenkatesh Deshpande
• Is a VMware Tools Upgrade Required When Upgrading vSphere?  – http://bit.ly/12GIgMR – Kyle Gleed
• VMware Announces VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced – http://bit.ly/Xvl6FA – Jeff Hunter
• QLogic HBA Firmware Versions – http://bit.ly/Yd0hNb – Cormac Hogan
• Managing Virtual Hardware Versions During a vSphere Upgrade  – http://bit.ly/YeQQNc – Kyle Gleed
• vCenter Single Sign-On – Part 2: Deployment Options – http://bit.ly/XDqSVN – Justin King
• vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide **DRAFT** now available  – http://bit.ly/YkSi0J – Mike Foley
• Using Storage Profiles with vCloud Director  – http://bit.ly/11Lj0Gf – Harry Smith

PowerCLI Blog

• PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 Now Available  – http://bit.ly/Z6Fi3o – Alan Renouf

CormacHogan.com

• Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep-Dive – Part 4 – http://bit.ly/X4Yzw8
• Software iSCSI & IPv6 Support – http://bit.ly/WKR7dn

 FrankDenneman.nl

• Error -1 in opening & reading the slot file error in storageRM.log (SIOC) – http://bit.ly/12ldLrm
• How to enable SIOC stats only mode? – http://bit.ly/Y6qpcI
• vSphere Storage Area Network Traffic system network resource pool -NetIOC  – http://bit.ly/Y6fcHe
• Expandable reservation on resource pools, how does it work? – http://bit.ly/XvQCmJ
• Using Remote desktop connection on a Mac? Switch to CoRD – http://bit.ly/Yqyg3x
• VCD and initial placement of virtual disks in a Storage DRS datastore cluster – http://bit.ly/YqWLh9
• Have you signed up for the Benelux Software Defined Datacenter Roadshow yet? – http://bit.ly/X77iky
• HA Percentage based admission control from a resource management perspective – Part 1  – http://bit.ly/YvsfTd

 VirtuAl.net

• PowerCLI 5.1 R2 Released – http://bit.ly/157K15q

virtuallyGhetto

• Enable Auto Startup After Power Failure For Apple Mac Mini – http://bit.ly/Vb5EOj
• How To Backup & Restore Free ESXi Host Configuration – http://bit.ly/VVF8ev

Blogs from the Cloud Infrastructure Tech Marketing team for Feb 3rd to 9th.

vSphere Blog:

• vSphere 5.1 – VDS Feature Enhancements – Port Mirroring – Part 2 – Vyenkatesh Deshpande
• The Performance Cost of SMP – The Reason for Rightsizing – Mark Achtemichuk
• Storage vMotion between NFS and VMFS datastores -Frank Denneman
• Configuring syslog servers and logging in vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 – Ranga Maddipudi
• Project SilverLining: A vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for Javascript – William Lam
• vSphere 5.1 – VDS Feature Enhancements – Port Mirroring – Part 3 – Vyenkatesh Deshpande

CormacHogan.com:

• Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep-Dive – Part 1
• Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep-Dive – Part 2 
• Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep-Dive – Part 3
• Heads Up! NetApp NFS Disconnects

FrankDenneman.nl:

• Storage DRS Initial placement workflow
• Please help VMware bring project NEE down to its (k)nees
• Why is vMotion using the management network instead of the vMotion network?

virtuallyGhetto:

• How to Access vSphere Remote Console Using vSphere & VMRC API

Well the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Tech Marketing team just keeps on turning out the great blog articles. Check out the last week of January/first days of February:

vSphere Blog

• vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 Manager and Edge Deployment –- http://bit.ly/WlVrhS – Ranga Maddipudi
• vCloud Suite Poster –http://bit.ly/XdP6U9 – Alan Renouf
• L4 Load Balancing Support in vCloud Networking & Security Edge Gateway –http://bit.ly/Ws0s8G – William Lam
• vSphere 5.1 – VDS Feature Enhancements – Port Mirroring – Part 1  – http://bit.ly/Wzo37y – Vyenkatesh Deshpande
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting Using Edge Gateway CLIs – http://bit.ly/WCIErE – Ranga Maddipudi
• Which Template Did That vApp Get Deployed From in vCloud Director? – http://bit.ly/WDqrdu – William Lam
• Integrated vCloud Suite Demo – http://bit.ly/WElwsG – Tom Stephens
• Unable to Prepare vCD Host – “Host ‘hostname’ is Powered Off” – http://bit.ly/Xu4QSS – Harry Smith
• Cleanup vCloud Director Agent from Host with Running VMs – http://bit.ly/WJbiqW – Harry Smith

PowerCLI Blog

• Let’s Make New-VIProperty Easier – http://bit.ly/YLzE6G – Alan Renouf

 CormacHogan.com

• Does Software iSCSI Support IPSec? – http://bit.ly/VC2Rjr
• Heads Up! Nutanix NOS v2.6.4 now Available – http://bit.ly/XJHRS0

 FrankDenneman.nl

• vMotion and EtherChannel, an Overview of the Load-Balancing Policies Stack – http://bit.ly/Wk6KqW
• Designing Your vMotion Network – 3 Reasons Why I Use a Distributed Switch for vMotion Networks – http://bit.ly/VnLq0T
• 10 Guidelines For Creating Good Looking Diagrams – http://bit.ly/U6RPCC
• How to Setup Multi-NIC vMotion on a Distributed vSwitch – http://bit.ly/WHqyoe

 virtuallyGhetto:

• Detecting a Duplicate IP Address For Your ESXi Hosts Using a vCenter Alarm – http://bit.ly/Wm10Ns
• Monitoring vCenter SSO User Account Expiration – http://bit.ly/118d7Nm
• How to Send vCenter Alarm Notifications to SMS & Other Online Services Using IFTTT – http://bit.ly/XPHhCh

I’m so far behind on the TM Update that this one is going to be a bruiser of a post.  This will have pretty much everything from January 1 through January 26.  Tech Marketing was quite busy in January, as you’ll see!  After this I’ll be back to regularly scheduled weekly updates on Tech Marketing material at the end of week 5, on Feb 1st.

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A handful of blog postings this week – I imagine things will quiet down a bit as we slide into vacation time.

vSphere Blog:

• Network Core Dump Collector Check with ESXCLI 5.1 – William Lam – http://bit.ly/UbGRpj
• Availability of vCloud Director 1.5.2 – Tom Stephens – http://bit.ly/Ucgi3i
• Virtual Flash (vFlash) Tech Preview – Cormac Hogan – http://bit.ly/S3KAK9
• Retrieving vSphere License Information & Expiration using the vSphere API – William Lam – http://bit.ly/SdjfoQ
• Major HCL changes for the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) – Cormac Hogan – http://bit.ly/UmU7HS

VirtuallyGhetto

• Blocking vSphere C# Client Logins –  http://bit.ly/WevMpP

CormacHogan.com

• NFS Best Practices – Part 3: Interoperability Considerations – http://bit.ly/XSGOVH

A bit late getting this update out – I’ll now return to posting to the VMTN blog, as last week I didn’t have access to VMTN and posted on the vSphere Blog instead (http://bit.ly/RZeLCk).

A whole bunch of new blogs this week by Tech Marketing staff:

vSphere Blog:

• vSphere 5.1 DRS Resource Distribution web client shows different statistics than the vSphere client – Frank Denneman
• Getting Support For VMware APIs and SDKs? – William Lam
• vCloud Suite – vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 Considerations for Successful Brownfield Deployments – Part I – Rawlinson Rivera
• vCloud Suite – vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 Considerations for Successful Brownfield Deployments – Part II – Rawlinson Rivera
• vSphere 5.1 – VDS New Features – Network Health Check – Vyenkatesh Deshpande
• New VAAI Whitepaper now available – Cormac Hogan
• Recovering a Replicated vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Virtual Appliance – Jeff Hunter
• Quick Survey – Your vSphere environment today and tomorrow! – Justin King
• Configuring VDS Network Health Check Interval Using vSphere API – William Lam

VMware PowerCLI Blog:

• PowerCLI 5.1 and the future

CormacHogan.com:

• Heads Up! VSA & Quad Port NIC Support
• An Introduction to Flash Technology

FrankDenneman.nl:

• Calculating the bandwidth usage and duration of a vMotion process?
• Overlapping DRS VM-Host affinity rule in a vSphere Stretched Cluster
• SIOC on datastores backed by a single datapool

Virtu-Al.Net:

• Listing remote Date and Time with PowerShell

virtuallyGhetto:

• Running ESXi 5.0 & 5.1 on 2012 Mac Mini 6,2
• Blocking vSphere C# Client Logins