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Show Notes

 vSphere Storage Appliance Manager Installer 5.1.3

25 April 2013 | Build 1090394

Update vSA after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1U1vSA 5.1.1 customers must upgrade to vSA 5.1.3 after upgrading their vCenter Server to 5.1 Update 1.

https://www.vmware.com/support/vsa/doc/vsphere-storage-appliance-513-release-notes.html

Cannot log in to vCenter Server using the domain username/password credentials via the vSphere Web Client/vSphere Client after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 (2050941)

Customers with SSO configured with multiple domain-based identity sources along with vCenter Server domain user accounts that are associated with a large number of groups should not upgrade to vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2050941

FREE eLearning Available: Security Principles in Virtualized Data Centers

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Elaine Sherwood        

http://blogs.vmware.com/education/2013/05/free-elearning-available-security-principles-in-virtualized-data-centers.html

VMware Strengthens Executive Leadership, Appoints Former Savvis President to Head New Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-exec-bill-fathers-031313.html

Veteran Cloud Services Leader Bill Fathers to Accelerate Growth of VMware Hybrid Cloud

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 13, 2013

VMware Outlines Corporate Strategy, Innovations Across Software-Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud and End-User Computing

Company to Expand Hybrid Cloud Business with New Services, Appoints Former Savvis Leader Bill Fathers to Executive Team

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-corp-strategy-031313.html

VMware® Horizon View™ Transforms Legacy Desktops Into A Service At Sutherland Global Services

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) creates private cloud for managing global desktops for a company in hyper-growth mode

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-view-sutherland-032013.html

Canonical and VMware Collaborate to Enable OpenStack Clouds with VMware Technologies

Companies Work to Enable Customers to Confidently Use OpenStack with VMware’s Enterprise-Grade Virtualization Technologies

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-canonical-041613.html

Socialcast® by VMware Advances Enterprise Social Networking With New Capabilities

New project management, secure instant messaging unlock ideas and collaboration from communication silos

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-socialcast6-041813.html

ViaWest Accelerates Customer Adoption of Cloud Services with VMware Network Virtualization

Network Virtualization Helps ViaWest Roll Out New Services with Greater Efficiency, Agility and Control at a Lower Overall Cost

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-viawest-042213.html

VMware to Announce vCloud Hybrid Service

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vcloud-hybrid-webcast-043013.html

Windows Azure for IT Professionals Jump Start – May 16th

http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2013/05/06/windows-azure-for-it-professionals-jump-start-may-16th.aspx

Why Domino’s Pizza® Decided to Move 10,000 Store Servers to Hyper-V

http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2013/04/10/why-domino-s-pizza-174-decided-to-move-10-000-store-servers-to-hyper-v.aspx

Are You vConfused?

Amy Barzdukas, GM STB Mktg,  14 Mar 2013 4:30 PM

http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2013/03/14/are-you-vconfused.aspx

Customers Find Value & Savings with Windows Server Hyper-V

Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team  7 Mar 2013 10:00 AM

http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2013/03/07/customers-find-value-and-savings-with-windows-server-hyper-v.aspx

Citrix Unveils Podio Instant Messaging and Video Chat – 2^nd May 2013

http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/may-2013/citrix-unveils-podio-instant-messaging-and-video-chat.html

Citrix GoToMyPC Named Leader in Remote Access Market for Fifth Consecutive Year

http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/apr-2013/citrix-gotomypc-named-leader-in-remote-access-market-for-fifth-consecutive-year.html

Citrix Adds Do-It-Yourself Webcasting to Video Lineup

http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/apr-2013/citrix-adds-do-it-yourself-webcasting-to-video-lineup.html

Citrix and Industry Leaders Usher in New Era for Open Source Xen

Strong Industry Support Drives Need for Independent Xen Project Initiative

http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/apr-2013/citrix-and-industry-leaders-usher-in-new-era-for-open-source-xen.html

Citrix ShareFile Helps Financial Firms Meet Compliance Requirements with New Archiving Capability

http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/apr-2013/citrix-sharefile-helps-financial-firms-meet-compliance-requirements-with-new-archiving-capability.html

Citrix Enables Anything-as-a-Service with CloudPortal Business Manager 2.0

Cloud Services Delivery Platform Brings Self-Service IT to Enterprise and Service Providers

http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/mar-2013/citrix-enables-anything-as-a-service-with-cloudportal-business-m.html

New Citrix Enterprise Mobility Cloud Report: iOS Leads, App Blacklisting on the Rise

http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/mar-2013/new-citrix-enterprise-mobility-cloud-report–ios-leads–app-blac.html

Citrix Enhances Podio Apps for iPhone and Android, Adds New Languages

http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/mar-2013/citrix-enhances-podio-apps-for-iphone-and-android-adds-new-languages.html

Veeams 5th Birthday

http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25601

www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-content-roundup-for-april-2013.html

Windows 8.1 blue!

http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25578

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/windows-blue-update-to-build-on-and-improve-windows-8-1131737

My initial thoughts on SDN (Software defined networking)(VMware NSX, Nicera)

http://ucsguru.com/2013/05/07/my-initial-thoughts-on-sdn

Limit a VM from an IOps perspective

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2013/04/29/limit-a-vm-from-an-iops-perspective/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=limit-a-vm-from-an-iops-perspective

VMworld session public voting – vote early and vote often

http://vsphere-land.com/news/vmworld-session-public-voting-vote-early-and-vote-often.html

Dell updates and rebrands Foglight for virtualization management

http://vmblog.com/archive/2013/05/07/dell-updates-and-rebrands-foglight-for-virtualization-management.aspx

Frank Denneman leaves VMware for PernixData

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2342-Frank-Denneman-leaves-VMware-for-PernixData.html

Craig Waters – “Nu-tanicks” as a Senior Systems Engineer.

http://blog.rack.org.au/2013/05/06/a-new-hope/

vCenter 5.1 SSO default domain clashes if domain is added to username for CommVault Auto-Discovery

http://thesaffageek.co.uk/2013/04/18/vcenter-5-1-sso-default-domain-clashes-if-domain-is-added-to-username-for-commvault-auto-discovery/

http://www.stumchugh.com/Media/vNewsApril2013.mp3

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Show Notes

VMware Partner Exchange (PEX)
EMC Replacing their Flare code on their SANs using C4 micro-hypervisor.
VMware now used in 100% of Fortune 100 – 99% of Fortune 1000
VMware will be concentrating on 3 main areas this year
vSphere and Ops Mgr – VSOM – New licensing bundle instead of ‘Naked vSphere’
EUC – End User Compute – The Horizon Suite
vCloud Suite – Private and Public cloud infrastructures

VMware Single Sign On (SSO)
If you wish to use vCenter Linked Mode with vSphere 5.1 then SSO must be installed in Cluster or Multi-Site mode NOT Basic mode.
SSO Knowledgebase articles available on www.vmware.com kb2033588 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2033588
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2033137
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2035758

SSO Certification pre-staging
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2034833

SSO Re-registering with vCenter; Inventory Service and Web Client Service
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2033620

Citrix Reports 2012 Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Financial Results
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jan-2013/citrix-reports-2012-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-financial-results.html
Citrix Extends Line of Mobile Apps to Help Users Work More Effectively Anytime, Anywhere, on Any Device
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/feb-2013/citrix-extends-line-of-mobile-apps-to-help-users-work-more-effectively-anytime-anywhere-on-any-device.html
Citrix Appoints New SVP and General Manager
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/feb-2013/citrix-appoints-new-svp-and-general-manager.html
Citrix XenDesktop Ranked Desktop Virtualization Champion
Citrix XenServer Ranked Server Virtualization Champion
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/feb-2013/citrix-xenserver-ranked-server-virtualization-champion.html
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/feb-2013/citrix-xendesktop-ranked-desktop-virtualization-champion.html
listed as a Champion in Info-Tech Research Group’s Server Virtualization Vendor Landscape.
listed as a Champion in Info-Tech Research Group’s Desktop Virtualization Vendor Landscape.
New datacenter in Singapore at the heart of Citrix continued expansion in Asia Pacific
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/feb-2013/new-datacenter-in-singapore-at-the-heart-of-citrix-continued-exp.html
Citrix Drives Innovation with Investment in Mobile Security Startup Armor5
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/feb-2013/citrix-drives-innovation-with-investment-in-mobile-security-star.html
Customers Find Value & Savings with Windows Server Hyper-V
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2013/03/07/customers-find-value-and-savings-with-windows-server-hyper-v.aspx
Microsoft Virtual Academy Hits 1 Million Mark
7 Feb 2013 10:00 AM
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2013/02/07/microsoft-virtual-academy-hits-1-million-mark.aspx
Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Jump Start
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/microsoft-virtualization-for-vmware-professionals-jump-start
Microsoft VDI vs. VMware View: Freedom of Choice
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2013/03/06/microsoft-vdi-vs-vmware-view-freedom-of-choice.aspx

VMware
Dell and VMware Deliver Converged Infrastructure Solution Optimized for Desktop Virtualization
Members of VMware Partner Community Awarded at VMware Partner Exchange 2013
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-pex-awards-022713.html
VMware Simplifies Enablement, Clarifies Actions for Partners to Operate Successfully and Accelerate Their Businesses in the Cloud Era
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-pex-022613.html

VCE and VMware Extend Partnership to Jointly Develop, Sell and Deliver Vblock Cloud Management and Orchestration
VMware Unveils VMware Horizon Suite, Industry’s Most Comprehensive Platform for Workforce Mobility
VMware® Horizon Workspace™, VMware Horizon View™ and VMware Horizon Mirage™ Deliver the Virtual Workspace to Simplify End-User Computing in the Multi-Device Era
VMware Introduces VMware vSphere® with Operations Management™ and VMware vSphere Data Protection™ Advanced
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vsom-vdap-021213.html
VMware to Acquire Virsto
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vsom-vdap-021213.html

http://www.stumchugh.com/Media/vNewsFebruary2013.mp3

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Show Notes
Virtualization and some coffee
http://kristiannese.blogspot.co.uk/
The Network Virtualization Guide with SC 2012 – VMM SP1

System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 KBs
http://www.hyper-v.nu/archives/maarten/2013/01/system-center-2012-virtual-machine-manager-service-pack-1-kbs/

Citrix Appoints New Chief Marketing Officer

http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jan-2013/citrix-appoints-new-chief-marketing-officer.html

Citrix Closes Acquisition of Zenprise
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jan-2013/citrix-closes-acquisition-of-zenprise.html

Synergy heads to sunny SoCal, LA, USA
The conference, to be held on May 22-24, 2013, at the Anaheim Convention Center

Simon Seagrave
http://techhead.co/vmware-vcenter-server-5-x-install-on-w2k12-fix-the-following-feature-couldnt-be-installed-net-framework-3-5/

http://cto.vmware.com/transition-in-our-industry-and-for-me/

VMware View Client for Windows Store
Christoph Harding
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2013/01/13/vmware-view-client-for-windows-store-2/
Cisco Office-in-a-box Solution, UCS E-Series Servers and VMware View
http://www.thatsmyview.net/2013/01/10/cisco-office-in-a-box-solution-ucs-e-series-servers-and-vmware-view/
Nutanix Best Practise Guide for VMware View

VMware Dominates Reader’s Choice Award
http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2013/01/vmware-dominates-readers-choice-award.html
Virtualization Review.

Veeam Software Reports Record-Breaking Year in 2012

Puppet Labs Secures $30 Million Investment From VMware

New VMware Training Courses
by Eric Sloof
New Training Course – VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.1]
New Training Course – VMware vSphere: Skills for Operators [V5.1]
Free eLearning course – Introducing the VMware Security Solution Fundamentals

Faking an SSD in your virtualized vSphere lab
by Duncan Epping of Yellow Bricks

Tape No Longer a Reliable Option for IT Managers Seeking to Eliminate Single Point of Failure
by VMBlog.com

New eBook: The Best Virtualization Management White Papers of 2012
by VMBlog.com

http://www.stumchugh.com/Media/vNewsJanuary2013.mp3

Download the latest version from http://www.vmware.com/a/info/?id=1095 with build number 913577.  At time of writting this comes with vsphere server 5.1b.  The install file should be something like this:

VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-913577.exe

After installing reboot your machine and you will have the console back!! Yay!

Before you start:

• Create vSphere database
• Create Single Sign On (SSO) database and read the guide for the requirement
• Create the two SQL users (user & DBA) for access to the SSO database and give appropriate permissions.
• Run the SQL scripts from the install media that create the required tables
• Make sure you DNS is working and don’t forget reverse DNS too!!!!
• Setup the 64-bit DNS using the SQL Native Client BEFORE you start the install process.  If you get to the part where is asks for the DSN and then you create, it won’t find it until you restart the installation process.

• Start the media install but don’t run the install all option
• Install SSO first (Chose multi-site or cluster Basic does not let you use linked mode in the future)
• Have a master admin password ready for SSO admin account.
• If its the first install then choose primary but for all others choose secondary.
• Make sure the latest version of Java is installed

Post install

• You can administer SSO via the web console.
• No one by default has access to vcenter except the admin account created in the install phase.

Just a short list but I hope some people find this useful.

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Show Notes:

VMware
vSphere 5.1
vCloud Suite -
software defined datacenter
Paul Maritz moved on and replaced by Pat Gelsinger

Microsoft
Server 2012 with Hyper-V 3.0

Citrix
Bringing XenDesktop and XenApp into into one
Project Avalon Excalibur

Who bought whom!

Microsoft
2012    October 16, 2012    StorSimple Inc. – talk
2012    October 4, 2012    PhoneFactor Inc.
2012    July 9, 2012    Perceptive Pixel Inc.
2012    June 25, 2012    Yammer Inc.

Citrix
In April 2012, Citrix acquired Podio [31]
In May 2012, Citrix acquired Virtual Computer
In June 2012, Citrix acquired Bytemobile
In September 2012, Citrix acquired Beetil
In December 2012, Citrix acquired Zenprise

VMware
On 24 April 2012, VMware acquired Cetas Software.
On 22 May 2012, VMware acquired Wanova.
On 2 July 2012, VMware acquired DynamicOps.[20]
On 23rd July 2012, VMware acquired Nicira Inc.[21] – $1.2BN

Cisco bought cloudia
Dell buys wyse

http://www.stumchugh.com/Media/vNewsDecember2012.mp3

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Today (Thursday 6th December) at 6.00 pm UK time (10.00 AM PT) Mike Laverick will be on hand to talk about disaster recovery and Business Continuity for SMB via hashtag #vSMBchat on Twitter.

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Having a backup plan is essential for all businesses, from small to the very large. See what Mike has to say about how this can be achieved with minimal effort taking advantage of having a visualised environment.

All the details can be found at:

http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/2012/11/bcdr-vsmbchat.html

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Steve and I were luckily enough to attend the second annual UK VMware User Group meeting or UKVMUG for short!

We had some cracking interviews to a list of vCelebrities including:

Jonathan Medd – http://www.jonathanmedd.net/ – @jonathanmedd

Duncan Epping – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/ – @DuncanYB

Simon Long – http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/ – @SimonLong_

Sean Duffy – http://www.shogan.co.uk/ – @shogan85

Julian Wood – http://www.wooditwork.com/ – @julian_wood

Jane Rimmer – http://www.rimmergram.com/ – @Rimmergram

Scott Lowe – http://blog.scottlowe.org/ – @scott_lowe

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http://www.stumchugh.com/Media/vNewsNovemberUKVMUG2012.mp3

The user group meeting is a great place to go and meet people who use VMware products and learn the latest & greatest or even the oldest & unsupported.

If you want to attend this free event get on over to http://www.vmug.com/e/in/eid=373

If that’s not enough to entice you to come along here’s the jam-packed agenda!

After all the big conferences such as VMworld and Citrix Synergy it’s time to sit back, turn on a podcast and find out what the news was!  (…other stories also mentioned)

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Show Notes:

UK VMUG User Conference
Link for Registration; https://vmug.socious.com/index.php?mo=cm&op=ld&fid=213
http://www.vmug.com/index.php?mo=cm&op=ld&fid=212

Out on iBooks finally – vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/10/01/out-on-ibooks-finally-vsphere-5-1-clustering-deepdive/

VEEAM Monthly Giveaway
http://go.veeam.com/cool?utm_source=vsphere&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cool

Top 10 Things You Must Read About vSphere 5.1
http://vsphere-land.com/top-10-list/top-10-things-you-must-read-about-vsphere-51.html

Implementing CA signed SSL certificates with vSphere 5.1
http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2012/10/implementing-ca-signed-ssl-certificates-with-vsphere-5-1.html

VMware vSphere Blog: Update to vSphere vCenter Server, version 5.1.0A released
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=4836

Orchestrating Non VMware workloads with Steven Bryen – VMworld 2012 Tech Talks
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=4836

Over 50 FREE VMware Instructional Videos Available at VMwareLearning.com
http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2213-Over-50-FREE-VMware-Instructional-Videos-Available-at-VMwareLearning.com.html

iOS6 devices erroneously take ownership of meetings
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/10/23/ios6-devices-erroneously-take-ownership-of-meetings.aspx

My VCAP5-DCA Experience: SaffaGeek
http://thesaffageek.co.uk/2012/10/30/my-vcap5-dca-experience/

Hyper-V Sales Overtake The Competition In Q2 2012– IDC
in Turkey!
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13596

Survey data in NetworkWorld says: Watch out VMware, because Microsoft is coming.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/10/10/survey-data-in-networkworld-says-watch-out-vmware-because-microsoft-is-coming.aspx

Customer Spotlight: Marquette University reins in storage costs with Windows Server 2012, goes with Hyper-V over VMware
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/10/16/customer-spotlight-marquette-university-reins-in-storage-costs-with-windows-server-2012-goes-with-hyper-v-over-vmware.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000001323

Citrix Extends XenClient to Windows 8 and Ultrabooks
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/oct-2012/citrix-extends-xenclient-to-windows-8-and-ultrabooks

Citrix Continues to Drive Innovation in Desktop Virtualization
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/oct-2012/citrix-continues-to-drive-innovation-in-desktop-virtualization

Citrix Reports Third Quarter Financial Result
http://www.citrix.co.uk/news/announcements/oct-2012/citrix-reports-third-quarter-financial-results.html

VMware Announces VMware vFabric™ GemFire® 7.0
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-gemfire-103012.html

VMware Reports Third Quarter 2012 Results
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-earnings-q312.html

http://www.stumchugh.com/Media/vNewsOctober2012.mp3