Cool VMware Education sites
My manager Rupen Sheth found this cool VMware Education sites during some meetings with the VMware Education team. I thought it would be good to share the links. The first site, is an educational site that contains videos for a number of different VMware products. The URL for this site: http://vmwarelearning.com/ This site is really cool, and I personally like the videos based on vCloud Director. The second is more of a hierarchical path that you can follow. This allows you to decide which courses and achievements you need to take to become fully certified in your particular career path. There are three career paths to take, Architect, Developer and Administrator. You can then dig deeper by looking at the particular areas and tracks of interest, for example, Cloud or End User Computing. Its really cool, and also very useful. The URL for this site is http://www.vmwarelearningpaths.com/ I have personally found these […]
VMworld 2013 – Public voting is open
Its that time of year again, where the public vote is open for the VMworld 2013 sessions YOU want to see. You can start voting straight away by clicking here. I have listed the sessions that I have submitted below, and hope that you think they are suitable and worthy of your vote. Session ID: 4517 Title: Deploying a Private cloud with vCloud Automation Center and vSphere Abstract: In this session we will cover the requirements needed to deploy vCloud Automation Center with the end goal of enabling a vSphere environment to become a private cloud. Multiple real world scenarios will be demonstrated with recommendations on best practice and potential pitfalls. Presenters: David Hill and Raman Veeramraju Session ID: 4529 Title: Architecting a Software Defined Datacenter Abstract: This session will discuss the various design considerations when architecting a software defined datacenter. We will start with sizing and scaling and end with […]
DvFilter module is not up on the host
Working at a customer site last week, we were looking at deploying vCloud Networking and Security App into the test environment. Sounds simple right? Well, when we went to install App, we had the error DvFilter module is not up on the host. As you can see by the screen shot below After a little bit of digging around, we discovered the following KB article. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1028003 This issue can occur due to a previous incomplete installation or due to problems during uninstallation. To resolve this issue: Try the installation/uninstallation from the vShield plugin in vCenter Server. This provides detailed events when the installation fails. Verify if required modules are loaded in the ESX host before installing vShield App using one of these options Reading through the KB article, not all the commands are needed to resolve this issue. To resolve the issue quickly, SSH to your ESXi host (5.x or above) […]
How I see the future of Hybrid Cloud
I have been thinking about writing this article on Hybrid Cloud for quite some time, but with everything going on at VMware, article writing time is becoming limited. Recently VMware announced the new Hybrid vCloud service and I wanted to take a look at the whole “Hybrid cloud model” and what I think (without my VMware hat on) it should actually be/do/mean. Lets start by looking at what the definition of Hybrid Cloud is. This article from searchcloudcomputing certainly sums up VMware’s and most peoples view. A hybrid cloud is a composition of at least one private cloud and at least one public cloud. A hybrid cloud is typically offered in one of two ways: a vendor has a private cloud and forms a partnership with a public cloud provider, or a public cloud provider forms a partnership with a vendor that provides private cloud platforms. My favourite way of describing […]