Available On Demand - Troubleshooting VMware vSphere [V5.5] Webinar

Listen and learn how to increase your skill and competency using the VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface (vCLI) to analyze problems. The webinar discusses best practices using products VMware ESXi 5.5, VMware vCenter Server 5.5, and vCloud Director. You'll gain knowledge on specific troubleshooting issue techniques for:

SSL certificates
Networking
Storage
VMware vCenter™ Single Sign-On
VMware vCenter Server
VMware ESXi host
VMware vSphere Cluster
VMware vSphere vMotion
Virtual Machine

Register for Troubleshooting VMware vSphere [V5.5]

New Way to Learn Puppet - Download the Learning VM [feedly]

The Learning VM now includes fun quests to help you learn Puppet at your own pace. The new and improved Learning VM — along with its companion Quest Guide — is here to help you level up on Puppet.

Explore the technology in depth with a series of detailed, multi-step quests. Master topics such as accessing the Puppet Enterprise console, writing and using Puppet modules, and delving into Puppet resources, manifests, facts and more.

The Learning VM comes with Puppet Enterprise pre-installed to help you familiarize yourself with its features and capabilities. To evaluate Puppet Enterprise in your existing infrastructure, download it now — and use it for free on up to 10 nodes.

Download the Learning VM

Heartbleed Security Bug fixes for VMware

It seems to be patch Saturday as today a whole bunch of updates of products were released. All of these updates relate to the heartbleed security bug fix. There is no point in listing every single product as I assume you all know the VMware download page by now, but I do want to link the most commonly used for your convenience:

VMware vCenter Server 5.5 U1a VCVA 5.5 U1a VMware vCenter Server 5.5c VCVA 5.5c VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.2

Time to update, but before you do… if you are using NFS based storage make sure to read this first before jumping straight to vSphere 5.5 U1a!

"Heartbleed Security Bug fixes for VMware" originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com.

Latest Fling from VMware Labs - Horizon View Event Notifier [feedly]

The Horizon View Event Notifier connects to one or more existing Horizon View Event Database(s) and allows the user to customize which types of alerts to be notified on.

It can be run from any Windows based system and it collects and sends the alerts via email (SMTP) to users that are specified during the configuration process.

It allows aggregation of alerts across multiple Horizon View Pods and for near real-time alerting of Horizon View alerts that are otherwise very difficult to be notified on.

Download Horizon View Event Notifier