Fling: vBenchmark 1.0.1 just released

Original Post: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/04/04/fling-vbenchmark-1-0-1-just-released<http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/04/04/fling-vbenchmark-1-0-1-just-released/>

An update to the recently released fling vBenchmark<http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vbenchmark> was just posted. This update includes some fixes and a feature request which was heard often… Here is what's new/fixed with 1.0.1:

* Added a checkbox to include or exclude vCenter license keys when submitting the data to the community repository
* The application now listens on port 443 (https), requests to port 80 will be automatically redirected to 443
* The appliance will now prompt you to change the root password at first logon
* Fixed bugs that prevented some customers from proceeding to the dashboard when they have ESX 3.x hosts in their cluster or are using vCenter credentials that did not have access to the full inventory
* vBenchmark application log is now written to the VM serial port. If you are using the VMX package, the serial port output will be redirected to a file named vBenchmark.log in the virtual machine folder. If you are importing an OVA or OVF, you need to manually add a serial port device and specify a filename.

Make sure to download the latest version of vBenchmark<http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vbenchmark> and try it out! If you don't have a clue what it does, check out my introduction post here…<http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/02/29/cool-tool-vbenchmark-fling/>

VMware Technical Journal, download it now!

Original Post: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/04/03/vmware-technical-journal-download-it-now/

I've read this several times by now, so I figured I would share it with you. Hopefully most of you will already be aware though at this point as several people blogged and tweeted about it.

The VMware Technical Journal<http://labs.vmware.com/publications/vmware-technical-journal> is a new publication for the company. We are looking forward to producing future journal issues at regular intervals to highlight the R&D efforts taking place in several different areas of engineering. Our current issue includes papers related to distributed resource management, user experience monitoring, and statistics collection frameworks for virtualized environments, along with several other topics. In future issues we will highlight other areas of VMware R&D, including Cloud Application Platform and End User Computing, and research collaborations with academic partners.

All of the papers included in the tech journal can also be downloaded separately through the following links:

* VisorFS: A Special-purpose File System for Efficient Handling of System Images<http://labs.vmware.com/publications/cremel-vmtj-spring2012> (Olivier Cremel)
* A Software-based Approach to Testing VMware® vSphere® VMkernel Public APIs<http://labs.vmware.com/publications/xue-vmtj-spring2012>(Lan Xue, Sreevathsa Sathyanarayana, James Truong, Sriram Sankaran, Ramesh Pallapotu, Thorbjoern Donbaek, Eric Lorimer)
* Providing Efficient and Seamless Desktop Services in Ubiquitous Computing Environments<http://labs.vmware.com/publications/zhang-vmtj-spring2012>(Lizhu Zhang, Wenlong Shao, Jim Grandy)
* Comprehensive User Experience Monitoring<http://labs.vmware.com/publications/spracklen-vmtj-spring2012>(Lawrence Spracklen, Banit Agrawal, Rishi Bidarkar, Hari Sivaraman)
* StatsFeeder: An Extensible Statistics Collection Framework for Virtualized Environments<http://labs.vmware.com/publications/ravi-vmtj-spring2012>(Vijayaraghavan Soundararajan, Balaji Parimi, Jon Cook)
* VMware Distributed Resource Management: Design, Implementation, and Lessons Learned<http://labs.vmware.com/publications/gulati-vmtj-spring2012>(Ajay Gulati, Anne Holler, Minwen Ji, Ganesha Shanmuganathan, Carl Waldspurger, Xiaoyun Zhu)
* Identity, Access Control, and VMware Horizon<http://labs.vmware.com/publications/pugh-vmtj-spring2012>(Will Pugh, Kyle Austin)
* VMworld 2011 Hands-On Labs: Implementation and Workflow<http://labs.vmware.com/publications/zimman-vmtj-spring2012>(Adam Zimman, Clair Roberts, Mornay Van Der Walt)

Worth reading believe me!

I've already put in the request to make these available as both mobi/epub.

Two year old boy rescued from a well thanks to the iPhone’s amazing camera

Original Post:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/AYFmnFlEAZc/story01.htm

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A two year old boy has been rescued after falling down a narrow well thanks to an iPhone<http://www.imore.com/iphone-4s/> and some quick thinking rescue workers. The boy was playing with some friends when he fell down a 40 feet deep well, became stuck, and needed emergency assistance to get out.

The incident happened in Yunnan Province near Mengzi City, China. Local villagers tried in vain to get the boy out of the well while they waited for rescue teams to arrive. Once the fire-fighters arrived an hour later, they fed oxygen down the narrow shaft to enable the boy to breathe. They tried to lower a harness down the well but as it was an adult harness the boy kept slipping out of it and proved too dangerous to use.

In a move of brilliance, one fire-fighter attached his iPhone to a rope with the video camera enabled and lowered it down the well. The video was then played back and this let the rescue team to see exactly how the boy was positioned in the shaft and guide rope into the correct position and complete the rescue.

The boy escaped with only minor bruising; so was extremely lucky that the recuse team had such great vision and of course an iPhone. As they say, all's well that ends well…….

Source: App Advice<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/04/must-see-dramatic-rescue-of-a-young-child-aided-by-an-iphone>

Video - vSphere Storage Profiles

Original Post: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ntpronl/~3/zZO6zYuj21M/2016-Video-vSphere-Storage-Profiles.html

In this video, we'll be exploring how to use Storage Profiles. Storage Profiles enable the creation of data stores that provide varying levels of service. You can categorize data stores based on system-defined user-defined levels of service.

Video - vSphere Hot & Cold Migration and Storage DRS

Original Post:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ntpronl/~3/lbkMmdLK49A/2018-Video-vSphere-Hot-Cold-Migration-and-Storage-DRS.html

In this video, we'll be exploring how to use Storage DRS. A datastore cluster is a collection of datastores that are grouped together. Typically, the reason why you'd create a datastore cluster is in order to enable storage DRS on that cluster.

Video - vSphere Migration with vMotion

Original Post:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ntpronl/~3/_7XueDoZIAw/2017-Video-vSphere-Migration-with-vMotion.html

In this video, we're going to investigate how to migrate virtual machines using vMotion migration. vMotion migration allows you to move a virtual machine that's powered on from one host to another.

Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 13

Original Post: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/04/technical-marketing-update-2012-week-13.html

By Duncan Epping<https://plus.google.com/112305325305827926631?rel=author>, Principal Architect.

Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 13

A short update this time, most members of the Technical Marketing group were in Palo Alto last week. I am certain though we will have a lot more posts upcoming week because of that!

Blog posts:

* VASA, Profile Driven Storage & RDMs - Heads Up (Cormac Hogan) bit.ly/GTj76h<http://bit.ly/GTj76h>
* Slight change in "restart" behavior for HA with vSphere 5.0 Update 1 (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/H9Ag7w
* Automating the creation of vCD Provider VDCs (Alan Renouf) http://bit.ly/HdLpqy
* Free ESXi Hypervisor - Auto Start Breaks with 5.0 Update 1 (Kyle Gleed) http://bit.ly/GT2Gbn
* Debunking Storage I/O Control Myths (Cormac Hogan) bit.ly/HnSxyH<http://bit.ly/HnSxyH>
* Creating Custom Metadata using the vCloud API (William Lam) http://bit.ly/HwR4J6
* Update: VMware vCloud Director DR paper available in Kindle / iBooks format! (Duncan Epping) bit.ly/H43ILJ<http://bit.ly/H43ILJ>
* NFS and the vCD Appliance (Tom Stephens) bit.ly/Hx6I4v<http://bit.ly/Hx6I4v>
* How to Create Bootable ESXi 5 ISO & Specifying Kernel Boot Options (William Lam) http://bit.ly/Htbjck