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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

How to put Custom Disclaimer for VMware Horizon View 5.x portal

To put the custom disclaimer on the VMware Horizon View 5.x portal you need to actually use the portal download page and then follow the procedure below

■	Download the installer files for the types of View Client you want to use in your environment. The URL to the View Clients download page ishttps://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients.
■	Determine which HTTP server will host the installer files. The files can reside on a View Connection Server instance or on another HTTP server.

Procedure

1	On the HTTP server where the installer files will reside, create a folder for the installer files. For example, to place the files in a downloads folder on the View Connection Server host, in the default installation directory, use the following path: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\downloads The links to the files would then use URLs with the format https://`server-name`/downloads/`client-installer-file-name`. For example, a server with the name view.mycompany.com would use the following URL for View Client for Windows:https://view.mycompany.com/downloads/VMware-viewclient.exe. In this example, the folder named downloads is located in the webapps root folder.
2	Copy the View Client installer files into the folder. If the folder resides on View Connection Server, you can replace any files in this folder without having to restart the VMware View Connection Server service.
3	On the View Connection Server machine, copy the portal-links.properties file and the portal.properties file located in`install-path`\Server\Extras\PortalExamples.
4	Create a portal folder the directory C:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM, and copy the portal-links.properties andportal.properties files into the portal folder.
5	Edit C:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\portal\portal-links.properties file to point to the new location of the installer files. You can edit the lines in this file and add to them if you need to create more links. You can also delete lines. The following examples show properties for creating two links for View Client for Windows and two links for View Client for Linux: link.win=https://`server-name`/downloads/VMware-viewclient-x86_64-`y.y.y-XXXX`.exe#win link.win.1=https://`server-name`/downloads/VMware-viewclient-`y.y.y-XXXX`.exe#win link.linux=https://`server-name`/downloads/VMware-viewclient-x86_64-`y.y.y-XXXX`.rpm#linux link.linux.1=https://`server-name`/downloads/VMware-viewclient-`y.y.y-XXXX`.tar.gz#linux In this example, `y.y.y-XXXX` indicates the version and build number. The win text at the end of the line indicates that this link should appear in the browser if the client has a Windows operating system. Use win for Windows, linux for Linux, and mac for Mac OS X.
6	Edit C:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\portal\portal.properties file to specify the text to display for the links. These lines appear in the section of the file called # keys based on key names in portal-links.properties. The following example shows the text that corresponds to the links specified for link.win and link.win.1: text.win=View Client for Windows 32 bit Client users text.win.1=View Client for Windows 64 bit Client users
7	Restart the VMware View Connection Server service.

When end users enter the URL for View Connection Server, they see links with the text you specified. The links point to the locations you specified.

All the above steps are taken from the official Documentation for easy reference.

Hope you will now think about changing the portal :-)

Enjoy !!

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

VCAP Design Boot Camp

Hello,

Recently John Arrasjid @VCDX001 Tweeted about doing a VCAP Design Boot camp and invited people from the Community who possess VCAP certification (in any order) to contribute to the idea.

I am one of them who was lucky to have the spot and able to add inputs and provide Feedback.
The great thing about this Boot Camp is that its covering all the VCAP level Design certification tracks viz in View (EUC), Datacenter (DCV) and vCloud (Cloud) areas. And not only that it has the resources available through VMware Education as well as from any additional External resources which helps a candidate achieving the certification depending on his/her expertise.

John has done a fantastic work after moving in to VMware Education Group and I am sure this will help people plan their paths and achieve the same with proper resources on hand. A big Congrats and Thanks to others who ever contributed to this idea and make it happen a Great Help for the VMware community.

This boot camp involves the Process, Exam Formats, Simulation Tool for each track so that candidate can be made aware of the what the Exam will look like and what kind of Questions he/she will get and by having the proper balance between the nature of the questions, resources etc. it will help one to do proper planning to go for this Cert and achieve them.

More details about the Barcelona Boot Camp you can find on the community page.

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/458743

The Boot Camp will be held on October 13th 2013 at 9.30 A.M. and will be Led by John Arrasjid, Jon Hall and Linus Bourque. All from VMware.

Attendance will be First come First Serve basis so make sure you register for it on time. One needs to send the information to mbrunstad@vmware.com before Oct 10th 2013.

Hope you find the information from this VCAP Design Boot Camp useful and spread the word.

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Controlling Upgrade Chaos of VMware Environment

Lot of times depending on the VMware components you are using its always better to check which component to upgrade 1st whenever there is a newer version available.

Now this is a big question for any Organization as its affects the whole chain of Maintenance, downtime, change management requirements etc. etc.

If the downtime is involved in cost and other losses then such upgrade process must be thought out carefully before proceeding further.

Depending on the products in use sometimes people have the ability/luxury of having a standby/Dev/Test/Lab environment where they can do such upgrade first and verify if its affecting anything in such environment and if everything successfully upgraded then you can roll out the same steps in your Production environment.

Now look at the following Table which will clear up most of your doubts

Now as you can see the VCD (vCloud Director) is the 1st one in the process of upgrade. As the upgrade starts with the lowest number First you go with the same recommendation for all the products and related upgrade path (whether you run only few, all or some of them) and you should not be having any issues.

I would also suggest to search http://kb.vmware.com/ and the Release Notes for each products involved, for any known issues/gotchas during the upgrade so that you can take care of them before you proceed with the Upgrade.

Now here if you are using Cisco Nexus 1000v then you need to make sure before you upgrade your ESXi/vCenter Server, please make sure that the VSM/VEM version are supported/Compatible otherwise after upgrading your vCenter server you may end up in a dead water with NO connectivity on the VMs/ESXi if hosts if everything is managed through Nexus 1000v. With your existing version of VSM you can check up the Cisco's website for the Compatibility of ESXi/VC.

As Nexus 1000v is a Cisco product the above Matrix is not reflecting the same but it will be definitely grab a spot after vCenter/ESXi host upgrade paths.

There is a published KB 2037630 available too for more information which you can refer if you are running SRM/VR and VDP solution in your environment and which will guide you on the steps of overall upgrade.

And suppose you are running vCenter Server Appliance then the above KB will not help but instead refer the KB 2031331.

Enjoy upgrading VMware Environment !!

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Cheers.

Saturday, June 29, 2013

VMware Network Ports Diagrams (vSphere, vCloud, vCenter, SRM, VR, VCD, Update Manager)

For long time there are various Diagrams when it comes to configuring Firewall and make the changes on the Network to provide access to certain person to certain product.

There is lot of work done to make a singular Diagram available now.

A KB is also published http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2054806 which has a link to the PDF file.

But here is the Pictorial view of the Ports which includes the products such as vSphere, vCenter Server (w Linked Mode), VMware Update Manager, vCO, vCloud Director, ESXi, vSphere Client etc.

The port information are integrated on the diagram using information from various KB articles mentioned below.

1012382, 2031843, 2039095.

@simonlong_ has recently blogged about VMware Horizon View 5.2 Diagrams for Internal and External facing Designs.

Internal Facing

External Facing

While we are at the Firwall Diagrams you can refer the SRM diagrams blogged by Grant Orchard (@grantorchard and also refer the KB article 1009562 for details tables.

vSphere Replication

Site Recovery Manager

SRM and VR

SRM and VR

@Hany_Michael has contributed towards developing the diagram which is documented under KB 1030954. He also blogged about various other diagrams on his blog here.

vCloud Director Diagram

Hope you enjoy using all the Diagrams and configure your environment accordingly to make them secure and also go with your requirements.

These are also helpful in studying for VCP or VCAP exams as well.

Care and share please !

Cheers !!

Monday, August 27, 2012

Understanding and Clarification about VMware Certifications

I started seeing Tweets about the new Certification Roadmap released recently and tried understanding the requirements for each track.

Clearly by looking at it you can get an idea that it will be possible to attain all the VCAP level certifications and also the VCDX level Elite certifications but that will require your expertise in specific/all areas for related products of VMware. Mainly we can categorize these in 3 different components.

1) VMware vSphere

2) VMware vCloud

3) VMware View/Desktop

Currently the requirements for any track of VCAP available the minimum certification level you need is VCP.

As by introducing VCP-DV (Datacenter Virtualization) people are getting confused when they decide to go for VCAP-Cloud or VCAP-Desktop certifications.

Technically as per @randybecraft this is ONE AND THE SAME CERTIFICATION as VCP.

So clear up the fog, VCP5 and VCP-DV is the same certification, which is the minimum requirement.

VCP-DT is the VCP level certification for the Desktop level examination based on VMware View and ThinApp. Once passing VCP-DT one can appear for the advanced level certifications VCAP-Desktop Administration and VCAP-Desktop Design.

For vSphere related certification VCP-DV is now considered which was VCP (X) before. Then one can go for VCAP-Data Center Administrator and VCAP-Data Center Design.

For vCloud related certifications VCP-Cloud is the minimum to attain. Then once done they can go for VCAP-Cloud Infrastructure Administration and VCAP-Cloud Infrastructure Design

Now if you click this link, it will take you to the page where you can see the above diagram but then you can click on each certification and each icon/description will take you to the mylearn page of that certification.

Currently as the Legends says you can only click the Gray colored certifications and Yellow colored certifications. The Yellow ones which are noted as New Releases.going through verifications and will be published once everything finalized.

So I will put up the links for all the certifications with required courses and recommended courses (which ever are available to take) and keep updating as the courses are going public.

Keep revisiting this post if some of the information is not up to date.

Now coming to the Elite Certification track aka VCDX there are now 3 tracks available.

vSphere ( Requires VCP-DV, VCAP-DCA, VCAP-DCD)

View ( Requires VCP-DT, VCAP-DTA, VCAP-DTD)

vCloud ( Requires VCP-Cloud, VCAP-CIA, VCAP-CID)

And as per my understanding and assumption to have a competency one needs to clear all 9-10 certifications and then present 3 different designs for each product separately to become a VCDX but as there are no blue prints available for View and vCloud VCDX tracks you can keep checking the VCDX certification page and check any updates there.

Hope this clears up the confusion and help you planning your Role Based Certification/s. You can also join the Linkedin Groups I have created where you can discuss about these certifications. These are version independent groups so you can discuss anything about any version of vSphere, vCloud and View. As the new version is released, you can start discussing about it without looking for any group for that version.

For vSphere VCAP-DCD

For vCloud VCP-VCAP-VCDX

For View VCP-DT-VCAP-VCDX

Good Luck and start preparing for VCDX.

Leave the feedback if you see any discrepancy and I will update it.

@mandivs

Sunday, July 8, 2012

All Free Courses offered by VMware Education !!

Now a days lot of companies have their various certifications in the market to compete others in the same area and VMware also has few new certifications released recently which includes VCAP5-DCD, VCP5-DT etc. for the Datacenter and Desktop streams.

Few others are in BETA stages such as VCAP5-DCA and VCP-IaaS right now and will become publicly available in future. The BETA Period is over by now for both exams so whomsoever willing to appear have to wait till it generally available.

The following list includes almost all the courses offered Free of Cost (self-paced) by VMware and the areas starts from vSphere Fundamentals, View, vShiled, vCenter Operations Manager, vCenter Chargeback, Site Recovery Manager, Virtualizing Tier 1 Databases such as SQL and Oracle and not limited to that but also included courses for the TC Server, GemFire, Groovy Grails, SpringSource, Hyperic (Companies acquired by VMware) etc. etc.

I have tried finding all the Free courses offered by VMware Education and if you find any course for which there is a cost involved then pleaes leave the feedback so that I can update the list accordingly.

These courses are very good for the person who never knew what vMware vSphere is or what ESX/ESXi server is. These courses are covering the starter level areas covering desktop products such as Workstation, Fusion, Lab manager, vSphere upto all at the advanced level areas such as vShiled, Tier 1 Database virtualization, View Design, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery etc. etc.

These courses are worth if one is preparing for any entry level certification like VCP to an advanced certification such as VCAP-DCD or VCAP-DCA for various tracks such as vSphere, View or IaaS (new upcoming first vCloud Certification).

vSphere 5.x and 4.1, SRM, DR/BC,Chargeback, Capacity IQ, AppSpeed,

• VMware vSphere What's New in 5.1

http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edu&a=det&id_course=149391

vCloud, vShield, vCenter Chargeback, Configuration Manager

Learn about the basics of OSGi and how it provides a modular, dynamic environment for your applications
Learn how Spring Dynamic Modules allows to you to apply the familiar Spring programming model to your OSGi-based applications
Learn how the SpringSource dm Server enables you to build Enterprise Java applications that can benefit from OSGi’s features on the server-side
Learn about OSGi and Spring-DM best practices
Learn about options and best practices for applying modularization to your own applications

Metaprogramming With Groovy

http://www.springsource.com/training/free-online-video-metaprogramming-groovy
Key learning points:

Metaprogramming Techniques With Groovy
Metaprogramming Hooks
ExpandoMetaClass
Intercept, Cache and Invoke

Core Spring

http://www.springsource.com/training/class?classID=136220
Course Objectives covers

Use the Spring Framework to develop Java applications
Use dependency injection to set up and configure applications
Test Spring-based applications
Set up Spring configuration using XML, annotations, and Java configuration
Use Hibernate and JDBC with Spring to access relational databases
Use Spring support for transactions
Use aspect-oriented programming (AOP) to add behavior to objects
Develop a basic Web application with Spring MVC
Use Spring Security to secure Web applications
Use Spring with RMI, HttpInvoker, and JMS for remote communication
Add management with the JMX API

Enterprise Integration with Spring Training

http://www.springsource.com/training/class?classID=136215

You will learn:

How to design and implement asynchronous, event-driven, message-oriented systems with Spring JMS
How to use Spring Integration to implement Hohpe and Woolf's Enterprise Integration Patterns
How to cut through hype and understand 'buzzword' topics including SOA, ESB, and REST from first principles
How to design for concurrency using the latest from Spring and java.util.concurrent
How to optimize performance across integration boundaries

Rich Web Applications with Spring Training

http://www.springsource.com/training/class?classID=136217
You will learn:

Learn to create professional Ajax user interfaces with Spring JavaScript
Learn to design and implement stateful application transactions with Spring Web Flow 2
Learn to secure web applications effectively with Spring Security 2
Learn to get the most out of Ajax toolkits such as the Dojo Toolkit in your application
Learn to integrate JSF into your application with Spring Faces

I hope you will find these courses useful for your own study purpose and also to educate a person who is new to VMware virtualization. If you see any other courses which is not in the list above then please notify me or leave a feedback on the post and I will update the post.

For all the certification requirements and other necessary courses required for the ceritfications do visit the certification site http://mylearn.vmware.com/portals/certification/ and the training site http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrreg/index.cfm?ui=www_edu&redirect=off.

Good luck and enjoy the ride of VMware Virtualization !!

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

VMworld Session rejected, now What?

Few days back I saw my Twitter feed full of VMworld Session submissions and requesting to vote them to get accepted.

AFAIK its a 5 day event in US and 3 day event in Europe.

Each presenter will get about 20-45 minutes for their presentation and I could be wrong for this duration.

Within 5 days may be 200 or so people will be invited whose presentations got accepted and those are the lucky ones whose trip will be worth to SF. And last I heard about the submissions for this year were around 1600.

So definitely if we say 200 people should be invited then 1400 should be rejected as well. So there should not be any hate or sorrow for being rejected as any one who is going to present has other 1599 presentations to defeat (in a sense of quality and content of the presentation). Now this is not a cup of tea for everyone. I am aware about the nature of presentations got accepted at VMworld and by whom. They are top notch professionals with lots of experience with VMware and associated partners products which goes together. If you have focused only one area in your presentation then it will definitely competing with one which has more than one are covered. Very simple mechanism but very hard to incorporate.

One day I thought about how to use this uncovered knowledge within the community for a better cause to spread it out further. Means giving a second chance to a person to share his knowledge and experience through his/her presentation which could not make it to VMworld approval. And I Tweeted about it too with a Dropbox folder link.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1r69spjan76tdvn/QRF17nGJ2R

Now you will ask why you are not using Octopus, so my answer for now will be it still in BETA and getting qualified for every success it can achieve so to save the time I decided to go with Dropbox for now.

I did not attend a single VMworld till date (its a surprise but a Fact) and while seeing blogs and Tweets about the experience of the person who is attending, giving me a feeling that one day I will attend it.

So my suggestion to those people is to get ready and pull your sleeves for VMworld 2013 from today itself.

But first share the knowledge you have which will be obsolete by 2013. Sharing is caring.

Thanks for the support as I have received few inquiries on the same subject on how to upload the presentation and I have contacted them offline too as there is no easy way I can share the folder where people can upload anything directly to a Dropbox folder.

So I need the email of the person only to which I can send this link and they can upload to it.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1r69spjan76tdvn/QRF17nGJ2R

I will suggest to do two things with your presentation before you upload

1) Watermark it, if you want to do so as the person would know who is the contributor or you can leave the presentation without water marking

2) Do it in PPT or PDF so that the person can view it offline at any time by downloading it.

If you don't have an account with dropbox then use this link http://db.tt/SgOFdTa8 to create one.

Hope this will help you spread the knowledge within VMware Community.

Thanks again to make this happen and prove an example of being a part of community where knowledge does not stay within one location but travels faster across various regions

Cheers

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