Vblock and the new VCE join venture program had been officially launched by Cisco, EMC and Vmware globally since 3rd November 2009.

What is contain in Vblock? It is an end to end package of virtualization include Cisco, EMC and VMware products which simplify the delivery method of the virtualization cloud infrastructure moving forward.

You can read the full details from here

I’m getting an “error message: 28038″ just before the VMware VCenter Server installation end as screen shot below:

Workaround:

It’s pretty simple but it took me few hours(damn!). Please make sure your VCenter server have minimum one network cable connect to switches.

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There will be the vForum which organize by VMware in Malaysia at 17 th November 2009.

The session will started from  8 :00 am to 5:30 pm.
You can view more information from the official site. You can also register yourself from here.
See you there.

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VMware vSphere 4 was released sometimes ago and the new version of VMware vSphere are coming soon. According to VMware vSphere Blog, they are looking for beta tester as below:

Want to be a vSphere beta participant?
We are looking for beta participants to test out some new vSphere features currently in development. Interested? If so, contact your VMware account team for further details.

What are you waiting for? Contact your local VMware Account Team now!

Good luck!

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Netapp had official release the virtual storage console for VMware ESX host. You can view more information from here.

If you are netapp existing customers, you can download the software from here

Below is the summary I link from Netapp official blog site

Summary of supported functionality in the 1.0 release includes:

• Support for ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.0 hosts.
• Limited support for ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 hosts (listed and details provided, but setting not set – requires using EHU for host settings)
• Viewing the status of storage controllers from a SAN (FC, iSCSI) perspective.
• Viewing the status of storage controllers from a NAS (NFS) perspective.
• Viewing the status of ESX hosts, including ESX version and overall status.
• Checking at a glance whether the following are configured correctly, and if not, automatically setting the correct values without needing to access the ESX console. You can select multiple ESX hosts and update settings for all hosts with a single command.
• Storage adapter timeouts
• Multipathing settings
• NFS settings
• Collecting diagnostic information from the ESX hosts, storage controllers, and Fibre Channel switches.
• Tools to identify and correct misaligned disk partitions (MBR Tools)
• Tools to set proper guest operating system disk timeout values

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Finally, the VMware Workstation 7 is landed. You can download the latest version of VMware Workstation from here.

Have you downloaded? I am downloading now and will post my review after the test later. Have fun

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What will happen to VMware vSphere Enterprise License after 15 December 2009?

Read FAQ show below as posted VMware Sales portal few days back.

FAQ
1. Are the promotions extending as well?
No the upgrade promotions are ending as planned on December 15, 2009

2. Why is VMware changing its position?
Customers have asked us to make this change in policy as they plan out their 2010 budgets and plan their vSphere implementations. They want these items to align with their Enterprise Plus upgrades. We want to provide maximum flexibility for every customer situation.

3. Is there a new date for Enterprise end of availability?
No, no specific date has been set. We expect Enterprise unit share to continue to decline as customers upgrade to Enterprise Plus and higher core processors enter the market. However, we want to provide maximum flexibility for every customer situation.

4. What happens to customers that bought Enterprise Plus because they believed Enterprise was going away?
VMware will not be implementing any kind of price protection program. Enterprise Plus provides exceptional additional value through the new features (vNetwork Distributed Switch, Host Profiles, 8-way vSMP, large memory configurations) and additional processor core entitlements. Ultimately, Enterprise Plus provides a significantly lower total cost per application than any other solution or option.

5. How does the 6-core restriction work for Enterprise?
The Enterprise core entitlement remains at 6-core and is technically enforced in the product. However, two Enterprise licenses can license one 8, 10, or 12 core processor

6. Will you introduce STD->ENT upgrade SKUs?
No, there are no plans at this time. Enterprise unit sales are already declining versus Enterprise Plus and this trend will only accelerate over Q4 and 2010. Enterprise Plus provides significant additional value at a lower cost per application.

7. Will VMware re-introduce the Enterprise Acceleration Kits?
No, there are no plans at this time. Our market research has shown that the vSphere Advanced Acceleration Kit provides a compelling set of integrated availability features for mid-size businesses at a lower initial price than vSphere Enterprise while vSphere Enterprise Plus provides the tools for minimizing total cost per application for larger deployments.

8. What kind of customer feedback did VMware receive?
Customers have asked us to make this change in policy as they plan out their 2010 budgets and plan their vSphere implementations. They want these items to align with their Enterprise Plus upgrades. We want to provide maximum flexibility for every customer situation.

9. Will Enterprise support more than 6 cores?
No, the Enterprise core entitlement remains at 6-core and is technically enforced in the product. However, two Enterprise licenses can license one 8, 10, or 12 core processor

10. Does this mean customers are not buying Enterprise Plus?
No, not at all. Customers are already buying and deploying Enterprise Plus as they upgrade from VI3 to vSphere 4. However, some customers have longer budget cycles and need to plan their upgrades far in advance. We want to provide maximum flexibility for every customer situation.

Hope this is clear and useful!

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I just got the confirmation from the Cisco representative as the Nexus 1000V will be bundle on the Cisco UCS as FOC if the customers who deploy the virtualization VMware vSphere 4 with  Cisco UCS platform. It will definitely be helpful and encourage more users to be adopted on nexus 1000V implementation in the Virtual Infrastructure when the VMware vSphere 4 are deploying on Cisco UCS platform. If you are running the VMware vSphere 4 with others server vendor, the Nexus 1000V will be an extra features with additional cost.

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Now there are offer for free on 2nd attempt on the VCP 410 exam if you had previously failed your VCP 410 exam.  You may read more information from here.

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I was testing VMware Data Recovery and I found something may disclose to security leak.

Basically my VMware Data Recovery configuration are mounted on Linux Samba network share at “\\xx.xx.xx.44\oper” and “\\xx.xx.xx.44\share” as you can see below.

Without future changes make on VDR appliance box, I can easily login with default userID: root and followed by standard Linux command: mount and I can found network share password display on the screen which mean password disclose here.

Personally I do not think this is the best way due to security reason and I would suggest VMware engineer make according changes on it. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

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