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Refer a Friend to the Potomac VMware User Conference and Win!

June 11, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

The Potomac Regional VMware User Conference is just a couple days away. We still have room for more attendees, so we are offering a Refer-A-Friend reward for folks who get their IT associates to come out to our awesome, free, full-day customer-focused event. The day will offer in-depth technical sessions, demonstrations, exhibits, and networking opportunities that will feature the latest in virtualization, cloud computing and mobility. Refer at least 3 friends, and all 4 of you each have a chance to win a $100 American Express gift card!* Simply have your colleagues enter your name under … [Read more...]

Filed Under: VMUG Tagged With: 2013, dc, potomac, VMUG

Conccurrent User Licensing for VMware Horizon Suite

June 7, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

VMware Horizon Suite Named User Licensing

VMware has made some changes to the Horizon Suite licensing since our last post about VMware’s Horizon Suite licensing and promotions. The changes are included in the VMware End-User Computing Licensing, Pricing and Packaging Whitepaper, but are not well called out. Here’s what you need to know about the licensing changes. Horizon Suite (a combination of Horizon View for virtual desktops, Horizon Mirage for physical desktop management, and Horizon Workspace for application and data presentation and management) is now available in a Concurrent User scheme. Previously, the Suite was only … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, Horizon Mirage, Horizon Workspace, Licensing, VMware, VMware Horizon View Tagged With: concurrent user, licensing, named user

Updated VMware Horizon View Visio Shapes Stencil

May 20, 2013 By Josh Townsend 15 Comments

VMware Horizon View Hand Drawn Visio Shapes

It's been about 9 months since I published my own set of Visio shapes for VMware vSphere and Horizon View. The VMware Visio stencils have been quite popular, with the pages that host them seeing more than 37,000 page views since I first published them. I've since updated both stencils with new shapes and diagrams as I've worked on different projects at Clearpath. Most of the changes are in the Horizon View Visio Stencil, with new shapes and diagrams. I included some hand-drawn shapes for Horizon View for some fun whiteboard like diagrams that I'll be using in some posts very soon - the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, Documentation, Visio Stencils, VMware, VMware Horizon View, VMware vSphere Tagged With: diagram, icon, shapes, vdi, visio

EMC ViPR Overview

May 20, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

EMC showed off ViPR (previously known as Project Bourne) at EMC World 2013. ViPR is EMC’s solution for Software Defined Storage (SDS), helping to round out the EMC² family’s (EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA) Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) vision. Dave provided our introductory coverage of ViPR here. Since being unveild at EMC World, I’ve heard some confusion in social media circles over what exactly ViPR is – along the lines of ‘ask 10 people what ViPR is and get 10 different answers’. To try to clear up some confusion, here is a brief overview of ViPR... [Continue Reading on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, EMC, EMCWorld, Storage Tagged With: EMC, ViPR

Pivotal Announcements

May 8, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

Interested in learning more about the joint EMC-VMware Pivotal startup? Yesterday at EMC World 2013, Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz took the stage for a keynote to talk a bit about what Pivotal is, why it matters, and how the combination of EMC and VMware assets (think Greenplum, vFabric, GemFire, SQLFire) have already produced products for customers' most demanding big data / fast data challenges. I've got a quick write-up published on Clearpath's Blog, with some pictures on how the combined products from both EMC and VMware fit into the Pivotal initiative. Continue reading... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, EMC, EMCWorld, VMware Tagged With: big data, EMC, emcworld, pivotal, VMware

EMC Elect Shirts!

May 7, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - it's awesome working for an awesome company that supports the greater EMC, VMware and Cisco communities. The inaugural class of EMC Elect are finding the custom shirts that Clearpath had made for them at EMC World. The shirts are just one of our ways of saying thanks to the EMC Elect for their contributions to the EMC community. If you are one of the EMC Elect, make sure you stop by the Bloggers area at EMC World to pick up your custom shirt! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, EMC, EMCWorld Tagged With: community, EMC Elect, emcworld

EMC DataDomain DDOS 5.3 Released

May 7, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

The Clearpath team is attending EMC's EMCworld event in Las Vegas this week. EMC is announcing new products and solutions, and we'll be covering those announcements in a series of posts on the Clearpath Blog. If you're not already following Clearpath, feel free to subscribe to our RSS feed or fill out the form for email updates on our site. The first update of the week is from Ted Evans, our Baltimore area pre-sales technical consultant. Ted writes about EMC's DataDomain OS upgrade (DDOS) to version 5.3. 5.3 includes a host of improvements that will improve backup performance using … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, EMC Tagged With: datadomain, EMC, emcworld

VMware Product Updates – April 2013

May 7, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

VMware has released updates to several products over the past couple weeks. Many of the updates take the version 5.1 products announced at VMworld 2012 to Update 1 (i.e. the first major service pack). The updates, spanning vSphere (ESXi and vCenter), vCloud Director, vCenter Operations, vCenter Orchestrator, vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vSphere Data Protection, and the vSphere Storage Appliance, include bug fixes, security fixes, and functionality changes. Here’s what you need to know about the updates, including a few upgrade bugs that you need to know about before you pull … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Product Releases, vCloud, VMware, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware vCenter Operations, VMware vSphere Tagged With: esxi, srm, update, updates, upgrade, vcenter, vCloud, vCO, vCOps, VDP, VMware, VSA, vsphere

Articles from Clearpath Solutions Group’s Blog

VMware Horizon Licensing Changes

By Josh Townsend

Horizon Suite (a combination of Horizon View for virtual desktops, Horizon Mirage for physical desktop management, and Horizon Workspace for application and data presentation and management) is now available in a Concurrent User scheme. Previously, …read more

From: Clearpath Solutions Group Blog

Performing a P2V on a Physical vCenter Server

By Jason Shiplett

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Migrating a vCenter Server instance from physical to virtual can be done in a couple of different ways:

Manually migrating vCenter Server and all of its dependencies (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/5850444)
A physical to virtual (P2V) migration of the vCenter Server machine itself

As the former process is much better documented than the latter, here is the process for performing a physical to virtual migration of a vCenter Server machine.

Note:

If SQL or SQL Express are co-located with vCenter Server, its services will need to be shut down before the process begins
Take a full …read more
From: Clearpath Solutions Group Blog

Horizon View vs. Horizon Mirage

By Josh Townsend

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We recently covered the launch of VMware’s Horizon Suite of End User Computing (EUC) products, including VMware Horizon View, VMware Horizon Mirage, and VMware Horizon Workspace. The products present a set of tools that enable IT to exercise comprehensive end-point management while delivering a unified user experience across a variety of devices and access methods.

Today, I want to focus a bit more on View and Mirage. Specifically, when would you choose one solution over the other? Let’s briefly review each product.

VMware Horizon View provides a virtual desktop infrastructure …read more

From: Clearpath Solutions Group Blog

EMC ViPR Overview

By Josh Townsend

EMC showed off ViPR (previously known as Project Bourne) at EMC World 2013. ViPR is EMC’s solution for Software Defined Storage (SDS), helping to round out the EMC² family’s (EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA) Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) vision. Dave provided our introductory coverage of ViPR here. Since being unveiled at EMC World, I’ve heard some confusion in social media circles over what exactly ViPR is – along the lines of ‘ask 10 people what ViPR is and get 10 different answers’. To try to clear up some confusion, here is a brief overview of ViPR.

First, keep …read more

From: Clearpath Solutions Group Blog