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Lost Your ESXi Root Password? Reset It with Host Profiles!

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By Jason Shiplett

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I’ve run into this situation a couple of times now as a consultant – I go on site, we need to make some changes that require (or would at least benefit from) SSH or console access into an ESXi host, but the root password is unknown for any number of reasons – the old admin who set it left, we forgot, whatever. Rather than rebuild the host, here’s a neat trick with Host Profiles to reset the root password.

Since this is using Host Profiles, this assumes your ESXi host(s) are up, available in vCenter Server, and licensed with …read more

From: Clearpath Solutions Group Blog

Clearpath Sponsored ADA Golf Tournament Exceeds Fundraising Goals

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By Abby Balik

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The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and Clearpath Solutions Group wrapped up another successful fundraising golf tournament, raising over twenty-two thousand dollars in funds. The American Diabetes Association Golf Tournament was held on Wednesday, June 19th at Westfields Golf Club in Clifton, Virginia. This is the fourth annual ADA Golf Tournament in which Clearpath has contributed as the primary sponsor.

As the 16 foursome teams set out for a shotgun start on the green, Rodney Sampson, Chief Technology Officer for the American Diabetes Association reflected, “It’s such a great day and a great way to get out and contribute to such a …read more

From: Clearpath Solutions Group Blog

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

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VMUG Refer a FriendThe 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 the referral line during registration.

2013 Potomac VMUG Agenda

Thursday, June 13, 2013
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Marriott Wardman Park
2660 Woodley Road NW
Washington DC 20008
Click here for directions

In addition to a keynote presentation from VMware’s Chris Colotti on How To Build Your Hybrid Cloud and Consume the Public Cloud, we will be offering the following educational and networking opportunities:

  • Q&A with 4 VMware experts
  • VMware Educational Sessions with content on:
    – Mirage
    – Cloud Services Provisioning
    – Cloud Governance
    – vCloud Director Best Practices
    – Getting Storage Right for Your VDI Environment
    – Performance Best Practice for vSphere
    – A Guide to vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) Deployments
    – What’s New in vCenter Operations Manager 5.7: Technical Deep Dive
    – vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep DiveSponsor Breakout Sessions
  • Partner Educational Sessions
  • Federal Focused Sessions from VMware and Partners
  • Exhibitor Area with VMware Partners
  • Complimentary Breakfast and Lunch

Register Today!

You can visit the Event Details Page for a detailed agenda and schedule of events, as well as registration details. Be sure to share this meeting information with your colleagues!

Questions? Contact memberservices@vmug.com

*Must have at least 3 referrals and no more than 7 to qualify for the raffle, winners must be in attendance at the event to receive the prize.

Conccurrent User Licensing for VMware Horizon Suite

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VMware has made some changes to the Horizon Suite licensing since my 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 available in a Named User scheme.  Some Horizon View customers were accustomed to the concurrent user licensing for View virtual desktops and were uncomfortable with changing to named user licensing when upgrading to the whole Horizon Suite, despite the two named users of Horizon Suite for every one concurrent user of Horizon View upgrade promotion.

With the addition of a concurrent user license option, customers with environments where users share a single workstation can effectively license just the endpoint, not the user.  For example, in many of our health care customers, nurses on different shifts will use the same View Desktop or set of Horizon Workspace presented applications.  Doctors and admins/scheduling staff may also access the same machine.  Concurrent User licensing is appropriate for this situation.

VMware Horizon Suite Concurrent User Licensing

Named User licensing is appropriate for business users who use multiple devices concurrently to access Horizon View Desktops, Horizon Data or Horizon Workspace applications, and have an endpoint managed by Horizon Mirage.

VMware Horizon Suite Named User

List price for Concurrent User licensing for the whole Horizon Suite is $500 per concurrent user.  List price for Named User licensing for the Horizon Suite is $300.  If you already have Horizon View and want to upgrade to the entire Horizon Suite and keep your concurrent licensing, the upgrade is $250/concurrent user.

With the new flexible licensing options, you can deliver a range of desktop and application services to your users no matter how many devices they may carry, and maintain concurrent user licensing for shared computing environments when you need it.

Performing a P2V on a Physical vCenter Server

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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 (https://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.

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