VMware removes hard-coded root access key from vSphere Data Protection

VMware has released a patch for vSphere Data Protection (VDP) to modify a hardcode SSH key that could allow remote attackers to gain root access to the virtual device.

VDP is a backup product and restore disk that works as an open virtual device (OVA). It integrates with VMware vCenter Server and provides centralized management of backup tasks for up to 100 virtual machines.

According to the VMware support article, the vSphere Data Protection Device (VDP) contains a static SSH private key with a known password. This key enables interoperability with EMC Avamar deduplication solution backup and recovery software, and is preconfigured in the VDP as AuthorizedKey.

"An attacker with access to the internal network can take advantage of this to access the device with root privileges and more to complete a complete transaction," VMware said.

The Company believes that this is critical and the development of a solution that can be copied and executed on the device to change the default SSH key and set a new password.

Developing devices with access to encrypted information that users can not change is a serious security weakness. Unfortunately, it was a common practice in the past and vendors have tried cleaning up such errors from their devices for years.

Tuesday, VMware has also fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability stored in its vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) product. The fault is considered important.

"The problem can be introduced by an attacker who has permission to manage virtual machines through ESX host or client to trick the vSphere administrator to import a designed virtual machine," the company said in a statement. "The problem can be activated on the system from which ESXi client host is used to manage the designed virtual machine."

VMware has released security patches for ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 to address this issue and advises users not to import virtual machines from untrusted sources.

How Amadeus Leveraged The Cloud And VMware To Help The Travel Industry

Travelers want to spend less money when they make arrangements, and they rely more and more on apps and websites to keep costs low.

It's high-pressure work to keep these digital services running at optimum performance at a reasonable cost, said Wolfgang Krips, executive vice president, Global Operations and General Manager, Amadeus IT.

"And on top of that, you have to build your innovation, which means new business services," he said.

Amadeus, a multinational IT service provider, fire 3 billion a year to provide the global travel industry with what it needs. But more.

For two years, Amadeus has decided to modernize its infrastructure. Amadeus leaders have considered a variety of options, including cloud service providers and utilities.

He chose to build a private cloud business in partnership with Red Hat, VMware and other service companies and software needed for the private cloud he wanted.

Amadeus has been operated by VMware's integrated OpenStack, which manages cloud resources through interconnected components that control the processing, storage, and network equipment. NSX VMware has provided Amadeo with virtual networking and security software.

Watch this video to learn more about how VMware NSX network virtualization solutions had a positive impact on Amadeus.

Krips said the upgrade of its base aligns with the fundamental objectives of Amadeus customers.

"What I can implement virtualisation of container applications (simple), VM (virtual machines) or bare metal, or if I use OpenStack, everything is a means to an end," said Krips. "Ultimately, what the customer expects is capacity, agility, and ongoing cost reductions, and that's what we have to offer."

Dynamism and automation were - and still are - essential, according to Dietmar Fauser, Amadeus vice president of Research and Development.

"That's why we use this technology, and why we use quality industrial partners," said Fauser.

OpenStack is not at the same time public, has said that, although it believes that will be the case.

The choice of an OpenStack Amadeus approach made by VMware, which according to Fauser, has a solid understanding of virtualization.

VMware aims to simplify cross-cloud challenges

Customers face enormous challenges when moving to the cloud; According to Guido Appenzeller, Head of Technology Strategy, Network / Business Security Unit, at VMware, AWS, Azure, Google and IBM Public Clouds, as well as a data center in the field. The question is how to connect them all together?

Appenzeller stated that VMware's Cross-Cloud services, currently under development, are intended to provide consistent deployment models, security policies, visibility and governance for all applications, whether they are executed on-site or off and independent of the underlying cloud or hypervisor.

Appenzeller, VMware's Cloud Services Services leader, recently joined John Furrier (@furrier), co-host of theCUBE (* disclosure below) of the SiliconANGLE Media team. VMware is a leading provider of VMware, VMware, and VMware.

Why customers want multiple clouds

"I think what we are seeing is that customers use different clouds for their specificities, or the best properties of the breed," Appenzeller said. For example, AWS has by far the largest catalog; Google has cheap storage; And Microsoft is very aggressive about licensing its own products over Azure, "he explained. A client can choose one of them - or all - to get their individual benefits.

In the cloud, the network is the hardest problem, including the configuration of a firewall, said Appenzeller. This is where VMware has found an opportunity because its NSX network virtualization platform already allows a user to extend a network through heterogeneous hardware in the data center. It can take a Cisco or Arista switch and create a virtual network, so why can not it do the same in the cloud, Appenzeller asked?

Appenzeller explained that NSX really shines by not moving around workloads, but rather by giving IT teams powerful tools so they can handle these workloads across the clouds in the same way.

The future of managing inter-cloud architectures

Over the next five years, Appenzeller predicted that the majority of workloads will still be on-site, but will increase the shift to the cloud. When companies move in the cloud, they have to decide how to scale it in the future, "he explained. Thus, companies will begin to understand the complexity of managing the cloud or clouds.

"This entire transition from VMware to the provision of SaaS services for the public cloud; this, for me, is the future, and I am very excited about it," said Appenzeller.

Watch the full video interview with VMware 2016 by SiliconANGLE and the CUBE. (* Disclosure: VMware Inc. and other companies are sponsoring certain segments of VMware 2016 on theCUBE of SiliconANGLE Media

VMware aims to deliver quality and value in vSphere 6.5

A few months before VMworld 2016, we produced a wish list for the features of vSphere 6.5. Now that VMware has officially announced vSphere 6.5, does it meet expectations?

In June I wrote about the features I wanted to see in vSphere 6.5 in the hope that a new version of the flagship VMware software would be announced at VMworld 2016 US Unfortunately, Of vSphere to VMworld 2016 Europe, and with it, a number of new features. So, did VMware deliver the things asked for?

In my original article, I asked for the scale-out vCenter; VMware gave us a vCenter failover function. I also requested a cluster of vCenter servers that would distribute the servers between the servers, and I wanted the cluster to provide instant failover if a node encountered a problem. It was a fairly large request, so I'm not entirely surprised that I did not get what I wanted. What we got is a two-node failover cluster for vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) in which one node is active while the other node is in standby. If the active node has an abnormality, the queued node takes its identity and starts the vCenter Services. According to VMware, the failover will take a few minutes, approximately the same amount of time as the cluster vSphere High Availability (HA) would take to recover the failing VM. This two-node failover cluster is essentially the replacement for the old vCenter Server Heartbeat product, as far as I know, nothing more. This is a beginning, but not exactly what I wanted in the new version.

I wanted to integrate VMware Update Manager (VUM) into vCSA and, in this case, VMware delivered. This means that you do not need an additional Windows server and database; Everything is built into one device. This feature is long been late, one that we have been expecting since it was released for the first time. The delay only made it more welcome in vSphere 6.5. The new integrated vCSA HA and VUM are signs that VMware is committed to vCSA and that company is very serious about moving clients out of vCSA from Windows to vCSA.

When writing my vSphere 6.5 wish list, I asked for a better product. Of course we will not be able to judge the quality of vSphere 6.5 until it has been in the hands of users for a few months. At present, there is no commitment to a ship date for any of the products advertised to VMworld in the US or Europe. VMware will likely deliver the new version of vSphere in the coming months.

VCP550D Exam Question No 59

Question No 59:

A vSphere administrator has created a Virtual SAN Cluster with Automatic Mode Disk Groups. The cluster includes three ESXi hosts contributing one SSD and six SAS disks each. The administrator has four new ESXi hosts that boot from a fiber channel array and have no local disks attached. These four new hosts need additional shared storage but there is insufficient space on the fiber channel array. The hardware budget is limited. What can the administrator do to provide the needed storage for the lowest cost?

A. Add the four new hosts to the Virtual SAN Cluster and use the existing storage in the cluster.
B. Add an SAS RAID controller to each of the new hosts. Attach one SSD and six SAS disks to each RAID controller and then add the four hosts to the Virtual SAN cluster.
C. Add the four new hosts to the Virtual SAN Cluster and contribute the fiber channel disks to the Virtual SAN.
D. Add the four new hosts to the Virtual SAN Cluster and change to Manual Mode Disk Groups.

Answer: A

VMware boss Pat Gelsinger tackles life after Dell buyout

Pat Gelsinger is not your usual CEO of Silicon Valley. A committed Christian who almost entered the church rather than technology, is given 40pc of their salary, praying and singing hymns on travel from his office in California at the airport early and resolved not to read his newspaper Read the Bible.

At this point, everything that everyone wants to hear is like the CEO of VMware, the technology group US $ 32 billion (US $ 26.2 billion) capitalization, says Michael Dell.

Portable eponyms maker Dell just paid $ 67 billion for EMC, the US group that owns 80pc of VMware, and 10,000 followed during the conference VMworld Europe in Barcelona this month were interested in the way the duo gel .

Gelsinger, after all, is a technocrat who has worked for 30 years at Intel, becoming director of technology, while Dell, Business, founded the company PC at his home in Austin, Texas.

"We get along very well," insists Gelsinger, 54 years old. "We just had our first board meeting with Michael as the new chairman of my board and I would say, in general, so it's early and I do 'T that one of us would think it was, however, all the signs are encouraging.

"We are committed to creating synergies of one billion, then we have to start building organizations to materialize." This warning is typical minimum Gelsinger approach. More Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, which is grounded, nice and polite.

What are your impressions of your new boss so far? He is pleased that Dell has declared its support for the distribution of VMware partner ecosystem even more important for the company for the VMworld Las Vegas.

He thinks Dell was impressed by the crowd of 25,000 spectators at the event - more than double the participants in the annual shindigs EMC or Dell. There are many things to do for Dell. EMC was an unusual company with a portfolio strategy entities owned power companies, such as VMware and Pivotal, jointly owned with Microsoft, General Electric and Ford and directed by Paul Maritz, formerly divided Microsoft and VMware.

"Michael has quite acquired that strategy," Gelsinger said. "Certainly, it includes a software company like VMware is a different society, a different culture.

"People in the software are different people who make up the team and the supply chain. There is no advantage in a company from another software. This is a key aspect of managing a company like ours, and we consider a very successful business.

"This gives us the space and support to go out and execute what we have to do. And it has a lot to do by the merger of Dell and EMC. There are 140 000 people to be there, large product lines to merge and organizations that are .

The name is synonymous with VMware technology "virtual machine software" that essentially allows companies to package their data much smaller number of server computers. The company recently made important alliances with the head of cloud computing Amazon and IBM. Retains its listing after shooting.

"I am pleased to see shareholders every 90 days," Gelsinger smiles. However, VMware's shares have halved from $ 80 to a minimum of $ 43 after the announcement of the agreement. "It was a very painful process," he said.

"Clearly there is concern about whether Dell could make a successful software company." There were questions about values track that was part of the takeover and the implications of that. As with any large acquisition, there were also concerns about whether the deal would be done. "


There were also questions about the activities of VMware because the advice he gave in profits last year were lower than Wall Street expected. However, the share price has increased as companies were close to an agreement.

"We have been able to establish that the market ecosystem and VMware continue to independence and that some of the new product areas and cloud strategy we put in place have helped to solve some of the problems," Gelsinger said.

"With stocks now around £ 77, yet we are negotiating in multiple software we should have, so we are not completely through the fog. But we have come a long way and I think it is a big mouth."

Gelsinger, who chairs the Bay Transformation with Christ, a group for "spiritual and social" in the San Francisco area changes, clearly managed by VMware with the same kind of missionary zeal.

He speaks of the "digital transformation" and how some of the world leading companies simplify their IT infrastructure to innovate at a faster pace. With mechanical devices designed to overcome the efforts focused on humans for the year 2019, it is estimated that many companies are still not at all prepared for the imminent explosion of the Internet of things.

He also argues that the technology sector is still in its "adolescence", with huge tensions between control and freedom. Half of the largest technology companies in the US has been in ten years, because of these and other difficulties, he believes.

Nokia, BlackBerry and Yahoo are three brands of computers whose star has fallen considerably since predicted the main industry of killing in The Daily Telegraph three years ago, when the British designer of computer chips and of course ARM EMC has taken summer.

VMware, however, has been an excellent investment for EMC. Founded by Diane Greene and Mendel Rosenblum her husband with his colleagues in California in 1998, was bought by EMC, six years after £ 625m.

In 2007, EMC launched the company on the New York Stock Exchange, which retains a 80pc. Maritz replaced as CEO Greene, quadrupling its revenue to $ 4.5 billion. Gelsinger then the left Maritz EMC to succeed in 2012.

VMware now has 400,000 customers, 19,000 employees, 2015 revenues of $ 6.6 billion and 120 locations worldwide, including its headquarters in the UK in Frimley, Surrey. Gelsinger grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania.

His father was one of nine children, while his mother was from a family of 11 and jumped the last year of high school at age 17 to take a scholarship to study electronics in the technical Lincoln Institute in his home state.

His faith increasing clarity. a weekly Bible study at home headed for 16 years and served as a Sunday school teacher, while his philanthropy supports medical aid organizations, church planting, educational work and an orphanage he and Linda woman helped build in Nairobi.

At Intel, he joined the Institute, who often worked 80 hours a week, prompting complaints from the payroll was working too much overtime.

To solve this, he and Linda have designed a system which would score two points if he returned home before 17h, a time before 18:15 and after a zero point less to be absent in weekends.

He even wrote about it in a book entitled Balancing family, faith and work. "I wrote three books and now I'm working in my room," smiled Gelsinger. This is one of those works of love. "As is the fusion of course. Watch this space.

VCP550D Exam Question No 58

Question No 58:

An administrator has configured a vSphere 5.5 test environment to evaluate the Virtual SAN feature using Automatic Mode Disk Groups. The administrator needs to disable the Virtual SAN cluster while preserving the virtual machines running on that cluster. The administrator has already installed a vSphere 5.5 Client on a Windows 7 desktop and also has access to the vSphere 5.5 Web Client. What should the administrator do to disable the Virtual SAN? 

A. Use Storage vMotion to migrate the virtual machines to another datastore then use the vSphere 5.5 Client to disable the Virtual SAN.
B. Use Storage vMotion to migrate the virtual machines to another datastore then use the vSphere 5.5 Web Client to disable the Virtual SAN.
C. Use the vSphere 5.5 Client to disable the Virtual SAN, which will automatically migrate the virtual machines via the Storage DRS feature.
D. Use the vSphere 5.5 Web Client to disable the Virtual SAN, which will automatically migrate the virtual machines via the Storage DRS feature.

Answer: B

VMware boss Pat Gelsinger tackles life after Dell buyout

Pat Gelsinger is not your usual CEO of Silicon Valley. A committed Christian who was almost to the church rather than the technology, which emits 40pc of their salary, pray and sing hymns in his office in California trip at the airport and decided early in life never read the newspaper every day until I had read the Bible first.


Today, however, everything that everyone wants to hear how the CEO of VMware, the market capitalization technology group $ 32bn (£ 26.2bn) US is Michael Dell.


epónima manufacturer Dell private equity supported by computer just paid $ 67 billion for EMC, the US group that owns 80pc of VMware, and the following 10,000 men in the conference VMworld Europe in Barcelona this month flooded interest in how the duo gel.

Gelsinger, after all, is a technocrat who has worked for 30 years at Intel, reaching CTO, while the spirit of Dell founded the company famous PC company in his college dorm in Austin, Texas.

"We get very well," insists Gelsinger, 54. "We just had our first board meeting with Michael as the new president who presides my advice and I would say that in general, while it is still early and I do not think none of us say we think all over again, all the signs are encouraging.

"We have committed $ 1 billion in synergies, so we have to go and start building organizations to materialize." This precaution discreet approach to Gelsinger characterized. More Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, who fell to the ground, attractive and polite.



What are your impressions of your new boss so far? He is pleased that Dell has declared its support for the "ecosystem" VMware reseller partners even greater US company VMworld conference in Las Vegas.

He thinks Dell was impressed with 25,000 intense episode of crowd - more than double the participants to the annual shindigs EMC or Dell. There are many Dell to get your head around. EMC is an unusual company with a portfolio strategy parts companies supply property including VMware and Pivotal, a spinoff jointly owned with Microsoft, Ford and General Electric and chaired by Paul Maritz, a former Microsoft executive and veteran of VMware .

"Michael has bought into this whole strategy," Gelsinger said. "Certainly it includes a software company like VMware is a different society, a different culture.

"People are different software people making the supply chain and materials. There is no advantage in a software company than people. This is a key to managing a company like ours look and see us as a very successful company.

"It gives us the space and support to go out and execute what we do. And it has much to do with the merger of Dell and EMC. There are 140,000 people there to assemble the product lines merge and create organizations".

VMware's name stands for "virtual machine software" - technology that essentially allows companies to package their data in fewer server computers. The company recently struck major alliances with leading cloud computing Amazon and IBM. its listing after making preserved.

"I am pleased to see shareholders every 90 days," Gelsinger smiles. However, shares of VMware almost halved from $ 80 to a minimum of $ 43 after the announcement of the transaction. "That was a very painful process," he said.

"Clearly there is concern about whether Dell could make a successful software company." There were questions about values ​​track that was part of the takeover and the implications of that. As with any large acquisition, there were also concerns about whether the deal would be. "


There were also questions about the activity of VMware, because the addresses presented in income last year was less than Wall Street expected. However, the share price has increased as companies have come together to complete the transaction.

Gelsinger "We were able to indicate on the market consistent and independence of VMware ecosystem and some of the new products and cloud strategy deployed have helped answer some of the concerns," he said.

"With stocks now around £ 77, which are not yet trading at a multiple of the software we should have, so we're not quite through the fog. But we have come a long way and I think that 'there is considerable potential growth. "

Gelsinger, who chairs the Bay Transformation with Christ, a group designed to provide the "spiritual and social" change in the area of ​​San Francisco, VMware is clearly with the same kind of missionary zeal.

He speaks of "digital transformation" and how some of the largest companies in the world simplify their IT infrastructure to innovate at a faster pace. With the machine powered devices expected to break human efforts focused on 2019, he believes that many companies are still fully prepared for the imminent explosion of the "Internet of things".


He also argues that the technology sector is still in its teenage years "" with an enormous tension between control and freedom. Half of the largest technology companies US have disappeared in time 10 years because of these and other difficulties, he predicted.

He will not name any, of course, but Nokia, BlackBerry and Yahoo are three brands of IT whose star has dimmed considerably since predicted big industry slaughter in the Daily Telegraph there three years, while British chip designer took ARM team and of course EMC.

VMware, however, has been an excellent investment for EMC. Founded by Diane Greene and Mendel Rosenblum her husband with colleagues in California in 1998, was acquired by EMC, six years after £ 625m.

In 2007, EMC launched the company on the New York Stock Exchange, which retains a stake of 80pc. Maritz replaced as CEO Greene, quadrupling revenues of $ 4.5 billion. Gelsinger then change to succeed Maritz EMC in 2012.

VMware now has 400,000 customers, 19,000 employees, 2015 revenues of $ 6.6 billion and 120 locations worldwide, including its headquarters in the UK in Frimley, Surrey. Gelsinger was raised on a farm in Pennsylvania.

His father was one of nine children, while his mother was from a family of 11 and jumped the last year of high school at age 17 to take a scholarship to study electronics at Lincoln Technical Institute in its original state.

His faith increasing clarity. a weekly Bible study was conducted for 16 years and served as a Sunday school teacher, while his philanthropy supports medical aid, church planting organizations, educational work and an orphanage he and his wife Linda helped build in Nairobi.

Intel, where he entered high school, often worked 80 hours a week, prompting complaints from the payroll was working too much overtime.

To resolve this problem, for a period of their married life, he and Linda has designed a system by which scored two points to get home before 17 hours, one point if before 18:15 to zero thereafter and least one point remote weekends.

Even wrote about it in a book entitled Balancing family, faith and work. "I have written three books and now I'm working in my room," smiled Gelsinger. He is one of those labors of love. "Since the merger, of course. Watch this space.

Cisco and VMware Eat Their Anticloud Words

Compete with Amazon Web Services is difficult. Just ask Cisco and VMware, both of which have been made to eat humble pie rain in recent days.

The two companies AWS derided for being a weak or no product margin player a few years ago, one that would never touch their "most valuable" products. Now? We will talk with them themselves.

 Cisco sells millions of networked computers and has been the dominant network provider it seems centuries. It is a great company with a glorious past. It also runs the serious risk through AWS, Microsoft Azure, and other public cloud providers to encourage businesses to hire critical infrastructure.

There are two years, Cisco has hired Nick Earle as senior vice president of sales and cloud-to-market. At that time, Earle was not worried about the AWS. "Goods rabble!" It seemed to be the thought that entered a statement he made to CRN:

"If you look at what [AWS is] doing is clearly a perforation line and are price and will lose money strategically cutting. Cisco does not believe in wasting money strategically."

 Instead, Earle asked, "ACI programmability and dynamic network allows us to provide differentiated services and value-added." Apparently providers like AWS low margin are "shaking because this is a very expensive game. To continue building and data between continue lowering the prices are not the strategy we believe."

Unfortunately, it is a strategy that AWS customers, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud believe. Oh, and it is difficult enough profitable, with AWS notched healthy margins are large enough to carry all Amazon operations and in the dark.

 Cisco, to his credit, he realized.

The last week of European Cisco, Middle East, Africa, and Russian President Edwin Paalvast took the stage at Canalys Forum canal and told them to dig for niche markets because "undoubtedly [AWS] is won the mass start [] markets as very large data applications. They are standard and can not be beaten more. "Hmm," can not be better "? This does not look good.

However, Cisco remains convinced that the model of AWS is likely unsustainable. Paalvast says: "AWS is a bet If you really look at their financial statements, was hired for all, if they continue to grow as they are today, will win.". However, he continues, "If they have a hiccup, they will be bankrupt."

With all due respect, Cisco, I would not bet on a strategy based on prayer for hiccups. VMware did not work for, after all.

Beat the bookseller

 First, he was president and chief operating officer of Carl Eschenbach VMware, which in 2013 took stock of the brand and the ecosystem of the strength of VMware and said. "I find it very hard to believe that we can not overcome collectively a company that sells books "not to be outdone, CEO of VMware Gelsinger went further and insists that the victory of AWS was to defeat all if the" burden of Amazon work is lost, and lost forever. "

The "we" Gelsinger was called VMware and its partners. It sounds an alarm about the threat to public cloud domination of VMware data centers:

"We want to own the workload of the company. We all lose if they are in these fine public clouds. We want to extend our franchise in the private cloud and public cloud only allow our customers the benefits of both. Owning corporate load work now and forever. "

 Gelsinger finally decidedly changed his mind last week when he came on stage with AWS chief Andy Jassy announce a partnership in which VMware software is offered as a service on AWS. The Register snarkily titled as follows: "Amazon AWS". Hi VMware. 'We submit Please save us! "

Gelsinger, a little more humble now, and said: "This is the result of our customers tell us what they need," You're right, it would have been just as well admit that three years ago ..

The reason VMware actually fought for so long it is self-preservation. As suggested InfoWorld Eric Knorr, "This is ultimately a ramp [AWS public cloud] without a detour." It's a great way to extend the private cloud, VMware that control public cloud, which is the strength of AWS. Do not expect AWS to pave the way back to the private cloud.

A cloudy Hotel California

 This is the problem of all these old trucks, these wired-called "dead works". They can not explain the gravitational attraction of public clouds like AWS or Microsoft Azure, but they have no way to stop them, either.

Chowdhry chip analyst, speaking of the holders of materials, it is clear that something profound is happening throughout the IT environment of the company, a trend that is not only key equipment providers:

"We are seeing 8-11 technology conferences every month. We have not come in a single customer increasing their spending on hardware company. In fact, all customers are talking about is the decline of its equipment business spending. All guests talk continues to increase their workloads on AWS and Microsoft Azure more than 100 percent. "

That will accelerate. At least now Cisco and VMware support, however, can be painful.

VCP550D Exam Question No 57

Question No 57:

Which statement is true about the hardware configuration for ESXi hosts participating in a virtual SAN?

A. The hosts must have identical hardware.
B. Each host must have at least one Solid State Drive (SSD).
C. The hosts must have network attached storage.
D. Each host must have a RAID Controller.

Answer: B

Cloud superpowers Amazon and VMWare Team up

Rivals cloud dynasties Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware have announced a partnership awaited Friday - they expect it easy to sell in an increasingly competitive market, said CEO "Squawk Alley" CNBC.

The association between the two heavyweights of the technology is based on one of the most important trends in business. Increasingly, companies store more data, and want to be able to access it from anywhere and use in multiple applications.

The new offering, VMware cloud AWS is a software sold with the support of VMWare, which operates public cloud Amazon. Its aim is to help the many companies that already use VMWare in your business, but are hoping to move more of its external data servers, such as those offered by Amazon.


 "The announcement that we have done together is really a real win for customers," said Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS. "With the announcement, customers should not take this bit decision more, and get VMWare to use this software used for use on AWS - and do so without having to purchase additional hardware, like most businesses these days not they are looking to buy more equipment. "

Although VMware offers its own cloud services because AWS and VMWare are not well integrated before, customers felt they had to choose, Jassy said. Pat Gelsinger, general manager of VMware, said customers pushed the two companies.

"What we see is that this is already our joint customers, and that's what really makes this powerful announcement," Gelsinger said. "Andy and I were driven by customer demand, because ... basically all companies [is] now takes advantage of Amazon, the creation of this hybrid seamless experience where they get the best of both worlds. "

 Amazon has 31 percent of global market share in the clouds, and increasingly, according to research firm synergy studies. But as companies look for flexible combinations of software and data storage, companies like Oracle and Microsoft build cloud offerings, too.

offers hybrid clouds, as offered by VMware and Amazon, it is supposed to be used by 80 percent of IT organizations in 2018, according to IDC estimates. Nutanix saw its shares rise more than 130% after its IPO last month, offering a hybrid version of cloud service.

 The combined product from Amazon and VMWare should allow companies to do more, much more profitable and faster, Jassy said.

"When our customers we are pushing is an easy thing to sell," Gelsinger said.

VMware CEO Says It’s a ‘Good Time’ to Be Looking at Acquisitions

CEO of VMware, Inc. Pat Gelsinger, whose parent company is in the midst of being acquired by Dell Inc. is considering its own shopping expedition.

A decrease in both evaluations "unicorn" and "Unicorn swagger" means that the virtualization software company is more likely to acquisitions, he said in an interview.

Gelsinger joined executives of Silicon Valley as CEO Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., Meg Whitman, and business development manager, David Drummond, Inc alphabet welcome the opportunity for bargains. Apple CEO Tim Cook, CEO of Salesforce.com Inc. and Marc Benioff Inc. also commented potential acquisitions in the new environment.

"We went from a sellers market to buyers in the market," Gelsinger said. "In that sense, it is a good time for us to be looking for."

VMware, which has more than $ 8 billion in cash and short-term investments, is capable of considering transactions worth "billions" he said. Anything over $ 5 million would be, however, much larger than the company has done in the past, he said. Priority areas for offers remain the same as in recent years: mobile products, cloud management, security and networking.

VMware's parent company EMC Corp. was bought by Dell for $ 67 billion, the largest acquisition in the history of technology.

When the explosive increase in the valuation of start-ups in the last two or three years, many public companies have been excluded from the market.

USA VC funding more than doubled from 2013 to 2015, the median assessment to begin funding rounds jump to $ 68 million in the third quarter of 2015, venture capitalist Mark Suster says. The Unicorn herd - companies valued at $ 1 billion or more - increased from 13 in early 2013 to more than 150, according to research firm CB Insights.

Now the capital began to flow more slowly up companies and valuations are declining. In the first quarter, there were 14 laps or outlets below previous scores down financing. During the fourth quarter of 2015, there were 16. That compares with six seven of these events in the previous two quarters, according to CB Insights.

This year, investment funds, including Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price have lowered the value of their investments in new companies like Hootsuite Media Inc., Dropbox Inc., CloudFlare Inc., Cloudera Inc.., And DocuSign Inc. Zenefits .

"We looked at a couple of companies say that six months ago and had the unicorn unicorn assessment and arrogance," Gelsinger said. "You know," well I'm one billion [Evaluation] go to four, so. if you want to take me off the table, they pay me five, "so now, are perhaps half a billion go to: Ok let's have a discussion so that some of them become much more interesting conversations." .

VCP550D Exam Question No 56

Question No 56:

What should an administrator do to configure multi-pathing using software iSCSI?

A. Bind the VMkernel ports to the software iSCSI initiator
B. Configure Zoning between the hosts and SAN switches
C. Configure NIC teaming on the associated uplinks
D. Ensure jumbo frames are enabled end-to-end

Answer: A

VMware App Volumes 3.0 Confusion Frustrates Customers

3.0 Application volumes VMware customers have encountered technical problems that may arise from the exit strategy from the supplier.

application volumes bed is a product that allows you to deploy applications to users through virtual disks workstations. With the software, you can assign and deliver the AppStacks users, which are groups of applications. After VMware has published volumes of application 3.0 in March, professionals complained several problems with the new product, including the inability to eliminate AppStacks, inconsistencies with the interface and more.

"It felt like 3.0 was rushed to market," said Jason Coleman, enterprise network engineer Solutions Inc., a partner of VMware in Sacramento, California. "It feels like you still need a little polish".

VMware launches for the first volumes App end in 2014, after acquiring CloudVolumes. Earlier this month, the updated volumes VMware application to version 2.10 2.11 - about three months after the release of iPhone 3.0 volumes. The reason is VMware 2.x and 3.0 as separate products, respectively, said a spokesman for the company on the site and cloud-based deployments.

However, this approach has created confusion about which versions of certain customers must be running. The company has warned some private volumes App 3.0 customers with local implementations to return to version 2.10 or 2.11.

Coleman tried App 3.0 for VMware customers volumes, but quickly realized that there were problems that are not easy to solve. The biggest problem could not be removed without using a computer AppStacks support of VMware.

"When you can not remove them, you have a large collection of archived AppStacks" he said. "A lot of remaining content is obtained."

After the trial, Coleman decided to follow with 2.10 volumes of application. This version has a very different interface, but does not present the same problems as 3.0, she said.

IT professionals have encountered other problems with volumes 3.0 applications, too. Omesh Pertob, virtualization architect for the city of Round Rock, Texas, said there was a very inconsistent experience in the implementation of user applications and the application of computer applications when tested the software.

Problems with new versions are often derived from sellers who quickly grow a product to follow customer demands for innovation, said James Gordon, senior vice president of IT at Needham Bank in Needham, Massachusetts.

"Companies are always looking for the next hot new thing, and things headlong into the market," he said.

Needham Bank has tested an earlier version of the application contents VMware, but chose to go with the product of competition Unidesk place. The problem with the application volumes AppStacks was assigned to a power connection time user or computer, as well.

"I had to bust users who watches and say," My reboot took me three minutes when it used to take half, "Gordon said.

With Unidesk, adding applications does not increase the connection time, he said. The disadvantage with Unidesk is that you can add applications when the user's computer is off or in maintenance mode, but with application volumes, you can add AppStacks while the computer of a user is in the live performance, he added.

VCP550D Exam Question No 56

Question No 56:

A virtual machine has the following configuration:

• Thin provisioned virtual disks
• The VMFS datastore on which it resides is on a thin provisioned LUN.
• The storage array is VAAI-enabled.

What is the behavior of the virtual machine when it encounters an out-of-space condition?

A. It is suspended.
B. It is gracefully shut down.
C. It is powered off.
D. It is converted to space-efficient sparse.

Answer: A

VMware fires Photon Missile

VMware has released version 1.0 of photons thin OS, Linux and cooked to run container within vSphere.

Available here on GitHub, the operating system has a memory capacity of 384 MB and requires 396MB of disk space in the minimalist setting.

VMware said "kernel boot time is ~ 200 ms."

The announcement of version 1.0 of VMware comes just days before DockerCon where opposing players by the OS-container is likely that the ads in your account. VMware is positioning photons as "open source software that was reviewed by the engineering support and validation teams VMware guest OS and thousands of people in the community." What is a fancy way of saying "if you want to run containers within vSphere, these other lightweight Linux systems are a bit more risky than the box

VCP550D Exam Question No 55

Question No 55:

Which feature requires an administrator to configure an RDM with Virtual Compatibility Mode?

A. vMotion
B. Virtual Machine Snapshots
C. High Availability
D. N-port ID Virtualization

Answer: B

VMware nears completion of $67B Dell-EMC merger

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger has a lot on his plate.

As head of software maker Virtual Storage $ 7 billion, which is dab in the middle of the largest ever fusion technology, $ 67 trillion marriage with Dell storage company EMC data. EMC owns approximately 80% of VMware.

While the successful sale takes private EMC, VMware is still a unit traded holding company Michael Dell, Denali. It is expected that the transaction will close after the shareholder vote on 19 July.

Gelsinger believes the mega-merger will lead to new market opportunities that could pump annual sales of VMware. "There are a lot wow" he said. "Things went surprisingly well."

VMware shares have been rising since April, when it reported first quarter sales that were slightly better than Wall Street expectations and issued a sales forecast for the second quarter may beat analyst estimates.

In an interview of 30 minutes to get to the office today US TODAY, Silicon Valley veteran reflected on how VMware has not only changed the field of virtualization software, but is in a unique position to help to pave the way for cloud computing in an even deeper enterprises level.

Also he weighed on various current issues in the world of technology:

VCP550D Exam Question No 54

Question No 54:

Which two statements are true regarding a new vSphere deployment that is using software FCoE boot from SAN? (Choose two.)

A. Multi-pathing options must be configured by the vmkernel after boot.
B. The adapter must support iBFT or UEFI.
C. The adapter must support FBFT or FBPT.
D. Multi-pathing options must be configured in the Boot ROM.

Answer: A, C

Windows 7, Server 2008 'Convenience' update is anything but – it breaks VMware networking

THIS VMware Administrators warning to stay out of an official update for Windows 7 Server 2008 are - if ENCONTRO after the sea parchment incompatible with some virtual machines.

The House of virtualization virtual machines using virtual dice red cards vmxnet3 are having problems after installing red pack of Windows 7 Updates.

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"VMware're aware of this issue and are actively investigating the causes and solutions possibles" given the VMware blog.

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Microsoft Windows 7 launched rollups Last year in my attempt to simplify the process of obtaining updates para new facilities. Designed for use with new PCs or via s installation, the rollup Windows 7 gives all previous updates in Lieu of new machines require to download and install Hundreds shells.

Don't Believe The Hype: Cisco and VMware SDN Solutions Could Work Better Than You Think

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Time Is Nigh For Cisco-VMware Software-Defined Networking Tech Integration

Cisco Systems talk to VMware in a deeper and more meaningful software-defined network connection, could the formal integration of their respective technologies far behind?

This is a question that many partners are now thinking that customers have begun deploying VMware and Cisco application-based NSX Infrastructure (ACI) in their data center environments.

Until recently, customers saw their purchasing decision RPS as one or proposition either between the NSX and ACI, mainly because the former is only software and also includes Nexus 9000 switches and Cisco Application Infrastructure Policy Controller (APIC).

Patrick Cronin, director Kovarus, partner of VMware and Cisco in San Ramon, Calif., Says NSX and ACI can coexist and work well in customer environments.

"NSX offers rich functionality of the virtual switch, abstracting from the network using a controller and overlays," Cronin said. "ACI combines hardware and software in a government policy-based network infrastructure built around the requirements of specific applications."

VMware NSX positioned as a way to facilitate network management and speed service delivery, and as technology network security. Cisco launch of ACI emphasizes hardware-based security and automating tasks, accelerating the deployment of data center applications and monitoring traffic from the virtual machine.

Ryan Marsyla, Technical Director RPS Trace3, Cisco and VMware partner based in Irvine, California, said that if customers benefit from Cisco and VMware to align and integrate AIT and the NSX. "The obvious advantage is the ease of customer adoption, [and] clarity around which support. This would eliminate discussions between computers on the network and virtualization," he said

Another potential RPS beach integration of a network of sub-layer visibility benefits during deployment NSX - which could facilitate the troubleshooting - for centralized management, policy implementation and scale, Marsyla said.

However, there are obstacles to customers using both technologies. Despite the AIT and the NSX can provide "a powerful politician, compliance and highly scalable network," the cost of buying both may be prohibitive for some customers, according to Cronin.

"If a customer would pay for the ACI and NSX, which would get the Cadillac of networks. But Caddy cost a pretty penny," Cronin said.

Ron Lin, vice president for August Schell, a partner of VMware based in Rockville Maryland, does not see the NSX-ACI integration as a short-term game. "I see a world where you have the integration between VMware NSX Controller [the NRS management system vendor] and control of the AIT for this," he said.

While it remains to be seen whether the AIT-more-NSX becomes a trend full blown, partners working with two vendors said the trash talk that after the acquisition of VMware SDN startup Nicira began in 2012 has decreased a bit since Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins took over last July.

Robbins, in an interview with CRN Thursday suggested that Cisco may be open to the idea of ​​working more closely with VMware to make it easier for customers to deploy their technologies together.

"What concerns VMware, I think our teams speak where there may be points that balance the competitive nature of society, but also meet can be a part of the demand from emerging customers. So I think 'is to be determined,

VCP550D Exam Question No 53

Question No 53:

A virtual machine is unable to communicate with another virtual machine. Both virtual machines are connected to the Production port group on the same virtual switch and are running on the same host. Which configuration is causing the inability of the virtual machines to communicate?

A. LLDP was enabled instead of CDP for the vSphere Distributed Switch.
B. Promiscuous Mode has been set to Allow on the Production port group.
C. The Production port group is configured to use a secondary PVLAN.
D. The speed and duplex settings for the virtual machine vmnics do not match.
Answer: C

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger Quashes Departure Rumours

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger quashed rumors that he will leave the company once the EMC / Dell merger concluded.

The rumor was circulated in a publication channel earlier this week, citing unidentified sources.

Gelsinger now canceled rumors himself. Speaking at the Jefferies Technology Conference this week, an event recorded in this reg wall audio, Gelsinger download to mark 1:45, which says: "I categorically deny categorically denies EMC and Dell refuses, so there absolutely no merit or substance in the rumor of it ".

"My intention is to stay here and [Dell] Michael intention is that I left here yesterday."

Gelsinger added that it was the man with Dell earlier this week for internal R & D of VMware conference when his public relations team sent him a text in the report of his departure. Gelsinger said Dell showed his phone, he asked. "Is there something I do not know and I had a laugh about it"

Address concerns Gelsinger also said Father Martin Casado NSX continues to work with VMware on a mission of undetermined Council, a fact mentioned as a refutation of the idea that the recent wave of departures of executives Virtzilla weakened society. Gelsinger added that recent outings were a sign of executives reach new milestones in your life, instead of getting tired of VMware.

Some teenage children. Others have closed 100 consecutive quarters in state enterprises and wants new horizons. Gelsinger also said that replacing VMware executives is experienced and hunger does not feel his team is undiminished.

This optimism has permeated the discourse Gelsinger, which suggested VMware is in good health, that outcome data center its software offerings-defined deeper and broader customer commitments. When bettors to buy VMware's vision, the resulting contracts relationships produce long-term support to VMware very, very difficult to dislodge.

VCP550D Exam Question No 52

Question No 52:

A virtual machine is receiving a large number of network packets, which is affecting the performance of other virtual machines connected to the same virtual network. What should the vSphere administrator do to resolve the issue?

A. Migrate the virtual machine to a standard switch that has been configured for ingress traffic shaping
B. Configure the distributed switch to which the virtual machine is connected for ingress traffic shaping
C. Migrate the virtual machine to a different port group on the same distributed switch
D. Enable Network I/O Control on the standard switch to which the virtual machine is connected

Answer: B

VCP550D Exam Question No 51

Question No 51:

An administrator is deploying vSphere 5.5. The administrator creates a vSphere Distributed Switch, then uses Auto Deploy to deploy several ESXi hosts. After the hosts are deployed, the administrator notices that LACP packets are not being sent between them. Which condition would cause this issue to occur?

A. The LACP support settings do not exist in the Host Profile.
B. The LACP installation bundle is not included in the Image Profile.
C. The LACP setting is not enabled on vCenter Server.
D. LACP has not been configured on the Auto Deploy server.

Answer: A

Exclusive: VMware Cloud Chief Exits

Parents Bill, which led to the vCloud air for three years, goes ahead

Parents bills, executive vice president, who led the project VMware vCloud air, leaves the company, according to several sources close to the company.

His role will be filled by two "general co-managers" for the cloud, Allwyn Sequeira and Laura Ortman, sources said. Both were executives with VMware VMW -1.09% since 2008, according to their profiles on LinkedIn LNKD 2,02% respectively.

The news was announced in a note to CEO Pat Gelsinger staff Tuesday, but it was not announced publicly.

Note: A VMware spokesman confirmed the personnel changes and said the two new heads report directly to cloud Gelsinger.

leaving parents are not a big surprise as cloud efforts the company were in the process of change for more than a year ago. This further blur in October, when Dell and VMware parent company EMC EMC -0.31% revealed its planned merger of $ 67 billion. There was an overlap in the cloud strategies of three companies that scrambled over the water.

Get data sheet, bulletin fortune everyday technology.

Finally, EMC and VMware said they would merge in vCloud Air Virtustream cloud company EMC as Chief Rodney Rogers Virtustream, with parents taking a strategic advisory role to Gelsinger. But the clouds convergence plan was scuttled to help calm the angry shareholders VMware.

During the call of the most recent results of VMware, Gelsinger said the development vCloud Air was reduced although no one seemed to know exactly what that means. (The spokesman said VMware vCloud air now focus on disaster recovery and expansion of data centers specific job.)

Initially dubbed hybrid services vCloud, vCloud air launched three years ago as VMware's answer to Amazon AMZN 9.59% giant Web Services public cloud computing.

A public cloud consists of a network of data centers that massive networks of servers, storage and networks running, all owned and operated by a single company. Guests can rent power and data storage shared infrastructure and pay only for what they use when they use it.

For more information on VMware:

A public cloud comprises a network of data centers running massive arrays of servers, storage and networking—all owned and operated by one company. Customers can rent out computing power and storage on that shared infrastructure and just pay for what they use when they use it.

Public cloud is seen as an affordable and flexible alternative to building more customer-owned data centers. Amazon’s cloud growth has been explosive, forcing legacy IT companies—including VMware, IBM IBM -0.77% , Oracle ORCL -1.17% , and Microsoft MSFT -0.04% —to react. VMware was (and is) relying on third-party service providers like telephone companies to run its software and provide a counterweight to AWS.

Very few of even the biggest traditional IT companies can field the sorts of resources that Amazon (or Microsoft or Google GOOG 0.29% do which is why the rest of the providers are seen as tier two players. Thus far, then vCloud Air sales have disappointed if you ask anyone outside the VMware executive staff.

VCP550D Exam Question No 50

Question No 50:

A vSphere administrator is administering a vSphere Distributed Switch port group using the vSphere Web Client. The port group was configured using Static binding, but the number of ports must increase as virtual machines are added to the port group. Which port allocation setting should the administrator use to achieve this goal?

A. Elastic
B. Dynamic
C. Fixed
D. Manual

Answer: A

VMware shares are hot now as Dell Deal Looks Close

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this column gave the wrong date for shareholders to vote on the proposed sale of Dell EMC.

EMC said it is close to finalizing its sale to Dell, and this has contributed to the actions of your business VMware red hot.

VMware shares rose 14% to $ 58.53 on Wednesday after the software maker said virtual storage sales in the first quarter were slightly better than Wall Street expectations. He also issued a set of revenue for the second quarter traffic forecast can also exceed analysts' estimates slightly.

These estimates were reduced in January after VMWare has reduced its forecast for sales growth in 2016.
VMware also benefited after the leaders said the company would start once repurchasing EMC (EMC) to shareholders voting on the transaction Dell. The proposed sale will allow private EMC VMware, but as a unit traded holding company Michael Dell, Denali.

"We are actively working on finalizing Securities (necessary documents) so we can get to a vote of shareholders as soon as possible," said CEO Joseph Tucci EMC on the results of the first quarter call the company on Wednesday.

Tucci said the deal has cleared regulatory barriers in all countries except China and reiterated that the deal will close in the second or third trimester.

EMC, which held about 80% of the shares of VMWare when the agreement was announced in October, said the vote on the agreement in place take place at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting, a date has not been set.

Reaffirming the Dell agreement will close to its original programming, EMC helped ease investor concerns about the deal that keeps their actions and below the sticker price announced $ 33.15 per share. For a few weeks, even below $ 24.05 they languished a cash price of Dell stock has agreed to pay. EMC shares also rose Wednesday finishing 3.2% higher than $ 26.37.

These concerns include how the Denali debt by this LBO will be taken.

VMware shares have been even worse since the huge bet Michael Dell news became public. Since Dell will pay by the transaction monitoring VMware securities that will dilute its shareholders, investors find themselves on the wrong end of a classic arbitrage transaction (VMware, EMC buy) side, we he warned the players there are about seven months.

While trade was still a generator of money in November, allegedly ARB offices are temporary and seems to reproduce.

Since last fall, Michael Dell has raised more money to help pay for EMC. These deals include the sale of enterprise IT services Dell NTT Data Corp. Japan for $ 3 million dollars on March 28.
Dell is also in talks to sell more of its software units, according to Bloomberg News, including Documentum and SonicWall, aiming to raise billions more.

The moves have encouraged investors disheartened VMware above, who have seen their shares lose 45% of its value between October 7 and the report of disappointing first quarter of VMware in late January.
disgruntled shareholders were able to stop the creation of a new unit of EMC that would have added more complexity and risk for investors VMware.

This movement, which have joined the cloud computing units EMC and VMware and put the cost to the development of combination products in the income statement of VMware, was announced but quickly cleaned.

With the news of the last 24 hours, the pressure of arbitration in sales of VMware seems to be declining rapidly or already completed.

VMware shares may open up new increases. In the longer term, however, investors holding shares weighing should be aware that analysts have reduced their growth forecasts for almost half the company three months ago.
And while future repurchases shares of VMware mitigate the effect on future follow-up actions will dilute current shareholders even more.

EMC shares are also seen as a commercial purchase by the end of May, the case of Dell, unless unforeseen panic or other bad news.

The population increase Wednesday came even after it reported sales fell 2% over the previous year, as fears faded in the transaction.

Because of its participation in the structure of the transaction VMware and Dell, any increase in the shares of VMware also goose the value of EMC between now and when taken private.

So, after suffering for months in the hands of the sellers of arbitration, the best way to make money on VMware in the near future is to be long and not too short.

VCP550D Exam Question No 49

Question No 49:

A vSphere administrator creates a new vSphere Distributed Switch. The administrator receives notice from the service desk that a cluster of vSphere hosts has disconnected from vCenter Server. This disconnect occurred immediately after the new switch was created. · This vSphere Distributed Switch is the only distributed switch managed by vCenter. · The virtual machines are still functional and the applications are still accessible by end users. On the ESXi hosts, which step must the vSphere administrator take to allow vCenter Server to reconnect?

A. Use the Direct Console User Interface to reattach the management vmnic to the appropriate switch
B. Use the Direct Console User Interface to disable lockdown mode on each affected host
C. Use the ESXi Shell to restart the mgmt-vmware service on each affected host
D. Use the ESXi Shell to restart the vSphere Web Client service on each affected host

Answer: A

VCP550D Exam Question No 48

Question No 48:

A vSphere administrator upgrades a version 5.1.0 vSphere Distributed Switch to version 5.5.0. Another vSphere administrator, unaware of this change, tries to add an ESXi version 5.1.0 host to the switch and fails. What is causing this addition of the ESXi host to fail?

A. The upgraded switch supports version 5.5 ESXi hosts only.
B. The upgraded switch must be set up for backwards compatibility.
C. The switch failed to upgrade properly.
D. A version 5.5 ESXi host must be added to the switch before the 5.1 host.

Answer: A

Puppet hires president from VMWare, revamps name and logo as it preps 'for the next 10 years'

Puppet Labs has hired a senior executive of California-based VMware Inc. to carry out their planning and customer relationship product. Sanjay Mirchandani, who became the first puppet president and chief operating officer, had positions at EMC and Microsoft played before.





Puppetry has also introduced a new logo and drop "Labs" from its name, said it and how employees and customers relate to the business. It is the second name change for the 11-year-old company, known until 2010 as the reduction of laboratories.

These changes, as well as a pair of Thursday announced product updates puppet reflect the ambition to become a long-term, established business, as the founder and CEO Luke Kanies.

"All this is to prepare for the next 10 years," he said.

Puppet software helps large corporations manage their computer networks, computer design to operate according to specific instructions and inform the people in charge when something goes wrong. Customers include AT & T, Intel, Salesforce.com, Twitter and many non-technology companies with its own large computer systems.

Puppet private company does not report financial results, but Kanies said the company has increased by 70 percent last year. The company is preparing a public offering in savings this year, but put those plans on hold indefinitely in January despite the turmoil in financial markets.

Puppetry exercised an option in his seat in Portland is, however, increasing their presence by 50 percent. The company has 420 employees, 330 of them in Portland.

Mirchandani, president of the new puppet, was stationed in Singapore, where he was vice president and general manager of VMware for Asian markets. He said the decision to Portland reflects an interest in building on the success of puppets in the enterprise software market.

"There is much more we can do and that to me is the interesting part," he said.

VMware is one of the main financiers of puppets, investing $ 30 million in the company in 2013 and participate in two rounds. But Mirchandani said his decision to join puppet became independent of its role in VMware and VMware Kanies said was not involved in the hiring decision - quite the opposite, actually.

"We have worked very, very hard to make sure they are not aware of the talks until the documents were signed," Kanies said.

Puppet is one of the few technology companies Oregon attracted executives from the ranks of the biggest names in the technology industry. CFO Bill Koefoed was CFO of Microsoft longtime former leader Simon Hayes Citrix is ​​now vice president of corporate puppet and business development and vice president of product Casco Jamie came to Evernote.

Besides being the name of the company, puppets is the name of a management tool open source computer networks. marionette business offers additional software to automate and manage complex changes in computer systems, changes that would otherwise be expensive or impossible to implement manually.

Puppet software is part of an ecosystem of interconnected software, he said, and Puppetry - the company, which is - wants the new name to reflect its role in the integration of these tools.

It is understood?

"Since there is no confusion, confusion that is already there," Kanies said. "It gives us the opportunity to go directly to the confusion."

Disclaimer: This article has been updated to clarify its description of activity puppets.

VCP550D Exam Question No 47

Question No 47:

A security team is validating policy settings in a vSphere environment. By default, which security policy is set to reject on a vSphere Standard Switch?

A. Promiscuous mode
B. MAC address changes
C. Forged transmit
D. Use explicit failover

Answer: A

VMware flushes Adobe Flash in new HTML 5 web client for vSphere

Administrators have a great march: first update released VMware vSphere 6.o 2, with a new management interface host HTML 5. And now he is released from an HTML 5 for vCenter interface.

The new client is a "Fling", the name of VMware for unsupported and do not run the code in production quality thinking vAdmins appreciate. Flings are often used as de facto beta test and is the case here:

VMware said he wanted to get the code against the ASAP customers, looking forward to feedback from users and promises reasonably common changes in code. Meaning that walks like a bet and quacks like a beta ... you know the rest.

VMware has joined the "we are much more flash garbage leaking" brigade in this press apology writes that "The decision to go with Flash was there years before and development tools HTML5 were ready. The situation has changed, and who worked very hard on eliminating dependence flash to improve performance, stability and security. "

For now, the Fling is as follows:

•  Power Operations VM (common cases)
•  Edit the virtual machine configuration (single CPU, memory, disk changes)
•  VM Console
•  Pages VM Host and summary
•  VM Migration (only one host)
•  Clone to Template / VM
•  Create virtual machine on a host (limited)
•  Additional views monitoring (performance charts, tasks, events)
•  Global Views (recent works, alarms are only)

VMware said new look client is called "clarity" and is also in beta. Here it is, embiggenable
To play with the client, you must install the OVA virtual device in which it is packaged, available here on the top left of the page.

vAdmins customers complained against web-based VMware management for years. Virtzilla now expect grunting can be implied, since tested this new client.

VCP550D Exam Question No 46

Question No 46:

Which two network settings are available on a vSphere Standard Switch? (Choose two.)

A. Ingress traffic shaping
B. Egress traffic shaping
C. Private Virtual Local Area Networks (PVLAN)
D. Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN)

Answer: B, D

VMware VSAN: When Good Enough More Than Passes Muster

Last week, I attended SFD9 and last session of the week was approximately 6.2 VSAN with VMware. This is not a criticism or analysis of individual characteristics of the products; there are plenty of them. Instead, I'll talk about what a product like VSAN 6.2 means for all SDS / HCl market.

The new version was released a few weeks ago and is an evolution of the product was initially launched no less than two years.

VSAN following vSphere version numbering, which means that it is actually version 2.2 and not 6.2. But that's not really important.

The first version (5.5) was really 1.0 - almost disappointing. Version 6.0 adds the basic features missing in the first version. 6.1, released six months ago, appeared as a very different product because the amount of improvements and additional features. The latest version, version 6.2, is another step forward in terms of efficiency and general characteristics; something to pay attention.

If at first, could be seen as a backlash in the VSA / HCI space, it is quite clear now that VMware has outperformed all other providers, and I mean all new businesses in this market. Despite their limitations and restrictions, VMware VSAN has now a solid and consistent appearance. Although it may not be ideal for all use cases, you can not be taken into consideration if you want to build an HMI based on vSphere.

It is an undeniable success

There is no doubt that VSAN is a success. 3000 facilities (paying customers), which is the VSA installed vSphere on the market after HP VSA StorVirtual. And I have no doubt that the numbers continue to rise due to product maturity. If at first it was only good enough as it is a very good option and is part of a solution from start to finish.

In fact, the real question is "why not?" Well, you might be skeptical about some technical details and yet-to-be-better functionality or lack of cross-platform support ... but even if this product was originally designed for the purpose of hiding all the complexity of storage the "girl for everything" poor who runs their virtual infrastructure (also known as VMware systems administrator enterrado- work), while doing a great job.

And that is bad news for many startups in this space. I do not know for sure, but it seems that it has become difficult to overcome TCO VSAN perspective now ATT could easily become a viable measure - especially when you do business, discounts, ELA and so on come into play.

VSAN, EVO: RAIL, VxRAIL and TCO

VSAN was a success from day one, but EVO: RAIL is a totally different story - a complete failure.

VSANs and not in direct competition with HCI providers (such Simplivity or Nutanix, for example). Products like the EVO: railroad, and now VCE VxRAIL, do. I really hope VxRAIL or developments EVO: RAIL Overall, if any, will be more competitive with suppliers. And yes, in this case from the perspective of TCA!

I have no particular preference, but I still see Nutanix and Simplivity as more sophisticated solutions, especially if you want to work with a provider that does not have the complete stack and want to have options for running workloads / to move through different hypervisors with the same management layer.

But again, if you are a single VMware store - VxRAIL? Why not? A time for competitors, it will be harder to find a differentiator. I think it's too early to look comparisons TCO 6.2 and VSAN VxRail are very new to the market, after all, but I like to see something soon.

Closing the circle

VMware is doing a good job with VSAN and sales speak clearly. A portion of these sales could be fanboys, others might come to ELA (sometimes it's just easier because the acquisition process) ... But that's not all; there are many more and the last VSAN is to confirm that VMware believes in this.

While still see a clear differentiator in some competing solutions out there, many of them in the competition becomes difficult. From this point of view, for example, Springpath did the right thing by coming to an OEM agreement with Cisco, but the lives of young players always get more difficult.

VCP550D Exam Question No 45

Question No 45:

An administrator determines that a vSphere Standard Switch is dropping all inbound frames to a specific virtual machine. The behavior appeared in the last two days. Which configuration setting, if changed during this timeframe, would result in this behavior?

A. MAC address changes
B. Forged Transmit
C. Traffic Shaping
D. Jumbo Frames

Answer: A

VMware patches severe XSS flaws in vRealize software

VMware Fixed two serious vulnerabilities in software vRealize company that could lead to code execution and business commitment remote workstations.

In a security advisory released Tuesday, the California firm in Palo Alto, said the "important" vulnerabilities found in VMware VMware platforms vRealize commercial and advanced automation and business software vRealize.

Insects, CVE-2015-2344 and CVE-2016-2075 are issues Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). XSS exploits occur when a vulnerability in the software or applications allows injection of client-side code, leading to problems including remote code execution, the malicious code to download and jeopardize the system.

 The first vulnerability, CVE-2015-2344, impacts vRealize automation VMware 6.x before 6.2.4 on the Linux operating system, while the second vulnerability, CVE-2016-2075, affects VMware vRealize Advanced Business and Enterprise 8. 8.2 x 0.5 before, back in Linux.

An independent researcher Lukasz Plonka, reported the XSS vulnerability first, while the Deloitte security researcher Alvaro Trigo Martin de Vidales VMware found and reported to the second question.

 Built on other operating systems, including Microsoft Windows are not affected.

users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. The following patches Reissue a security review for a problem been corrected adequately in October 2015, a remote vulnerability of critical code running on the platform of vCenter Server.

In the last month, VMware traveled through a redesign of the company, who have lost three keyframes in quick succession. Martin Casado, former head of the company NSX VMWare, CFO Jonathan Chadwick and Carl Eschenbach, former head of VMware operates all left to pursue other opportunities.

VCP550D Exam Question No 44

Question No 44:

A vSphere Standard Switch is configured with two uplinks. When adjusting the failover order of the uplinks, what are two valid states in which an administrator can place the uplinks? (Choose two.)

A. Active
B. Unused
C. Passive
D. Disabled

Answer: A, B

VCP550D Exam Question No 43

Question No 43:

The vSphere administrator is configuring directory services for an ESXi host:
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What should the vSphere administrator do to configure the host to use CAM services?
 
A. Check the Use vSphere Authentication Proxy checkbox.
B. Set Select Directory Service Type to CAM services.
C. Specify CAM$ for the Domain.
D. Set Trusted Domains to cam\name.tld where name.tld is the domain that the host is joining.

Answer: A

Worried by VMware's executive exodus? Dell should be

"To lose one parent May be Regarded as a misfortune," Oscar Wilde is reputed to Have Said, before adding "to lose two looks like carelessness."

What to say then a VMware? In recent weeks lost to CFO Johnathan Chadwick, the mastermind behind the NSX network virtualization product Martin Casado, and now COO Carl Eschenbach? Last year, she lost a long time the chief technology Fathi.

Virtzilla is unlucky? Or Careless? There is a case to be made for both.

VMware was negligent delay, flubbing patches, launching VSAN advice to use hardware With That just does not do an adequate job of running a SAN, and arrogantly Assuming That users would not bring new to old licenses EVO: RAIL hyper-converged devices.

The company backed away from ITS Present ambition to be a top level player ranking alongside AWS cloud, Azure, Google and SoftLayer. VMware ADMITTED I Could not match the purchasing power of rivals, but always Aimed high. And failed.

As ZettaGrid man NOTED Anthony Spiteri, many other irritations in VMware products Appear
When Desktop Virtualization registry Mentioned Some of These careless VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger incidents last year, I have some business unit managers Said Have endured "Director's office trips" for a dressing down.

Frames as Chadwick, Married and Eschenbach are all at some point in Their careers When sorting the mess probably like a chore. So cost negligence VMware May Have quality people.

On the front of bad luck, being supported by Dell was not entirely predictable. For the likes of Chadwick, served as CFO in WHO listed entities, it is understandable motivation for nominal demotion Becomes a career change. Casado has not signed not to be a cog in the wheel of Dell. With VMware Eschenbach has-been for over a decade, a fine but cold start relay to give anyone fidgets.

When Considering Married and Eschenbach, Consider Their destination for venture firms capital. the history of the growth of business software out VMware contest the last decade (I put the likes of Salesforce are in another category). That His people are likely to identify identity Considered and nurture new is a ringing endorsement Businesses of VMware.

Virtualization The Reg office is happy to come to the side of evil rather than neglect.

VMware new generation of managers Have a powerful legacy With Which to work. INITIALLY Execs put the Business with strong growth prospects in virtualization network and end-user computing.

So good luck to live up to the achievements of your predecessors, VMware execs Promoted recently. And good luck to the mega-merger work, talent and ironing Retain Kinks recent VMware, Michael Dell. ®

VCP550D Exam Question No 42

Question No 42:

The vSphere administrator attempts to connect to an ESXi host via an SSH client and receives the following security alert:

-- Exhibit --

-- Exhibit --

The vSphere administrator needs to determine whether the RSA key fingerprint shown in the security alert  is the fingerprint of the intended ESXi host. Which tool should the vSphere administrator use?

A. Direct Console User Interface
B. vSphere Client
C. vSphere Web Client
D. vSphere Management Assistant

Answer: A

VMware, Inc. (VMW) Lowered to “Hold” at Vetr Inc.

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) was downgraded by analysts at Stock Vetr a rating of "buy" to "hold" in a note to investors issued Monday, reports AnalystRatings.NET. Currently they have a $ 52.59 price target on the software vendor file virtualization. Vetr price target suggests a potential upside of 3.61% over the current price of the company.

Several other analysts have recently published reports on the action. Sanford C. Bernstein raised VMware shares a notation "underperform" to "market perform" rating in a research note on Monday 2 November. MKM Partners reduced its price target on shares of VMware from $ 90.00 to $ 75.00 and set a "buy" rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday 2 December.

Drexel Hamilton returned to publish a "buy" rating and set a target price of $ 73.00 shares of VMware in a research note on Friday 4 December. Gabelli initiated coverage of the shares of VMware in a research note Monday, December 14.

They set a "buy" rating and a target of $ 84.00 to the enterprise. Finally, Jefferies Group reissued a rating of "buy" on shares of VMware in a research note Tuesday, December 15. An investment analyst estimate of the population with a rating of sale, twenty gave a rating of retention, nine have been assessed shopping and we got an excellent rating of purchase of shares. VMware currently has an average rating of "hold" and a target price of $ 73.12 consensus.

Shares of VMware (NYSE: VMW) opened at 50.76 on Monday. VMware has a one year low of $ 43.25 and a maximum of $ 93.43 for 1 year. The company has a weighted average price of $ 48.08 50 days and a weighted average price of 200 days from $ 63.54. The company has a market capitalization of $ 21.42 billion and a PER ratio of 21.69.

A number of hedge funds and institutional investors of the shares of the company recently bought and sold. Royal London Asset Management Ltd has strengthened its position in VMware 228.9% in the fourth quarter. Royal London Asset Management Ltd now owns 81,595 shares of virtualization software provider with a value of $ 4,652 million after buying an additional 56,790 shares during the period. pension funds IBM has strengthened its position in VMware 13.9% in the fourth quarter. pension fund IBM now has 19,948 shares of the action of virtualization software provider with a value of $ 1,128 million after buying an additional 2,441 shares during the period. Migdal Insurance & Financial Holdings Ltd. to buy a new position in VMware in the fourth quarter of approximately $ 8,181,000 value. CLEARLINE Capital LP bought a new position in VMware in the fourth quarter approximately $ 25,804,000.

Finally, two Sigma Investments LLC has strengthened its position in VMware by 82.4% in the fourth quarter. Two Sigma Investments LLC now has 1,128,866 shares of the action provider virtualization software worth $ 63.86 million after the purchase of an additional 510,032 shares during the period.

VMware, Inc. is a provider of virtualization infrastructure solutions. The company develops and markets products and services in three product groups, including software defined data center (NYSE: VMW), hybrid cloud computing and end user (EUC).

VCP550D Exam Question No 41

Question No 41:

What happens to the status of users already logged into ESXi Shell when a vSphere administrator enables lockdown mode?

A. Users remain logged in and can run commands, except to disable lockdown mode.
B. Users remain logged in and can run commands, including disabling lockdown mode.
C. Users are immediately logged out of ESXi Shell.
D. Users are logged out after a timeout specified by the vSphere administrator.

Answer: A

VCP550D Exam Question No 40

Question No 40:

During an upgrade, the ESXi 5.x installer finds an existing version of ESXi and a VMFS3 volume. No virtual machines exist on the host or VMFS3 volume. The requirement is to upgrade to VMFS5. Which option should be chosen to meet this requirement?

A. Upgrade ESXi and preserve the VMFS datastore
B. Install ESXi and preserve the VMFS datastore
C. Install ESXi and overwrite the VMFS datastore
D. Upgrade ESXi and overwrite the VMFS datastore

Answer: C

Moving from Mobility To Digital Workspaces With VMware's Workspace One

Instead, convergence, complexity and comfort. These are words that describe the landscape of technology companies are looking to create digital companies. digital transformation, are not new, it is evolving. Every part of a business is changing due to the rise of cloud computing, mobile data, and analyzing large.

In the past, companies could focus on one or two standard technology transitions at once. Increasingly, leaders throughout the organization are invited to multiple technology choices. One side, there are too many options and companies are looking to convergence.

At the same time, employees and line of business leaders want to eliminate complexity while gaining the comfort of anywhere access to services

Providers should respond to these changes or risk being left out. In response to these trends, VMware VMW + 0.69% has launched a new product called the workspace past a platform that aims to allow people to work anywhere week. Obviously not a new concept, but the difference may be in the running.

Workspace provides a simple digital workspace UNO, insurance, integrating identity, device management and application delivery. Let functionality provides the platform and its place in the market.

Workspace provides a platform for a touchscreen phone SSO secure application access operator Chip Systems (SATS) to establish trust between the user, the device, the enterprise and the cloud.

Once authenticated, employees can subscribe to a mobile, the enterprise cloud or Windows application based on company policies. It also provides unified management devices and BYO belonging to the enterprise. With the new solution, employees can be configured automatically BYO laptops, smartphones and tablets choosing the level of services and restrictions, which are comfortable to wear, when they take BYO programs and reduce the risk of data loss.

Of course, still define the acceptable use and minimize corporate access based on different profiles. According to VMware, ensuring application data through the cloud with the NSX is a leading company that makes the difference. Indeed it work to buy a full stack of VMware. But if you do, you can keep that promise.

There is a core set of applications that anchor all the needs of employees, which include items such as e-mail, calendar and access to content such tariff marketing literature and Grille.

Good technology has been the standard for e-mail and secure containers companies had many types of secured content distribution. Workspace that VMware offers these features as well. He added magnetic and tactile integrations to third SaaS application vendors, such as Atlassian Jira, GitHub, and Jenkins for development operations teams.

Last June, the company announced the identity of VMware Identity Manager as a service solution (IDAAS), which brings together the visual identity of the user with all the other identities that lead through the cloud in both SaaS and mobile applications .

VMware workspace management of identity and the device is combined. Because it is linked to compliance AirWatch engine can correct compliance issues through a series of flows and automated custom work for scale and enhanced security.

Overall, 2016 will be the year where companies are re-evaluating existing identity solutions. In the first wave of Mobilty we discussed device management. In the second phase, he switched to management applications. Now the industry is moving beyond the management of devices and applications in a world of security and identity-based content. For example, it is Maribel? It is she who has access to content access?

Is it to access data from a trusted device and a trusted network? How many devices are registered Maribel nearby. This type of contextual based security and trust requires management of identity as an essential foundation of the solution.

Despite their best to allow mobile applications, most employees still need a simple way to access a wide range of Windows applications on all your devices. original response to this was VMware Horizon, which compete with XenApp / Citrix XenDestop.

However, the company also acquired in 2014 and renamed CloudVolumes Products volumes of applications, a system of distribution of real-time applications that can be used to deliver and manage applications dynamically. There was a lot of overlap and confusion in the VMware product portfolio in 2014. One of the solutions workspace is part of the long-awaited two acquisitions with VMware Horizon - Mobile management and AirWatch volumes application technology management VMware applications.

VMware is aiming to reduce complexity, increase sticky product and generate new revenue with a computer produces integrated end-user. How does it work?

The challenge is that companies have selected a vendor for each of these segments and all companies want a virtualized Windows environment. The good news for VMware is the timing.

Many companies are in the process of updating EMM solutions, identity and virtualization applications. What is clear is that this market is very competitive. It is difficult for managers to sort through the options.