VMware Australia hires HP Networking boss

Raymond Maisano, former head of HP Australia Network, reappeared at VMware, where he will address sales through ANZ offers network, storage and data center.Maisano left HP after 15 years with the seller, most recently as CEO of HP Networking.Previous roles include HP industry standard servers GM and director of business development for HP 

BladeSystem.Their networks and server credentials will be useful in VMware, where he is currently director of specialized sales, responsible for software defined data center VMware software networking platform defined NSX and defined-VSAN storage software across Australia and New Zealand.SDN has long been an exaggerated technology for the future, but Maisano said many VMware customers had gone live.
"For us, it's an unbelievably great chance. I'm surprised by the number of clients running in full production now. The interesting part comes on board and see what is already in operation."In my previous roles, I SDN as a potential market, but ultimately, customers outside of a few did not deploy its capabilities, but now I see in action and the interest and excitement of the market is large," said Maisano CRN.
VMware chief opponent was SDN market leader Cisco network with two providers take different approaches to SDN - an approach only VMware software, arguing that the Cisco hardware remains the major networks.VMware vice president of engineering systems worldwide, Dominick Delfino recently told CRN US a large majority of its customers are running on network equipment Cisco SDN."Frankly, probably about three quarters of our customers are running [NSX] through a network of Cisco today - they are the market leader," Delfino said.
VMware also announced the appointment of Andrew Fox as sales of its new, mobility of business and end-user computing, with a portfolio that includes AirWatch.Fox spent 10 years with SAP, most recently as director of SAP outsourcing managed mobility of Asia-Pacific, and has also held a number of channels senior positions.

VCP550D Exam Question No 23

Question No 23:

An administrator must determine which Update Manager procedures can be performed using the vSphere
Web Client, and which must be completed using the Windows vSphere client. Which two tasks require the
use of the Windows vSphere client? (Choose two.)

A. Attach and detach baselines to inventory objects
B. Scan inventory objects for compliance
C. Create a baseline for an inventory object
D. Stage a baseline for remediation

Answer: C, D

Why (and how) VMware created

Why (and how) VMware created a new type of virtualization just for containers:

Media management and traditional virtualization providers - - that is for packaging applications as container mounted ABOUT hype in the last year, questions about what this technology was raised. Some have wondered: will kill containers VMs?

VMware responded with a resounding no issue at its annual conference in San Francisco last week. But officials say that the containers of the Company may benefit from a new kind of platform management. He built a new type of single container virtualization.

Container virtualization

There are half a decade, VMware has revolutionized the technology industry has helped the development of enterprise-class hypervisors place that ushered in the era of server virtualization.

Last week, the company unveiled an STI Photon project name redesigned conventional virtualization software. It is a popular derivative slightly ESX hypervisor company that was specifically designed to run application containers.

"Basically, it is always the foundation of virtualization," said Kit Colbert, vice president and CTO of VMware cloud native applications. Photon Colbert called "micro-display" with "enough" for the positive attributes characteristic of virtualization, while being packed in a lightweight design perfect for containers.

Photon project has two key elements. One is called photon machine - born ESX hypervisor software is installed directly on physical servers. Drops miniature virtual machines are placed in containers. It includes a guest operating system, the user can choose. Default photon machine comes with customized Linux distribution called VMware OS photon, which also has the container company designed to be easy to use.

The second important piece is the controller name of photons, which is a plan multi-tenant control that can handle tens, if not hundreds or thousands of cases photon machine. Photon controller Photon Machines available groups and ensure they have access to network resources and storage as needed.

The combination of photons and the machine controller Photon Create a template for a scale-out environment that has no single point of failure and exposes a single logical criterion API developers can write. In theory, traders can implement projects of photons, developers can write applications that run on it.

With Photon project will integrate several open source projects, Docker: as a container for runtime support and Google and Cloud Foundry Pivotil kubernetes for the implementation of senior management. (Photon manages supply infrastructure kubernetes CF manage application deployments.)

VMware is priceless for any platform in September, but will be available at the time this year in private beta.

VCP550D Exam Question No 22

Question No22:

Which two features are different between VDP and VDPA? (Choose two.)?

A. Support for guest level backups of SQL and Exchange
B. Ability to perform file level recovery
C. Virtual machines supported per appliance
D. Support for image level backups

Answer: A, C

VMware was surprised to find

VMware was surprised to find out that its biggest rival, Cisco, owned 5% of its company:

VMware was surprised to discover that his biggest rival, Cisco, which owns 5% of the company.

Cisco and VMware technology two great rivals, had a confrontation of any kind this week.

In one corner, VMware had its great customer conference, VMworld, where more than 23,000 people flocked to San Francisco. One thing I heard VMware plans to overthrow the king Cisco network industry.

In the other corner, Cisco had its huge exhibition Global sales experience in Las Vegas, where it is pumped to its sales force of 20,000 men to go out and sell (and beat VMware).

In a pre-show interview with Business Insider, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said that among several new businesses round of billion potential of VMware, is happier Product NSX, which is competing with Cisco.

"This is an industry that has been operating in essentially the same architecture for 25 years," Gelsinger said. NSX described as "radical".

NSX reached $ 1.25 billion acquisition of VMware in a startup called Nicira few years in which VMware outbid Cisco for starting ago, and in the process destroyed the Cisco relationship with your partner once close EMC. (EMC is the parent company of VMware.), John Chambers, Cisco and VMware was trash talking Nicira business since.

This week, Gelsinger said basically the World Chambers Network grudge EMC CEO Joe Tucci, due to this acquisition.


"In the relationship between Joe [Tucci, CEO of EMC] and John, who was a very emotional each point. Personally, I am worried about finding a more collaborative relationship with Chuck [Robbins, new CEO of Cisco] because it was a matter deeply personal between John and Joe emerged ".

And there are good reasons Gelsinger want to make friends with Robbins. Although the two companies are facing in the market, Cisco has quietly purchased a large stake in VMware.

Greater involvement of VMware know.

A month after VMware released its annual proxy statement earlier this year, VMware had to be updated, as "realized" Cisco has more than 5% of VMware, 6.5 million shares VMware said.

This game does not provide enough voters say Cisco, will oust the board of VMware and VMware NSX killed the product. But an activist investor looking for a hard sell EMC VMware. And if that wins investors, Cisco is sitting pretty.

VMworld begins at the Moscone; VMware calm the faithful?

VMworld begins at the Moscone; VMware calm the faithful?

During VMworld last year, the big news was the sponsor of the VMware conference announcing partnerships with major companies such as Dell to introduce two virtualization products companies.

But in July, VMware suffered a setback when Hewlett-Packard fell into an agreement in October to bring the Evo VMware rail technology with an HP system.

"We thought it was very interesting and well intentioned, but when we look back a year later, there was simply no real market traction," said Joe Skorupa, a center of convergence data analyst with research firm Gartner.

VMware is a technology that enables multiple operating systems and applications running on the same server at the same time create "virtual machines." This type of virtualization, different from cloud technology, companies can save money by reducing the hardware they should buy.

As the 12th annual VMworld Sunday begins at the Moscone Center, the pressure is on to show sufficient improvements VMware Evo Rail, and related to, but not yet released product called Evo Rack, to appease the expected 23,000 faithful.

"The products were of good quality from the perspective of vision, but do not compare favorably, and unfortunately ended startups to be less committed to VMware galvanizing" Skorupa said. "This is where people who have demonstrated a commitment to you is obtained. So get up and demonstrate their commitment to them."

VMware plans to increase attendance of nearly 10 percent from last year's show, a technical showcase for customers and partners in the enterprise software company in Palo Alto. The main show from Monday to Thursday, but several pre-conference and a reception Sunday evening events.

The conference, which attracts IT leaders from 89 countries will occupy the three main buildings at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, with around 200 other events in hotels around the convention center.

VMware creates systems that allow employees to work from virtually any device. The company has benefited from increased cloud computing, but VMware's products go beyond the cloud to provide technical backbones that enable workers to access the operating system and other programs outside their workstations.

To put virtualization in simpler terms, Victoria Rege, executive Santa Clara giant Nvidia graphics chips, said one of his clients recently reminded to leave the birthday party of her young children when a customer requested a modification Late design.

"I had to drive back to the office, open the computer, load the template, make the change and hit save," Rege said. "It could take hours to make a small change. Now you can connect, enter a virtual office and work from anywhere."

Rege, director of marketing and global product for Nvidia, said his company plans to show their own virtual desktop products with Tower of Power, a battery monitor that could cover the length of 1½ football fields.

The conference theme this year is "ready for anything", an intentionally vague slogan that is supposed to highlight how mobile devices and virtual IT environments are driving rapid changes in the business world.

"Virtualization is deeply penetrates the organizations," said Robin Matlock, director of marketing at VMware. Many companies, he said, "suffer significant changes."

lthough not want to reveal details, Matlock said VMware will have ads on "what we do to support hybrid cloud computing", which is a mixture of private and public services cloud.

The conference also included an expanded women VM program specifically for women, who are far outnumbered by men in the conference.

"We want to be more inclusive," Matlock said. "We want women to feel like this is a great place to come to their technical knowledge."

VCP550D Exam Question No 21

Question No 21:

A system administrator detects that a VDP Appliance that has been operational for 6 months has become inconsistent or unstable.
Which action should the administrator take to recover the VDP appliance and what will be the impact on the vSphere environment?

A. Perform a VDP rollback to the most recent validated checkpoint. All backup and configuration changes made after the checkpoint will be lost.
B. Perform a VDP rollback to the most recent validated checkpoint. Configuration changes after the checkpoint will be lost, but backup data will remain intact.
C. Restore a copy of the latest backup of the VDP appliance. All backup data and configuration changes after the backup was made will be lost.
D. Restore a copy of the latest backup of the VDP appliance. All configuration changes after the backup was made will be lost, but backup data will remain intact.

Answer: A