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VCP5 Blueprint with study notes – Updated

3 November 2011
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The VCP5 Blueprint with study notes has been updated with new links. Also the PDF version has been updated:

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VMware vSphere e View Client for Android

2 November 2011
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After the View and vSphere clients for Apple iOS, let’s see some clients for the Android devices:

 

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VMware vSphere Client for iOS

1 November 2011
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For the View client for iPad there is any other alternative application (at least with PCoIP support), but for the vSphere client for iPad there are some other applications that can work as well of the official VMware application… With the advantage to do not require any silly virtual appliance to act as a “mobiel proxy” and also to be able to work on iPhone and not only on iPad (IMHO I think that also the vSphere Client for iPad could be adapted to the iPhone screen).

From the possible iOS applications there are:

  • iVMControl: Control VMware® vCenter and ESX devices from your iPhone and iPad – Not free and (IMHO) quite limited
  • OPS1: Operations Management on your iPhone (not designed for iPad) – Free with upgrade to Enterprise fee based

IMHO I fould OPS1 very nice and useful… the features list seems also bigger than the VMware application (but note that most features are only the the Enterprise version of this application).

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VMware vSphere Client for iPad

31 October 2011
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The vSphere Client for iPad is an application created by VMware to give a minimum vSphere management ability also from a tablet (at least for some operational management tasks). The first official release was on March 2011.

But this application require a special architecture on infrastructure side, ad well described in one Jason Boche post: there must be a special “proxy” server that convert the output of vCenter Server in a simple way useful to be managed from mobile device. This “proxy” is available from VMware as a virtual appliance and can be downloaded from VMware Labs (vCenter Mobile Access Server).

With the vSphere 5, the new vSphere Web Client can replace this application? The answer is simple: no, because the Web Client is not designed for small screen and also because it’s Adobe Flash based… and the Apple iOS does not support it… Also note that the features available from the vSphere Client for iPad are only a small subset of features available from vSphere Web Client (and they are only a subset of all the features available with vSphere Client).

Same day ago giorno was release on iTunes the new version 1.2 of vSphere Client for iPad that include the following improvements:

  • Support of ESX 3.5
  • Support for vSphere 5.0
  • Migrate virtual machines without downtime using vMotion
    This feature is available via Host & VM action menus.  Virtual machines can also be two-finger flicked/dragged from the Host detail view to enter vMotion mode.
  • Ability to email vMotion validation error details to others
  • View task progress reporting on VM cards
  • Ability to refresh vCenter host list

Requirements:

  • vCMA 1.2, available at VMware Labs
  • iOS version 4.0 or later

See the videos below for an overview on setup and usage:

Step 1: Setup the vCMA
virtual appliance		 Step 2: Configure and use the
vSphere Client for iPad

For more information see also the Community page.

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VMware View Client for iPad

30 October 2011
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The first version of the native View for iPad (both iPad and iPad2 models) was released on March 2011. It was the first (and as I know the only) that introduce the PCoIP support, because other existing solution, like the Wyse client (PocketCloud), were only compatible with RDP.

Some days ago a new version 1.2 has been released on iTunes… with several improvements:

  • Optimized for VMware View 5 with improved performance (but note that also previous versions work with View 5)
  • Support for iOS 5 including AirPlay
  • Presentation Mode for use with external display and AirPlay
  • Embedded RSA soft token simplifies login to desktop
  • Background tasking to move between Windows and iOS apps
  • Updated look and feel (now seems really better)

Requirements: Requires iPad iOS 4.2 or later.

See also:

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Veeam Backup 5: vSphere 5 hotfix

28 October 2011
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As written in a previous post the current version of Veeam Backup (5.o.2) works also with vSphere 5, due to the compatibility of most of the vStorage API for backup. But to be honest there is some issue, like for example in the usage of the SAN transport mode.

Veeam has publish a post on his blog, to announche the release of a hotfix on 20 October, 2011, to FULLY support vSphere 5. One of the main issues with Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0.2 was that it didn’t work for all processing modes with VMSF5 (just like every other vendor at the time of this writing). A processing mode popular with our customers is direct SAN access utilizing the vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP).

This hotfix is not available on the download page because it’s only available through Veeam support. Of course, Veeam Backup & Replication v6 will have full support of vSphere 5 when it’s released later this year.

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VMware vSphere – 4.1 Update 2

27 October 2011
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Source: VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 2 Released

The VMware vCenter Server 4.1 Update 2 release offers the following improvements:

  • Support for new processors: vCenter Server 4.1 Update 2 supports hosts with processors on AMD Opteron 6200 series (Interlagos) and AMD Opteron 4200 series (Valencia).
    Note: For the AMD Opteron 6200 and 4200 series (Family 15h) processors, vCenter Server 4.1 Update 2 treats each core within a compute unit as an independent core, except while applying licenses. For the purpose of licensing, vCenter Server treats each compute unit as a core. For example, although a processor with 8 compute units can provide the processor equivalent of 16 cores on vCenter Server 4.1 Update 2, only 8 cores will be counted towards license usage calculation.
  • Additional vCenter Server Database Support: vCenter Server now supports the following databases.
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express (x32 and x64)
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (x32 and x64)
  • Resolved Issues: This release delivers a number of bug fixes that have been documented in the Resolved Issues section.

The following information describes some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware ESXi:

  • Support for new processors – ESXi 4.1 Update 2 supports AMD Opteron 6200 series (Interlagos) and AMD Opteron 4200 series (Valencia).Note: For the AMD Opteron 6200 and 4200 series (Family 15h) processors, ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2 treats each core within a compute unit as an independent core, except while applying licenses. For the purpose of licensing, ESX/ESXi treats each compute unit as a core. For example, although a processor with 8 compute units can provide the processor equivalent of 16 cores on ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2, it only uses 8 licenses.
  • Support for additional guest operating system – ESX 4.1 Update 2 adds support for Ubuntu 11.10 guest operating system. For a complete list of guest operating systems supported with this release, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.
  • Resolved Issues – In addition, this release delivers a number of bug fixes that are documented in the Resolved Issues section.
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