Virtualization by Davis: “Release: Dell vOPS Server Explorer 6.3” plus 11 more

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• Release: Dell vOPS Server Explorer 6.3
• AppV 5 Reporting Error while uploading reporting data
• Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 – December 2012
• Start Fresh in 2013 with a New Partner Portal
• VMware Workstation encryption prevents unauthorized VM access
• Only 3 Days Left to Register! Learn More Before You Leap into Windows Migration
• Citrix announces extension of Cisco Ace Migration Promotion
• Release: Stratus ftServer Systems with vSphere 5.1
• Microsoft announces catalog for Linux VMs for Windows Azure
• A recap on blogs covering the Excalibur tech preview…
• 40 Secrets of the Citrix Support Ninjas
• Put Citrix Receiver App Banners in Web Interface for Android and iOS

Release: Dell vOPS Server Explorer 6.3 Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:06 AM PST Dell today released version 6.3 of Dell vOPS Server Explorer. vOPS Server Explorer originally developed by VKernel provided assessment tooling for virtualization administrators. VKernel was acquired by Quest in November 2011, and since Quest now owned by DELL, VKernel assets are now part of DELL as well. vOPS Server Explorer is delivered as a fully configured virtual machine, which can be installed on either VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Version 6.3 of vOPS Server Explorer, which is provided as freeware adds two new utilities, Storage Explorer and Change Explorer. Dell also provides a paid version called vOPS Server Standard providing additonional value with capacity and performance monitoring capabilities. Environment Explorer now also displays VM Density, Zombie VMs, Rightsizing savings and Changes. Storage Explorer Extensive storage performance and capacity views across datastores and VMs Identifies critical datastore issues such as overcommitment, low capacity, high latency, VMFS version mismatch Identifies critical VM issues such as low available disk space, high latency and throughput Allows user to sort on any metric to find specific issues relevant to them Change Explorer Lists all changes that occurred to datacenters, clusters, resource pools, hosts, datastores and VMs within the last seven days with associated risk impact Allows user to filter on object name, user and type to find specific changes Number of changes also represented graphically over time to be able to see when they are occurring Labels: Dell, Quest, Release, VKernel

AppV 5 Reporting Error while uploading reporting data Posted: 14 Jan 2013 11:55 PM PST stumbled upon this error yesterday while trying to upload logs to the reporting server from the client while browsing to the reporting server itself I can see that "method no allowed" web page means that the iis pool is ok log from the ps session is attached. and the event viewer shows Event ID: 17006 and inside the event all I get is: Reporting data cache could not be sent to Reporting Server. (rc = 0x9E900713-0x13). any advice would be helpful. even how to get more info about that error, how to debug it even more. "reporting data cache could not be sent" doesn't help me much, I need to know why so if you know any way let me know thanks! This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 – December 2012 Posted: 14 Jan 2013 08:48 PM PST Citrix Support is focused on ensuring Customer and Partner satisfaction with our products. One of our initiatives is to increase the ability of our Partners and Customers to leverage self-service avenues via our Knowledge Center. Find below the Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 for December 2012.   Top 10 Technical Articles Article Number Article Title CTX129229 Recommended Hotfixes for XenApp 6.0 and Later on Windows… Read More

Start Fresh in 2013 with a New Partner Portal Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:31 PM PST We're kicking off 2013 with a fresh, new partner portal, Partner Central that will replace My Citrix on Feb 28.  The new site offers the best web experience possible – one that reflects your changing needs and the changing market dynamics. We have incorporated your feedback from surveys and usability tests so that the new site will have everything you need to successfully manage your… Read More

VMware Workstation encryption prevents unauthorized VM access Posted: 14 Jan 2013 11:45 AM PST VMware Workstation encryption helps you protect information on VMs from unauthorized users. Learn how -- and when -- to encrypt virtual machines.

Only 3 Days Left to Register! Learn More Before You Leap into Windows Migration Posted: 14 Jan 2013 11:29 AM PST JOIN US for a Live Webinar Thursday, January 17th 2PM EST and learn how to ensure a more successful Windows migration by clearly understanding application compatibility issues before you migrate. Migrating from Windows XP involves time, budget and risk.

Citrix announces extension of Cisco Ace Migration Promotion Posted: 14 Jan 2013 11:19 AM PST We are pleased to announce the extension of the Cisco Ace Migration Promotion for the NetScaler products to June 30, 2013. On October 17th, 2012, Cisco and Citrix announced an expansion of their strategic partnership. As part of this announcement, Cisco recommends Citrix NetScaler to customers who want a next-generation ADC. To assist our mutual customers migrate from existing Cisco ACE deployments to Citrix NetScaler,… Read More

Release: Stratus ftServer Systems with vSphere 5.1 Posted: 14 Jan 2013 12:13 PM PST On January 9, Stratus Technologies announced the availability of the new Stratus ftServer systems with vSphere 5.1 The fault tolerant system company, founded 1980 and headquartered in Massachusetts, launched, in September 2012, the sixth generation ftServer that integrates into existing infrastructures and the vendor says that is able to provide uptime of 99.999% for the server and equivalent to 5.26 minutes of downtime annually, using the vSphere hypervisor apparently with very few staff oversight. The Fault tolerant Server allows the server to ride through hardware faults unaffected, while vSphere HA software does nothing to protect the underlying server from downtime. In case of a failure with HA software alone, VMs would fail over to another host and applications restarted. Stratus ftServer System with vSphere 5.1 features (from the press release): Uptime of 99.999% or better in continuous operation, including the hypervisor Single and dual Intel 8-core processors, including with hyper-threading and QuickPath architecture on high-end systems Full symmetric multi-processing (SMP) for powerful fault-tolerant computing without compromise Embedded 10Gb Ethernet for processing high-volume network traffic associated the higher number of VMs supported, as well as with, vMotion, NFS, iSCSI, etc. Proactive availability monitoring and system management that prevents outages from occurring, unlike failure-recovery solutions Root-cause analysis and repair of server and OS issues without interrupting processing Plug-and-play simplicity using off-the-shelf editions of vSphere software Minimal system overhead of  <5% and no need to over-provision hardware for uptime A bullet-proof infrastructure that prepares the IT organization to move to the cloud Labels: Stratus Technologies, vSphere

Microsoft announces catalog for Linux VMs for Windows Azure Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:30 AM PST Microsoft last week announced a preview of VM Depot, a community-driven catalog of preconfigured operating systems, applications, and development stacks that can easily be deployed on Windows Azure. VM Depot is hosted by Microsoft's subsidiary Open Technologies. Running Virtual Machines on Windows Azure was announced as a preview in June last year and allows you to run Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 and the following predefined Linux Distributions: CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO… Labels: Azure, Microsoft

A recap on blogs covering the Excalibur tech preview… Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:33 AM PST Happy New Year everyone… I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and is having a fantastic start to 2013! Last November, Citrix released the Excalibur tech preview… Since then, thousands of you have downloaded and have been providing us with very insightful and useful feedback on the Excalibur tech preview forum – we really appreciate everyone's feedback/comments! At the same time, I continue to receive… Read More

40 Secrets of the Citrix Support Ninjas Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:52 AM PST Let's face it, virtualization technologies aren't exactly 'plug & play'. Even the simplest virtualization deployment touches almost every IT discipline and department – from networking and security to data centers, desktops and storage. That's why smart, well-informed administrators are so important to the success of every Citrix deployment. It's also why we took aside some of our top support engineers and asked them to share… Read More

Put Citrix Receiver App Banners in Web Interface for Android and iOS Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:34 AM PST One of the cool things you can do to help your users connect to your XenDesktop and XenApp environments is the Citrix Mobile Receiver Setup URL Generator at: http://community.citrix.com/MobileReceiverSetupUrlGenerator/ The output of this generator is a couple of links.  The first is an iOS configuration link and the second is the Android configuration link.  What is great about this is once the user gets this… Read More

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