VCP5-DCV Delta Recertification Exam

Si necesitas recertificarte de tu VCP5-DCV antes de Marzo de 2015, ahora dispones de una opcion valida solo hasta el 30 de Noviembre de 2014 que consiste en un examen online basado solo en el nuevo material entre vSphere 5.0/5.1 y vSphere 5.5 y con un precio reducido.

 Blueprint:
 https://mylearn.vmware.com/lcms/web/portals/certification/VCP_Blueprints/VCP550D-Exam-Blueprint-v1_0.pdf

Solicita el registro en:
https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=51919&ui=www_cert

NSX 6.1.0 for vSphere is now GA

NSX vSphere 6.1 includes multiple new features as well as operations, consumption, and hardening enhancements.

• Highly available NSX Edge clusters with faster uplink speeds
  Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)
  NSX enables you to create highly available and distributed NSX Edge clusters, provides high-bandwidth uplink connection to physical networks, and also ensures active-active redundancy at network virtualization edge - all in software. ECMP on NSX Edge allows up to 80 GBps of aggregate North-South bandwidth and enables a scaleout edge.

• Enhanced micro-segmentation and firewall operations
  NSX 6.1 improves micro-segmentation capabilities by providing improved provisioning, troubleshooting, and monitoring with NSX Distributed and Edge Firewalls. There is a new unified interface for configuring both Distributed and Edge firewalls. Integration of NSX with vCAC 6.1 allows for security automation workflows to be integrated with compute automation. In addition, NSX 6.1 enables traffic redirection to network and security partner products like Next Generation Firewalls and Intrusion Prevention Services.

• Connect multiple data centers or offer hybrid cloud services in Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC)
  Layer 2 VPN on NSX Edge
  With Layer 2 VPN, enterprises can migrate workloads, consolidate datacenters, or create stretched application tiers across multiple datacenters. Service providers can offer tenant on-boarding and cloud bursting services where tenant application networks are preserved across datacenters without the need for NSX on customer premises.

• Unified IP Address management across entire data center
  DHCP Relay With DHCP Relay, you can integrate existing DHCP services available in physical data centers into SDDC. This ensuring a consistent IP addressing policy and easy IP management across the entire data center. NSX vSphere 6.1 supports multiple DHCP servers on a single logical router and allows multiple existing DHCP servers to be integrated.

• NSX Load Balancer Enhancement
  To allow the load balancing and high availability of more applications hosted in NSX, UDP and FTP load balancing is now available on NSX. This allows the load balancing of applications such as syslog, NTP, DNS.

• Protect Application Delivery Controller (ADC) investments and seamlessly leverage them in SDDC
  Tight integrations with partners to enable ADCaaS
  NSX 6.1 allows customers using NSX partner ADCs to protect their investment and leverage advanced ADC services from best-of-breed vendors. This out-of-the-box solution brings operational simplicity, integrated workflows, auto deployment of resources, and a central pane for troubleshooting and monitoring both virtual and physical ADCs.

• Advanced host or network security services within SDDC
  Enhanced partner integration with Service Composer supports multiple security services including suite solutions that comprise host versus network based services in a single policy.

• Dynamic and secure self-service in SDDC
  NSX 6.1 with vCloud Automation Center ® helps you optimize resource utilization and scale by dynamically connecting self-service applications to NSX logical networks while ensuring that infrastructure security policies are automatically applied to isolate and protect the applications.

Documentation Center: http://pubs.vmware.com/NSX-61/index.jsp

Nueva certificacion VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)

Ya esta disponible la nueva certificacion de redes VCP-NV y VCDX-NV

Si ya eres VCP , puedes presentarte al examen directamente aunque se recomienda realizar el curso de ICM de NSX (VMware NSX: Install, Configure Manage).

Y como detalle a destacar, si eres CCNA o CCNP tambien puedes presentarte al examen aunque como en el punto anterior tambien se recomienda realizar el curso ICM y/o los Labs.

Si no me falla la memoria es la primera vez que con una certificacion externa a VMware se permite realizar una certificacion interna :-)

Info del producto NSX   http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx

Info de las certificaciones: 

VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)
http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=51111&ui=www_cert

VCDX – Network Virtualization (VCDX-NV)
https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=51110&ui=www_cert

VMworld 2014 US San Francisco

Hoy comienza en San Francisco el VMworld 2014 US.




Si no quereis perderos detalle del mayor evento de IT del mundo, os recomiendo los siguientes enlaces:

VMworld Web App:
https://vmworld2014.activeevents.com/attendee/mobile/home.jsp

Webs:
https://www.youtube.com/user/VMworldTV
http://www.vmworld.com/community/conference/us
https://www.facebook.com/VMworld/app_349313058487732

Twitter Follow:
@VMworld 
@vmware
@vmwarenews 
 #vmworld

Blogs:
http://www.vmworld.com/blogs/vmworld/
http://blogs.vmware.com/

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps): how to create specfic Groups

In this case, Groups are refereed to items which are suitable to be monitoring, not for user groups or similar as i just wrote in other post
Let´s go! From the vSphere UI portal (https://ip/vcops-vsphere) click on the top option "Configuration" and the select the tab "Manage Group Typs" and add a new one by click on the plus button:

Now, in the top page, next to  the World icon, click on "Actions" and select Create new group..."

Follow the wizard and add the group  created on the Type option:

On the second step add the VMs or the object/item that you want to add to the Group:

Now, you can see the specific group holding on the Groups icon: