what if the license server go down, will all the existing connections or sessions been terminated automatically?

He had explained as the configuration in the license server and license files are design to prevent the point of failure in the scenario of license server unavailable due to any failures. You will be given 28 days period of time with unlimited seats in the event of license servers unavailable during the outage.

In normal scenario, assume your license server is functioning with 1000 seats, you will also allow to provision 10% extra within 28 days before you increase the purchased licenses. This will allow you to turn on extra capacity temporally in the short period.

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He made impossible to become possible especially with the iphone, ipod and ipad that he launched with apple in the past. These devices had become enterprise ready with global adoption. Now we even talk about application or desktop access form the mobile devices that require IT to support. Internet Data and content access anywhere, anytime and any devices.

If  Steve do not deserve the respect, who should?

Let’s talk a little bit more about what is VXLAN and why do we need that. As of today, DR solution are commonly deploy by every enterprise environment. Did you realize 1 of the biggest challenge which always happen on the DNS record, hard coded IP segment, subnet and VLAN which always require human interaction to manually change it, to allow a success fail over of the DR scenario? Well, I think this is just 1 of the major issue commonly face. With Cisco Nexus 7000 come with OTV (Overlay Transport Virtualization) which allow you to stretch the Layer 2 traffic over Layer 3, with minimal bandwidth requirement. Cisco had done a great job to the enterprise to address this, which now you can have both side learning the same VLAN, Subnet and ip address. A DNS and ip changes is no longer require as both end are transparent with similar VLAN.

What about Cloud? I always think the major challenges on cloud are Network. VXLAN created are mainly to address to concerns of the public cloud provider. That was mainly due to the limitation on the current VLAN architecture, which only allow 4000++ VLAN to be created in the single manage environment. Imagine you as the public cloud provider, you will easily hit the maximum number and you do not want to build another new infrastructure due to this limit too. According to the Cisco Expert during VMworld, the additional header is been added to the bit and byte to enhance the additional number of VLAN could be deploy in the single environment. At the same time, it deliver the similarity of OTV from private to public cloud, which bring the Hybrid Cloud to the reality of tomorrow.

I will try to find out more technical information about this area with my counterpart back to Malaysia, and share again in details with another post. From the intention of both Cisco and VMware, they are pushing hard for VXLAN on this and I do believe this is 1 of the key area need to be addressed before the hybrid cloud environment could continue scale especially on the public cloud provider perspectives.

You can view the full details of the IETF submission from Cisco and VMware from HERE.

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With vCD 1.5, you can now manage both private and public as a hybrid mode from the administration with secure federated. It allow you to subscribe, manage, relocate and provision anywhere you prefer, could be internal infrastructure or public cloud provider you choosen and manage in same console. I went through the hands on lab session for this topic and found the setup was great.

It took me sbout 1.5 hours to complete the lab and the lab instruction is clear and no customization required. I would like to thank the folks from vmware who creted the lab and allow me to try it out. Every configuration is web base and wizard base, which allow the administrator to setup and configure easily. Hybrid cloud no longer a concept, whih I believe is real and many users will seriously consider it in the future.

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With view 5, vmware emphasize a lot on the security, mobility and application delivery to any end point that could be used by the users today.

On the security, you can now offload the security scan from vm to hypervisor level, which able to prevent IO storm and further harden to secure VDI environment. you could now persue with vshield end point with 3rd party antivirus integration such as trend micro to provide agentless end point protection. This will transform the way how antivirus to be deployed in the future for end point protection on enterprise desktops.

Mobility is always important for enterprise desktop, and vmware have the solution to address this area with the code name HORIZON. In the presentation by the vmware CTO, it showed the capability to support multiple device with single environment wih mobile virtualization on the phone to run multiple environments. Users can now combine the work and personal mobile devices whithout sacrifice the privacy. If the users lose the device, the system will able to remove the accesss to the corporate data to prevent information lost. All changes on the vdi on will be synchronized across to your mobile devices automatically.

The last part of the presentation, vmware demostrated the capability of application delivery via html version 5 which you can now edit the office document file on 3rd party devices without worry on the compability issue anymore. I was very impressed with this new capability which meant a lot to the mobile devices. The code name on this is call Appblast.

Overall of the session, VMware view 5 had make a significant change compare to previous version and I am excited to test it out when I back to Malaysia after the vmworld.

Especially on virtual desktop environment, workload offload is a must to be considered move forward to improve the consolidation ratio and maximize the the performance out of the infrastructure build. If you had not considered about this, you should immediately look into this as security can be another major bottlenecks to your infrastructure today, and of courses all the business units are always concern about it.

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Again, finally I am here and I hope this will not be the first and my last trip to the VMworld event. I always wish there are more to come.

I would like to thank you my bosses who fully support my trip to Vegas and my friend from VMware who encourage me to attend this event.

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You can direct access the official link here to download the necessary software for the GA.

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While introduce new Fabric Interconnect, the IO Module for UCS Blade Chassis had been further enhance with 2208XP which provide 80Gbps throughput per IO module, and allowed up to 160Gbps per chassis. This option will allow users to provide higher throughput to the blade infrastructure which require more than 80Gbps per chassis.

In the official document from Cisco, the 6248UP is ready with Layer 3 capability which will require additional L3 daughter card to be added in to enable the Layer 3 function from the switch. This is similar to the current Nexus 5548 and 5596 which is offering in the market today with L3 capable. The daughter card are currently not available which will only release in future. This is a good move for Cisco as we had feedback many times about the L3 capability in Fabric Interconnect could benefits to many deployment we have today.

I am absolutely excited with the announcement been made on the new line up for Cisco UCS.

For details information, please refer to the official link from Cisco here.

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There will be no VRAM limit for this case, but it may be capped around 100 VDI per ESX host. I still yet to go in to details to really find out this. With the new revise, it seems had pleased some of the users who complained about the vTAX issue in vsphere 5, but there are still many users who are complained the SNS entitlement who had purchased upfront for 36 months which end up require to top up their license now.

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