by Duncan Epping
VMware just published the second VMware Technical Journal. This winter edition contains great publications on topics like vProbes, Paravirtual vRDMA Devices, Cloud Tenant UI design process, Storage DRS and FrobOS. There is also a nice introduction by VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger. Simply to much to mention, I suggest you just download it… I think it is a great read and it gives an idea about some of the things VMware engineers work on.
I just wanted to let all of you know that I have decided to take on a new challenge within VMware. Per December 1st I will be joining the R&D organization as part of Integration Engineering. In this team I will be providing operational and architectural feedback on our products to engineering and I will be exploring new possibilities with our products. Needless to say I am very excited about it!
I want to thank my management (Kaushik Banerjee and Bogomil Balkansky) for supporting my move and supporting me the last two years within Technical Marketing. I also want to thank all of my Technical Marketing friends for the fun projects we worked on together.
I am looking forward to getting started within Integration Engineering, and I am thankful for this awesome opportunity. I have been saying this at every single session I presented, but just as a reminder, if you have feedback around products / features / work flows / operational efficiency, don’t hesitate to let me know.
I’ve seen this popping up fairly often now and was under the impression I wrote about it a while back, but can’t find it. So here you go. If during the deployment of an OVF, in this case vSphere Replication, you hit a vCenter extension error it is probably due to a field missing in the vCenter runtime section of the vCenter settings.
The error which is shown in the log is:
“The virtual machine ‘<vm name>’ has a required vService dependency ‘vCenter Extension Installation’ which is not bound to a provider.”
It will show up in the UI with “No provider available” and “This dependency is required”. You can simply solve this by doing the following:
Now the OVF should deploy correctly. Note that the “Managed IP Address” field is empty by default, so if you are deploying a new vCenter Server instance make sure to fill it out. This will help preventing from running into the vCenter extension error in the future when adding other services.
Those who have visited VMworld and done a couple of labs know how awesome these are. Recently VMware announced that the VMware Hands-On Labs (HoL) would be made available online. You had the option to register for the beta and last week they announced the public beta was opened! On twitter some early reports are already popping up and judging by the comments people are loving it.
Just completed my first HOL – highly productive!! /cc @vmwarehol
— Maish Saidel-Keesing (@maishsk) November 22, 2012
@vmwarehol Glad to be a part of it! Really amazing stuff!!!
— Jake Robinson (@jakerobinson) November 17, 2012
Loving the HoL Beta! cc: @heyitspablo @vmwareholyfrog.com/mof74p
— Bill Hill (@virtual_bill) November 14, 2012
If you want to know more about the HoL portal make sure to read this blog, I played around with it various times… I loved it. Sign up and try it out. There is no excuse any longer for not having hands-on experience with VMware products, you don’t need to own a lab…
Frank and I decided to put the vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive (paper copy) up for sale for only $ 17.95. This is a limited time offer (21st of December), so if you want to get yourself, your friend-husband-father-kids or even grandmother a nice present be quick.
How’s that for a black-friday, cyber-monday, christmas / sinterklaas special? Yes indeed, the paper copy is cheaper than all e-books on vSphere 5.x out there on Amazon and with 5 stars (11 reviews) you know you can’t go wrong.
Happy holidays,
Frank and Duncan
(ps: the kindle copy is only 7.49, so even combined it is cheaper than most e-books out there :-))