Here is our Top 20 vRealize Automation (vRA) articles list for April 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Repairing or updating the trust between all components within a VMware vRealize Automation environment Update sequence for […]

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Here is our Top 20 vRealize Operations Manager articles list for April 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. After upgrading to VMware vRealize Operations 6.2.0a, vCenter adapters remain in Starting state vRealize Operations Manager 6.1 […]

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Virtual SAN is always a popular topic in our webinar series, and during last week’s What’s New in VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Senior Technical Instructor Javier Menendez answered a lot of questions from the audience. Here is a small sampling, and you can hear the rest in the recording. Q: If one needs HA Failover, […]

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By: Penny Collen, Financial Solutions Architect, Thought Leader, Blogger, and Speaker The hybrid cloud conversation is changing. It’s no longer simply about whether or not to make use of public cloud resources. It has evolved to the question of how much workload should be migrated. For needs ranging from disaster recovery, to load balancing during […]

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What angle does this book give on PowerCLI? The book covers where to get PowerCLI and its history, including version differences and their change logs. Developing single line scripts into longer ones, reusable code and how to document your scripting. Bridging scripts that pull key components of VMware scripting and incorporating Windows based calls in […]

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Experience our new Echo ONE podcast today, a free podcast sponsored by VMware End-User Computing, all about the digital workspace. What Is Echo ONE? Echo ONE gives you a front-row seat to conversations with VMware leadership, mobile-first businesses and industry experts. Here’s a look at our first Echo ONE episodes: What Is a Digital Workspace?: […]

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What is a digital workspace? And why are businesses doubling down on this new way to work? This trend is so transformational that we launched a brand new podcast dedicated to all things digital workspace and business mobility. Subscribe to Echo ONE on SoundCloud,iTunes and Google Play Music. Episode #1: What Is a Digital Workspace? […]

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Let’s face it: Mythical creatures exist. There’s proof of the Loch Ness Monster and Big Foot, after all. All kidding aside, in IT circles, there are many who have similarly doubted the existence of a single pane of glass for all things management. A pane of glass is a management console that presents data from […]

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Recently, a customer reportedthat DRS was not working to load balance the cluster. Under normal circumstances, a minor imbalance is nothing to be concerned about. This is because the main objective for DRS is not to balance the load perfectly across every host. Rather, DRS monitors the resource demand and works to ensure that every […]

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Virtual SAN is a hypervisor-converged, software-defined storage solution for the software-defined data center. It is the first policy-driven storage product designed for VMware vSphere® environments that simplifies and streamlines storage provisioning and management. Virtual SAN requires correctly configured network for virtual machine I/O as well as communication among cluster nodes. Since the majority of virtual

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2ndQuadrant, the leading developers of PostgreSQL, are delighted to announce the release of pglogical 1.1 – the next generation in replication systems for PostgreSQL.

The 1.1 release brings new features along with bug fixes to pglogical. Same salient features are listed below:

• Sequence replication support
• Support for replica triggers
• Foreign keys are no longer checked on the replica
• Multiple subscriptions between single pair of nodes
• The create_subscription function does not synchronize structure change by default
• User can specify affected replication sets in replicate_ddl_command function
• New functions for manipulating connection strings of nodes
• PGLogical processes are clearly marked in the pg_stat_activity
• Better behavior on worker crashes
• Logging improvements
• Ubuntu Xenial package

pglogical offers Logical Replication as a PostgreSQL extension, which provides the flexibility of trigger-based replication with the efficiency of log-based replication. This ground-breaking new technology has benefits for many key use cases

• UPGRADE Upgrade PostgreSQL from 9.4 to 9.5, without downtime
• SCALE OUT Copy all or a selection of database tables to other nodes in a cluster
• AGGREGATE Accumulate changes from sharded database servers into a Data Warehouse
• INTEGRATE Feed database changes in real-time to other systems

pglogical is open source and available for download as binary packages for PostgreSQL 9.4 and 9.5 versions. Visit http://2ndquadrant.com/pglogical/ for more detail.

2ndQuadrant’s respected 24/7 Production Support provides the fastest and highest rated response service for PostgreSQL anywhere and is available now worldwide.

2ndQuadrant leads the drive for improving the enterprise functionality for PostgreSQL, contributing major features every year in performance, replication, business intelligence and usability.

VMware Learning Zone subscribers get one year of unlimited access to our cloud-based video training library taught by top VMware experts. This subscription includes all the latest videos we release each month, like these two new series covering vRealize Log Insight and vSphere Admission Control. VMware vRealize Log Insight by Steve Flanders Creating a Log […]

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For the fourth consecutive year, our Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform helped set new milestones in the Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge, the world’s largest supercomputer competition. Each year, the brightest minds from universities around the world compete to find out who can build the fastest, most efficient supercomputer. At ASC16, GPUs once again powered the winning […]

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By: Greg Hohertz, Blue Medora In Part 1 of this blog, I discussed how you can monitor vCenter’s vPostgres database remotely using Blue Medora’s Management Pack for PostgreSQL. For those of you with larger environments with Oracle or MS SQL databases supporting vCenter, you’ll want to monitor those as well. In this blog I’ll step […]

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vRealize Automation 7 feature a new Blueprint format. A converged blueprint can have one to many components including: Machines : vCenter, vCloud Air, vCloud Director, Amazon, KVM, Openstack, Citrix Xen, HyperV, SCVMM Network & Security: Security Group, Load balancer, NAT, Routed networks. Software (Install, configure, start, uninstall) : Scripts to setup the OS or to […]

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Hyper-converged solutions continue to rise in the data centers as the architecture of choice and the preferred building block to build a Software-Defined Data Center. VMware’s Hyper-Converged Software (HCS) is making significant progress with the modernization of data centers powered by vSphere. VMware’s Hyper-Converged Software solution delivers a combination of practical and simplified management functionality

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Over the last year the number of Virtual Volumes implementations has increased significantly. From a handful of key VVol partners in early 2015 we now have over 150 array models certified for VVols from 15+ partners with more on the way. Given this rapid growth in support for VVols we haveheard from customers that the

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Over the last several weeks we’ve detailed how VMware vCloud Air can help you enhance your data center investments. We’ve covered everything from data center replacement to data center extension, disaster recovery and more. We’ll continue to add more customer stories and examples of how these customers are leveraging hybrid cloud to solve their IT […]

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“Software-Define Your Future” with VMware atEMC World 2016 If you will be attending EMC World 2016 in Las Vegas (May 2-5), join us for a value-packed agenda ofVMwarekeynotes, sessions, demos and labs forSDDC, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud and Cloud-Native Apps. Visitour VMware booth(Solutions Expo) for theater presentations every 20 minutes andmeet our technicalstaff in person […]

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Are you attendingEMC World next week in Las Vegas? Join us on Monday, May 2 at 2:00 pm or on Tuesday, May 3rd at 10:00am for a Quick Chat in the Veronesse 2401B conference room. The State of IT Transformation with Bill Irvine, Principal Strategist at VMware Gain strategic insights from our overview of “The […]

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