Veeam Availability Suite combines the industry-leading backup, restore and replication capabilities of Veeam Backup & Replication™ with the advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning functionality of Veeam ONE™. Veeam Availability Suite delivers everything you need to reliably ensure and manage your VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments, providing you with a high Availability data center through the following capabilities:

• High-Speed Recovery: Rapid recovery of what you want, the way you want it
• Verified Recoverability: Guaranteed recovery of every file, application, or virtual server, every time
• Complete Visibility: Proactive monitoring and alerting of issues before operational impact
• Data Loss Avoidance: Low RPOs and streamlined disaster recovery
• Leveraged Data: Low-risk deployment with a production-like test environment

Informational Links:

• Product Overview Datasheet
• Editions Comparison Datasheet
• What’s new in v9 (Backup) Datasheet
• What’s New in v9 (ONE)
• See What’s New in v9 video

To learn more, click NEW Veeam Availability Suite v9

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VMware announced the first step towards making a HTML5 Web Client a reality, the vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling. This first release of the Fling will focus primarily on VM management, with more updates coming. Here is a list of the features and operations available in this first release:

• VM power operations
• VM Edit Settings (simple CPU, Memory, Disk changes)
• VM Console
• VM and Host Summary pages
• VM Migration (only to a Host)
• Clone to Template/ VM
• Create VM on a Host (limited)
• Additional monitoring views: Performance charts, Tasks, Event
• Global Views: Recent tasks, Alarms (view only)
• Integrated Feedback Tool

The vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling is a standalone appliance that can be deployed in your existing or new vSphere 6.0 and later environments in a transparent manner. The Fling does not make any changes to your existing vCenter or Platform Services Controller components. Nor does it affect any operations, such as the use of the current vSphere Web Client, as it is meant to run side by side. The Fling should be deployed with the following specifications and prerequisites in mind:

• 2vCPU, 4GB of RAM, and 14GB of storage
• Runs only on vSphere 6.0 or later
• Recommended Browsers include Chrome, Firefox, and IE11. Other browsers may work, but have not been tested yet
• Usable with either the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) or Windows
• Enable SSH on your vCenter Server Appliance, temporarily needed only during the install process
• Enable vCenter Server Appliance Bash Shell, temporarily needed to SCP configuration files from the Fling to the vCenter Server Appliance

Visit the VMware Blog to learn more…vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling – Getting Started

You can also visit VMware Labs – vSphere HTML5 Web Client

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VMware Horizon 7 has reinvented desktop and application virtualization with a single platform purpose-built for the mobile-cloud era. Drawing on the best of mobile and the cloud, Horizon 7 radically transforms traditional VDI, giving you unprecedented simplicity, flexibility, speed and scale–all at lower costs.

VMware Horizon 7 Product Summary

• Just-in-Time Delivery with Instant Clone Technology: Reduce infrastructure requirements while enhancing security with Instant Clone technology and App Volumes. Instantly deliver brand new personalized desktop and application services to end users every time they log in.
• Transformational User Experience with Blast Extreme: A new protocol built for the mobile cloud gives end users a better desktop experience across any network or location, and on more devices than ever before.
• Modernize Application Lifecycle Management with App Volumes: Transform application management from a slow, cumbersome process into a highly scalable, nimble delivery mechanism that provides faster application delivery and application management while reducing IT costs by up to 70%.
• Smart Policies with Streamlined Access: Improve end user satisfaction by simplifying authentication across all desktop and app services while improving security with smarter, contextual, role-based policies tied to a user, device or location.

Horizon 7 – Suggested Links:

• Horizon 7 – Product Page
• Horizon 7 – What’s New Datasheet
• Horizon 7 – Installation Overview
• Horizon 7 – Datasheet
• Horizon 7 – Free Desktop Assessment

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Because the test is non-proctored, you might be tempted to approach it as open book and not study as much as for a closed book exam. You could just look up the answers to the questions you don’t know right? Not so fast! (I mean that literally) With only 75 minutes to answer 65 question, you are not likely to be able to look up the answers fast enough to finish before time runs out. I recommend you take some time to study beforehand.

With all VMware exams, the first place to start when preparing is the Exam Blue Print. It provides details on the exam objectives and the publications that contain the corresponding information. Parsing through the Blue Print, here is the list of guides that should be read in preparation for the exam:

• What’s New in vSphere 6.0 – Platform
• vSphere Installation and Setup Guide
• vSphere Availability Guide
• vSphere Storage Guide
• vSphere Server and Host Management Guide
• vCenter Server and Host Management Guide
• VMware vCenter Server™ 6.0 Deployment Guide
• vSphere Networking Guide
• Administering VMware Virtual SAN
• What’s New: VMware Virtual SAN 6.0
• vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide
• vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client Guide
• vSphere Resource Management Guide
• What’s New in VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache
• VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ 6.0
• vSphere Data Protection Administration Guide
• VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ Evaluation Guide
• vSphere Troubleshooting Guide
• vSphere Monitoring and Performance Guide
• VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide – vSphere UI
• VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide – Custom UI
• VMware vCenter Operations Manager Administration Guide (Custom UI)
• vCenter Operations Manager Evaluation Guide

That’s a lot of reading! We are talking more than 1000 pages out of which 65 questions were pulled. What is a person to do?

After taking the test, let me suggest you shorten the list. You will get the most bang for your effort by reading these:

• vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client Guide
• vSphere Availability Guide
• vSphere Monitoring and Performance Guide
• Administering VMware Virtual SAN
• vSphere Networking Guide
• vSphere Upgrade Guide

These guides don’t cover everything on the exam but they will help with a large number of the questions. The side benefit is that these guides cover information useful to vSphere administrators and are helpful references when you are working on your production systems. Happy exam taking!

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You may want to take a few moments to review these features, some of which may not cost you any additional software licensing fees, and decide if any of these may be useful to help you comply with your Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Application Protection:  Feature = vSphere App HA –   monitors specific software application services that run in your virtual machines via custom VMware Tools heartbeats, identifies service failures, and restarts services as needed.  If the service restart is unsuccessful, then it could restart the virtual machine.

Guest OS Protection:  Feature = vSphere High Availability – monitors Guest OS via VMware Tools heartbeats, identifies guest OS failures, and restarts the virtual machine as needed.

Host Protection:  Feature = vSphere High Availability (HA) – monitors ESXi hosts via vmkernel network and datastore heartbeats, identifies host failures, cold migrates all the failed virtual machines from the failed host to surviving hosts, and restarts the migrated virtual machines.

Host Protection:  Feature = vSphere Fault Tolerance – monitors ESXi hosts via vmkernel network and datastore heartbeats, identifies host failures, and hot-migrates a few pre-designated virtual machines (up to 4 per failed host) to surviving hosts with no interruption to the virtual machines.  All other virtual machines on the failed host could be recovered with vSphere High Availability

Scheduled Host Maintenance Protection:  Feature = vMotion – allows all of the virtual machines on an ESXi host that is due for maintenance, such as ESXi or firmware upgrades,  to be hot-migrated to other hosts prior to host shut down.  Enables host maintenance with no virtual machine disruption.

Orchestration of Scheduled Host Maintenance:  Feature = vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) – provides an option to place a host in Maintenance Mode, which automatically uses vMotion to migrate the virtual machines to other hosts while balancing the workload to prepare a host for schedule maintenance.

Scheduled Datastore Maintenance Protection:  Feature = Storage vMotion – allows all of the virtual machines on a VMFS datastore  to be hot-migrated to other datastores prior to the beginning of a maintenance activity.  Such activities could include, migrating virtual machines to a new storage array, migrating virtual machines from an iSCSI array to a Fiber Channel array, upgrading VMFS versions, resizing datastores, and changing the LUN characteristics.  Enables datastore maintenance with no virtual machine disruption.

Orchestration of Scheduled Datastore Maintenance:  Feature = vSphere Storage DRS – provides an option to place a datastore in Maintenance Mode, which automatically uses Storage vMotion to migrate the virtual machines to other datastores while balancing the workload to prepare a datastore for schedule maintenance.

Virtual Machine Recovery:  Feature = VMware Data Protection (VDP) – provides the ability to backup and restore files within virtual machines and to backup and restore entire virtual machines.

Data Replication:  Feature =  vSphere Replication – provides the ability to replicate virtual machines from one location to another.  This could be useful to provide centralized protection for virtual machines that run at remote sites.  This cold also be useful as a component for a disaster recovery (DR) solution.

Disaster Recovery:  Feature = VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) = automates the recovery of the virtual machines that failed during the disaster of a virtual datatcenter.  The virtual machines are recovered to a recovery site, where another instance of vSphere is available.

Storage Protection:  Feature = VMware Virtual SAN:  provides the ability to pool all of the storage installed locally in all of the ESXi hosts and convert it to a virtual storage system that provides high levels of redundancy and performance, much like a traditional SAN.  It meets the storage requirements for vMotion, DRS, and HA, without the need for traditional SAN components, such as fiber channel storage adapters,  fiber channel switches, storage controllers, and storage arrays.  It provides redundancy, with no virtual machine interruption, in cases that include failed local drives and failed ESXi hosts.

To visualize all of this as levels (floors) of protection, see this VMware Blog.

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