Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 09

Original Post: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/03/technical-marketing-update-2012-week-09.html

By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect, VMware.

Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 09 

Two new white paper where released this week, both have received a lot of positive feedback. The CIS Architecture Case Study is already recommended by many as "must read" material for those aiming for VCDX / VCAP-DCD!

• VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study - http://bit.ly/AcI39r 
• Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Case Study - http://bit.ly/xwCGuB 

Blog posts:

• Automating VMware Tools Upgrade Policy (William Lam) http://bit.ly/xz626q
• Answering some Storage vMotion questions (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/wGipae
• Storage Protocol Comparison - A vSphere Perspective (Cormac Hogan) bit.ly/yXBo0h
• Using PowerCLI for Intra-VM Affinity rules in Storage DRS (Alan Renouf) http://bit.ly/A4yoKx
• Quickest Way to Patch an ESX/ESXi Using the Command-line (William Lam) http://bit.ly/z04psn 
• Understanding ESXi Patches – Finding Patches (Kyle Gleed) bit.ly/wUiKVl
• Resource Pool shares don't make sense with vCloud Director (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/w5YPWa 
• ESXCLI Partner Extensiblity (William Lam) bit.ly/x6Aifo
• How to Access vCloud Director Remote Console using vCloud & VMRC API (William Lam) http://bit.ly/wLuIuE 
• Cool tool: vBenchmark fling - http://bit.ly/we8uYU 
• vCenter Plugin Survey (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/AsXOwB 
• How to Run Windows 8 Consumer Preview & Windows 8 Server on vSphere 5 (William Lam) http://bit.ly/wYuBMP 
• Two new Technical Marketing white papers (Duncan Epping bit.ly/AkmfUy
• Thin Provisioning - What's the scoop? (Cormac Hogan)  bit.ly/zObZsl
• Help VMware understand what UI client plugins are being used (Justin King) http://bit.ly/w37Ylw 
• I selected "failover host" and my VMs still end up on a different host after an HA event (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/xQoVJf 
• Scale out building block style, or should I say (yellow) brick style! (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/yrV8a6 
• Help us understand customer usage of the vCenter Databases (Justin King) http://bit.ly/wPEIRG 
• Understanding ESXi Patches – Manually Adding Patches to Update Manager (Kyle Gleed) http://bit.ly/A3gbvJ