Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 12

Original Post: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/03/technical-marketing-update-2012-week-12.html

By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect.

Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 12

This week I have a very cool white paper for those interested in Disaster Recovery / Distaster Avoidance. Ken Werneburg wrote an excellent comparison of the two solutions and what the advantages of each are. A highly recommended read! 

• Stretched Clusters and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager - http://bit.ly/GHhW7G
  This paper is intended to clarify concepts involved with choosing solutions for vSphere site availability, and to help understand the use cases for availability solutions for the virtualized infrastructure.

Blog posts: 

• How to Run WSX as a Standalone (William Lam) http://bit.ly/xTnWTX 
• Blocking or allowing traffic when vShield App is down? (Duncan Epping) bit.ly/FPRbzN
• Want to create 50 new Organizations in vCD in less than 2 minutes? (Alan Renouf) http://bit.ly/yNhXa7 
• Playing around with WSX (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/GAuNbE 
• Exploring the vCloud REST API Part 2 (William Lam) bit.ly/GE3NGI
• VMware Update Manager Survey (Justin King) bit.ly/GEIPs9
• Ye olde Controller, Target, Device (ctd) Numbering (Cormac Hogan) bit.ly/GH0Q7Q
• vCheck Exchange Updated (Alan Renouf) http://bit.ly/GJSHyZ 
• Setting up a Shared VMware Tools Directory (Kyle Gleed) http://bit.ly/GKV365 
• Stretched Clusters and Site Recovery Manager (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/GJyvOn 
• Automating Dead Space Reclamation in ESXi 5.0u1 (William Lam) http://bit.ly/GYW0H8 
• VM Provisioning on Datastore Clusters in vSphere 5 (William Lam) goo.gl/Yrhr0
• Automating SSL Certificate Expiry Validation for vCenter Server + ESX(i) Hosts (William Lam) http://bit.ly/GQvaPK