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Say Hello to My VMware (Portal)

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…or maybe it should be “Say Hello to Your VMware (Portal)”.  The new portal for you to interact with (just about) all things VMware.

My VMware Home Screen

This past weekend VMware decommissioned a number of customer facing portals and consolidated all that functionality into one portal…My VMware. One place where you can manage your software licenses, open Support Request, manage your Orders/Contracts, and be one click away from a lot of other VMware goodness…

The Launch of My VMware was the culmination of a 2 year long project that involved hundreds of VMware staff.  Huge congratulations and thank you’s go out to everyone involved!  Double kudo’s go out to the team members who worked so diligently over this weekend to perform the go live migration and testing!!

The My VMware team created a number of information and help sites related to the launch that you should reference for answers to your questions:

  1. To understand My VMware use the Guided Tour within the portal itself.  It should appear the first time you login to My VMware.  You can always go back to the Guided Tour by clicking “Learn more about My VMware” link in the upper right hand corner of the portal.
  2. Check the My VMware FAQ to see if your question is answered there.
  3. Visit the VMware Knowledge Base and click the “My VMware” option on the left hand side.

My VMware is not only a web portal.  The team also created the My VMware App for IOS available for both the iPhone and iPad and the My VMware App for Android.

I’ve been working with my clients and the My VMware team for a few months now preparing for this launch. During that time I’ve learned a bit about the most common tasks users will perform on this new portal and discovers a few gotchas as well. I’ve written up my experiences in the following set of blog posts that I hope you find valuable.

Please keep in mind that when my clients or I work with the portal, we’re usually dealing with literally hundreds of different licenses, order, contracts, and historic support requests that are spread across multiple divisions and business units of Fortune 100 enterprises.  So I may have a different view of the portal than most.

latoga’s Guide to My VMware

  1. Say Hello to My VMware (Portal)
  2. My VMware Quick Overview
  3. My VMware Users and Roles
  4. My VMware for Most of Us
  5. My VMware for the Super Us(er)
  6. Some My VMware Gotchas To Be Aware Of

 

VMware Database Resource List

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I’ve said it before that the Universe speaks to you in three’s.  I got asked for info about VMware and Databases twice today, so I’m posting the list of resources I collected expecting the third request in the next few days…

VMware Resources Portals for Virtualizing Databases

Virtualizing Databases Specific Info

vFabric Database Solutions

There are other areas where VMware is working on database related solutions which most people still don’t realize:

  • vFabric in-memory data solutions: GemFire is a in-memory massively scalable object based data fabric and SQLFire is an in-memory distributed SQL database.
  • vFabric Data Directory is a Database as a Service (DBaaS) deployment and management solution.

My Cloud Newsletter for March

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So actually this is the Your Cloud Newsletter that I create for my private clients, but my english minor half had to play with the wording in the title.  So much good stuff in this month’s edition that I decided to redact the private stuff and share the rest with you!

VMworld 2012

Have you budgeted for VMworld 2012 yet? Seems like no matter how early we tell everyone about VMworld, people tend to get the green light and register just weeks before the event…and then can’t get into the sessions they want.  So make sure you start your planning now!

  • VMworld San Francisco: August 27-30, 2012
  • VMworld Barcelona: October 9-11, 2012

And here’s a ROI message incase your need to convince your boss.

vExpert Nominations Open

Is one of your co-workers a VMware Guru? Are they so dedicated to their Guru status that they blog about it after work? Then help make their Guru status official by nominating them to be a 2012 vExpert.

Latest Happenings from VMware

vSphere 5.0 Update 1 (ESXi and vCenter) Now Available!

Other Recent Releases (with links to Release Notes)

vCOPS has been getting lots of attention lately for the vSphere specfic dashboards available in 5.0. Here are some interesting tid-bits related to this dashboard:

Microsoft Licensing is an ongoing discussion within the VMware Community.  Emma (aka LadyLicensing) has a great blog where she posts on this topic for the wider IT community.  There have also been some great discussions recently regarding MS Licensing for Desktop as a Service (DaaS).

New Flings available from the VMware Labs…

  • Cloud Cleaner Cleans up your vCloud Environment
  • Auto Deploy GUI is a vSphere plugin for the Auto Deploy component
  • InventorySnapshot allows you to “snapshot” a given vCenter inventory configuration and reproduce it
  • Onyx serves as a proxy between vSphere Client and vCenter Server to translate communication into PowerShell
  • vBenchmark allows you to measure key datacenter operational and efficiency metrics

VMware Forum 2012 is a free full day event where you will hear VMware, Industry Experts, and IT Professionals discuss virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions as well as get a chance to network with your peers.  Below are some of the sessions:

  • Online Forum on April 12
  • Dallas, TX on May 2
  • Boston, MA on May 15
  • Washington, DC on June 19
  • Raleigh, NC on July 19

Check the VMware Forum 2012 website for full schedule and to register for one of these events.

VMware Customer Support Days

Have you attended a Customer Support Day yet?  If not, you’re missing a golden opportunity to learn from our Global Support Services (GSS) experts!

Upcoming Support Days:

  • April 4, 2012: New York, Manhattan
  • May 22 – May 23, 2012: Palo Alto (Customer and joint Support Day with Cisco, NetApp and VMware)
  • May 31, 2012 (Tentative): Virtual Support Day
  • July 29, 2012: Dallas
  • October 3, 2012: Boston

More dates, both in US and Internationally, are being planned. Please check the website regularly for updates and to register for an event.