FREE eLearning VMware Horizon Mirage Fundamentals Now Available

The VMware Horizon Mirage Fundamentals [V4.0].  is a 3.5 hour course covering the main features and components in the Horizon Mirage solution including information on installing and configuring the Horizon Mirage solution, as well as performing common administrator tasks and end user tasks.

Click HERE  http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrreg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edu&a=det&id_course=173141

•  Define Horizon Mirage concepts and components.
•  Explain how Horizon Mirage works.
•  List some of the key business challenges that Horizon Mirage solves.
•  Describe the main features and benefits of Horizon Mirage.
•  Describe the Mirage components and how they fit into the Horizon Mirage architecture.
•  Define the Horizon Mirage layers.
•  Discuss the tasks for configuring a Horizon Mirage System.
•  Describe the process for deploying Horizon Mirage to endpoints.
•  Recognize the main function of each of the Horizon Mirage common wizards.
•  Discuss the steps for capturing and assigning a Base Layer.
•  List the steps for capturing and assigning an App Layer.
•  Explain how an administrator uses the Disaster Recovery Wizard to restore a Central Virtualized Desktop (CVD).
•  Describe the high level tasks for performing a Windows XP to Windows 7 migration.
•  Recognize the main functions of the System Dashboard and how to use them to monitor your desktop deployment.

P2V of Vcenter 5.1 and its issue

have done p2v of vcenter server frorm VMware convertor
post p2v issue found unable to login to vcenter server as vcenter services is not able to start so
resovle this issue from kb article provided by vmware  http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/documentLink.do?externalID=2036170&micrositeID=null

Resoultion

To resolve this issue: 

1. Click Start, right-click Command Prompt, and click Run as administrator to open a command prompt as an administrator.
2. Set the Java home.  The default location is C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\jre Type:
   set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\jre
3. In the system where SSO is installed, locate and navigate to the SSO server installation directory. By default, this directory is located at C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\SSOServer\Utils.
4.  Run this command:
   
   Note: This command replaces the masterPassword with the SSO Password  (admin@system-domain) rsautil manage-secrets -a recover -m <masterPassword>
5. Restart the SSO service.
6. Restart the VMware VirtualCenter Server service. 

Upgrade 4.1 to 5.1

Hi,
I was  finally able to upgrade vcenter 4.1 to 5.1 successfully without any issues. Really owwsoome...
Read the vmware vcenter 5.1 upgrade document carefully before implemting. Also if any third party appliance or Vmware server guided consolidation is install kindly uninstall before upgrading your vcenter..
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