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VMware Knowledge and Skills Assessment – Setting Your Customer Up For Success
I have been a TAM with VMware for a little over a year now. During this time, I have been working closely with my customers on some large-scale deployments of VMware’s EUC products. These projects have high visibility within my customer’s organization, affecting almost all end-user endpoints. My job as a VMware TAM is to make sure major projects like these have the desired business outcomes.
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VMware Knowledge and Skills Assessment – Setting Your Customer Up For Success
At the 2015 Datacenter Conference, Gartner stated that the CIOs they surveyed ranked skills as the number one barrier to achieving their objectives. – CLEAR report By Heath Johnson I have been a TAM with VMware for a little over a year now. During this time, I have been working closely with my cu...
Big Data and Virtualization: A joint Cloudera and VMware Technical Talk
This technical talk was given at the VMworld conference events in the US and Europe in the past few months. In case you missed it when it occurred live, we thought we would give you a recording of it here. The joint talk (VIRT7709 at VMworld) was created and delivered jointly by members of techni...
Free eBook Shows How to Advance Your Career with HCI
Many organizations are turning to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) as a smart alternative when architecting a modern data center due to its reduced management complexity, increased agility, and lower costs. But while moving to HCI can help ease the burden on IT professionals, it does bring al...
Save 20% off VCP Exams at Dell EMC World 2017
Making plans to attend Dell EMC World in Las Vegas this May? Include time to earn or renew your VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification while you’re there. Start here to schedule your discounted VCP elective exam at the conference, then follow these steps: On the test center search scre...
VMware Experts Database Program 2016 Events
The VMware Experts Database Program The program started in 2013 and sponsored by the Cloud Platform Business Unit boasts completed six successful workshop events. The program, thus far has focused on gathering MS SQL Server and Oracle experts in either Palo Alto or Sofia Bulgaria (Cork Ireland an...
A Cloud Alliance Between VMware and AWS Takes Shape
This is a cross-promoted blog post, originally posted on the VMware Radius blog. View the original blog post here . Last October, when VMware unveiled a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), many in the tech industry were surprised. The two companies, once spirited competitors, an...
Connecting Containers Directly to External Networks
This article comes from Hasan Mahmood, a staff engineer on the vSphere Integrated Containers team. With v Sphere Integrated Containers (VIC), containers can be connected to any existing vSphere network, allowing for services running on those containers to be exposed directly, and not through the ...
NSX-V 6.3: Cross-VC NSX Security Enhancements
NSX-V 6.2 introduced the Cross-NSX feature to allow for NSX logical networking and security across multiple vCenter domains. The ability to apply consistent networking and security across vCenter domains provides for mulitple use cases for Cross-VC NSX : workload mobility, resource pooling, multi...
iOS 10.3 & Android Wear 2.0 Top Mobile News
iOS 10.3 betas are now available. Before you sign up for the Apple Beta Software Program, you “beta” read these recommendations for VMware AirWatch customers. Find your getting started guide here. Introducing Android Wear 2.0. Google introduced Android Wear 2.0 this week. Features like a new, on-...
2017 Mobile & Tech Conferences for IT Coming Soon
Want to give your company a competitive advantage with a new tech strategy? Want to exchange ideas with technology pros in your industry? Here are 14 essential 2017 conferences for business and tech leaders in education, enterprises, financial services, government, healthcare and retail this wint...
[Podcast] VMware End-User Computing on Frontline Chatter
What’s next for VMware End-User Computing (EUC)? Pat Lee , vice president of product management for cloud apps and desktops at VMware, recently talked about this and much more on EUC podcast Frontline Chatter . “We’re always going to be improving and making constant changes each quarter to addres...
iOS 10.3 Betas Available
Recently, Apple released public betas of iOS 10.3, macOS Sierra 10.12.4 and tvOS 10.2. Available through the Apple Beta Software Program , each public beta comes with a built-in Feedback Assistant to provide feedback to Apple. VMware AirWatch is working to support the new features in iOS, macOS a...
Jump (JMP), Radio & a Pony: Your Journey to Modern Workspace Management
Much like our industry’s tech evolution toward the digital workspace, the world is on a journey to digital radio. In 2017, Norway will become the first country to begin the journey of turning off FM radio and going completely digital. There are many questions and concerns, but the destination is ...
The Next Horizon! Introducing Horizon 7.1, Horizon Apps & Horizon Cloud
If you took a look at desktop and application virtualization in the past and thought, “This is just too complex and costly to make the move,” now is the time to revisit your decision. Today, we are excited to announce new technologies and offerings that drive the cost and complexity out of gettin...
Here Comes … Horizon Cloud
Today, I’m excited to announce VMware’s Horizon Cloud service. This new cloud-scale offering enables organizations to deploy feature-rich virtual desktops and applications in the cloud, on-premises or in a combination of the two. Horizon Cloud uniquely allows customers to bring-your-own (BYO) inf...
VMware Horizon 7.1 & Horizon Apps: Raising the Bar for User Experience & Published Applications
VMware Horizon 7 is the premier platform for virtual desktops and applications, and we continually strive to make it even better. Today, we are excited to announce Horizon 7.1 . In this release, we innovated in two key areas to raise the bar in delivering a great user experience and change the ap...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS
How to forward other VCSA 6.5 logs to remote syslog server?
As mentioned in my previous article (which I strongly recommend you review before continuing further), the VCSA 6.5 no longer uses syslog-ng as the syslog client and it has been replaced with rsyslog. This means the instructions outlined in my old article here is no longer valid on forwarding log...
Another recovery from multiple failures in a vSAN stretched cluster
In a previous post related to multiple failures in a vSAN stretched cluster, we showed that if a failure caused the data components to be out of sync, the most recent copy of the data needs to recover before the object becomes accessible again. This is true even if there are a majority of objects...
SDS and HCI – Part 1: Start from the Start.
I’m not going to bury the lead: Software Defined Storage is ready for the majority of x86 workloads (by volume) as hyper-converged infrastructure or pooled storage. SANs are best suited for specific workloads that demand very high capacity or performance, or have complex data protection needs. Fo...
New Technical White Paper - Introducing the NSX-T Platform
This technical white paper is focused on VMware NSX-T architecture, components, and related capabilities. It also explains the technical advantages and benefits of the NSX-T architecture. This white paper is primarily for data center and cloud architects and engineers. VMware NSX-T is designed t...
No suitable disk was found when upgrading to ESXi 6.5 on USB?
I got a question from my buddy Paudie O'Riordan this morning where he was noticing a strange issue while trying to upgrade his ESXi hosts from 6.0 to 6.5 (all on the VMware HCL). Like many of our customers, he runs ESXi on USB device and when he attempted to upgrade using ESXi Scripted Install (G...
What logs do I get when I enable syslog in VCSA 6.5?
The native remote syslog functionality in the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) for vSphere 6.5 introduces several new changes from vSphere 6.0. With some of the questions that I have been receiving on this topic, I figure it would be useful to take a closer look at some of the different behaviors ...
Understanding recovery from multiple failures in a vSAN stretched cluster
Sometime back I wrote an article that described what happens when an object deployed on a vSAN datastore has a policy of Number of Failures to Tolerate set to 1 (FTT=1), and multiple failures are introduced. For simplicity, lets label the three components that make up our object with FTT=1 as A, ...
Rubrik Announces Cloud Data Management 3.1
Every so often I take a break from rambling on about PowerShell and automation to share some fun Rubrik news. In my last Rubrik post , I showcased a combination of funding announcements and technical enhancements slated for the Firefly (3.0) release. Since then I’ve had the pleasure of working wi...
SAP and VMware NSX Micro Segmentation Example
This demo shows a NSX micro segmentation example for a 3-tier SAP system. The demo starts in vRealize Operations where the Blue Medora SAP Management Pack has been configured to monitor the SAP system. Data collection fails due to activation of the NSX firewall. The NSX configuration is shown and...
Exploring new VCSA VAMI API w/PowerCLI: Part 7
In the previous article (Part 6), we demonstrated how you can easily associate the list of VMDKs to their respective OS partitions within a VCSA or PSC node, which is useful when you need to increase the disk capacity for a specific OS partition. In Part 7, we are now going to drill down a bit fu...
Antivirus Considerations for VMware Horizon 7
One of the consequences of running antivirus software is that operating system performance can suffer. There is a balance between an acceptable level of security and an acceptable level of performance, and this varies from one environment to the next. This whitepaper discusses the use of antiviru...
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