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Hi everyone, depending on when you ready this VMworld Europe may still be in full swing. We have just completed an amazing VMworld US in Las Vegas. There were so many announcements and so much good news. I am sure that everyone has a new story they can share from the event. If you did not get the chance to attend this year take a look at the articles and videos in this weeks newsletter and we will also bring you more from Barcelona next week.
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- vSpeaking Podcast Episode 55: Automate all the things
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Register to it now. This Portal replaces the current (One Brand) site and it contains all things VMware brand-related – including templates, guidelines, logos, and brand training. However access is not immediate. After registration you will receive an email with instructions to attend required train... - How to Automate Citrix NetScaler Deployment with vRealize Orchestrator
By: Lora Johnson For today&#rsquo;s IT teams, the number of end-user requests can be overwhelming — and extremely time consuming. As a result, it turns IT teams into tactical executors instead of strategic stewards for the organization. However, by leveraging vRealize Orchestrator to automate and s... - Mobilité internationale : les femmes décident de leur avenir
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&#rsquo;All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.&#rdquo;(Arthur C Aufderheide) Several VMware Research members are headed to the ACM SIGCOMM 2017, the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2017), which will take place August 21-25, ... - Automate IT Sessions at VMworld 2017 Las Vegas
VMworld 2017 Las Vegasis only one week ahead! August 27-31 is going to be crazy in Las Vegas. The week will hold a lot of exciting news, a great number of new features and a slew of great talks and sessions. We are all geared up for “Automate IT” related events and activities. Here is the list you c... - Only in This Session: VMware Cloud Management BU shows off our multi-cloud features
Spotlight session MGT3137SU: Multi-Cloud is Eating the World. Join the Party!Only in this session will you be able to see in one place, how multiple VMware Cloud Management products (vRealize) can now, or will in the near future, support your multi-cloud use cases!In this spotlight session, Sajai Kr... - Intelligent Operations Sessions at VMworld 2017 Las Vegas
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The countdown is on to the BIGGEST VMware Partner event of the year.In just 10 days, Partner Exchange will light up Las Vegas. Your Partner Exchange pass gives you access to the Partner Exchange General Session, Business Growth Keynotes, Technical and Sales bootcamps and more. To ensure you make the...
- From Mind-Blowing to Mundane: How Tech Is Reshaping Our Expectations
Remember the Ellen Ripley character in Aliens, strapping on a robotic exoskeleton to battle the alien creature and protect her child? That was science fiction, a creative concept from 30 years ago. Yet here in 2017, it’s becoming science fact. Every day, South Korean ship-builders arrive at work and... - VMworld US Day Four Highlights Life-Changing Innovation
The last day of VMworld traditionally highlights innovation and features individuals and organizations leveraging technology to extend the limits of what’s possible. This year’s keynote showcased three people pushing life-changing ideas to improve humanity. These last-day sessions aren’t limited to ... - A Miracle Every Day: VMware’s Culture of Innovation
At a special fireside chat-style session with press and analysts at VMworld 2017, VMware took the opportunity to share how it embeds a culture of innovation into every aspect of its business. The conversation was moderated by VMware CTO Ray O’Farrell and featured three of VMware’s top technology lea...
- Learn All About ‘SCHED_DEADLINE’ from Steven Rostedt at Open Source Summit 2017
The Open Source Summit North America touches down in the City of Angels this year, taking place September 11-14 at the JW Marriot LA Live in Los Angeles, Calif. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, Open Source Summit 2017 boasts the combined might of LinuxCon, ContainerCon, CloudOpen and Open Community C... - Open Source Puppies: Love at First Sight Meets Deployment Reality
Adopting a new puppy is not without surprises. The soft fur, big eyes and playful joy capture your heart in a split second. It’s love at first sight. Day 1 is all fun and games—nothing could be better. Day 2? Well, reality sets in. The teeth marks on the chair leg, your favorite sneakers are destroy... - Open Source at VMworld—from Keynotes to Hackathons
Open source—it’s everywhere! From Tuesday’s VMworld keynote announcement of VMware’s Platinum Membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to the afternoon theater presentation on Project Weathervane, VMware’s commitment to open source is more evident than ever. Dirk Hohndel, VP and Chief Ope...
- Thinking of Big Data or HPC? vSphere Scale-Out Can Help.
Today, VMware is excited to introduce vSphere Scale-Out, a new addition to the vSphere product line. vSphere Scale-Out is a solution that packages all the core vSphere features required for Big Data and High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads at an attractive price point. vSphere Scale-Out will... - Get answers to your vSphere questions at VMworld US 2017
The Cloud Platform Business Unit is making our final preparations for VMworld US 2017, and we are coming to Vegas with so much to share with you. We’re especially excited to talk with you about the importance of upgrading to vSphere 6.5, and the technical possibilities that are opened up with this v... - VMware plans to deprecate vmkLinux APIs and associated driver ecosystem
VMware plans to deprecate the vmkLinux APIs and associated driver ecosystem with the next numbered release (not an update release) of VMware vSphere. The next version of vSphere will be the terminal release for which vmkLinux APIs and its associated driver ecosystem will be available. VMware vSphe...
- NSX-T: Routing where you need it (Part 1)
Network virtualization has come a long way. NSX has played a key role in redefining and modernizing networking in a datacenter. Providing an optimal routing path for the traffic has been one of the topmost priorities of Network Architects. Thanks to NSX distributed routing, the routing betw... - Ensuring Good with VMware AppDefense
co-author Geoff Wilmington Traditional data center endpoint security products focus on detecting and responding to known bad behavior. There are hundreds of millions of disparate malware attacks, with over a million getting added every day. In addition, there is the threat of zero-day attacks expl... - Introducing VMware Skyline™
VMware Skyline™: an innovative support technology, developed entirely by VMware Engineering, that provides VMware technical support engineers with extreme visibility into your (customer’s) environment. Customers with active support subscriptions install the VMware Skyline Collector, a standalone ap...
- What’s New in vSAN Management Webinar
We continue to make enhancements to the management and integration capabilities built into vSAN and our upcoming September 14th webinar “What’s New with vSAN Management,” will focus on how you can optimize your vSAN deployment and operations. Pete Koehler, VMware Sr. Technical Marketing Manager for ... - vSAN Operations: Maintain Slack Space for Storage Policy Changes
vSAN “slack space” is simply free space that is set aside for operations such as host maintenance mode data evacuation, component rebuilds, rebalancing operations, and VM snapshots. Activities such as rebuilds and rebalancing can temporarily consume additional raw capacity. Host maintena... - DataStax Enterprise on VMware vSAN for Development
This blog was co-authored by Kathryn Erickson, Director of Strategic Partnerships at DataStax Enterprise DataStax and VMware have been diligently working to deliver on the first fruits of this partnership. Today we outline the first step: DataStax Enterprise (DSE) on vSAN for development environment...
- Marketing Internal IT to Line-of-Business
Public Clouds make marketing internal IT to line-of-business a must do item A couple of weeks ago I posted the first in a series of blogs on big things that IT teams need do to ensure that they remain relevant to their end users. In that blog, I introduced a list of seven things that IT teams sh... - VMworld 2017 – The Ops Perspective Part 3
That’s a wrap! VMworld US 2017 is officially over. It’s been a very exciting week with all the great announcements such as the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud Services, PKS, and App Defense to name just a few!! We’ve heard about the future of operations management and the pres... - Ready for a single monitoring console? How to unify Microsoft SCOM and vROps
By: Lora Johnson Over the years, Microsoft shops have naturally moved towards Microsoft SCOM as their monitoring tool of choice. While Microsoft SCOM offers significant visibility and management capabilities, it is specific to your Microsoft resources — meaning that these often operate in a silo...
- IBM Cloud Secure Virtualization built on VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud addresses new GDPR requirements
The following post is contributed to the Cloud Foundation Blog by Andrew Guerra, Offering Manager, VMware on IBM Cloud On 25 May, 2018, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect in the European Union (EU), with sharper teeth than any other compliance regulation to date. W... - CONTEST: Retweet VMware Cloud Foundation for a chance to win VCF giveaways!
Starting July 26th, we’re asking you, to be a part of the Cloud Foundation community! As you might have noticed, Cloud Foundation has moved to a new Twitter handle. In order to help keep our community up-to-date on all the Cloud Foundation, hybrid cloud, and unified SDDC news and announcements, we ... - VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud addresses today’s hybrid cloud needs
The following post is contributed to the Cloud Foundation Blog by Steven M. Huntington, Program Director Offering Management, VMware on IBM Cloud IBM and VMware announced an integral partnership to extend the sale of VMware solution offerings on the IBM Cloud in February 2016. This cloud partne...
- Project Hatchway: Persistent Storage for Cloud-Native Applications
Customers want to take advantage of container technology for running stateful, data intensive applications, such as databases and modern cloud-native applications. One of the significant barriers they face is the lack of out-of-the-box persistent storage solutions in the container ecosystem. This is... - Grab a vBrownBag, Meet Experts and Get Hands-on at VMworld 2017 Europe
What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. Case in point: VMworld. After taking Sin City by storm last month, VMworld Europe will touch down in Barcelona, Spain on September 11-14 at the Fira Gran Via. The Cloud-Native Applications Business Unit will be at VMworld Europe in full-force, with... - 12 Must-See Cloud-Native Applications Sessions at VMworld Europe
VMworld is packing its bags and heading out on a Eurotrip! Bringing all the star power, insight and innovation from Las Vegas overseas, VMworld Europe will touch down at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain on September 11-14. As was the case during VMworld US, the Cloud-Native Applications Busines...
VMware End-User Computing Blog
- New eBook! Your Comprehensive Guide to VMware Horizon Cloud
We are very excited to announce the release of the VMware Horizon Cloud eBook. This comprehensive guide gives users an inside look into the Horizon Cloud Service. Horizon Cloud gives organizations the flexibility to deploy virtual desktops and apps on their preferred infrastructure, on-prem or in t... - Top EUC News This Week: Horizon 7 + Skype for Business, VMworld Europe & Much More
In top end-user computing (EUC) news this week: Horizon 7 and Skype for Business, Windows 10 at VMworld Europe, New Horizon Cloud hands-on lab and so much more. Let’s Get Technical A new technical whitepaper for Microsoft Lync 2013 and Skype for Business on VMware Horizon 7 is now available. The whi... - VMware Horizon 7, Skype for Business, and Lync 2013: Updated Technical White Paper
As a follow-up to our previous announcement on VMware Horizon 7 with Skype for Business, we are happy to announce that the technical white paper on this topic has been updated. Microsoft Lync 2013 and Skype for Business on VMware Horizon 7 is now available to help you with system requirements and th...
- VMware AirWatch SDK Plugins Now Available for Hybrid App Development Platforms
Enterprises are digitally transforming and evolving their business models to adopt mobility and apps into almost every aspect of their business. According to Gartner, by 2020, more than 75 percent of enterprises will have adopted at least one platform to accelerate their digital transformation strat... - Beyond UEM: Detecting the Onslaught of Mobile Threats With AI
The advent of mobility within companies opened up the need for enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions (and later, unified endpoint management, or UEM). With EMM, IT could finally manage and secure mobile devices for work. Companies discovered new ways to work, drive innovation and deliver cu... - Complete Itinerary for Windows 10 Enthusiasts at VMworld 2017 Europe
More than 500 million endpoints now run Windows 10, according to Microsoft. The majority of organizations around the world are actively migrating or mapping out their journey to Windows 10. At VMworld 2017 in Barcelona, we’ve built out the largest amount of content for our customers interested in en...
- Top 20 vSphere articles for August 2017
/storage/log directory is full in vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 vCenter Appliance root Partition 100% full due to Audit.log files not being rotated OVF deployment fails after upgrading to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 U1 OVF deployment fails after upgrading to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 Increasing ... - New KB articles published for week ending 2nd September 2017
VMware vCenter Server vAPI Endpoint Service in warning state on vSphere Web Client Date Published: 2017/08/28 VMware vCenter Server Appliance Starting vCenter Server or PSC services fails with error message: INFO:root:'’ startMode is Manual, skipping to start Date Published: 2017/09/01 VMware Horizo... - New KB articles published for week ending 26th August 2017
VMware ESXi Connection to iSCSI Datastore is lost with the error “(inaccessible)” The vpxd service fails to start after vCenter is migrated from vSphere 6.0 to 6.5 VMware NSX for vSphere Partial firewall rule is seen on the vNIC with ‘Applied To’ configuration set to ‘Policy Security Group’ VMwar... - Breakthrough Visibility
VMware Skyline™ is radically transforming customer support By: Dale Ferrario Customers like you that run business-critical operations on VMware environments need an infrastructure that’s always-on and optimized for peak performance. You expect fast, environment-specific remediation recommendations, ... - Top 20 vRealize Automation articles for July 2017
VMware vCloud Suite 7 Fulfillment Update sequence for vSphere 6.5 and its compatible VMware products Removing a virtual machine from vRealize Automation 7.x using Cloud Client Update sequence for vSphere 6.0 and its compatible VMware products Joining the VMWare vCenter Server Appliance or VMwar...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS virtuallyGhetto
- ATTO's ESXi Thunderbolt Driver is now officially on VMware HCL
Last week I had received some great news from our friends over at ATTO Technology that their ESXi Thunderbolt to Fibre Channel Driver has passed the VMware Certification process and is now officially listed on VMware's HCL. I had known the team was planning to certify their driver but was not aware ... - Thank you for voting! (Top vBlog 2017)
I had been in meetings all day today and I had noticed my Twitter notifications was going nuts. It was only until my last meeting of the day, which was with Emad, did I learn what was going on. I had no idea the Top vBlog 2017 results were being announced today and when Emad broke […]... - vSphere Client Login UI customizations do not persist in VCSA 6.5 Update 1
The much anticipated release of vSphere 6.5 Update 1 just GA'ed late last week and like many in the community, I also went ahead and upgraded my home lab to this latest release. vSphere 6.5 Update 1 contains a ton of fixes as well as several new capabilities which you can read all about in the [R... - PowerCLI script to help correlate vCenter, ESXi & vSAN build/versions w/o manual VMware KB lookup
I can still remember when I was a VI Admin and how annoying it was to try to correlate the build numbers for my ESX(i) hosts and vCenter Servers that I have deployed with the versions listed on VMware's website. This especially gets challenging when there are multiple patch releases (a, b, c or 01, ... - AHCI (vmw_ahci) performance issue resolved in ESXi 6.5 Update 1
For customers who had SATA controllers that consumed the VMware Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) driver found that after upgrading to ESXi 6.5, the disk performance for those devices were significantly impacted. Basic operations such as cloning or uploading an OVF/OVA would literally double...
- Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2 Released
Not a long time after 7.1 release which brought protection for Hyper-V clusters, Nakivo software has another release. Nakivo 7.2 released a few days back, enhances the already packed product with other features and functions. And this is today’s post name – Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2. One of ... - VMware Cloud on AWS is GA
During the second day of VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas VMware has announced an availability of VMware cloud on AWS. A service which has been announced during last year’s VMworld along with VMware Cloud Foundation. VMware Cloud on AWS is actually powered by VMware Cloud Foundation which has vSphere, VMwa... - VMware Integrated Openstack 4.0 announced – VMworld 2017
VMware Integrated Openstack (VIO) 4.0 announced during VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas. This is already the fourth release of Openstack (called Ocata) which is managed and supported by VMware. We have reported on the Mitaka release last year and the post was a great success. So again this year, VMware mov... - VMware Cloud Services – New PaaS Services for Managing, Securing and Govern Public and Private Cloud Infrastructure
This is the first announcement for this year’s VMworld 2017 from VMware. Today’s post is about new VMware Cloud Services. VMware is working on a new operation layer which will sit on the top of the public cloud and which will make the apps compatible between different clouds. Currently, when you wan... - Runecast Analyzer 1.6 with New REST API and vSphere Web Client Plugin
Runecast Analyzer 1.6 has been released just before VMworld US. The 1.6 version or Runecast has a new vSphere Web client plugin, new (or richier) REST API and also features security compliance standards DISA STIG (Defense Information Systems Agency – Security Technical Implementation Guide), which a...
- New vSAN Stretched Cluster Topology now supported
After publishing the vSAN Networking Guide earlier this year, Paudie O’Riordain and I received numerous questions regarding support on having different stretched clusters hosting each other’s witness appliances. These queries arose because we discussed a 2-node (ROBO) topology which allowed this to ... - See you at VMworld 2017 Barcelona
Now that the US VMworld 2017 event in Las Vegas is over for another year, the focus turns to the VMworld 2017 event in Europe. This year, it once again takes place in Barcelona, Spain. A difference this year is that there is not much of a gap between US and European events, with the Europe event tak... - Project Hatchway – VMware Persistent Storage for Containers
Earlier yesterday, I had the opportunity to sit in on a VMworld 2017 session delivered by one of my colleagues, Tushar Thole. Tushar presented “Project Hatchway” to the audience, and like the description of this post suggests, this is all about providing VMware persistent storage to containers. In a... - VMworld 2017 Session on vSphere 6.5 Core Storage now on YouTube
A quick note to let you know that the session that I delivered on day 1 of VMworld 2017 is now available on YouTube. The session is entitled “A Deep Dive into vSphere 6.5 Core Storage Features and Functionality” and I delivered this with Cody Hosterman of Pure Storage. Judging by the feedback, and t... - PKS Announcement at VMworld 2017 – Pivotal Container Service
VMworld always has lots of new announcements about various VMware products and initiatives. VMworld 2017 is no different. This morning we had the announcement of PKS, the Pivotal Container Service. Yes, that is a K instead of a C in the acronym – this is to highlight the fact that this container ser...
- Using Keybase with GPG on macOS
During my too-brief stint using Fedora Linux as my primary laptop OS (see here for some details), I became attached to using GPG (GNU Privacy Guard)—in conjunction with Keybase—for signing Git commits and signing e-mail messages. Upon moving back to macOS, I found that I needed to set th... - A Brief Look at VMware's Three Cloud Approaches
I’m at VMworld 2017 this week (obviously, based on my tweets and blog posts), and in the general sessions Monday and yesterday VMware made a big deal about how VMware is approaching cloud computing and cloud services. However, as I’ve been talking to other attendees, it’s become cl... - Liveblog: VMworld 2017 Day 2 Keynote
This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. Unlike yesterday, I wasn’t accosted by the local facilities team trying to get a seat at a table in the bloggers/press/analyst area, so that’s an improvement over yesterday. While I’m aware of (most, if not a... - Liveblog: VMworld 2017 Day 1 Keynote
This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. There was a bit of a kerfluffle regarding seating (the local facilities staff didn’t want to let me sit in the bloggers’ area because “you’re not a blogger”), but I managed to snag a seat anyway. ... - Technology Short Take #86
Welcome to Technology Short Take #86, the latest collection of links, articles, and posts from around the web, focused on major data center technology areas. Enjoy! Networking Csilla Bessenyei has a series of articles on step-by-step automation that you might find helpful. I found the articles at...
- My pre-VMworld post mega roll-up
I’ve done a whole bunch of posts on various topics leading up to VMworld and I thought I would aggregate them all into one post so readers who are either attending VMworld or just listening in remotely can easily read through them. This one is for the 2017 Top vBloggers and vExperts going to V... - Top vBloggers and vExperts going to VMworld I have something for you
For any 2017 Top vBloggers going to VMworld US I have cool Top vBlog magnetic clothing buttons (no pins!) for you. I was able to make them as Top 10/25/50 this year as there was no die fee, I have enough for 2 for each blogger. Come find me at VMworld to pick yours up, … Continue reading ... - Top 30 people I look forward to seeing at VMworld 2017
Last year I did a post of the top 25 people that I look forward to seeing at VMworld and I thought I would update it for this year (and expand it to 30) with the top people that I look forward to seeing there as a well. First off, this is no reflection on … Continue reading » [[ This i... - Just in time for VMworld, Zerto releases Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5
Zerto today announced a new release of Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR), version 5.5 that has some cool new things in it. They have a whole page devoted to what’s new in 5.5 but I thought I’d summarize it for you. Rapid, Automated Recovery To-and-From Microsoft Azure Continuous, bi-direct... - How to experience VMworld 2017 without attending it
As much as everyone would love to attend VMworld many people can not go for a variety reasons but you can still get a lot out of the show even if you do not attend. I thought I’d highlight some of the many resources that are available to virtual attendees to be able to participate … Continue ...
- VMworld 2017: XtremIO X2the best clean-sheet AFA gets better.
This week marks the launch of the next generation of an incredible successful product – Dell EMC XtremIO. The best way to think of X2 as the 2nd generation of XtremIO – it takes the great foundation of the strengths of XtremIO and builds on them. The core architecture of keeping all the metadata ... - VMworld 2017: re-inventing Data Protection for VMware
This is cool. Every customer needs Data Protection for their VMware environment – local backup and recovery, and protection from disaster recovery. I’ve seen every chapter of this – from the birth of Site Recovery Manager in 2008 (to Jay Judkowitz – shout out to you buddy!, the birth of CBT in 2009... - VMworld 2017: Continued Advances in Hybrid Cloud DIY Choices
If you’re coming here first – I strongly recommend reading the “Lessons Learnt” post in this series, here. It will help with context, and understanding your options and choices. Also – I strongly recommend reading this “DIY” and “Consume” blog post here – it’s very useful. Ok, with that context ... - VMworld 2017: Pivotal Container Services (PKS)
IMO – this is one of the biggest announcements at VMworld this week. It is a major shift to the Dell Technologies strategic perspective, and important for our customers. It’s something we’ve been spending a lot of time on internally for a while – I’ve spent hours at end with Scott Yara and James... - VMworld 2017: Continued Advances in Hybrid Cloud - NHC
If you’re coming here first – I strongly recommend reading the “Lessons Learnt” post in this series, here. It will help with context, and understanding your options and choices. Ok, with that context – lets talk about the Native Hybrid Cloud (NHC) 1.4 NHC is designed to be a full cloud stack – bu...
- Desktop Security with NSX
Most organisations continue to spend most of their security budget on securing their server infrastructure, implementing things like firewalls, intrusion prevention/detection systems and SIEM solutions. The reason for this is that’s where they consider their most prized possession to be, thei... - Configure an External vRealize Orchestrator Server
You can set up vRealize Automation to use an external vRealize Orchestrator server. System administrators can configure the default vRealize Orchestrator server globally for all tenants. Tenant administrators can configure the vRealize Orchestrator server only for their tenants. ... - VMworld 2017 Sessions on YouTube
VMworld 2017 ADV1587BU VMware NSX + Horizon: Security Architecture for Desktops & Applications VMworld 2017 LHC3159SU Accelerate the Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS VMworld 2017 LHC3371BUS VMware Cloud on AWS – The Painless Path to Hybrid Cloud VMworld 2017 MGT2185BU 360-Degree Tro... - Understanding VMware AppDefense: A Tom Corn Perspective
VMware AppDefense is a new security solution that allows organizations to create least privilege environments around their applications running in virtualized or cloud systems, a key feature according to VMware’s senior vice president for security products, Tom Corn. Watch VMware’s Tom Corn i... - AppDefense Blogger Talk Show
Wade Holms and Geoff Wilmington discuss the release of the new VMware AppDefense for securing data centers. ...
- JSON Repository Format Update and now with SCSI Codes
Whenever I create databases with information like ESXi Versions, vCenter Versions or VMware's HCL I try make these available to be used for automation or in scripts. JSON is my data-type of choice but I figured that another structure might be …Read more »... - SCSI Sense Code Decoder OP Code Update
I've added a new feature to my online SCSI Sense Code Decoder. It is now possible to enter the Command that has been reported to be failed into the form. The command is displayed in the error message and can …Read more »... - VCSA 6.5 Broken Filesystem - "Welcome to Emergency Mode"
Today I managed to crash the storage used in my home lab. After fixing the FreeNAS box, my vCenter Server Appliance (Version 6.5 Update 1) refused to boot and after opening the console, it welcomed me with the following error …Read more »... - What's inside VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1
VMware has just released vSphere 6.5 Update 1 including the following producs: VMware vCenter Server 6.5 U1 [Release Notes] [Download] VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U1 [Release Notes] [Download] VMware vSphere Replication 6.5.1 [Release Notes] [Download] VMware Tools 10.1.10 [Release Notes] [...
- VMware NSX-T v2.0
VMware has just released the new major version of NSX-T 2.0 to provides an agile software-defined infrastructure to build cloud-native application environments. When Nicira product has been released was for Linux and physical platform, but after the VMware’s acquisition has been re-engineered ... - September 2017 IT events
Interesting European IT events: CloudSec 2017 – London (Sep, 5) VMworld EU – Barcelona (Sep 11-14) Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2017 – London (Sep, 18-19) Gartner Digital Workplace Summit 2017 – London (Sep, 18-19) Techconnect – Berlin (Sep, 19-20) Managed Services & H... - What’s happened during VMworld US 2017
The US edition of VMworld 2017 is finally over and maybe you want to know what’s new (or if there are something news compared to previous year). Of course there are. Again Michael Dell was present during the keynote of the second day, side to side with Pat Gelsinger: Dell Technologies has beco... - Choosing the right vCenter platform
Actually there are two different platform where you can run the vCenter Server components (including the PSC): Windows (both physical or virtual) or Linux (only with the vCSA, based on PhotonOS). Initially there was only a Windows version, then the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) was first introduce...
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