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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
- Learn How to Better Manage Complexity and Seamlessly Work Across Clouds
Cloud-based technologies are transforming businesses and disrupting markets. Companies are able to leverage these advanced technologies to realize enormous benefits in the scalability, elasticity, and efficiency of their business operations. In addition, adopting the right cloud strategy can both im... - Extending our Digital Workspace Intelligence Capabilities through Strategic M&A
Shekar Ayyar, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development and General Manager, Telco NFV Group Shekar Ayyar, EVP, Strategy and Corporate Development & GM, Telco NFV Group At VMware we believe firmly that security needs to be intelligently woven in as an intrinsic component of the ... - The Evolution of the Digital Workspace Has Arrived
Today, VMware announced new innovations to its VMware Workspace ONE digital workspace platform. According to Sumit Dhawan, the news goes far beyond technology updates, focusing on delivering innovative employee experiences that drive true digital transformation. “All too often, conversations about ...
- 8 Quirky Open Source Projects to Tickle Your Funny Bone
Not all open source projects are created equally. Many of them are valuable technologies, tackling complex issues from container compliance to deploying serverless applications to automating benchmarks for cloud infrastructure. Of course, this is only scratching the surface of the impact and range o... - The Challenges of Maintaining a Large Open Source Project
Today, Kubernetes is one of the fastest growing open source projects next to the Linux kernel, with over 130 commits each week—and that’s just to the main repository. It was recently announced that the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted for Kubernetes to become CNCF’s first project... - Best Practices for Building Compliant Containers
By Nisha Kumar, open source engineer, VMware As things stand, we do not have a fully declarative way of building containers. We can’t, in other words, make a specific list of software components that we want in a container image and build the container to match exactly that list. In manufacturing, w...
- Are You a vSphere 6.5 Expert? Take the Quiz and Find Out!
VMware vSphere 6.5 is the next-gen infrastructure platform for your next-gen apps. It provides a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that accelerates the digital transformation to cloud computing and success in the digital economy. vSphere 6.5 supports both existing and n... - New Resource – The VMware vSphere 6.5 Upgrade eBook
Over the past year I have written several blog posts and conducted workshops on vSphere 6.5 upgrades. The intent was to help customers learn about the upgrade concepts and planning. Only by getting familiar with the concepts and planning accordingly will the execution be successful. Part of the upgr... - Announcing the vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide
I am really pleased to announce the availability of the 6.5 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide (SCG). Normally a new guide is done only for numbered releases and not updates but the number of security updates that have made it into 6.5 Update 1 has warranted this SCG release. Also, we want to sho...
- How NSX Is Tapping into the Human Element Behind Network Virtualization
Virtualization can be a tricky concept for some people to wrap their heads around. Trying to explain the functionalities and benefits of technology like VMware NSX can quickly devolve into techno-babble. With that said, we’re trying to take another approach—a more human approach. Below are thre... - Security for Public Clouds (AWS) with vRealize Network Insight
Enterprise IT needs visibility into the network and security status of their workloads, whether hosted on premises, or within AWS. While many AWS workloads are sandboxes for application development teams (DevOps), it is important to analyze these workloads. Increasingly, public cloud workloads are a... - Enhancing Application Performance with NSX
The application performance gains resulting from migrating an infrastructure hosting multi-tier applications from a physical networking implementation to a NSX software-based one have been well documented. Bob Goldsand and Todd Muirhead, from our performance engineering team have been preaching ...
- Ovum: Picking your cloud management vendor just became easier
Ovum has just published its latest Ovum Decision Matrix (ODM) for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud management for 2018-2019, and VMware’s vRealize Cloud Management Suite is the clear winner! Download the report here. Selecting a cloud management vendor for your growing cloud needs is a strategic de... - Announcing: Wavefront and vRealize Operations Integration – Available with New vRealize Operations 6.7
Wavefront and vRealize Operations: Empowering IT to partner with Application teams through shared visibility VMware is announcing the integration of Wavefront and vRealize Operations, with the new vRealize Operations 6.7 release. vRealize Operations 6.7 extends App Monitoring with Wavefront to Trad... - Self-driving Operations: What’s New in vRealize Operations 6.7
VMware vRealize Operation 6.7: Self Driving Operations for the Data Center Today, VMware announced the upcoming release of vRealize Operations 6.7, introducing several new and enhanced performance and capacity optimization capabilities to help customers adopt a ‘self-driving’ approach to operations...
- Hello, Kubernetes 1.10
By Vladimir Vivien, Staff Engineer and Clint Kitson, Director Open Source Engineering Kubernetes 1.10 is out! This release continues to move important features through the alpha, beta and stable feature gates. Speaking of milestones, did you notice that the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted ... - Upcoming SREcon Features Cloud-Native Sessions
Too many unreliable systems in your life? Take note of what’s happening at SREcon, an industry conference for site reliability engineers brought to you by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, which has been bringing together the community of engineers and systems administrators around... - VMware Pivotal Container Service Hands-on Lab Is Now Live
By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware The Cloud-Native Apps Business Unit at VMware is pleased to announce that the VMware Pivotal Container Service Hands-on Lab, a new lab focused on Kubernetes and PKS, is now live. What Are VMware Hands-on Labs (HOL)? HOL comprises more than 80 ind...
VMware End-User Computing Blog
- Delivering Security and Scalability Across the Digital Workspace with Workspace ONE and F5 APM
According to a recent Forbes Insights and VMware CIO survey, empowered employees – those who have easy access to their apps from any device, are nearly five times more likely to report gains in personal productivity compared to traditional employees. And empowered employees are nearly 2 times more l... - Industry Expert Brian Madden Joins VMware EUC Team
The VMware End-User Computing team has had an exciting couple of weeks as we introduced the industry’s first intelligence-driven digital workspace and announced the acquisition of the technology and team of E8 Security. However, we know that in addition to offering the best solutions at VMware, we a... - Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure –Technical Walkthrough (Part 3) Adding your first Node
In part 2 of this blog series, I walked through the required setup within Microsoft Azure for networking and service principle creation. In part 3 of the blog series, I will be walking you through the steps to deploy your first Node with Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure. The process is reall...
- New KB articles published for week ending 25th March 2018
VMware vSphere Integrated Containers VCH creation wizard does not list any vSphere distributed switches in the dropdown list Date Published: 2018/03/19 VMware NSX for vSphere eBGP between DLR and Edge may experience a routing loop after upgrading to NSX-v 6.3.5 Date Published: 2018/03/20 VMwar... - New KB articles published for week ending 18th March 2018
VMware vRealize Business for Cloud Advanced Enabling and disabling local authentication for vRealize Business for Cloud Date Published: 2018/03/14 VMware vRealize Automation “HTTP Status 502” error when attempting to export the list of Managed Machines from the vRA Infrastructure tab Date Publi... - New KB articles published for week ending 11th March 2018
VMware SDDC Manager How to update the Cisco UCS C240 M5 servers in a VMware Cloud Foundation environment to allow for correct boot configuration Date Published: 2018/03/08 The VSAN and vMotion distributed port groups in a VMware Cloud Foundation environment have an incorrect MTU value Date Publi... - Top 20 NSX articles for February 2018
Virtual machine in ESXi is unresponsive with a non-paged pool memory leak Licensing vShield 1.x/5.0 VMs running on ESXi 5.5 with vShield endpoint activated fails during snapshot operations Performing vMotion or powering on a virtual machine being protected by vShield Endpoint fails When using ... - Top 20 vSAN articles for February 2018
Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products How to man...
- VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture Poster 2.3
VMware is pleased to release the latest VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) architecture poster. VCF is a fully automated, hyper-converged software stack that includes compute, storage, networking and cloud management. Because VCF has so many tightly integrated products, it is important to understand the ... - HPE Synergy and VMware Cloud Foundation – now certified
Author Bhumik Patel – Technical Alliances, VMware @bhumikp Introduction: As customers leverage VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to provide integrated Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) & cloud management services for running enterprise applications, it becomes critical to rely on an underlying pl... - Cloud Foundation 2.3.1 Reaches General Availability
VMware is pleased to announce the general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 2.3.1. We’ve introduced several new features and provided fixes for issues identified in previous releases. I’d like to present a quick overview of the new features in Cloud Foundation 2.3.1 in this article. New...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS VMGuru
- VMware NSX & OTRS – Automating Security with Help Desk Systems
Over the last couple of months, Sander, Anne Jan and I have been working on a security whitepaper that lays out a practical implementation of zero trust while interfacing with a helpdesk system. In this case, OTRS. It’s all about how engineers can get access... The post VMware NSX & OTRS... - vExpert 2018 Announcement – All VMGurus now vExperts
The VMware Social team announced the vExpert class of 2018 yesterday. With the acceptance of Dimitri into the vExpert program, I’m proud to say that all the VMGurus are now vExperts: vExpert Directory Some crazier than others, Erik has been a vExpert for a decade... The post vExpert 2018 Anno... - Deploying VeloCloud on VMware vSphere
Hopefully you’ve heard the good news that VMware has acquired VeloCloud, including SD-WAN into the software-defined portfolio. This is especially exciting to me, as I get to branch out a little more into the WAN space, being in the Networking & Security BU. For me,... The post Deploying V... - PowervRNI is now on PowerShell Gallery
PowerShell is about making things easy and consumable. Same goes for PowervRNI, making repetitive tasks in vRealize Network Insight easier and make it possible to extract information from vRNI. It’s not that easy to load a custom module into PowerShell though, you have to download... The post... - How to build a Hyper-Available Infrastructure – Part 1: Overview
In today’s digital world we highly depend on services and their corresponding data to be available 24/7. We are frantic about our digital life and demand the underlying infrastructures to be Hyper-available. While traveling through the region to visit customers and partners, I am highly... The post...
- Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 5: PKS Control Plane
Continuing with our PKS installation, we are now going to finish up with configuring and deploying the PKS Control Plane Tile which provides a frontend API that will be used by Cloud/Platform Operators to easily interact with PKS for provisioning and managing (create, delete, list, scale up/down) Ku... - Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 4: Ops Manager & BOSH
In this article, we will begin our PKS installation by deploying Pivotal Ops Manager which provides a management interface (UI/API) for Cloud/Platform Operators to manage the complete lifecycle of both BOSH and PKS from install, patch and upgrade. In addition, you can also deploy new application ser... - Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 3: NSX-T
In this article, we are now going to start configuring NSX-T so that it will be ready for us to install PKS and consume the networking and security services provided by NSX-T. The result is that PKS can deliver on demand provisioning of all NSX-T components: Container Network Interface (CNI), NSX-T ... - ESXi host with network redundancy using NSX-T and only 2 pNICs?
In todays data centers, it is not uncommon to find servers with only 2 x 10GbE network interfaces, this is especially true with the rise of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure over the last several years. For customers looking to deploy NSX-T with ESXi, there is an important physical network constraint t... - Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 2: PKS Client
In this article, we will configure the various command-line tools that will be used to interact with the PKS Platform which will then be consumed by either the Operators (managing the PKS infrastructure) and/or the the Developers (consumers of the Kubernetes Clusters). Below is a quick summary, desc...
- VMware vRealize Operations 6.7 Announced
A new release of VMware vRealize Operations 6.7 (vROPs) has been announced. As usual, we do not have the exact release date, but we have the details concerning what’s new in this release and how that will help VMware admins to manage vSphere environments. The product will provide troubleshooting det... - Hybrid IT With Active-Active Cloud Storage – StarWind Solution
We have already written about StarWind VTL which allows you to create air-gapped backups to blob storage. But Hyper-V admins using on-premises only instances might be interested in having a supported scenario with an active-active cloud storage in Azure. In fact, the shared storage between on-prem i... - Swiss Knife MobaXterm for Remote Administration Has also free version
For remote administration, there are tons of tools around. Paid and free. Today we’ll have a look at MobaXterm which is one of them. Previously we looked at few other tools such as mRemoteNG or RoyalTS. Remote administration is daily bread and butter of every IT admin so to test different software s... - VMware App Volumes Reviewer Guide – Grab Your Free Copy
Reviewer guides are very popular as they have step-by-step install/config guidance so whether you just doing a POC or trying to deploy it in the lab, it saves your time. You don’t have to search through the manual to understand the ins and outs. You have the guidance. VMware App Volumes Reviewer Gui... - Windows Server 2019 Announced
A new announce from Microsoft about an upcoming release of Windows Server 2019. The product is in an early stage of development but there has been quite a lot of details published already. No, Microsoft isn’t leaving the server space so Windows Server 2019 will not be free, but prepare to pay more f...
- Getting started with Cloudera Hadoop on vSphere
This past week, my buddy Paudie and I have been neck-deep in Cloudera/Hadoop, with a view to getting it successfully deployed on vSphere. The purpose of this was solely a learning exercise, to try to understand what operational considerations need to be taking into account when running Hadoop on top... - A closer look at VMware’s latest Cloud Launch
Today VMware has another cloud launch update, and this one is significant for many reasons. Our underlying goals of VMware Cloud are many. From an infrastructure perspective, the goal is to provide operational consistency no matter where the application is running, whether this is from an automation... - Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Sustainability and Green IT
I’m sure it will come as no surprise to many readers that virtualization has brought (and continues to bring) huge benefits with regards to data center efficiency. I’m sure you are all aware of how virtualization allows you to do more with your servers; no more single server – single application par... - Which policy changes can trigger a rebuild on vSAN?
Some time ago, I wrote about which policy changes can trigger a rebuild of an object. This came up again recently, as it was something that Duncan and I covered in our VMworld 2017 session on top 10 vSAN considerations. In the original post (which is over 3 years old now), I highlighted items like i... - A first look at AWS Greengrass on vSphere
Last week, I had the pleasure to attend our CTO Ambassadors conference, hosted by our Global Field CTO Chris Wolf. This was an excellent week, especially for someone like me who works directly for a single business unit at VMware. It gave me great insight into the activities going on in our other bu...
- The Future is Containerized
Last week I announced my departure from VMware, and my intention to step away from VMware’s products and platforms to focus on a new technology area moving forward. Today marks the “official” start of a journey that’s been building for a couple years, a journey that will take... - Technology Short Take 97
Welcome to Technology Short Take 97! This Tech Short Take marks the end of an era (sort of); it’s the last Tech Short Take published while I’m a VMware employee (today is my last day; see here for more details). But enough about me—let’s talk some tech! This Short Take may be... - Time to Evolve
I first started getting into VMware around 2003, possibly earlier (I can’t recall exactly when it was). I remember thinking that VMware’s impact on the industry was going to be significant, and I wanted to be part of this industry change. I was right—virtualization like what VMware... - Interop ITX, Dell Technologies World, and Spousetivities
Spousetivities will be present at two additional events this year—in fact, these events are only about 6 weeks away! Both Dell Technologies World and Interop ITX are in Las Vegas the last week of April (both starting April 30), and Spousetivities is running events for both conferences. <as... - Technology Short Take 96
Welcome to Technology Short Take 96! Ahead, lying in wait, is a unique collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Browse if you dare…OK, so I’m being a bit melodramatic. It’s still some good stuff here! Networking Via Matt Oswalt and Mic...
- Is 2018 the year of VVols?
Next month VMware’s new Virtual Volumes (VVols) storage architecture will turn 3 years old as it was released as part of vSphere 6.0 in March of 2015. Since it’s initial release adoption has been very slow, I believe VMware estimates less than 2% of customers are using VVols. So will 201... - VMworld 2018 Call For Papers is open – here’s how to get people to vote for and attend your session
VMware just announced that the Call for Papers for VMworld 2018 is now open until March 13th. Just like last year, this year VMware has opened early compared to the usual March-April period of years past. Remember VMworld US is again back in Vegas this year at the Mandalay Bay from Aug. 26th-30th, V... - Automating Storage Provisioning using VMware vRealize Orchestrator
I finally got my company to get on board with an external webinar platform and I get to kick off the very first webinar on BrightTalk.The topic is on vRealize Orchestrator integration with the 3PAR platform as an example, I promise this will be a technical webinar and not a sales pitch so if you ... - A new job for me and reflecting on 2017
2017 was a bit of a tough year for me mainly due to the major surgery that my daughter Sophia had and the subsequent very painful recovery from it. I’d have to say that was one of the most difficult and stressful things that I have been through in my life and I am very … Continue readin... - 2017 VVols year in review
I tend to write a lot about VMware VVols these days as I believe VMware’s new storage architecture has many benefits and VVols is the future of storage for vSphere. In this post I thought I would highlight and recap some of the posts that I did in 2017 related to VVols and you have … Co...
- Its time for change, and change = renewed invention, renewed vigor, renewed discovery.
I’m going to make this a two-part post. Part 1 = what is in the rear-view window? Part 2 = what’s out the front windshield? Part 1: CPSD and Dell EMC are in my rear-view window. First, while want to close the chapter behind me - it’s a flawed analogy, because it suggests some sort of “finality”. ... - The best athletes (and VxBlock 1000) = faster, higher, stronger!
In watching the Olympics, it’s amazing to see athletes doing amazing things – frankly it’s inspiring. Sometimes it’s a new star rising – something new (amazing Chloe Kim!) . Sometimes it’s a veteran pulling a “Michael Phelps” – producing every 4 years (see Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer). I’m not... - What a start to the year...
It's been a crazy couple days on a couple fronts, but the most material front has certainly been Spectre and Meltdown. There are lots of sources, and the trick is that while distinctly the root cause lies in the CPU domain and with the CPU manufacturers- the impact touches nearly everything. It's b... - To allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017. It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of a massive integration through the Dell acquisition – with a ton of learning, a ton of personal d... - Looking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position. They are officially my opinions – which means they aren’t worth more than 2 cents. They aren’t authored by anyone...
- NSX east west traffic optimization with the DLR
The Universal Distributed Logical Router is installed in the kernel of every ESXi host, as such it requires a VM to provide the control plane. The universal distributed logical router Control VM is the control plane component of the routing process, providing communication between NSX Manage... - Free eBook: Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.5: Insights for vSphere Administrators
This eBook is written for vSphere administrators looking for additional information to help plan and execute the upgrade process. It contains reference scenarios that explain upgrade concepts that can be applied to just about any situation, including upgrading from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6.5, ... - Free e-learning course - Introduction to Apteligent
This course details the features and benefits of Apteligent and describes its application in mobile app management. You will gain the skills to make the most of the Apteligent software. This course demonstrates how to access and navigate major components of the Apteligent user interface and ... - VMware vSAN 6.6 Technical Introduction, White Paper and a Free Hands-on Lab
New Technical White Paper: VMware vSAN 6.6 Technical Overview You can also explore vSAN’s features—data-encryption at rest, deduplication and compression, RAID 5/6 erasure encoding, iSCSI Target support and more—in a free Hands-on Lab, the fastest and easiest way to test-drive vSAN, no insta... - VMware Cloud Briefing
VMware and AWS leaders share essential updates, demos, and partners program news. Make sure you tune in to hear more about the bold strategy and global expansion on the horizon for VMware Cloud in 2018. ...
- How to Install VMware vSphere Perl SDK on Debian 9 (stretch)
Download the latest Perl SDK for your vSphere version from code.vmware.com and copy it to the system. The download is free, but an My VMware account is required. vSphere Perl SDK for vSphere 6.5 vSphere Perl SDK for vSphere 6.0 vSphere …Read more »... - Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »... - Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »... - Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi... - Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »...
- What is Redfish?
Redfish is an open industry standard specification, API and schema developed by DMTF (SPMF) group that specifies RESTful interface and utilizes JSON and OData. Redfish has been designed to deliver simple and secure management for converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). Crea... - DataWorks Summit 2018 Berlin
DataWorks Summit (formelly Hadoop Summit) is the industry’s premier big data community event with both an European and US edition, organized annualy by Hortonworks Inc, an independent company, formed in June 2011 and funded by $23 million venture capital from Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital. The last E... - April 2018 IT events
Interesting European IT events: MPLS + SDN + NFV World – Paris (Apr 10-13) DataWorks Summit – Berlin (Apr 16-19) Microsoft TechSummit – Stockolm (Apr 17-18) IoT Tech Expo Global – London (Apr 18-19) TECHunplugged – Amsterdam (Apr 19) Telco Cloud Forum 2018 – Londo... - The reborn of Violin Systems
Many people probably remember Violin Memory and it’s products, probably one of the first in the All Flash Array (AFA) field. Founded in 2005 as Violin Technologies by Donpaul Stephens and Jon Bennett. I’ve talk about them several times (see for example this 2012 post: Powering the cloud ... - BranchScope: a new vulnerability for Intel CPU
Now that Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities are almost fixed, there is a new critical vulnerability for several Intel CPU called BranchScope, discovered by some researchers from four universities. It’s again a speculative execution issue, in the method a processor uses to predict where its c...
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