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Hi everyone, one of the hardest aspects of moving workloads to the cloud, or keeping them on-prem is what will the cost be. As tech professionals we are often very busy working on the design, implementation and migration aspects of a potential hybrid or public cloud service offer, but we don't spend enough time understanding the cost implications. VMware provides Cost Insight which in their words "is a cost monitoring and optimization service for public and private clouds that helps IT analyze and track cloud spend, identify key cost drivers, find savings opportunities and communicate the cost of services to the business.". Cost Insight is currently available as a free trial here and is well worth including in your cloud project.

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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE

VMware Radius

  • Q&A with Women Who Code’s Jennifer Tacheff on Women in Tech
    Women of Silicon Valley brought together industry trailblazers last month to share their stories on the importance of female role models within the tech sphere. A significant discussion at the conference centered around creating strategies for addressing the gender gap, measuring the effectiveness o...
  • Hutto ISD Embraces a New Generation of Security While Offering New Digital Experiences to Students
    Hutto Independent School District is one of the fastest growing public school districts in Hutto, Texas. With over 7,000 students and 1,000 staff members, it is growing at about five percent a year and welcomes approximately 300 new students each year. However, with the surge in enrollment and the i...
  • Beyond the Hype Cycle: What Can We Really Expect with 5G?
    The idea of the innovator’s dilemma comes from Harvard professor Clayton Christensen who argues that successful companies can do everything right but still lose market leadership when unexpected competitors emerge, disrupt, and take over markets. As an antidote, he advises that leading companies eng...

VMware Open Source Blog

  • How Tern Can Make Your Compliance Chores More Interesting
    I am the maintainer of a neat little open source project called Tern. It inspects a container image and finds the metadata of the packages that are installed in it. This information can be used to solve some basic container compliance issues created by container build tools. This previous blog post,...
  • Beyond Code: Five “Secret” Practices for Open Source Success
    You’ve scrubbed your code, completed your patches, tested and tested again. So, now you are ready to open source your code, right? Maybe not. See, achieving open source success is more complex than that. There are factors beyond code that you could—indeed should—be thinking about to maximize your pr...
  • Helm Chart for Harbor 1.4.0 Is Now Ready – and Merged into the Harbor GitHub Repo
    Project Harbor is a popular open source enterprise-class registry server that stores and distributes Docker images. Kubernetes Helm is a widely used tool for managing Kubernetes charts, i.e. packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources. In response to user demand, the Harbor team has been working...

VMware vSphere Blog

  • New vSphere 6.5 DRS White Paper released
    This week I published a new white paper about vSphere 6.5 DRS. Most customers have been using vSphere DRS for over a decade, yet the technology is updated with each vSphere release. vSphere 6.5 contains plenty of new options that align with today’s use of virtualization. This whitepaper provides an ...
  • 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...

Network Virtualization

  • NSX-T Automation with Terraform
    Do you want to maintain your network and security infrastructure as a code? Do you want to automate NSX-T? One more option has been just added for you! Following my previous post about NSX-T: OpenAPI and SDKs you might have figured out how easy it is to generate different language bindings for NSX-...
  • VMware Cloud on AWS with Direct Connect: NSX Networking and vMotion to the Cloud with Demo
    Check out my prior below blogs here on VMware Network Virtualization blog on how NSX is leveraged in VMware Cloud on AWS to provide all the networking and security features. These prior blogs provide a foundation that this blog post builds on. In this blog post I discuss how AWS Direct Connect can b...
  • 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...

VMware Cloud Management

  • vRealize Suite Featured on New VCF 2.3 Architecture Poster
    A recently-released VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture Poster 2.3 focuses on vRealize Suite that is now part of VCF 2.3! Cloud Management is core and center to a successful hybrid cloud. Therefore, VMware vRealize Suite – named the best Cloud Management Platform in this analyst’s research – is fe...
  • VMware Application Proxy: Manage Your Wavefront Telegraf Agents with vRealize Operations 6.7
    In his blog post last week, Henry Guo introduced a new integration between Wavefront and vRealize Operations 6.7, to extend application monitoring with Wavefront to provide IT control and developer agility. This is a fantastic new capability that allows customers using vRealize Operations 6.7 to ...
  • Workload Optimization – The Key to your Self-Driving Datacenter!
    vRealize Operations 6.7 is here and it comes loaded with great new features that will make your life better!  Included in these is an improved capacity engine to help you better manage your environment, integrated cost analysis so you know how much your environment actually costs and where you can s...

Cloud-Native Apps

  • Spring is in the air. Join VMware at the Boston Cloud Foundry Summit!
    The Boston Cloud Foundry Summit kicks off on April 18 with the Cloud Foundry User Day. Organized as an unconference, this is the meeting place for Cloud Foundry users to share ideas, best practices and lessons learned. All Cloud Foundry users and prospective users are invited to attend! VMware will...
  • 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 End-User Computing Blog

Support Insider

  • New KB articles published for week ending 8th April 2018
    VMware vRealize Operations Manager Horizon Dashboards display “No Data” in vRealize Operations Manager 6.x. Date Published: 2018/04/03 VMware SDDC Manager VMware Cloud Foundation update for environments upgraded from 2.1.x to 2.3.x Date Published: 2018/04/05 VMware Cloud Foundation update for ...
  • Top 20 vSAN articles for March 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 “The ramdi...
  • Top 20 NSX articles for March 2018
    Guest Introspection memory usage spikes to 90+% or you see the error: “Lost communication with ESX module” in NSX-V 6.2.x and 6.3.x Deploying NSX Controller fails in NSX-v 6.3.3 and 6.3.4 Troubleshooting vShield Endpoint / NSX Guest Introspection ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEve...
  • Top 20 vSphere articles for March 2018
    vCenter Appliance root Partition 100% full due to Audit.log files not being rotated “invalid credentials LDAP Error 49” error when starting Inventory Services in vCenter Server 6.x Important information before upgrading to vSphere 6.5 Unable to log in to the root account of vCenter Server Appli...
  • New KB articles published for week ending 1st April 2018
    VMware NSX for vSphere “using –physdev-out in the OUTPUT, FORWARD and POSTROUTING chains for non-bridged traffic is not supported anymore” reported in NSX Edge logs Date Published: 2018/03/30 NETSCOUT vSCOUT For NSX-v 6.2 and 6.3 Date Published: 2018/03/27 VMware vSphere Integrated Containers ...

Cloud Foundation

  • Patching Made Easy with VMware Cloud Foundation
    A common challenge faced by every IT department is keeping up with the inevitable and never-ending flow of software updates. This becomes even more critical in a modern Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), where compute, network and storage virtualization are interwoven into a unified data center fa...
  • 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...

 

EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS VMGuru

  • Managing Puppet code with a source control repository
    Last couple of months I’ve been working closely with Puppet. I wrote some blogs about it, recorded a VMware vRA Expert Talk video and had two successful events in the Netherlands where I presented and demo’ed the Puppet Enterprise integration with VMware vRealize Automation. For... The ...
  • 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...

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ESX Virtualization

  • Project Honolulu and Windows Server 2019
    We were playing with Windows Server 2019 (Tech Preview) in the lab, as well as with Project Honolulu. The Windows Server 2019 was installed on vSphere 6.5 in the lab, as a new VM with default settings of Windows Server 2016. As you can imagine, everything worked as it should. After installing VMware...
  • Multiple Points in Time of a VM within VMware vSphere Replication (VR)
    vSphere Replication which is present within a VMware product suite since a long time. It is a built-in feature of VMware ESXi hypervisor. However, it’s only an additional deployment and configuration of vSphere Replication appliances which “sits” between two ESXi hosts which actually enables that re...
  • Setup Faster and more secure DNS Resolution With CloudFlare
    If you don’t know CloudFlare you’re missing out. I’m using their service for years for my ESX Virtualization blog. They provide with DNS resolution, caching, security, SSL, analytics. Tons of services (free and paid). Today we’ll talk about how to Setup Faster DNS Resolution With CloudFlare. In fact...
  • DBeaver is an SQL client and a database administration tool – Free Alternative to SQL Server Management Studio
    We’re getting some questions lately about Free alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Yesterday’s post was one of the tools which are available – Microsoft SQL Operations Studio – Free Tool. That was a tool from Microsoft. But there are others. One of them is DBeaver which is a mult...
  • Microsoft SQL Operations Studio – Free Tool
    There is a new free software from Microsoft (preview for now) which allows you to manage databases. As you know, previously I have blogged about 5 Free Alternatives to Microsoft SQL Management Studio, so this post is kind of a follow up on that. Microsoft SQL Operations Studio can manage SQL Server,...

CormacHogan.com

  • Building a simple ESXi host overlay network with NSX-T
    I’ve recently begun to look at NSX-T. My long-term goal is to use it to enable me to build multiple Kubernetes clusters used PKS, the Pivotal Container Service. The hope is then to look at some cool storage related items with Kubernetes. But first things first. Kudos to both Sam McGeown and William ...
  • 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...

Scott's Weblog

  • 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...

Welcome to vSphere-land!

  • 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...

Virtual Geek

  • 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...

Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

  • New Book - VMware NSX Cookbook
    This book written by Bayu Wibowo and Tony Sangha begins with a brief introduction to VMware's NSX for vSphere Network Virtualization solutions and how to deploy and configure NSX components and features such as Logical Switching, Logical Routing, layer 2 bridging and the Edge Services Gateway. ...
  • vRealize Operations 6.7 - Workload Optimization Overview
    vRealize Operation's new Workload Optimization feature is a main component of your self-driving datacenter.  The idea behind a self-driving datacenter is you just define your business and operational intent and then "take your hands off the wheel" and let vRealize Operations drive.  It will m...
  • VMware NSX 6.4 - Application Rule Manager Enhancements
    With the release of VMware NSX 6.4, we have made several enhancements to the Application Rule Manager including improved context awareness, automatic recommendations for firewall rule sets, and easier and faster time to value for Day 2 operations. In this video, we’ll go through the enhancem...
  • 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, ...

Virten.net

  • 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 »...

vInfrastructure Blog

  • VMware vForum Online 2018
    VMware vForum Online provides expert insight that can help drive innovation for your organization. It’s a must-attend event for IT professionals who are driving their digital transformation and building a hyper-converged IT infrastructure. It includes virtual exhibits, a keynote presentation, ...
  • What is Swordfish?
    Storage management is something unique and quite depending by the storage vendor. Solutions like VMware Virtual Volumes can simplify it by providing a common interface, but it’s more on the usage and consuming part, rather than the storage management part. The SNIA (Storage Network Industry As...
  • Datrium releases DVX 4.0
    Datrium announced the shipment of DVX 4.0 Software, the third major software release in less than a year. Datrium DVX converges Tier 1 hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with scale-out backup and cloud disaster recovery (DR) and Cloud-Native Data Services. Datium promises that DVX enables up to 10 ...
  • Rubrik launches Polaris SaaS platform
    Rubrik has announced the launch of Rubrik Polaris, a SaaS platform for Data Management Applications. Rubrik Polaris delivers a unified system of record across all business applications and data for seamless security, compliance, and governance. Rubrik Polaris revolutionizes the data management marke...
  • Redfish support for DellEMC PowerEdge
    Redfish is the new standard, promoted by Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), for secure and scalable server management automation. With Redfish, the challenges of expanded scale, higher security, and multi-vendor openness are managed, while also enabling automation with modern DevOps tools and...


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