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Hi everyone and welcome to another feature packed TAM Newsletter. Do you know that VMware has a large Open Source presence on Github? Take a look at https://vmware.github.io and you will find all of our Open Source Software projects for you to browse, contribute to and download. One of my favorites is the Clarity Design System. This is a full HTML and CSS framework for building experiences. It is provided as Open Source and is a very active project with many releases which you can follow on Twitter @VMwareClarity.
I hope you find these useful and urge you to take a look at the catalog at https://vmware.github.io.
I wish you all a fantastic week ahead.
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
- VMware Cloud Providers Put Hybrid Cloud Benefits Within Easy Reach
Over a half million organizations worldwide run their IT infrastructure with VMware technologies. To accelerate their transition to the hybrid cloud, VMware partners with over 4,100 top cloud providers across more than 110 countries, including IBM. The vast number of companies already running the V... - Best Employers 2018: VMware Named #21 by Forbes
Where are the Best Places to Work? Each year, Forbes partners with market research company Statista to poll 30,000 U.S. employees. With this data, the companies compile a country-wide ranking of the best employers of 2018. This year, VMware is excited to announce that the company ranks #21 on Forbe... - Next Major Cloud Markets Could Be Least Expected
Duncan Hewett, senior vice president and general manager for VMware in Asia Pacific and Japan, shares his insights from on the ground. As organizations in developing countries leapfrog to advanced technologies, conditions are ripening for nascent markets to surge ahead with the cloud. Today’s deve...
- VMware’s Dirk Hohndel on Why the Crux of Open Source Is Always People
KubeCon EU took Copenhagen by storm last week, and VMware was on-hand to display many of our open source projects and hold a week-long series of open source office hours that attracted many KubeCon attendees. Of particular note, VMware Chief Open Source Officer Dirk Hohndel delivered a keynote addre... - Announcing the IoT Analytics Benchmark
By Dave Jaffe, performance engineering, VMware Now available from VMware, the IoT Analytics Benchmark is a simulation of data analytics being performed in real-time on an Internet of Things data stream (i.e. factory machines being monitored for impending failure conditions) using a machine learning ... - Why Network Segmentation Leads to an Overall More Secure Home Network
We are living at the start of a golden age of computing. Prices have plummeted on computational costs, it’s gotten much simpler to build electronic devices and we’re almost at the point where simple sensors and some compute are disposable. Just look at your favorite retailer for proof of all the thi...
- Upgrade Considerations for VMware vSphere 6.7
Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.7 With the recent excitement of vSphere 6.7 being released to the public, it’s only natural that a lot of discussion has revolved around upgrades. How do we upgrade, or even why should we upgrade have been the most popular questions recently. In this post I will cover ... - vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS at Dell Technologies World 2018
Are you planning to attend Dell Technologies World this year? So is the vSphere team! We’re excited to be part of the show, and to talk about all the ways the latest version of vSphere can help you support the demands of your business customers. Do you have questions? We would love to meet with you ... - Introducing VMware vSphere 6.7!
We are excited to share that today VMware is announcing vSphere 6.7, the latest release of the industry-leading virtualization and cloud platform. vSphere 6.7 is the efficient and secure platform for hybrid clouds, fueling digital transformation by delivering simple and efficient management at scale...
- Boston Medical Center Secures Electronic Patient Records with VMware NSX
Boston City Hospital and Boston University Medical Center Hospital merged in 1996 to form Boston Medical Center (BMC). This 497-bed teaching hospital in the South End of Boston provides primary and critical care to a diverse population and houses the largest Level 1 trauma center in New Englan... - Micro-segmentation Starter Kit
Traditional security solutions are designed to protect the perimeter. As applications and data are becoming increasingly distributed, they are often spanning not only multiple sites, but also multiple clouds. This is making it harder to identify where the perimeter actually is in order to secure i... - Two-Factor Authentication with VMware NSX-T
In a previous post, I covered how to integrate NSX-T with VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) to achieve remote user authentication and role-based access control (RBAC) for users registered with a corporate Active Directory (AD). On this post, I’m showing how add two-factor authentication (2FA) for N...
- May 16th Webinar: More Usability Improvements of vRealize Automation and vRealize Life Cycle Manager
On May 16th, we will be hosting another Getting More Out of VMware webinar. The webinar is designed for Cloud Administrators and VI Administrators who leverage vRealize Suite products, such as vRealize Automation, to run their virtual infrastructure and cloud environment. It will be a great opportu... - Decision Driven Provisioning with Anything as a Service (XaaS)
Decision Driven Provisioning with XaaS To me, the power of vRealize Automation has always been how easy it is to take square pegs and fit them into round holes. Generally this capability comes in the form of leveraging “Anything as a Service”, also known as XaaS. XaaS allows you to take any vRealiz... - Customizing request forms using the new Custom Forms
Custom Forms is a new future in vRA 7.4. They give you the opportunity to redesign and apply a new look and fill for vRA forms. They provide a rich set of features, such as the ability to re-order the components in the form, many different types of field validations, the ability to use generic compo...
- Enable the Easy Button to Bridge the Worlds of Containers and VMs — Watch Pat Gelsinger’s Keynote at Dell Technologies World on VMware Pivotal Container Service
Ning Ge, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Cloud-Native Apps, VMware At last week’s Dell Technologies World, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered a keynote speech on stage where he talked about Pivotal Container Service (PKS), the Kubernetes solution brought to you by VMware with Pivotal, in collaborati... - Red Hat Summit returns to the City by the Bay
By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud-Native Apps On the heels of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, we’re following up on the cloud-native momentum and heading to the City by the Bay for Red Hat Summit, May 8-10, 2018. We have two theater sessions devoted to the synergies between Kub... - VMware Pivotal Container Service Journeys to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud-Native Apps We’re following up our VMware SIG announcement with some exciting plans for our presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen. On the heels of the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, we’re starting to see the Cloud Foundry an...
VMware End-User Computing Blog
- A Sneak-peek at App Volumes 2.14
App Volumes 2.14 In App Volumes 2.14, we are delivering innovation in three key areas: Improved security Volume attachment performance for improved user experience User data management In addition, starting with this current release, App Volumes will support Windows 10 Semi-Annual Channel (... - Announcing a More Secure, Productive Experience Across VMware Boxer and Office 365
If you read the EUC blog regularly, you’re probably already aware that the Workspace ONE platform supports a wealth of integrations across platforms, devices, security, apps, identity and more. Today, I’m excited to announce a new solution that bridges the security and experience of the Workspace ON... - What’s New with Horizon 7 – VMWare Cloud on AWS, JMP Workflow, and More!
We’re excited to announce Horizon 7.5 – with this release we continue to raise the bar for management simplicity. Customers rely on Horizon 7 for large-scale deployments of virtual desktops and applications in the enterprise, making management simplicity very important – it means less time and expen...
- New KB articles published for week ending 6th May 2018
VMware vRealize Operations Manager Unable to select virtual distributed switch port groups while deploying vRealize Operations Manager through the plugin UI in vCenter Date Published: 2018/04/30 Cassandra corrupted system schema files in vRealize Operations Manager 6.x Date Published: 2018/04/30 VMw... - Top 20 vSAN articles for April 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 ramdisk “v... - Top 20 NSX articles for April 2018
Deploying NSX Controller fails in NSX-v 6.3.3 and 6.3.4 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 ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEventDelayedDispatchCB@com Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TL... - Top 20 vSphere articles for April 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 Appliance... - New KB articles published for week ending 29th April 2018
VMware vRealize Automation vRealize Automation Management Interface: IaaS Certificates: “Error calling OpenSSL tools.” after upgrading to 7.3 Date Published: 2018/04/23 VMware SDDC Manager VMware Cloud Foundation ESXi host upgrade fails at VUM_STAGE_TAKE_BACKUP Date Published: 2018/04/23 A NETWORK_D...
- 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 virtuallyGhetto
- Cool browser plugin for Dark Theme vSphere H5 Client
While catching up on my news feed early this morning, I came across a really slick browser plugin developed by Jens L. that enables a "Dark" theme for the vSphere HTML5 Client (h5client). If you use either Chrome or Firefox, simply visit Bery's Github site here to get a link to the plugin. Once the ... - Changes to vSphere Client Login UI customizations in vSphere 6.7
For those that have customized their vSphere Client Login UI using the instructions here and here, it looks like the process can not be applied to the vSphere 6.7 release. From what I can tell, it looks like we have now consolidated the various WAR files into a single file /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware... - Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 11: Application Monitoring
In this blog post, we will take a look at using VMware Wavefront, a recent acquisition, that is a leading SaaS based metrics and monitoring solutions for Cloud Native Applications. Wavefront supports monitoring Kuberenetes (K8S) and many other applications, but what is really neat about Wavefront is... - Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 10: Infrastructure Monitoring
In this blog post, we go through and configure VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) which Cloud Admins/Platforms Operators can take advantage of to help with monitoring and alerting on the underlying PKS infrastructure (compute, storage & networking). In addition, through the use of vROps ... - New Instant Clone Architecture in vSphere 6.7 – Part 2
In the previous article, I provided an overview of the new "Parentless" Instant Clone feature which was introduced in vSphere 6.7 and some of the architectural differences between prior versions of Instant Clone. In this post, I will show you how to use the new Instant Clone feature, which is curren...
- VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better for a Reasonable $200/Year
This has been in my draft for ages and I apologize for that not publish about this earlier. I’m sure that most likely everyone knows, BUT just to make sure that all my readership gets the message too. Today I’d like to highlight that VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better [&... - Win an all-expenses-paid trip to VMworld US or Europe
VMware HOL organizes a raffle which will end in about a week (24th of May). You can win a trip to VMworld US or Europe (your choice) by taking a HOL lab. Not only a trip to VMworld but all-expenses paid (travel and hotel). The announcement says “Take any eligible Hands-on Lab and enter to win [̷... - Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI – Two methods
After yesterday’s upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO, which is the easiest method, today we’ll explore two other ones of upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI. One of the methods will use directly the Internet so you’ll need an Internet connection on the host you’ll want to upgrade. The second method will us... - How To Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO
Today a quick lab post which shows how simple is to upgrade VMware ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO image. There are several ways of upgrading standalone ESXi hosts, and via the ISO image it’s just so simple that I wanted to show this for the newcomers and people who just starting with VMware technology. [&#... - VMware vCSA 6.7 Appliance Backup Setup and Schedule
One of the new features present in vSphere 6.7 appliance (vCSA 6.7) is the possibility to setup a schedule for backups. Previous releases has had already the backup feature built-in but not the backup schedule. In this post we will eplore the VMware vCSA 6.7 appliance backup setup and schedule. Befo...
- Next steps with NSX-T Edge – Routing and BGP
If you’ve been following along on my NSX-T adventures, you’ll be aware that at this point we have our overlay network deployed, and our NSX-T edge has been setup to with DHCP servers attached to my logical switch, which in turn provides IP addresses to my virtual machines. This is all fine and well,... - Performance Checklist now available for vSAN benchmarking
Hot on the heels of the vSAN 6.7 release, a new performance checklist for vSAN benchmarking has now been published on our StorageHub site. This is the result of a project that I started a few months back with my colleague, Paudie O’Riordan. It builds upon a huge amount of groundwork that was already... - My highlights from KubeCon and CloudNativeCon, Europe 2018
This week I attended KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2018 in Copenhagen. I had two primary goals during this visit: (a) find out what was happening with storage in the world of Kubernetes (K8s), and (b) look at how people were doing day 2 operations, monitoring, logging, etc, as well as the challenges on... - PKS – Networking Setup Tips and Tricks
In my previous post, I showed how to deploy Pivotal Container Services (PKS) on a simplified flat network. In this post, I will highlight some of the issues one might encounter if you wish to deploy PKS on a more complex network topology. For example, you may have vCenter Server on a vSphere managem... - A simple Pivotal Container Service (PKS) deployment
This post will walk you through a simplified PKS (Pivotal Container Service) deployment in my lab. The reason why I say this is simplified is because all of the components will be deployed on a single flat network. PKS has a number of network dependencies. These include the bosh agents deployed on t...
- Technology Short Take 99
Welcome to Technology Short Take 99! What follows below is a collection of various links and articles about (mostly) data center-related technologies. Hopefully something I’ve included will be useful. Here goes! Networking David Gee makes the connection between coffee and network automation... - Installing GitKraken on Fedora 27
GitKraken is a full-featured graphical Git client with support for multiple platforms. Given that I’m trying to live a multi-platform life, it made sense for me to give this a try and see whether it is worth making part of my (evolving and updated) multi-platform toolbelt. Along the way, thoug... - An Updated Look at My Multi-Platform Toolbelt
In early 2017 I posted about my (evolving) multi-platform toolbelt, describing some of the applications, standards, and services that I use across my Linux and macOS systems. In this post, I’d like to provide an updated review of that toolbelt. Visual Studio Code: I switched from Sublime Tex... - Technology Short Take 98
Welcome to Technology Short Take #98! Now that I’m starting to get settled into my new role at Heptio, I’ve managed to find some time to pull together another collection of links and articles pertaining to various data center technologies. Feedback is always welcome! Networking VMware... - List of Kubernetes Folks on Twitter
Earlier this morning, I asked on Twitter about good individuals to follow on Twitter for Kubernetes information. I received quite a few good responses (thank you!), and I though it might be useful to share the list of the folks that were recommended across all those responses. The list I’ve c...
- Top vBlog 2018 starting soon, make sure your site is included
I’ll be kicking off Top vBlog 2018 very soon and my vLaunchPad website is the source for the blogs included in the Top vBlog voting each year so please take a moment and make sure your blog is listed. Every year I get emails from bloggers after the voting starts wanting to be added but … Con... - Configuration maximum changes in vSphere 6.7
A comparison using the Configuration Maximum tool for vSphere shows the following changes between vSphere 6.5 & 6.7. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]... - Important information to know before upgrading to vSphere 6.7
vSphere 6.7 is here and with support for vSphere 5.5 ending soon (Sept.) many people will be considering upgrading to it. Before you rush in though there is some important information about this release that you should be aware of. First let’s talk upgrade paths, you can’t just upgrade f... - vSphere 6.7 Link-O-Rama
Your complete guide to all the essential vSphere 6.7 links from all over the VMware universe. Bookmark this page and keep checking back as it will continue to grow as new links are added everyday. Also be sure and check out the Planet vSphere-land feed for all the latest blog posts from the Top 100 ... - Summary of What’s New in vSphere 6.7
Today VMware announced vSphere 6.7 coming almost a year and a half after the release of vSphere 6.5. Doesn’t look like the download is quite available yet but it should be shortly. Below is the What’s New document from the Release Candidate that summarizes most of the big things new in t...
- 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...
- vRealize Automation 7.4 What's New
VMware vRealize Automation 7.4 continues to improve the speed and ease of automating delivery of your IT services with the introduction of Custom Forms, OVF Blueprints, Optimized Placement with vRealize Operations and MUCH MORE! ... - vSAN Effective Capacity
https://kauteetech.github.io/vsancapacity/ ... - VMware Education releases new training courses
VMware education has released new training courses that align with the recent release of vSphere 6.7. They are also offering a brand-new training course for Network Insight and the 6.4 version of the NSX ICM and troubleshooting course. VMware vSphere: What's New [V5.5 to V6.7] VMware vSph... - Free e-learning course - VMware Horizon Cloud Fundamentals (2018)
This course explains the architecture, features, benefits, and functionality of the two service offerings of Horizon Cloud, VMware Horizon Cloud Service with Hosted Infrastructure and VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure. The objectives are: Explain how Horizon Cloud delivers desktops ... - User Profiles as a Service - Getting Desktops to the Cloud & Ready for DaaS
The folks over at Liquidware have come up with another first in our industry with their latest version of ProfileUnity, 6.7.6. They’ve included in this latest release the first ever enterprise cloud storage solution for user profiles. What does this mean to users and admins though? Well, Deskt...
- vCenter Service Appliance 6.7 Tips and Tricks
VMware is moving their vCenter Server from Windows to the Linux based Photon OS. The following tips and tricks might come handy when working with the vCenter Service Appliance 6.7: Enable SSH File Transfer with SCP/SFTP Public Key Authentication Disable …Read more »... - Free ESXi 6.7 - How to Download and get License Keys
vSphere 6.7 has been released and as known from previous versions, VMware provides a free version of their Hypervisor ESXi for everyone again. The license key can be created for free at VMware's website. It has no expiration date. The …Read more »... - VMware ESXi 6.7 - IO Devices not certified for upgrade
Beside Server Hardware, also double check if your IO Devices (eg. NIC, HBA,..) are supported when updating ESXi hosts from VMware vSphere 6.5 to 6.7. The following devices were supported in vSphere 6.5 but are according to VMware's HCL not (yet) …Read more »... - VMware ESXi 6.7 - Hardware not yet certified for upgrade
Double check your vendor support when updating ESXi hosts from to vSphere 6.7. Some systems have not been certified by their vendor yet. The following servers were supported in vSphere 6.5 but are according to VMware's HCL not yet supported in …Read more »... - VMware vSphere 6.7 Configuration Maximums Changes
VMware vSphere 6.7 offers increased scalability. You can see a comparison against all previous versions at my ESX and vCenter Configuration Maximums page. Changes in VMware vSphere 6.7 are: Virtual Machine Maximums vSphere 6.7 vSphere 6.5 vSphere 6.0 NVDIMM controllers 1 …Read more »...
- VMworld 2018 – Where and when
As happened in the past, VMworld 2018 will be in the same locations, both for the US and the European editions: again Las Vegas and Barcelona. Those will be the dates for both events: VMworld 2018 US: will be in Las Vegas from August 26 to August 30 VMworld 2018 EU: will be in Barcelona from Novembe... - Why upgrade to VMware vSphere 6.7 (or why not)
This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the pro and cons of an upgrade to vSphere 6.7. See also the original post. Now that VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced and it’s also available in General Availability (GA), some people may ask if it makes sense upgrade to this version (... - Nutanix .NEXT 2018
The first Nutanix .NEXT event was in the late 2015 and there were several changes in the company, in the products and in the event content. Now there well be a new Nutanix .NEXT event, from May 8 to 10 at New Orleans. Still 3 days (or two full) as usual, but a lot of difference, if you are looking a... - Windows Server 2016 reboot after hot-adding CPU in vSphere 6.5
Seeams that there is an issue in CPU hot-add on Windows Server 2016 running in VMware vSphere 6.5, but it’s something hard to reproduce this issues on a different systems. Because on most systems it works correctly, but, at least in a case, the CPU hot add does not work as expected. On the ... - VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 2
VMware has just released the new vSphere 6.7 only a few weeks ago, but now it’s the turn to update the previous version: vSphere 6.5 Update 2 is now available, with some interesting news. New builds will be 8307201 for vCenter and 8294253 for ESXi. The official vSphere documentation is already...
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