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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
- Empowering Employees Makes Good Business Sense
Claire Dixon, chief communications officer and senior VP, VMware Innovation comes from people. That means businesses need to work for employees, giving workers the technologies they need to be more creative. A single, simple theme resonated across all the sessions during Employees First: The Econom... - Employee Productivity and EFES Rus Brewing Company
EFES Rus brewing company was one of the four largest players in the Russian beer market. But being in one of the number two spots was on this team’s mind. By increasing its operational and cost efficiency, EFES Rus was hoping to strengthen its market position in order to achieve that goal. What soon... - Driving Female Leadership: A Collaboration with Stanford
VMware contributes $15 million to the Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab to focus on research on systemic biases in the workplace in the pursuit of advancing female leadership VMware’s Chief People Officer Betsy Sutter at the 2017 WT2 Conference At the 3rd annual Women Transforming Technology (WT2)...
- Looking Ahead as Open vSwitch Hits Its First Decade
Earlier this year, Open vSwitch received the 2018 Software Systems Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) annual Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) in Los Angeles. The award recognizes a software system that’s been instrumental to SDN research. As the co-originator of Open vSwitch, I... - Easier IoT with AWS Greengrass and Ansible
VMware helps its customers build and release new IoT products and solutions. In most situations, it’s a challenge to automate the configuration and rollout of IoT solutions, simply due to the scale and variety of systems involved. The AWS Greengrass service from Amazon supports management of IoT dev... - 10 Lessons Learned from Launching Clarity Design System
By Scott Mathis, SMTS UI/UX, Clarity Design System Team – VMware A year and a half ago, four of us at VMware launched the Clarity Design System. Since then, we’ve gone from a small, scrappy team to being the second most popular open source project at VMware. We’ve learned a lot in the process,...
- 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...
- vRealize Log Insight and VMware Log Intelligence: Better Together
Credit to NICO GUERRERA for blog content (Bio Below)! vRealize Log Insight 1.0 was released for general availability in 2013, and since then it has steadily grown in features, scale, and customer adoption. I have worked with customers who have deployed up to sixty nodes of Log Insight across mul... - 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...
- 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
- Android Series: Android Work Profile
When you bring your personal Android device to work, how do you know your personal applications and data are kept private? With the Android work profile you can! This is part of Android enterprise and is the solution for securing personal data for employee-owned devices. When deployed by VMware Work... - Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure–Technical Walkthrough (Part 5)
Creating an RDS Farms for Application and Desktop Sessions In part 4 of this blog series, I walked through the steps to create a Published Image, which could be used to create RDS Farms or VDI Desktops. In part 5 of this blog series, I am going to walk you through the process of creating, managing a... - VMware and Okta: Accelerating the Journey to the Digital Workspace
Employees in today’s world of clouds, apps and mobility have a simple definition to enable them to be productive: anytime, anywhere access to apps on any device they can work from. VMware helps enable organizations in delivering this experience with VMware Workspace ONE, the intelligence-drive digi...
- New KB articles published for week ending 27th May 2018
VMware vCenter Server Upgrading Windows vCenter server 6.5 to vCenter server 6.7 fails when VMware vSphere authentication proxy service is started Date Published: 2018/5/21 vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface might not display the vCenter Server 6.7.0a patch Date Published: 2018/5/21 VMwar... - New KB articles published for week ending 20th May 2018
VMware ESXi Linux VM UEFI boot “WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don’t cover all of memory, losing xxx of RAM” Date Published: 2018/5/14 HP host with QFLE3 Driver Version 1.0.60.0 experienced a PSOD on shutdown or restart Date Published: 2018/5/14 In ESXi 5.5 host gets disconnected from the vCenter rand... - Introducing the Skyline Collector 1.2, Now GDPR Compliant
We are excited to announce the release of the Skyline Collector 1.2. The Skyline Collector enables VMware Global Support Services (GSS) to deliver proactive support. With proactive support, GSS can notify you of potential issues and areas of risk within your vSphere and NSX environments. Most notewo... - New KB articles published for week ending 13th May 2018
Datacenter VMware response to CVE-2018-8897 Date Published: 2018/5/8 VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director Storage Requested values are reported incorrectly for Organization VDCs that contain replicated VMs in vCloud Director Date Published: 2018/5/8 VMware Fusion Boot Camp virtual machine... - 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...
- 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
- Quick Tip - OVFTool 4.3 now supports vCPU & memory customization during deployment
In addition to adding vSphere 6.7 support and a few security enhancements (more details in the release notes), the latest OVFTool 4.3 release has also been enhanced to support customizing either vCPU and/or Memory from the default configurations when deploying an OVF/OVA. Historically, it was only p... - How to simulate Persistent Memory (PMem) in vSphere 6.7 for educational purposes?
A really cool new capability that was introduced in vSphere 6.7 is the support for the extremely fast memory technology known as non-volatile memory (NVM), also known as persistent memory (PMem). Customers can now benefit from the high data transfer rate of volatile memory with the persistence and r... - Quick Tip - What hashing algorithm is supported for ESXi Kickstart password?
I had a question the other day asking whether the encrypted password which can be specified within an ESXi Kickstart file (denoted by the --isencrypted flag) can use a different hashing algorithm other than MD5? The answer is absolutely yes. In fact, MD5 as a default hashing algorithm has NOT been u... - Leveraging Instant Clone in vSphere 6.7 for extremely fast Nested ESXi provisioning
The idea of "Instant Cloning" a Nested ESXi VM (running ESXi in a VM) is not a new concept. In fact, I had shared a solution back in 2015 using the private VMFork APIs. However, what has changed is the ease of consumption, primarily due to the re-architecture of Instant Clone in vSphere 6.7 (more de... - vYetti - Fun animated vSphere Login UI customization
For those that have been asking about how to customize the vSphere Client Login UI to include this fun little animated login screen as shown below, you can find the complete instructions on my github repo: https://github.com/lamw/vyetti-vsphere-client-customization I wanted to take a moment and give...
- What is VMware Per-VM EVC?
Everyone knows how VMware EVC works on a vSphere cluster (and VMware calls it now Cluster-level EVC). vCenter Server’s CPU compatibility checks compare the CPU features available on the source host, the subset of features that the virtual machine can access, and the features available on the target ... - What Is StarWind SMI-S Provider?
Today’s heterogeneous storage environment within an enterprise tend to be difficult to manage. Each storage array has different management and different tools. Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) is a standard which was developed by the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA), wh... - Runecast Analyzer Compatible with vSphere 6.7
Runecast 1.7.5 recently released is a release which is now compatible with VMware vSphere 6.7. While there is not many customers which jumped into the upgrade of vSphere and upgraded their environment to vSphere 6.7, the whole ecosystem is starting to push news about the compatibility for vSphere 6.... - How-To Create a Training Class Through Ravello Training Platform
Today we’ll have a look at How-To Create a Training Class Through Ravello Training Platform. If you’re a regular reader of our blog you already know that Ravello/Oracle Cloud Platform allows you not only to set up a cloud lab but also to run enterprise cloud applications as their recent upgrade allo... - Paessler PRTG Monitoring for VMware
Today we have an interesting post detailing Paessler’s PRTG monitoring capabilities for VMware vSphere and ESXi environments. We’ll look at the specific needs of VMware admins and see the Paesler’s sensors. What they monitor and how they might be making difference when it comes to monitoring virtual...
- Integrating NSX-T and Pivotal Container Services (PKS)
If you’ve been following along my recent blog posts, you’ll have seen that I have been spending some time ramping up on NSX-T and Pivotal Container Services (PKS). My long term goal was to see how these two products integrate together and to figure out the various moving parts. As I was very unfamil... - 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...
- Technology Short Take 100
Wow! This marks 100 posts in the Technology Short Take series! For almost eight years (Technology Short Take #1 was published in August 2010), I’ve been collecting and sharing links and articles from around the web related to major data center technologies. Time really flies when you’re ... - Quick Post: Parsing AWS Instance Data with JQ
I recently had a need to get a specific subset of information about some AWS instances. Naturally, I turned to the CLI and some CLI tools to help. In this post, I’ll share the command I used to parse the AWS instance data down using the ever-so-handy jq tool. What I needed, specifically, was ... - Posts from the Past, May 2018
This month—May 2018—marks thirteen years that I’ve been generating content here on this site. It’s been a phenomenal 13 years, and I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to share information with readers around the world. To celebrate, I thought I’d do a quick “Posts ... - DockerCon SF 18 and Spousetivities
DockerCon SF 18 is set to kick off in San Francisco at the Moscone Center from June 12 to June 15. This marks the return of DockerCon to San Francisco after being held in other venues for the last couple of years. Also returning to San Francisco is Spousetivities, which has organized activities for ... - Manually Installing Firefox 60 on Fedora 27
Mozilla recently released version 60 of Firefox, which contains a number of pretty important enhancements (as outlined here). However, the Fedora repositories don’t (yet) contain Firefox 60 (at least not for Fedora 27), so you can’t just do a dnf update to get the latest release. With th...
- 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...
- vSphere 6.7 - vCenter Server High Availability
Lightboard illustration of the vCenter Server High Availability options for each deployment type. ... - vSphere 6.7 - What's New
Lightboard illustration to summarize briefly the top new features vSphere 6.7. ... - 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...
- 7th Gen NUC Remote Management with KVM using vPro AMT
Intel's latest 7th Gen Dawson Canyon NUCs are equipped with AMT vPro Technology. Intel AMT (Active Management Technology) allows remote management including a KVM Console. vPro is available in NUCs with i7 and i5 CPUs. NUCs with i3 CPUs do …Read more »... - ESXi on 7th Gen Intel NUC (Kaby Lake - Dawson Canyon)
Intel launched a commercial version of their 7th Gen NUCs. The new Dawson Canyon named NUCs are available with vPro technology which allows you to manage NUCs remotely. NUCs are not officially supported by VMware but they are very widespread in many …Read more »... - 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 »...
- What’s happened at VeeamON 2018
The VeeamON 2018 it’s in the books, but what’s happened during the event and which are the more exciting news? First to all where is Veeam now? It was a leader for the SMB market, but now it’s a clear leader of the Enterprise market: #DataProtection and #Recovery software new licen... - VeeamON 2018
In those days, there is the VeeamON 2018 event, from May 14 to 16, 2018 at the McCormick Place, Chicago. For sure will be a huge and successful event, as usual… considering also how the Veeam product’s portfolio has grow. It will be the fourth big Veeam’s conference, excluding the ... - 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...
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