FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, we are in August and that means we are in the month of the greatest virtualization event in the world, VMWorld. There is a lot of information and news for those that are planning on attending, as well as those that are considering attending. The information in this weeks newsletter is aimed at our TAM customers who will be attending VMworld this year. I urge everyone attending to make sure they have discussed their plan with their VMware TAM who can ensure that your time at VMworld with so much to see and do, is as productive as possible.
We have an extra large bumper newsletter this week so please take the time to check out all of the information below. Enjoy the newsletter, there will be just a few weeks to go when you read this to VMworld.
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VMWARE TAM WEBINAR - AUGUST 2018
August 2018 - PowerCLI, RESTful APIs, and more
Date: Thursday, August 9th
Time: 11:00am EST/ 10:00am CST/ 8:00am PST
Duration: 1.5 Hour
Synopsis:
This session comes packed with automation goodness! We’ll take a look at all the latest and greatest features and updates for PowerCLI. (Hint: there’s already been 2 releases this year and we’re not slowing down anytime soon!) We’ll also take a look at how VMware is making the APIs easier to consume with a new set of RESTful APIs
Guest speakers:
Kyle Ruddy is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at VMware in the Cloud Platform Business Unit. Kyle currently focuses on vSphere with Operations Management as well as all things API, SDK, and CLI.
Registration Link:
https://vmware.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EeoxTJ0gRnOn4gsSmuG_hg
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VMWARE EDUCATION
Last Chance for Your Customers to Sign Up for Pre-Conference Training
at VMworld 2018 US
Are your customers planning to attend VMworld 2018 US in Las Vegas this August? Encourage them to join us a couple days earlier to take advantage of the special certification prep classes we are offering the weekend before the event!
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They can easily sign up for one of these popular instructor-led trainings through their VMworld registration. Prep classes taking place the weekend before VMworld 2018 US include:
- VCP6.5-DCV exam prep
- VCAP6.5-DCV exam review
- VMware NSX T interactive bootcamp
- What’s New with VMware vSphere training
- Workspace ONE workshop
VMware training has a 97% satisfaction rating and our instructors average 4.8 out of 5 – one of the highest rankings in the industry. Space in these classes is limited so don’t let your customers miss this opportunity to develop their skills and get ready for certification at VMworld.
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VMWARE NEW RELEASES
VMware Pivotal Container Service 1.1.3
GA Date: July 30th, 2018
What's New:
- Telemetry fix to phone home at 10 minute intervals (instead of 10 seconds)
- Updates stemcell to 3586.26
Software and Documentation:
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Horizon Cloud with Hosted Infrastructure 18.3.0
GA Date: July 31st, 2018
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vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR 1.0.1
GA Date: August 2nd, 2018
- Download page (restricted): https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?productId=755&downloadGroup=C2C1
- Documentation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vCloud-Availability-for-Cloud-to-Cloud-DR/index.html
- Release Notes: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vCloud-Availability-for-Cloud-to-Cloud-DR/1.0.1/rn/VMware-vCloud-Availability-for-Cloud-to-Cloud-DR-101-Release-Notes.html
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VMware Remote Console 10.0.3
GA Date: August 2nd, 2018
What's New:
- Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP0 and Mac OS 10.14 Beta version
- Third-party software library updates
- There are additional fixes described in Resolved Issues
Documentation and Links:
- Download Links:
- Release Notes
- Documentation Landing page
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VMware AppDefense Q2FY2019
GA Date: August 2nd, 2018
What's New: The release of the AppDefense service focuses on improving ease of operation as well as addressing net-new security use cases with the GA of partner native container support. With this release, AppDefense improves the alarm remediation workflow by automatically de-classifying benign alarms. We also improved allowed behavior creation by introducing global services that better reflect the true network patterns of an application. Finally, the Aqua Security integration extends the AppDefense vision to container workloads. These improvements and others expand addressable use cases, thus making it easier for customers to operationalize AppDefense at scale.
Key enhancements for this Service Update include:
- VMware Tools Embedded Release for Windows
- Partner Native Container Support
- Social Assurance
- Alarm Classification
- Behavior Analysis in Protected Mode
- Global Services
- Process Blacklist/Whitelist
- New SaaS Hosting Location (London)
Documentation and Links:
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE VMware Radius
- VMware CTO Talks Innovations in Cloud Tech—Hints What’s Next
Once called the virtualization king, VMware is now known as a cloud king. How did that shift happen, and what is the tech giant’s strategy? Chris Wolf, VMware vice president and CTO of global field and industry, sheds light on the evolution of VMware into a global leader in cloud infrastructure and... - Agents of Change: CIO Embraces UAE Vision 2021 with Digital Transformation
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- Harbor Gets Adopted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Here at VMware’s Open Source Program Office, we’re thrilled to acknowledge that Harbor has been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox-level hosted project. Harbor, as you probably know, is an open source cloud native registry that stores, signs and scans content. It... - OVN, an Open Source Network Virtualization Platform, Gains Momentum
By Justin Pettit and Ben Pfaff OVN [pronounced “oven”] is an open source network virtualization platform built on top of Open vSwitch. It lets you build logical topologies on top of physical topologies so that you can create logical switches and routers and define policies to manage them that are di... - A Consistent Approach to GPLv2 Compliance
Over the past nine months, we have seen a growing consensus in the industry regarding one specific aspect of GPL compliance. Since the October 2017 announcement of the Linux kernel Technical Advisory Board’s Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement, which stated that the Linux kernel project was ado...
- Key Manager Concepts and Topology Basics for VM and vSAN Encryption
At VMworld 2017 VM and vSAN Encryption and security of vSphere in general became VERY popular topics. And in those discussions the topic of Key Managers came up and specifically “How many key managers should I have?” was a recurring question. This blog article will give you two examples of key ... - Three Key Reasons for Joining Modernize Data Centers Track at vForum Online
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There are a few questions that come up quite often regarding vCenter Server upgrades and mixed-versions that we would like to address. In this blog post we will discuss and attempt to clarify the guidance in the vSphere Documentation for Upgrade or Migration Order and Mixed-Version Transitional Beha...
- VMware Closes Acquisition of VeloCloud Networks
As applications and data continue to be distributed more broadly from the data center to the edge, customers are increasingly relying on software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) versus traditional networking for flexible, secure connectivity. It’s for this reason that I am pleased to share tha... - Terminology Tuesday Presents: ZTP
ZTP stands for Zero Touch Provisioning. And, as a quick google search will quickly reveal, many other things as well. Back to our ZTP. ZTP is the process by which new network switches can be configured without much human involvement. Notice that I said “much” and no... - Introducing NSX-T 2.1 with Pivotal Integration
Application architectures are evolving. That shouldn’t be news to anyone. Today, emerging app architectures that leverage container-based workloads and microservices are becoming mainstream, moving from science projects in development labs to enterprise production deployments at scale. The benefits ...
- vRealize Network Insight 3.5 – Feel the vRNI
vRealize Network Insight 3.5 (vRNI) introduces a number of great features, which improve our visibility and ability to ensure a secure and compliant configuration. Also Network Insight is now available as a service. This means you can rely on VMware to handle management and updates of Network Insi... - IT As Developer Of Infrastructure As Code
IT As Developer: One Of The Keys To Relevance This blog is the third installment in a series focused on the question of what IT teams need to do to retain or regain relevance (depending on their circumstance) with line-of-business. For the full list check out my first blog on this subject. In a... - vRA and NSX – Intro to App-Centric Networking and Security
Introduction In a software-defined world, infrastructure is defined by policies based on a set of requirements — prescribed by the business, applications, security or IT itself. Those policies are tied to a set of logic that integrates and automates a given service as needed, when needed. For its p...
- How Cloud Foundry Container Runtime Tackles Both Day 1 & Day 2 Operations for Production Kubernetes
by Merlin Glynn, Technical Product Manager, VMware Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CFCR), formerly known as Project KUBO, is an open source project that delivers the functionality of both Day 1 (deployment) and Day 2 (operations) tasks for Kubernetes clusters. The initial genesis behind CFCR was t... - Connect with VMware Around Containers at DockerCon EU
Copenhagen is one of Europe’s leading cities around information technology, making it the perfect locale for this year’s DockerCon EU, taking place October 16-19 at the Bella Centre in Denmark’s capital city. DockerCon is the leading container conference for practitioners to learn from other contain... - Join VMware at China Kubernetes End User Conference
On October 15, the China Kubernetes End User Conference, a joint venture put on by Caicloud, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the “K8sMeetup China Community,” will celebrate the tremendous technological impact of Kubernetes, unveil the latest updates and enhancements around it and provide top-l...
VMware End-User Computing Blog
- Get the Latest and Greatest on VMware Horizon at VMworld 2018
VMworld 2018 is right around the corner! The entire Horizon team is gearing up to share the latest and greatest product info, roadmap, and sneak peaks with you. Whether you’re interested in Horizon 7, Horizon Cloud, or Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS, we have the right VMware Horizon at VMworld ses... - VMware Named Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Mobility Management Software 2018 Vendor Assessment
We are pleased to announce that VMware has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Mobility Management Software 2018 Vendor Assessment (US43294018). This is the second year in a row where VMware was named a Leader. IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide... - 3 Key Sessions We’re Excited About and New Track Alert for VMworld
VMworld 2018 is approaching quickly! I know I speak on behalf of the entire Workspace ONE team when I say we are looking forward to sharing some exciting news as the event kicks off and in the key sessions that follow. In case you missed it, the content catalog went live two weeks ago. Before I give...
- New KB articles published for week ending 28th July 2018
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- IBM Cloud Secure Virtualization built on VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud addresses new GDPR requirements
The following post is contributed to the Cloud Foundation Blog by Andrew Guerra, Offering Manager, VMware on IBM Cloud On 25 May, 2018, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect in the European Union (EU), with sharper teeth than any other compliance regulation to date. W... - CONTEST: Retweet VMware Cloud Foundation for a chance to win VCF giveaways!
Starting July 26th, we’re asking you, to be a part of the Cloud Foundation community! As you might have noticed, Cloud Foundation has moved to a new Twitter handle. In order to help keep our community up-to-date on all the Cloud Foundation, hybrid cloud, and unified SDDC news and announcements, we ... - VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud addresses today’s hybrid cloud needs
The following post is contributed to the Cloud Foundation Blog by Steven M. Huntington, Program Director Offering Management, VMware on IBM Cloud IBM and VMware announced an integral partnership to extend the sale of VMware solution offerings on the IBM Cloud in February 2016. This cloud partne...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS VMGuru
- NSX load balancer buffer size
Recently I received a question from a tenant regarding the HTTP buffer size when using the NSX edge load balancer capabilities. They were trying to POST a Kerberos token to a second identity store, but the token did not arrive in its entirety. It is known... The post NSX load balancer buffer size a... - Nieuwe deepdive community events in Networking & Security en Management & Automatisering
[this is a Dutch post because it’s about two new Dutch spoken community events] Op 25 en 26 September 2018 worden er twee nieuwe gratis technische deepdive evenementen georganiseerd door een aantal VMware Partners voor de community. Daarvan is de 25ste volledig gefocust op Networking... The p... - Application monitoring with VMware Wavefront
IT Control meets Developer Agility If you are a VMware fan or working with VMware products I’ll bet you heard of vRealize Operations with Endpoint Operations for application monitoring. But did you know that VMware also has an application monitoring & analytics tool running in... The post... - Using VMware and Veeam? Update VBR 9.5 to Update 3a now
Veeam just released their latest update for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a with lots of support for new VMware platform versions! Are you already running or planning to update to VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 2 or vSphere version 6.7? Make sure you update... The post Using VMware and Veea... - Best Practices for Hardening the Veeam Backup Repository (Windows)
A good way of hardening the backup repository is by running it on a standalone Windows Server with storage attached to it. Create/Use a local account with administrative access and make sure only this (newly created) account has access rights to the location where the... The post Best Practices for...
- Quick Tip – Requirements for using Guest Operation APIs (Invoke-VMScript & Copy-VMGuestFile) in VMC
Since this question came up again today, I figure it was worth sharing in case others also had trouble using the vSphere Guest Operations API in VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC), which includes PowerCLI's Invoke-VMScript and Copy-VMGuestFile cmdlet. There are a couple of requirements that you must satisfy ... - Creating a vSphere Content Library directly on Amazon S3
A few years back I had blogged about creating your own 3rd Party vSphere Content Library enabling customers to take advantage of different types of storage backing than just vSphere Datastores. The primary requirement was that the content endpoint was accessible over HTTP(s), which meant that a numb... - Automation with the VMware Cloud Services Platform (CSP)
I was recently doing some work where I needed to access the APIs for the VMware Cloud Services Platform (CSP). As the name suggests, CSP is where customers can manage access, billing and consumption of the various VMware SaaS offerings including VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) and VMware Hybrid Cloud Exte... - VMworld US 2018 sessions on VMware Cloud on AWS
VMworld US 2018 is just around the corner and hopefully most of you have started. I was just browsing the session catalog this morning see what sessions were available for VMware Cloud on AWS and I have always found the VMworld search results less than ideal as I prefer to be able to see all results... - Automatically retrieve CVE CVSS score for all ESXi security bulletins
I always enjoying learning new things, especially when it is outside of my immediate domain expertise and if I can thrown in some Automation to help solve a solution, it is a win for everyone. I bring this up because, yesterday I had noticed an interesting question from one of our field folks where ...
- VMware vSphere 6.7 Performance Best Practices PDF
A new PDF released by VMware which details best practices for VMware vSphere 6.7 has been released. If you want to get the best performance from your virtual infrastructure, whether it is already in place or deployment project, this white paper is the resource to read. VMware vSphere 6.7 Performance... - StarWind Virtual SAN on Linux for VMware vSphere
StarWind is known for their Virtual SAN software solution for VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM. However, there is a new offer, a Linux version for VMware vSphere which is especially beneficial for users willing to save some money on Microsoft Licensing. You don’t have to pay an extra license for the underly... - Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.5 adds vSphere 6.7 Support
Nakivo 7.5 is a new major release. The title just simply cannot match what all features have been included in a new major release of Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.5. Of course that the vSphere 6.7 support is crucial and has to be shown in first place. VMware vSphere 6.7 has been here for a […... - How to Patch VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.7 Offline
VMware is releasing patches for VCSA 6.7 on regular basis. The proof is that currently already 3rd patch has been released for VCSA 6.7 since its release only few months back. Every administrator should keep the VCSA patched. Today we’ll talk about How to Patch VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)... - NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 Community Edition – All You Need To Know
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- Catch me at a Northern England VMUG – September 2018
A short post today. There are two upcoming VMware User Group (VMUG) events to bring to your attention next month, both in the north of England. I’ve been asked to speak at both. The first is the North East England VMUG and this will take place in Newcastle on September 20th. The next is the North We... - Using PowerCLI SPBM cmdlets to create VMs with storage policy
Recently I was looking for a way to consume the Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) cmdlets in PowerCLI. I wanted to see if I could provision a VM from a Template onto my vSAN datastore with a particular policy rather than simply change it after it was deployed. It wasn’t as easy as I thought, as... - Why upgrade vSAN? Here is a list of features, release by release.
I was with one of our large EMEA customers last week, and we talked quite a bit about the evolution of vSAN. This customer is already one of our larger vSAN customers with very many clusters, and many, many nodes. They have also been a great vSAN reference for us, having first deployed the initial v... - See you at VMworld 2018
Yes, it’s that time of year again. VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas is taking place next month. Once again, as per previous years, I will be co-presenting on a few sessions. It will be no surprise that, once again, my sessions are focused on storage, hyper-convergence and predominantly vSAN. However, this ... - PKS Revisited – Project Hatchway / K8s vSphere Cloud Provider review
As I am going to be doing some talks around next-gen applications at this year’s VMworld event, I took the opportunity to revisit Pivotal Container Services (PKS) to take a closer look at how we can set persistent volumes on container based applications. Not only that, but I also wanted to leverage ...
- Bolstering my Software Development Skills
I recently tweeted that I was about to undertake a new pet project where I was, in my words, “probably going to fall flat on my face”. Later, I asked on Twitter if I should share some of the learning that will occur (is ocurring) as a result of this new project, and a number of folks ind... - Cloning All Repositories in a GitHub Organization
I’ve recently started playing around with Ballerina, and upon the suggestion of some folks on Twitter wanted to clone down some of the “official” Ballerina GitHub repositories to provide code examples and guides that would assist in my learning. Upon attempting to do so, however, I... - Spousevitivities at VMworld 2018
In case there was any question whether Spousetivities would be present at VMworld 2018, let this settle it for you: Spousetivities will be there! In fact, registration for Spousetivities at VMworld 2018 is already open. If previous years are any indication, there’s a really good possibility th... - Additive Loops with Ansible and Jinja2
I don’t know if “additive” is the right word, but it was the best word I could come up with to describe the sort of configuration I recently needed to address in Ansible. In retrospect, the solution seems pretty straightforward, but I’ll include it here just in case it proves... - Technology Short Take 102
Welcome to Technology Short Take 102! I normally try to get these things published biweekly (every other Friday), but this one has taken quite a bit longer to get published. It’s no one’s fault but my own! In any event, I hope that you’re able to find something useful among the lin...
- New Book - VDI Design Guide: A comprehensive guide to help you design VMware Horizon, based on 2018 standards
Is this finally the year of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)? There doesn't seem to be a straight answer to that question. A VDI can be designed to work perfectly in your environment, but could also be a big pain in the butt. This guide written by Johan van Amersfoort will help you des... - Free e-book - NSX Multi-site Solutions and Cross-vCenter NSX Design
NSX Multi-site Solutions and Cross-vCenter NSX Design Day 1 opens with an outline of several NSX solutions available for multi-site data center connectivity, then digs deeper into the details of the Cross-vCenter NSX multi-site solution. Cross-vCenter NSX use cases, architecture, functionality... - Free e-book - VMware NSX Automation Fundamentals
VMware NSX Automation Fundamentals written by @oliveirac_caio and @thikoga offers guidance to help organizations automate their environments, leveraging familiar tools including VMware vRealize Automation, OpenStack, and PowerNSX. It speaks to engineers and technical decision makers responsible... - New Book - VMware vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deepdive
The VMware vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive is the long-awaited follow-up to best seller vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deep Dive and zooms in on the critical components of every VMware based infrastructure. It provides the knowledge and expertise needed to create a cloud infrastructure based on the s... - Performance degradation VMs tolerate
I've made some screenshots to illustrate how the HA setting Performance degradation VMs tolerate works. I’ve created an HA/DRS cluster with 2 hosts and 4 virtual machines. I've set the percentage for the Performance degradation VMs tolerate to 0%. This setting determines what percentage of ...
- Veeam Backup & Replication support for vSphere 6.7
VMware vSphere 6.7 wasn’t officially supported by Veeam Backup & Replication, as also the new vSphere 6.5 Update 2 (due to the backporting from 6.7). But now Veeam has released the Backup Replication 9.5 Update 3a version that fully supports latest vSphere versions, including vCloud Direct... - VMware Workstation Pro 14 issues with old CPU
VMware Workstation 14 it’s a great product and adds several features from ESXi 6.5 and 6.7 (like NVMe support). But drops too many CPU from its compatibility list and this means less support for old PCs or laptop. With an unsupported processor, you can create, configure, move the VMs, but when... - Update the VCSA to latest 6.1U1g and not to 6.5U2
VMware vSphere 6.5 it’s quite popolar now, considering the deadline for the version 5.5 in this year and the direct upgrade path from v5.5 to v6.5. But maybe not everybody want to update vSphere 6.5 to Update 2, considering that there will be no upgrade path (yet) to version 6.7 and maybe othe... - VMworld is still valuable?
During the last years I hear from several people that the huge VMworld event is becoming less attractive. Several people just say (for different reasons) that they probably will not attent VMworld event… unless finally going anyway… But it’s VMworld still a valuable event? An unmis... - Runecast for NSX environments
Runecast is a powerful tool to monitoring and check a vSphere environment and recently also for a VSAN environment. But it’s not over, actually there is a beta for the new version (Runecast version: 1.7.6 probably) that can analyze also NSX-V environments and this could be quite cool, consider...
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