FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Well we made it to the end of 2018, at least as far as our TAM newsletter is concerned. This year we brought you 28 packed editions of the newsletter. Our goal is always to provide our readers with a very easy to read news digest of the latest news in the world of VMware, Virtualization, and the VMware TAM program. We have also tried to keep on top of critical security issues, as well as breaking news throughout 2018. We also covered a number of major conference including VMware 2018 in the US and Europe as well as breaking news from this years AWS re:Invent conference.
If you wish to catch up on any of our prior newsletters for 2018 stretching all the way back to 2009 please head over to the archive. On behalf of the VMware TAM program we wish you a fantastic Holiday Season and look forward to reconnecting with you in January 2019.
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
Open Source Blog
- Purser: Visibility into Cloud Native Applications
Kubernetes clusters can be challenging to monitor. With applications decomposed into microservices and then deployed acr... - The Challenge of Establishing Compliance for Containers – and a Few Ways to Do It
By Nisha Kumar Last time I wrote about a thought-provoking diversity and inclusion pre-conference event that I attended ... - Kubeadm Is Now GA and Stable
By Rostislav Georgiev The Kubernetes community is chock-full of good news this week—first and foremost, the release of K... - Tern to Join Linux Foundation ACT Initiative
With the growing development and adoption of microservice architectures and container technologies, open source license ... - The 2018 Conference Season Wraps Up with KubeCon North America
After a jam-packed November that featured VMworld EU, All Things Open, Open Source Summit, Linux Plumbers’ and goto to n...
Network Virtualization Blog
- Enhance Security with NSX Cloud and Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure
While virtual desktops have successfully helped address security and operational challenges, IT organizations still have... - VMware Cloud on AWS with NSX-T SDDC – Connectivity, Security, and Port Mirroring Demo
VMware Cloud on AWS with NSX-T SDDC – Connectivity, Security, and Port Mirroring Demo VMware Cloud on AWS w... - Introducing VMware NSX Service Mesh
Introducing VMware NSX Service Mesh We are excited to introduce VMware NSX® Service Mesh. Built on the foundation of Ist... - Introducing the Virtual Cloud Network Readiness Assessment
Is your network ready for applications, automation, multi-cloud, containers and more? Here’s a truth bomb for you: the n... - VMware NSX Cloud at AWS re:Invent 2018
Howdy… if you have managed to check-in and get your AWS re:Invent pass, congratulations! Looks like running betwee...
vSphere Blog
- Upgrading to vCenter Server 6.7 – New Feature Walkthroughs Available
We are proud to announce we have two new feature walkthroughs available which cover the vCenter Server upgrade from vSph... - Understanding the ESXi Network IOChain
In this blog post, we go into the trenches of the (Distributed) vSwitch with a focus on vSphere ESXi network IOChain. It... - The vSphere Upgrade Blog Series (Wrap-Up)
The vSphere Upgrade Blog Series began in July and ran through September 2018. It provided customers with screen-by-scree... - Now Available – Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.7 eBook
I am proud to announce availability of the new VMware vSphere eBook Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.7, authored by Nigel H... - Announcing Project Dimension Beta
Today at the VMworld Europe Day 1 General Session, we announced the Project Dimension Beta Program. We’re really excited...
Cloud management Blog
- On the road to digital transformation with VMware and Ford Motors
On the road to digital transformation with VMware and Ford Motors In this second part of our holiday transportation seri... - vCloud Suite Platinum Upgrade Promo
Attention all vSphere Enterprise Plus customers! VMware is announcing the vCloud Suite Platinum Upgrade Promo. For a lim... - Webinar: Automate Your Cloud Workloads with VMware Cloud Automation Services
Interested in learning how to automate consumption of multiple clouds? Join us on December 17th at 12:00pm PST in an en... - Developing vRealize content with Visual Studio Code
The source code editor is a fundamental part of every software engineer’s life. Whether you are new to the field, ... - Adventures in scaling vRealize Automation for DevOps
Introduction- scaling vRealize Automation for DevOps VMware publishes our documented vRealize Automation throughput limi...
Cloud Native Blog
- Congratulations CNCF Community Award Winners!
It was a very proud moment last night for the cloud native community as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) rec... - VMware PKS Customer Highlights at VMworld 2018
At this year’s VMworld, several of our joint customers with Pivotal shared their stories during sessions, panels, and ke... - VMware Completes Heptio Acquisition
By Paul Fazzone, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Native Apps Business Unit, VMware Today, I am pleased ... - Federated Service Mesh on VMware PKS and VMware Cloud PKS
by Boskey Savla, Technical Product Marketing Manager at VMware Today at KubeCon North America, Seattle, VMware announced... - Implementing CI/CD Tooling on VMware Cloud PKS
by Dan Illson, Cloud Solutions Architect for VMware Cloud Services Implementing a modern software development process is...
EUC Blog
- Writable Volumes Delivers Profile Persistence for Box Drive and Office 365
Written in collaboration with Brigitte Skakkebaek, Product Line Marketing Manager, Horizon Are your problems persistent... - What’s New with VMware App Volumes 2.15
VMware App Volumes 2.15 is now available! This release’s highlights include enhancements to user writable volumes featur... - What’s New in VMware Digital Workspace Tech Zone – December Update
Since the unveiling of the VMware Digital Workspace Tech Zone earlier this year, EUC Technical Marketing have been busy ... - Enhance Security on Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure with NSX Cloud
Written in collaboration with Devyani Pisolkar, NSX Product Marketing It’s been a banner year for VMware Horizon Cloud ... - What’s New with VMware Horizon 7 Version 7.7
VMware Horizon 7 version 7.7 and VMware Horizon Client 4.10 are now available! Because there are so many new features an...
vCloud Foundation Blog
- Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5 General Availability
Announcing General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5 At VMworld EMEA 2018 VMware announced the upcoming VMWare... - Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5
Today at VMworld EMEA 2018, we are announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5. VMware Cloud Foundation continues to provide... - Integrated Composability with VMware Cloud Foundation and HPE Synergy
Author Bhumik Patel – Technical Alliances, VMware @bhumikp Introduction: Earlier this year we announced cer... - VMware Validated Designs at VMworld Europe 2018
The VMware Validated Design team has something for everyone, even if you’re not able to attend, at VMworld Europe ... - Cloud Foundation – The Power Behind VMware’s Cloud Operations
If one thing’s for certain, it’s that the cloud is massive. VMware’s cloud, specifically, combines 100,000 virtual machi...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS
Virtually Ghetto
- 1,000th post – The story behind virtuallyGhetto
After publishing my previous article, I realized my next blog post (this article) would be number 1,000, which is pretty... - Learning more about the Nitro platform which will power VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts
With the big announcement last week between AWS and VMware, I know a number of folks have been wanting to learn more abo... - VMware Cloud on AWS reInvent sessions posted
In case you missed the big news this week at Amazon's reInvent conference, Pat Gelsinger (CEO of VMware) and Andy Jassy ... - Supermicro E300-9D (SYS-E300-9D-8CN8TP) is a nice ESXi & vSAN kit
Supermicro kits such as the E200-8D is a very popular platform amongst the VMware community and with powerful Xeon-based... - Can a VM in the VMC Compute Network access the SDDC Management Network?
Similiar to an on-premises vSphere deployment, VMware Cloud on AWS follows good security practices by isolating and prev...
ESX Virtualization
- What is VMware Cloud Foundation?
VMware Cloud Foundation has recently released 3.5 version, but some of our readers might don’t know What is VMware Cloud... - FreeNAS 11.2 Has a nice new UI and updates
FreeNAS has been in development over years. I still remember setting up one of my first iSCSI connections for my ESXi la... - How To Disable Timeout on your ESXi Host Client – The Easy Way [Tip]
I’m sure that everyone knows about this tip anyway, but…. You know, folks working with other hypervisors or the ones whi... - What is NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMe-OF)?
NVMe SSDs are the fastest storage for consumer laptops for example but exists also as PCIe add-on cards for desktops or ... - What is Veeam Cloud Connect And How To Setup?
I don’t think that I have written about Veeam Cloud Connect yet, so this is the post about What is Veeam Cloud Connect? ...
Cormac Hogan
- vSAN Erasure Coding Failure Handling
I had a very interesting question recently about how vSAN handles a failure in an object that is running with an erasure... - VMware vSAN 6.7U1 deep dive book now available
I am delighted to announce the availability of our newly updated VMware vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive book. This is the 3rd editi... - NFS TCP Connections on vSphere revisited
Some time back, nearly 6 years ago in fact, I wrote about how you might hit the NFS maximum value for the number of conn... - Kubernetes, Hadoop, Persistent Volumes and vSAN
At VMworld 2018, one of the sessions I presented on was running Kubernetes on vSphere, and specifically using vSAN for p... - Fun with PKS, K8s, VCP, StatefulSets and Couchbase
After just deploying the newest version of Pivotal Container Services (PKS) and rolling out my first Kubernetes cluster ...
Scott's Weblog
- KubeCon 2018 Day 2 Keynote
This is a liveblog of the day 2 (Wednesday) keynotes at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA. For additional KubeC... - Liveblog: Hardening Kubernetes Setups
This is a liveblog of the KubeCon NA 2018 session titled “Hardening Kubernetes Setup: War Stories from the Trenche... - Liveblog: Linkerd 2.0, Now with Extra Prometheus
This is a liveblog of the KubeCon NA 2018 session titled “Linkerd 2.0, Now with Extra Prometheus.” The speak... - KubeCon 2018 Day 1 Keynote
This is a liveblog from the day 1 (Tuesday, December 11) keynote of KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA. This wil... - Technology Short Take 107
Welcome to Technology Short Take #107! In response to my request for feedback in the last Technology Short Take, a few r...
vSphere-land
- Recorded webinar now available: A Farewell to LUNs – Discover how VVols forever changes storage in vSphere
Pete Flecha from VMware and I just finished recording a webinar on VVols where we discuss challenges with external stora... - VMware VVols Today: Part 1 – What VMware has delivered so far
This is a multi-part series covering various aspects of VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) from support to adoption to benef... - Introducing Top vBlog 2018!
It’s that time of year again, well a little later then usual. My annual Top vBlog contest just kicked off and anyone can... - Voting now open for Top vBlog 2018!
After a slight delay, voting for Top vBlog 2018 is now open! The number of blogs devoted to VMware and virtualization co... - History of VMware vQuiz results and winners
Over 200 people took the vQuiz to test their knowledge on how well they know the history of VMware through a series of 2...
NTPRO.NL
- Please vote for NTPRO.NL at the top vBlog 2018
Enter the vBlog 2018 voting contest now! ... - New Book - VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive
VMware’s vSAN has rapidly proven itself in environments ranging from hospitals to oil rigs to e-commerce platforms ... - Free Webcast Series - Uncover the Power of VMware vSAN
The first step toward digital transformation was virtualizating your servers with vSphere. The next step is to mode... - Free e-book: VMware vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deepdive
The VMware vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive written by Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman is the long-awaited follow-... - Free e-book - Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.7
This eBook is written by David Stamen especially for vSphere administrators looking for additional information to h...
Virten.net
- How To Secure Erase ESXi Disks (HPE or Generic Hardware)
Since a couple of versions, vSphere comes with an erase function in the GUI. This function deletes all partitions to reu... - VMware ESXi 6.7 Installation on Intel NUC8i7HNK and NUC8i7HVK
When you try to install VMware ESXi 6.7 on the smaller version of the 8th Gen Hades Canyon Intel NUC (NUC8i7HNK), the in... - 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... - 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 tech... - 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 com...
vinfrastructure
- VMware Horizon version 7.7
Reading Time: 5 minutes VMware Horizon version 7.6 was released on September 2018, with a lot of new features, and now ... - Runecast Analyzer 2.5 adds VMware Horizon support
Reading Time: 3 minutes Few months ago Runecast reach the v2.0 milestone of their Runecast Analyzer, a solution that pr... - Installing ESXi on a Dell EMC BOSS card
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Dell Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) is a new option for the installation of the hyp... - VeeamON Virtual 2018
Reading Time: 3 minutes Every year, the VeeamON Virtual online event brings together more than 2,500 industry experts t... - NAKIVO Backup & Replication v8.1
Reading Time: 3 minutes NAKIVO is continuing releasing new versions of its main product, and now, after NAKIVO Backup &...
Nukescloud
- Unable to connect to endpoint. Timeout occurred while processing the request
Test Connection Request while adding an endpoint fails with an exception Unable to connect to endpoint. Timeout occurred... - CryptographicException - Keyset does not exist
Recently stumbled upon a problem where "Last Connected " status of IaaS nodes under VAMI was way off. Ideally ... - Reconfigure action fails with exception " An item with the same key has already been added "
Last week was debugging a problem where user was trying to reconfigure a VM which was imported into vRAVersion of vRA wa... - Docker Containers vs Virtual Machines
Note : Docker Containers are not Virtual MachinesWhat is a Virtual Machine ?Let's explain each layer from the bottom Eve... - Upgrade vRealize Lifecycle Manager
At the end of this blog post, you should be able t Upgrade vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to a newer versionLocate upg...
vSwitchZero
- Updating NIC Drivers with VMware Update Manager
In my last video, I showed you how to update ESXi NIC drivers from the command line. This method is great for one-off up... - Updating NIC Drivers in ESXi from the CLI
There are a number of reasons you may want to update your NIC drivers and firmware. Maybe it’s just a best practice reco... - NSX Troubleshooting Scenario 13 – Solution
Welcome to the thirteenth installment of a new series of NSX troubleshooting scenarios. Thanks to everyone who took the ... - NSX Troubleshooting Scenario 13
Welcome to the thirteenth installment of my NSX troubleshooting series. What I hope to do in these posts is share some o... - Identifying NICs based on PCI VID and DID
If you’ve ever tried to search for a NIC in the VMware Compatibility Guide, you may have come up a much longer list of r...
vNinja
- Netlify, Slack and IFTTT Webhooks for fun and ... profit?
A few months ago I migrated this site from Wordpress to Hugo, hosted by Netlify, and I have been very happy with it sinc... - Top vBlog 2018
The top vBlog 2018 voting has opened, time to go rock the vote and show your favorite bloggers some love for their hard ... - VMworld 2018 NSX Roving Reporter: Eirik Vada
My good friend, and colleague, Eirik Vada was interviewed by Ather Beg, the NSX Roving Reporter, during VMworld 2018. Si... - Headshot-as-a-Service VMworld Europe 2018
Headshot-as-a-Service was a success, but I have to say it didn’t quite turn out the way I wanted. Finding a proper... - VeeamON Virtual 2018 — Reserve Your Seat Now
Hot on the heels of VMworld Europe 2018, Veeam is hosting its annual virtual conference on december 5th. Just like last ...
VMExplorer
- vCenter Server 6.5 – Migrate VMs from Virtual Distributed Switch to Standard Switch
I was doing some testing the other day and had migrated about 25 test VM’s to a Virtual Distributed Switch (vDS) f... - VMworld 2018 – Recorded Sessions
Here is a great list of the VMworld 2018 sessions. Thank you to William Lam and Hadleigh Rush (both with VMware) for cre... - VMworld 2018 – See you there!
VMworld 2018 is just around the corner and I’m really looking forward to this years event. Can’t wait to reconnect with... - Home Lab Gen IV – Part V Installing Mellanox HCAs with ESXi 6.5
The next step on my InfiniBand home lab journey was getting the InfiniBand HCAs to play nice with ESXi. To do this I nee... - Turning a ‘No’ to a ‘Yes, you can attend’ for VMworld 2018
I’ve been lucky enough to make it to very VMworld since 2008 but it wasn’t always easy getting there. Being ...
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