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Hi everyone, welcome to the first VMware TAM newsletter of 2019. We are excited to bring you all of the news starting today in the world of VMware and virtualization in general. If you are new to our newsletter the first section of the news is VMware specific, however we also include a 2nd area that is general Virtualization related to ensure that we are able to try and cover as much of interest to you as possible. Our goal with thew newsletter is to be a simple easy to read digest of the news from the world of VMware and virtualization on a regular cadence, usually every 2 weeks. The newsletter is now in its 11th year and we are looking forward to bringing all of the news to you in 2019.
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VMware TAM WEBINARS
January 2019 – vSphere 6.7u1 Topology and Converge Tool
Date: Thursday, January 17th
Time: 11:00am EST/ 10:00am CST/ 8:00am PST
Duration: 1.5 Hour
Synopsis:
We will be looking at the vSphere 6.7 Topology options and using the Converge tool to convert from an External PSC to and Embedded PSC.
Guest speaker:
Nigel Hickey – Technical Marketing Engineer, Cloud Platform Business Unit
Registration Link:
https://VMware.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jnll0HFXQ2Kzxgm45PU3cw
NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
Open Source Blog
- Top 10 Open Source Blogs of 2018
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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 ...
vSphere Blog
- ESXi Network Troubleshooting Tools
In the previous post about the ESXi network IOchain we explored the various constructs that belong to the network path. ... - 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
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Cloud management Blog
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Memory metrics for Virtual Machines have changed in recent releases of vRealize Operations to make managing your SDDC be... - Full Stack Monitoring for Hybrid Clouds using NetApp HCI and SolidFire
While Blue Medora provides monitoring data integrations for traditional data center compute platforms from Cisco, Dell E... - PSPAK – Product Support Pack File (Way to add support for more Product Versions)
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So you’ve decided that you want to develop and deploy your applications cheaper and faster. I get it…there are num...
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
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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
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I struggle with concentration. I find it difficult to focus on more than one task at a time, and so in my case, Distract... - Exfiltrating User Data from Mobile Devices – What Cybercriminals Look For
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Those time-consuming IT requests and issues from yesteryear are still apparent today – particularly with a boom in the u...
vCloud Foundation Blog
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EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS
Virtually Ghetto
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ESX Virtualization
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Cormac Hogan
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Scott's Weblog
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vSphere-land
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NTPRO.NL
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Virten.net
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vinfrastructure
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vSwitchZero
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vNinja
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VMExplorer
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