FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, we are in the final stretch of 2019 and our 22nd newsletter of the year. We have tried to bring you a newsletter almost every 2 weeks for this past year with all of the news and other interesting items from the world of VMware and virtualization in general. This year we have noticed a definite shift in the amount of content related to containers, Kubernetes and modernizing applications in general. This is a theme that will be key in 2020, and VMware is providing many tools and technologies in this area such as Tanzu and Project Pacific. With that in mind we will be adding a new section to the newsletter on "Modern Applications" to include these related articles so please look out for this new section. We begin this week with a TAM Webinar on Container Orchestration using Kubernetes, details below. As always we will continue to bring as much important news and information to you for the final newsletters of 2019 and onward in 2020.
Until the final newsletter of 2019; please enjoy this weeks news and don't forget to check the new KB articles as well as upcoming TAM webinars and updates to Skyline below!
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Upcoming TAM Webinar:
Topic: Container Orchestration using Kubernetes
Lots of exciting things are happening at VMware with regards to container orchestration using Kubernetes. In this session, Scott Lowe will peer into the future of Kubernetes at VMware and provide some tips for making the most of what VMware is doing in this space.
Guest speaker:
Scott Lowe - Staff Kubernetes Architect, VMware (Cloud Native Apps Business Unit) https://blog.scottlowe.org
TAM Webinar Series
Thursday, December 12, 2019
11:00am EST/ 10:00am CST / 8:00am PST
Register Here!
SKYLINE UPDATE
New Skyline Release Includes Dell EMC Support Assist Integration
We’re excited to announce a new VMware Skyline release that includes several new features designed to provide even more value to you and your organization. Be sure to update your Skyline Collectors to the latest version (2.3) to take advantage of the new features and functionality. If you have the “Auto Update” feature enabled, your Collectors will update approximately within the next seven days. Please continue reading the blog post here!
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
Open Source Blog
- Six Takeaways from KubeCon 2019
By Tasha Drew Going into KubeCon 2019, the idea of bringing about processes that make it easier for more people to both ... - VMware’s Dirk Hohndel: Why Container Security Has No Easy Answers
We need to get serious about container compliance and security, presses VMware’s Chief Open Source Officer Dirk Hohndel ... - VMware Joins GitHub’s New Security Lab as a Founding Member
By Joshua Lock Following GitHub’s announcement of its new Security Lab at last week’s GitHub Universe 2019, I’m thrilled... - Takeaways from EdgeX Foundry’s First Ever Hackathon
EdgeX Foundry, the vendor-neutral open source framework for IoT solutions with over a million downloads, recently held i... - 7 Best Practices for Writing Edge Microservice-based Applications
By Diana Atanasova and Malini Bhandaru The Internet of Things (IoT) is sparking the Fourth Industrial Revolution, one th...
Network Virtualization Blog
- VMware at Gartner IOCS
The speed and agility delivered by fast-moving cloud technologies and modern application architectures have become centr... - NSX Service Mesh on VMware Tanzu: CONNECT & PROTECT Applications Across Your Kubernetes Clusters and Clouds
Authors: Mark Schweighardt, Tom Spoonemore Modern enterprises are sprawling and complicated. They are transitioning from... - Announcing VMware NSX Distributed IDS/IPS
Six years ago, VMware pioneered the concept of micro-segmentation to stop the internal, lateral spread of malware. We th... - NSX Cloud – Choice of Agented or Agentless Modes of Operation
VMware NSX through its NSX Cloud offering enables customers to implement a consistent networking and security framework ... - Visit the VMware Team at ONUG 2019 in NYC!
Come see VMware and the Networking and Security team at ONUG Fall 2019 in NYC, NY from October 16-17. Why Attend ONUG 20...
vSphere Blog
- The Evolution of Content Library
Content Library arrived in vSphere 6.0 as a storage container for virtual machine templates, as well as scripts, text fi... - Cloud Migration Series: Part 4 – Planning and Considerations
In the first three parts of our Cloud Migration Series, we discussed the hybrid cloud and migration methods, provided an... - VMware Security Advisories in vSphere Health
Determining what VMware products in your datacenter have been patched for new or existing vulnerabilities can be tedious... - Cloud Migration Series: Part 3 – The HCX Interconnect and Multi-Site Service Mesh
In Part 2 of our Cloud Migration Series, I provided an overview of HCX including the various appliances that make up the... - Tweet Chat Recap: Getting Started with Project Pacific – vSphere & Kubernetes
We know you have a lot of questions about Project Pacific, so to help you gain a better understanding, we hosted a vSphe...
Cloud management Blog
- Extending vRealize Automation Custom Forms with vRealize Orchestrator
Within the vRealize Automation Service Broker is the Custom Forms designer which, much like previous versions of vRealiz... - Planning Application Migration to VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Network Insight Cloud
When the decision is made to migrate applications to a cloud like VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS), a few things need to... - The 10 Foundations of DevOps for Traditional Applications: Virtual Machines are Not Dead
Copyright © 2019 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Much has been written about the benefits of adopting container... - Cloud Assembly Now Supports Red Hat OpenShift Integration
Vmware Cloud Management strategy is evolving very quickly these days. We are more and more opening our arms to i... - vRealize Network Insight Search Poster for NSX-T
Continuing our Search Poster series, we’ve arrived at the NSX-T search poster! Using the search engine inside VMware vRe...
Cloud Native Blog
- Introducing The Podlets Podcast: Your Audio Guide to Cloud Native Concepts
Listen up—The Podlets are here! We know your podcast queue is probably already pretty full. Why make room for one more? ... - Visualize the Future, Shape the Present, and Restore the Past with Key Cloud Native Projects
With KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 closing out the calendar year, it’s a great opportunity to reflect on t... - Troubleshooting Clusters with Crash Recovery and Diagnostics for Kubernetes
When your cluster is properly configured and working as intended, Kubernetes can be a beautiful thing. Inevitably, howev... - VMware Enterprise PKS 1.6 Enhances Management for Running Production Kubernetes Workloads
We are excited to announce the general availability of VMware Enterprise PKS 1.6 today. In this release, we added more e... - Backing Up and Restoring Apps on VMware Enterprise PKS with Velero
Velero version 1.1 provides support to back up Kubernetes applications orchestrated on VMware Enterprise PKS. This post ...
EUC Blog
- VMware Horizon: Windows 7 and Window 8 Support
There is a moment when your jeans are perfectly broken in, soft but still presentable. It’s magic. But it’s tempting to ... - VMware Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2019
We’re excited to announce VMware has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave : Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2019 re... - Providing Secure Access to VMware Horizon 7 with the VMware Unified Access Gateway
VMware Unified Access Gateway is a platform that provides secure edge services and access to defined resources that resi... - App Volumes 4.0 Delivers Huge Innovation – Get Your Hands on the Beta Today!
App Volumes 4.0 beta is available today, bringing new innovation to managing virtual desktops by tackling some of the to... - Introducing VMware Zero Trust Architecture
Security is an ongoing challenge for organizations, and with today’s dynamic workforce, the challenge is ever-increasing...
Cloud Foundation Blog
- Workload Migration Strategies with Cloud Foundation – Whitepaper
I am pleased to announce the availability of a whitepaper co-authored with John Nicholson, Workload Migration Strategi... - Get the Facts about VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 3
Welcome to part three of our #VCFacts series, where we’re addressing frequently asked questions and misnomers about Clou... - Delivering Global Scale, Management and Visibility with VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9
As customers continue to expand their VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) footprint at global scale, there is a growing set of... - Managing Large Scale Deployments with VCF Multi-Instance Management
By: Lavanya Shastri, Product Line Manager, VMware Cloud Foundation Managing Large Scale Deployments with VCF Multi-Insta... - Single SSO Domain with Multiple Cloud Foundation Instances
So, you have adopted VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), or maybe you have spent some time reviewing the VMware Validated Des...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS
Virtually Ghetto
- Packer reference for building PhotonOS Virtual Appliance using OVF properties
I was introduced to HashiCorp Packer several years back by Timo Tsugliani, who if you are not following on Twitter, you... - Running Nested ESXi, NSX-V or NSX-T on top of NSX-T
Nested Virtualization is an extremely useful tool that helps customers easily test and try out new VMware products and s... - vCenter Event Broker Appliance Updates – VMworld, Fling, Community & Open Source
VMworld At VMworld Barcelona, Michael Gasch and I had the privilege of presenting our #CODE1379E "If This Then That" for... - Customizing vCenter Alarm Email Subject and Body
One of the automated actions that can be configured when a vCenter Server Alarm is triggered is to send an email notific... - Hands on with new AMD “NUC” platform from ASRock
It has been rumored for some time now that AMD would be re-entering the embedded/small form factor (SFF) market and with...
ESX Virtualization
- Veeam Backup for AWS Free Version Released
If you're Amazon EC2 instances you might need to back them up, right? Good news today as Veeam has just released Veeam B... - Cheapest way of going virtual with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)
Very small shops and often hesitate to go virtual and stay on physical servers. Usually it's because they only have and ... - Physical Server Backup, Workstation or Laptop with Nakivo Backup and Replication
Nakivo as many other backup vendors has now a possibility to backup physical servers or workstations/laptops running Win... - Download Free Load Balancer for VMware vSphere
Today's free download is provided by Kemp Technologies. They offer a free load balancer for different virtualization pla... - Fight Ransomware with Veeam 10 Immutability Feature
Ransomware is a real problem for everyone. Within the deep inside of you heard you always hope that your organization wo...
Cormac Hogan
- Tanzu Mission Control – VMworld 2019 Updates
After spending some time watching, digesting and then writing about Project Pacific Deep Dive updates from VMworld 2019,... - Project Pacific – VMworld 2019 Deep Dive Updates
I’m sure most readers will be somewhat familiar with VMware’s Project Pacific at this point. It really is th... - CNS – not just for vSAN
After a very eventful VMworld, we received lots of questions about CNS, the Cloud Native Storage feature that was releas... - Safekeeping – a useful tool for interacting with First Class Disks/Improved Virtual Disks
I have been doing quite a bit of work on First Class Disks (FCD), also known as Improved Virtual Disks (IVD) over the pa... - Video of HCI Spotlight Session from #VMworld now available #HCI3551KE
This week at VMworld in Barcelona, I was honored to be able to co-present the HCIBU Spotlight Session with our GM and ...
Scott's Weblog
- Technology Short Take 120
Welcome to Technology Short Take #120! Wow…hard to believe it’s been almost two months since the last Tech ... - KubeCon 2019 Day 3 and Event Summary
Keynotes Bryan Liles kicked off the day 3 morning keynotes with a discussion of “finding Kubernetes’ Rail... - KubeCon 2019 Day 2 Summary
Keynotes This morning’s keynotes were, in my opinion, better than yesterday’s morning keynotes. (I missed... - KubeCon 2019 Day 1 Summary
This week I’m in San Diego for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Instead of liveblogging each session individually, I thou... - Using Kustomize with Cluster API Manifests
A topic that’s been in the back of my mind since writing the Cluster API introduction post is how someone could us...
vSphere-land
- vVols at VMworld 2019 Special Report
I already did a whole big post on my experience at VMworld this year but since there was a lot of activity centered arou... - My thoughts and observations on VMworld 2019
Another year, another VMworld, this one being #12 for me, wow has it really been 12 years of going to VMworld. I’v... - Here we go again: the correct case for VVols is now vVols
VMware loves their acronyms and through the years has constantly changed the format for them from upper to lower case. v... - Happy SysAdmin Day – Reflections of a former SysAdmin
The annual SysAdmin day is on July 26nd so I thought I would do a quick post reflecting on my time as a SysAdmin. I spen... - VVols at VMworld
Last week I wrote about the numbers around the sessions at VMworld, outlining how many sessions were specific to certain...
NTPRO.NL
- VMware Labs has released and updated tons of new Flings
HCIBench stands for "Hyper-converged Infrastructure Benchmark". It's essentially an automation wrapper around the p... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ntpronl/~3/ohQQcjJNHMA/3546-unknown.html
This book provides tips that help administrators maximize the performance of VMware vSphere 6.7, Update 2. Sections... - VMware Port and Protocols - ports.vmware.com
VMware has launched a new website with all the ports and protocols of their products. The URL for this new website ... - New Technical White Paper - Performance of VMware vCenter Server 6.7 in Remote Offices and Branch Offices
VMware vCenter Server provides a centralized way to control and monitor the virtual infrastructure. It has been wid... - VMware Labs has released a new Fling - vCenter Event Broker Appliance
The vCenter Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) enables customers to easily create event-driven automation based on vCent...
Virten.net
- ESXi on 8th Gen Intel NUC (Kaby Lake-G - Hades Canyon)
Intel launched a successor to their Skull Canyon based Gaming NUCs - The 8th Gen Kaby Lake-G NUC. The new Hades Canyon n... - 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...
vEducate.co.uk
- vRealize Automation 8.0 – Wildcard SSL certificate support and deployment issues – LCMVRAVACONFIG590003
Ok, so I’m just going to call it out straight away, when using wildcard SSL certificates with vRealize Automation ... - vRSLCM 8.0 – vROPs 7.5 upgrade fails due to Admin password expiry
When the vRealize 8 products dropped, I was like a kid in a sweet shop, upgrading everything as quick as possible before... - vRSLCM 8.0 – Default Storage is too small
PSA: The default deployment of vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8 configuration has a storage disk which is too small for the ... - VMware LifeCycle Manager – Migration error “SSH is not enabled or invalid” – LCMMIGRATION15102
During my migration from vRSLCM 2.1 patch 2 to the latest version 8 release, I encountered the following error; Error Co... - VMware vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8 – Migration Process Screenshots
VMware vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8 released earlier this week, 17th October 2019. Note the official name and abbreviati...
vSwitchZero
- Preventing MikroTik RouterOS Bridge MAC Changes
I noticed that my Windows 10 VM kept becoming inaccessible after shutting down and powering up my lab. As part of the po... - Overheating NVMe Flash Drives
I recently deployed an all-NVMe based vSAN configuration in my home lab. I’ll be posting more information on my setup so... - ipmitool 1.8.11 vib for ESXi
I just created a packaged vib that includes ipmitool 1.8.11 that can be run directly from the ESXi CLI. I needed to be a... - NSX-T Troubleshooting Scenario 3 – Solution
Welcome to the third instalment of a new series of NSX-T troubleshooting scenarios. Thanks to everyone who took the time... - NSX-T Troubleshooting Scenario 3
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so what better way to get back into the swing of things than a troubleshoo...
vNinja
- macOS Catalina Chrome Self-signed Certificate Issues
Way back in 2017, the CA/Browser Forum voted on Ballot 193 – 825-day Certificate Lifetimes, which passed. In short, this... - Guide: Creating an Isolated Ubiquiti Unifi IoT Network
As I’ve covered before, I run my home network mostly on Ubiquiti UniFi hardware. Since this offers a lot of nifty ... - Guide: Creating Isolated Networks with Ubiquiti UniFi
Some times you might need to create an isolated network, while still allowing that network to access the internet. Ubiqu... - Win a VMworld US 2019 Pass With Veeam
Want to win a VMworld US 2019 pass? If you want to go to VMworld US 2019 (August 25-29) in San Francisco, and still don&... - VMware Center for Advanced Learning Advanced Architecture Course (CALAAC)
Hilton Paris La Defense Back in late April I got notified that I had been accepted to attend the VMware Center for Advan...
VMExplorer
- Create an ESXi installation ISO with custom drivers in 9 easy steps!
One of the challenges in running a VMware based home lab is the ability to work with old / inexpensive hardware but run ... - Going to 10Gbe from 40Gb with the MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+IN
As my Home Lab has evolved I’m always looking to make it better and at the same time learn something new. When I s... - FIX for Netgear Orbi Router / Firewall blocks additional subnets
Last April my trusty Netgear Switch finally gave in. I bought a nifty Dell PowerConnect 6224 switch and have been worki... - 7 tips for getting to VMworld 2019
I’ve been lucky enough to make it to very VMworld since 2008 but it wasn’t always easy getting there. Being ... - UNBOXING VeloCloud’s Edge 510 AC (SD-WAN)
This past week I got a new VeloCloud Edge 510 AC! It was sent to me by the VMware CTO-Ambassadors program. Its been a ...
KB Articles
- New KB articles published for the week ending 1st December,2019
Datacenter Cisco UCS Servers with Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory Module Support Published Date:27-11-2019 VMware Clo... - Announcing Updates to VMware Skyline – November 2019
We are excited to announce a number of updates to VMware Skyline. Skyline is VMware’s proactive support service, w... - New KB articles published for the week ending 24th November,2019
VMware Cloud on AWS [VMC on AWS] Unable to migrate virtual machines after configuring Hybrid Linked Mode Published Date:... - New KB articles published for the week ending 17th November,2019
VMware Cloud on AWS VMware Cloud on AWS – About VM Storage Policy for applying SLA in Stretch cluster environment.... - New KB articles published for the week ending 2nd November,2019
VMware Cloud on AWS [HCX] Error on HCX plugin or HCX manager “Your session is no longer valid, you need to login a...
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