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Hi everyone, welcome to the first newsletter to kick off 2020. I am really excited to be able to bring you all of the news from the world of Virtualization and VMware for the next 12 months. This is the 12th year of our newsletter and hopefully we will be able to deliver as much news and other information as possible to you that you will find useful. If you are new to the newsletter a quick recap on how it works. Every 2-3 weeks we collate as much useful news and other items of interest including upcoming TAM program webinars, VMware education updates and anything else that we feel is worthy of being in the newsletter. We also include the latest KB articles digest for review. All you need to do to receive this when it is sent is be a subscriber. If you received this from a colleague or via some other method feel free to subscribe yourself to the mailing list if appropriate, and of course pass this on to your fellow colleagues that might find it useful.
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
Open Source Blog
- Open Compliance Summit Japan: Tern 1.0 Release Joins the Automated Compliance Tooling Project
At the Open Compliance Summit Japan, the Automated Compliance Tooling (ACT) Project convened for the first time, with VM... - What Does 2020 Have in Store? Our Open Source Engineers Explain
Contributors include: Malini Bhandaru, John Hawley and Tim Pepper. We asked some of the engineers in VMware’s Open Sourc... - Wavefront Plugin for Jenkins: The Native Wavefront-Jenkins Integration Solution
By Dimitar Parapanov Wavefront by VMware (Wavefront) is a massively scalable, real-time, analytics platform for metrics ... - The Top 10 Open Source Blogs of 2019
If open source was born in the late 1990s and hit adolescence in the early 2000s, then this past decade represents its m... - 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 ...
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
- Announcing vSphere Days 2020
vSphere Days are coming in 2020! VMware and VMUG are hosting a new event this year, and you will want to be the first to... - VMware Welcomes The Future
(To mark the end of the year we have been posting every day through January 1 with lighter vSphere and VMware topics. We... - Blast From The Past: Where We’ve Come From
(To mark the end of the year we are posting every day through January 1 with lighter vSphere and VMware topics. We hope ... - Eventful Year for vSphere: Top Blog Posts of 2019
(To mark the end of the year we are posting every day through January 1 with lighter vSphere and VMware topics. We hope ... - VMware Enjoys VMworld
(To mark the end of the year we are posting every day through January 1 with lighter vSphere and VMware topics. We hope ...
Cloud management Blog
- The Importance of a Cloud Strategy
A clear, unambiguous, and widely-communicated cloud strategy is critical to the successful transformation of an IT organ... - Introducing the vCenter plugin for vRealize Network Insight
I am very excited to introduce a new fling: the vCenter plugin for vRealize Network Insight! This fling integrates vReal... - vExpert Cloud Management November 2019 Blog Digest
Every month we publish a digest of blogs created by our vExpert Cloud Management Community. These blogs are writ... - Performance of vRealize Operations REST APIs
About three years ago I posted a blog discussing the performance of the vRealize Operations REST APIs. That blog post st... - Improved Application Awareness in vRealize Operations 8.0
Customers trust vRealize Operations for Self-Driving Operations powered by AI/ML to provide the best performance, optimi...
Cloud Native Blog
- VMware + Pivotal: Combining the Skills, People and Leadership to Deliver Modern Apps to the Enterprise
By Ray O’Farrell, executive vice president and general manager, Modern Applications Platform Business Unit, VMware Happy... - Does Testing Kubernetes Conformance Leave You in the Dark? Get Progress Updates as Tests Run
In Sonobuoy 0.15.4, we introduced the ability for plugins to report their plugin’s progress to Sonobuoy by using a... - Announcing a New Course on KubeAcademy: Getting Started with Cloud Native and Kubernetes
After launching KubeAcademy from VMware—a free, product-agnostic Kubernetes and cloud native technology education platfo... - Taking Kubernetes to the People: How Cluster API Promotes Self-Service Infrastructure
Two key goals of Cluster API are to manage the full lifecycle of a Kubernetes cluster, including scaling up and scaling ... - Stable for the Holidays: Kubernetes 1.17 Focuses on Refining Existing Features
In a calendar year, the final release of Kubernetes will typically lack new enhancements but advance the current feature...
EUC Blog
- VMware Named a Leader in 2019-2020 IDC MarketScape Reports for Both EMM and UEM
We’re happy to announce VMware has been named a LEADER in two recent IDC vendor assessments related to the end-user comp... - What’s New with Workspace ONE and PIV-D Derived Credentials
Greetings and happy holidays. It’s been an incredible year thus far here at VMware for derived credentials and we’ve bee... - Join the Conversation on the New Workspace ONE Forums on VMware Technology Network
The Workspace ONE support forums provided many of you with the opportunity to connect with your fellow peers and share y... - Introducing VMware AVA as a part of Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub
At VMworld this year, we announced the new virtual assistant capability as a part of Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub – the... - How Zero Trust Security with Workspace ONE Solves Three Key Cybersecurity Challenges
Cybersecurity continues to inspire both concern and frustration across industries—and for good reason. Despite our best ...
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
- ESXi on 10th Gen Intel NUC (Frost Canyon)
Just a heads up, if you are considering the latest 10th Generation of the Intel NUC (formally known as Frost Canyon) whi... - Application Discovery in vSphere with VMware Tools 11
The holidays are just around the corner and hopefully everyone is taking some time off to spend with their families, I k... - RSS feed for VMware release notes
Staying up to date with the latest VMware product releases can be a challenge and with something like VMware Cloud on AW... - Configuring Github Actions self-hosted runners on PhotonOS
Ever since Github announced Github Actions, which is now generally available for everyone, I have been a huge fan of the... - Listing all Events for vCenter Server
I had a conversation with one of our VMware Cloud on AWS field leaders a couple of weeks ago at reInvent on his initial ...
ESX Virtualization
- VMware OS Optimization tool now supports Windows Server 2019
One of the very popular “Flings”, a free utility from VMware Labs got an update recently. One of the interes... - StarWind VSAN has a high level of customization
I don't think that I have to re-introduce StarWind company to our readers. Their software solutions were simple but effe... - VMware vSphere 6.7 U3b Released
VMware has released a new update vSphere 6.7 U3b. In this release there are no new features, however many bugfixes and s... - 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 ...
Cormac Hogan
- vtopology – Insights into vSphere infrastructure from kubectl
As I got more and more familiar with running Kubernetes on top of vSphere, I came to the realization that it might be us... - Using Host Groups with Availability Zones (AZs) in Enterprise PKS
After being asked about how vSphere Host Groups worked with Availability Zones in Enterprise PKS earlier this week, I de... - A holiday promo for the vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive Book
A very short post to let you know that Duncan and I are doing a holiday promotion for our vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive book. We ... - 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...
Scott's Weblog
- Looking Back: 2019 Project Report Card
As has been my custom over the last five years or so, in the early part of the year I like to share with my readers a li... - New Year, New Adventure
I’ll skip the build-up and jump straight to the whole point of this post: a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has com... - Technology Short Take 122
Welcome to Technology Short Take #122! Luckily I did manage to get another Tech Short Take squeezed in for 2019, just so... - Technology Short Take 121
Welcome to Technology Short Take #121! This may possibly be the last Tech Short Take of 2019 (not sure if I’ll be ... - Technology Short Take 120
Welcome to Technology Short Take #120! Wow…hard to believe it’s been almost two months since the last Tech ...
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
- New Book - Zero Trust Networks with VMware NSX: Build Highly Secure Network Architectures for Your Data Centers
Secure your VMware infrastructure against distrusted networks using VMware NSX. This book shows you why current s... - VMware Labs has released a new Fling - vCenter Plugin for vRealize Network Insight
The vCenter Plugin for vRealize Network Insight brings relevant information from Network Insight, directly into vCe... - FortiGate-VM - VMware NSX-T Data Center
By extending the FortiGate-VM native integration with the VMware NSX-T Data Center, Fortinet delivers advanced se... - 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...
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
- Support Ticket Template – Helping you help your vendor support teams
Below is a support template I crafted with some members of our VMware GSS team, to help my customers reduce the typical ... - Synology – Moving a package between volumes
I have a Synology 8-bay NAS used for home-lab purposes, but also doubles as local home storage as well. As part of upgra... - WinSCP – Elevate to root
I was using WinSCP to transfer logs from a VMware CloudBuilder appliance to troubleshoot a failed lab deployment, howeve... - VMware Horizon Blast – Failed to Connect to Connection Server
After deploying my latest horizon lab, I hit an issue where I could not hit the login page to authenticate for a Horizon... - VDI Cleanup script I use before sealing any golden image before deployment
Below is the VDI Cleanup script that I’ve been using over the years. I thought I’d post this after setting u...
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 29th December,2019
VMware ESXi VMware Remote Console 11.0 requires port 443 on ESXi hosts Published Date:26-12-2019 VMware Horizon Client f... - New KB articles published for the week ending 22nd December,2019
VMware Cloud on AWS [VMC on AWS] Bandwidth does not increase even if ECMP for Route Based IPSec VPN is enabled Published... - New KB articles published for the week ending 15th December,2019
VMware Cloud Provider Pod “Error pulling image vcppod/bind…” error when running the Deployer setup in ... - Announcing VMware Skyline Updates – December 2019
Before we close 2019, and open the book on 2020, we are happy to announce updates to VMware Skyline. These updates inclu... - Top 20 articles for vSAN, November 2019
Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products Thick-provisioned VMs onhttps://kb.vmwar...
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