FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone and welcome to the second newsletter of 2020. Its already the middle of January and so much news and many updates to share with you. If you are not aware we also have a few social media options for you including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to keep you connected to our TAM community. We regularly post to these sources and they are also a great way to keep up to date.
In keeping with our theme of modernizing applications, my question this week is how are you managing containers in your organization? The proliferation of containers will continue to increase and our tools to manage and facilitate all that is great with containers also continues unabated, but connecting all of these together can be really hard. Organizations are finding that as soon as their container count grows, so does the complexity in orders of magnitude, often outpacing their ability to come up with a sufficient strategy, and oftentimes putting the brakes on. As a TAM we are ideally positioned to assist our customers and help them make the best possible use of your VMware ad related technology, so keep us informed and reach out to us for guidance, we are always there to help.
I look forward to speaking to you in the next edition.
Virtually Yours
VMware TAM Team
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KUBERNETES@VMWARE
If you are just getting started with Kubernetes and looking for some easy to digest training head over to KubeAcademy. There are numerous Kubernetes and container sessions that you are able to take such as: Containers 101, Kubernetes 101, Kubernetes In-Depth, How to prepare for the CKA Exam, Cluster operations. These are all provided by VMware and are very easy to get started with.
TAM@VMWARE
WEBINAR
Recording: January TAM Customer Webinar: VMware Public Cloud Strategy – Adam Osterholt
For those that were unable to attend January’s TAM Customer Webinar live, a recording link is now available at:
https://vmware.zoom.us/rec/share/6OtXFO2o9WlIf7Pr7GaYcI4FNJ3fT6a81yQcqPINn08-t_ErwC39648I7RVK4R2X
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Upcoming: February 2020 – Deep Dive into vROps Self-Driving Operations and Troubleshooting
Date: Thursday, February 13th
Time: 11:00am EST/ 10:00am CST/ 8:00am PST
Duration: 1.5 Hour
Synopsis: This session will review the tenets of vRealize Operations Manager 8.0 and explore the Self-Driving functionality and features found in the new Troubleshooting Workbench.
Guest speaker: John Dias – Senior Technical Marketing Architect, Cloud Management BU
Registration Link: https://VMware.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YiUemqi5RUisqIC9zzHMOw
VMWARE RUNS ON VMWARE
Topic:“1-Click Happiness—How Automation Accelerates VMware IT Service Delivery”
Date/Time: January 23, 2020, 9 – 10 a.m. PT
Description: Service delivery at VMware IT involves the seamless deployment of application features and their associated support infrastructure into a production environment. Discover how—by using VMware vRealize® Automation™ (vRA) to automate end-to-end infrastructure delivery—our team reduced provisioning times from weeks to hours, while also lowering operating costs. In addition, you'll learn how VMware vRealize® Code Stream™ (vRCS) provides the ability to model and automate a complete application development pipeline with one button.
Registration Link:Click here
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UPDATES
vRealize Network Insight 5.1.0:
- vRNI 5.1 Download Page
App Volumes 4.0:
- Downloads
- Release Notes
- Documentation
VMware Tools 11.0.5:
- Direct Download
- Release Notes
- VMware Tools Documentation
VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9.1:
- https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/index.html
- Cloud Builder Download Link:https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?productId=945&downloadGroup=VCF391
VMware Validated Design 5.1.1:
- http://vmware.com/go/vvd
vCloud Director For Service Providers 10.0.0.1:
- Download link
- Release notes
Security Announcements!
VMSA-2020-0002 - VMware Tools workaround addresses a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2020-3941)
NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
Open Source Blog
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We, as an industry, need to pay closer attention to our software supply chain and begin talking about the potential of m... - What’s New in EdgeX Foundry 1.1
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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
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Network Virtualization Blog
- Get Up To Speed on NSX Cloud with 5 Easy Resources
Over the last few years, as public and hybrid cloud adoption proliferated, organizations began looking for seamless and ... - 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
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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 ...
vSphere Blog
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We’re back with another vSphere Tweet Chat recap! In this edition, we explore vSphere and Bitfusion, and what this integ... - VMware vSphere & Microsoft LDAP Channel Binding & Signing (ADV190023)
Update (1/15/2020): There are a lot of questions about Integrated Windows Authentication and this change, which was not ... - Getting Started with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC – Video Series
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is a hyperconverged hardware and software-defined data center stack that is delivered as a serv... - vSphere Support for Intel FPGA
Since VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1, VMware expanded its array of supported hardware accelerators by introducing support f... - 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...
Cloud management Blog
- Rightsizing VMs with vRealize Operations
Rightsizing VMs is critical to get the best performance of your vSphere infrastructure and your VMs. Rampant oversizing ... - What’s new with vRealize Network Insight 5.1 & vRealize Network Insight Cloud
Has it already been three months since 5.0? It has! Continuing the momentum of vRealize Network Insight 5.0, version 5.1... - To Cloud or Not to Cloud?
To cloud or not to cloud: that is the question. A critical component of a good cloud strategy is a defined process to de... - Forwarding vRealize Log Insight events to a SIEM Solution
When setting up a log forwarding connection from vRealize Log Insight to a SIEM solution like Splunk or Qradar, y... - The vExpert Cloud Management Zombie VM Hunt
Zombies are everywhere, needlessly consuming resources in every customer’s environment. Zombie VM’s are virtual ...
Cloud Native Blog
- Learn How to Bootstrap Kubernetes Clusters on KubeAcademy
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new KubeAcademy course—Cluster Operations. The Cluster Operations course is de... - Rethinking Security from Scratch: The Case for Shifting Container Security from the Edge to the Core
Here’s a simple possibility that is often overlooked but can have serious consequences: Building the smallest possible c... - Discover, Visualize, Optimize: How vRealize Network Insight Helps You Manage Kubernetes Clusters
Contributors Alka Gupta, Director, Strategic Technical Alliance Pravin Goyal, Product Line Manager Eric Railine, Technic... - 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...
EUC Blog
- Package Delivered: App Volumes 4
Today it is our pleasure to announce the general availability of VMware App Volumes 4. There is quite a bit in store for... - App Volumes Delivers Packages in the New Year!
Happy New Year! App Volumes 4 is almost here, and we wanted to give you a sneak peek! The next major version in VMware’s... - 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...
Cloud Foundation Blog
- Application Virtual Networks – Enabling Stronger Mobility and Flexibility with VMware Cloud Foundation
By: Nick Marshall One of the new features in the 3.9.1 release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is use of Application Vi... - Announcing General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9.1
By: Lavanya Shastri On January 14th 2020, VMware achieved general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 3.9.1, i... - VMware Cloud Foundation Keeps Good Company
We are pleased to announce that VMware Cloud Foundation has been recognized as a Finalist in CRN’s 2019 Products of the ... - 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...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS
Virtually Ghetto
- ESXi on the new 2019 Apple Mac Pro
Inquiries from customers on the support for ESXi on the latest 2019 Apple Mac Pro 7,1 has slowly been trickling in since... - Forwarding vCenter Events into AWS EventBridge using vCenter Event Broker Appliance
After attending Mike Deck's AWS reInvent session last year on Building event-driven architectures faster than ever with ... - Intel NUC 9 Pro & Extreme – First “Modular” NUC
The highly anticipated "modular" Next Unit of Computing (NUC) has just been announced at the Consumer Electronic Show (C... - Simulating the VMware Cloud on AWS API using Stoplight Prism Tool
As more customers and partners on-board the VMware Cloud on AWS service, the topic of Automation has been coming up more... - 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...
ESX Virtualization
- vRealize Network Insight 5.1 Released
VMware has released a vRealize Network Insight 5.1. vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) supports a large number of vendors w... - Most Read Posts in 2019 on ESX Virtualization
We're in 2020 and it's perhaps a good time to recap which posts has performed well during the past 12 months. This post ... - 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...
Cormac Hogan
- First Class Disks/Enhanced Virtual Disks revisited
I have been receiving a number of queries lately with regards to First Class Disks (FCD) on vSphere, also referred to as... - Getting started with VCF Part 2 – vRealize Suite
Following on from my first post on getting started with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the next thing that you will prob... - Getting started with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
After returning from the holidays, one of the items at the top of my agenda was to become more familiarity with VMware C... - 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...
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
- Interview – Matthew Steiner – Cloud Technologist and Author
Matthew is currently working at VMware as a cloud management technologist, spending the majority of his time visiting cu... - 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...
vSwitchZero
- Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black Heatsink Review
After over six years of use, it was time to put my faithful desktop gaming system out to pasture and to build a new one.... - 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...
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
- Top 20 articles for vSAN, December 2019
Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products Thick-provisioned VMs on vSAN detected o... - Top 20 articles for NSX, December 2019
Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products Guest Introspection status reports ̶... - Top 20 articles for vSphere, December 2019
Workaround for OpenSLP security vulnerability in ESXi 6.x (CVE-2019-5544) Restarting the Management agents in ESXi Trans... - New KB articles published for the week ending 5th January,2020
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As we launch into the year 2020, it’s important to reflect on the past year. Before we jump into the new year, I w...
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