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Hi everyone, today VMware held a virtual event to announce vSphere 7, Tanzu and more specifically focusing on Application Modernization. You can watch the replay of the event here! I wanted to ensure no delay in getting this and other new product announcements to you as a special edition, so please read on for more info, and please reach out to your VMware representative for any further info on these and other announcements.
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APPLICATION MODERNIZATION AND OTHER NEW SOLUTION ANNOUNCEMENTS
Become a Modern Software Organization with VMware Tanzu
With VMware, you now can modernize the applications that matter most and automate the path to production. You also can modernize your infrastructure by establishing a unified operating model for virtual machines and containers within your private cloud. Moreover, by taking full advantage of Kubernetes, VMware can help you extend that consistent operating model across clouds.
Introducing vSphere 7: Essential Services for the Modern Hybrid Cloud
vSphere 7 is the biggest release of vSphere in over a decade and delivers these innovations and the rearchitecting of vSphere with native Kubernetes that we introduced at VMworld 2019 as Project Pacific.
vSphere 7 with Kubernetes
What does the future of computing look like? This video is an introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes, a revolutionary advancement that will help IT administrators and developers run complex, modern applications as easily as they run their virtualized environments today.
Overview of vSphere 7
vSphere 7 has many hundreds of new and improved features and we will take a stroll through the big areas, from lifecycle all the way through to security features like Identity Federation.
What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 4
Today, VMware announced VMware Cloud Foundation™ 4 during the App Modernization in a Multi-Cloud World online launch event. VMware Cloud Foundation 4 brings together the latest innovations in VMware vSphere 7, VMware vSAN 7, VMware NSX-T, and VMware vRealize Suite 2019, along with new capabilities from VMware Tanzu to support Kubernetes, cloud native architectures and app transformation in your business.
Announcing vSAN 7
We’re excited to announce the latest release of the industry-leading hyperconverged infrastructure software, VMware vSAN 7. vSAN, with its rich ecosystem of partners, has evolved as the platform of choice for private and public clouds. This article discusses how vSAN 7 accelerates modernizing the data center with newer features and enhancements.
What’s New in SRM and vSphere Replication 8.3
SRM and vSphere Replication have been available since 2008 and 2012 respectively. They both started as good products and have only gotten better over time. I'm still surprised and impressed by our engineering team’s ability to add significant new capabilities while at the same time keeping the core functionality solid. This post will cover what's new in both products at a high level with more detailed posts diving into features in more detail over the next couple weeks.
What’s New in vRealize Operations 8.1
Today we are very excited to announce the upcoming release of VMware vRealize Operations 8.1, which is part of today’s announcement about VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 and VMware vSphere 7.0 with Kubernetes, to support modernizing infrastructure and applications. vRealize Operations 8.1 will deliver new and enhanced capabilities for self-driving operations to help customers optimize, plan and scale VMware Cloud, whether on-premises private cloud or VMware SDDC in multiple public clouds such as VMware Cloud on AWS, while at the same time unifying multi-cloud monitoring. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), this release will provide a unified operations platform, delivering continuous performance optimization, efficient capacity and cost management, proactive planning, app-aware intelligent remediation and integrated compliance.
Announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.1
Today we are announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.1, the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, modern infrastructure automation platform. This release delivers new and enhanced capabilities to enable IT/Cloud admins, DevOps admins, and SREs to further accelerate their on-going datacenter infrastructure modernization and cloud migration initiatives, focused on the following key use cases: self-service hybrid cloud, multicloud automation, infrastructure DevOps, and Kubernetes infrastructure automation. In addition, vRealize Automation 8.1 supports the latest release of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 to enable self-service automation and infrastructure DevOps for VMware Cloud-based private and hybrid clouds, as well as integration with vSphere 7.0 with Kubernetes to automate Kubernetes supervisor cluster and namespace management.
vExpert Blog Posts: VMware Announces vSphere 7 with Kubernetes, Tanzu, vSAN 7, VCF 4 and vRA 8.1
Today we announced vSphere 7 with Kubernetes, Tanzu, vSAN 7, VCF 4 and vRA 8.1. The vExpert community has some excellent insight into what these releases is about and how they can help your business. The articles below are written by VMware vExperts who are the best IT professionals in virtualization.
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
Open Source Blog
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By Nisha Kumar and Joshua Lock This is the second in a three-part series based on the presentation on building container... - SCaLE 18x: Everything to Know About the Expo’s 18th Birthday
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Network Virtualization Blog
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VMware marked its entry into the service mesh space with the announcement of VMware NSX Service Mesh. Today, we have som... - Tech Field Day #TFD21
We are expecting another action packed day and of course it will be streamed live from this blog. Don’t worry if ... - Forging A Path to Continuous, Risk-based Security with VMware NSX Service Mesh
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The VMware NSX team is excited to announce the NSX vExperts program for 2020. If you’re not familiar with vExperts, the ... - Security that’s Designed for the Modern Data Center
The last 12 months have been incredibly exciting for the security business at VMware. Last year at RSA Conference 2019, ...
vSphere Blog
- Introducing vSphere 7: Essential Services for the Modern Hybrid Cloud
(By – Krish Prasad, General Manager vSphere & SVP Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware) I am excited to share... - How is Virtual Memory Translated to Physical Memory?
Memory is one of the most important host resources. For workloads to access global system memory, we need to make sure v... - Announcing End of Availability for vSphere Platinum, vCloud Suite Platinum, and Cloud Foundation Platinum
VMware is announcing the End of Availability (EOA) of VMware vSphere Platinum, VMware Cloud Foundation Platinum, and VM... - VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Technical Overview Paper Released
VMware customers like you are getting excited about the new fully managed, on-premises SDDC as a service offering that i... - Is Your On-Premises Existence Under Scrutiny? VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Offers a Solution
For many IT teams and organizations, maintaining an on-premises infrastructure has become an increasing challenge. The i...
Cloud management Blog
- Announcing vRealize Log Insight 8.1
Every minute, your organization’s infrastructure and applications generate a massive amount of logs. Those logs ha... - Announcing VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.1
Today we are announcing VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.1, the latest release of our IT workflow orchestration and automa... - Announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.1
Today we are announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.1, the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, modern infrastr... - Delivering Modern Infrastructure for Modern Apps with vRealize Suite 2019 and vCloud Suite 2019
vRealize Suite 2019 and vCloud Suite 2019 – Delivering Modern Infrastructure for Modern Apps For most organization... - Announcing vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1
Today we are announcing VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1, the latest release of the lifecycle management and ...
Cloud Native Blog
- Become a Modern Software Organization with VMware Tanzu
By Ray O’Farrell, executive vice president and general manager, Modern Applications Platform Business Unit, VMware Nearl... - Skyline Resolves Production Incidents Faster with Alert-Based Health Dashboards
Blog Contributions from Rajiv Kumar, Senior SRE at Skyline VMware and Mohan Machha SRE at Skyline VMware in creating the... - Cluster API is a Big Deal. Joe Beda & Craig McLuckie Tell You Why.
“We want to take the same technology that’s being used for workloads running on top of Kubernetes and apply that ... - Introducing Watch-Proxy: A Beacon to Gather Kubernetes Info for IT Systems
Contributions from Rachel Leekin, Senior Kubernetes Architect, VMware Today, most enterprises’ IT solutions contain vari... - Enhancing Kubernetes Security with OPA
The security ecosystem for Kubernetes can be confusing. A Sysdig article from July 2019 outlined 33 security tools for K...
EUC Blog
- 11 Secrets for Successful “Remote-First” Working
In light of current events, many organizations are feeling the effects of life’s unpredictability. With many organizatio... - Workspace ONE Powers Critical Communications During Unexpected Events
In light of current events, many organizations are feeling the effects of life’s unpredictability. With many organizatio... - Announcing the EUC vExpert program!
We’re excited to announce the new VMware End-User Computing vExperts program! If you’re not familiar with vExperts, the... - Differences Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: How VMware Horizon Can Help with Both
In light of current events, many organizations are feeling the effects of life’s unpredictability. With many organizatio... - VMware Carbon Black Cloud and Workspace ONE Intelligence – The Start of Things to Come
It’s no secret that security in the enterprise continues to be challenging in today’s world. One primary factor behind t...
Cloud Foundation Blog
- Delivering Kubernetes at Cloud Scale with VMware Cloud Foundation 4
Introduction By any measure, VMware Cloud Foundation 4 is a massive release that delivers a lot of net new functionality... - What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 4
Today, VMware announced VMware Cloud Foundation 4 during the App Modernization in a Multi-Cloud World online launch even... - Built by VMware: VMware Cloud Foundation’s Full Stack
The most important strategic decision you’ll make in the next five years is selecting your software stack. When looking ... - Deep dive into VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 2 Nested Lab deployment
In my last blog post, I gave a very high-level overview of deploying a nested VCF lab using the VLC. If you haven’... - Deep dive into VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 1 Building a Nested Lab
If you’re like me, you like to dive deep into technology to learn how things work in the safety of a lab environme...
VMware on VMware Blog
- Mergers and Acquisitions: Day One Enablers and Technology Integration at Scale
By Romy Kaura, Senior Director M&A Integration and Services, VMware A critical milestone in mergers an... - How VMware IT Adopted the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Formerly Avi Networks)
By Swapnil Hendre, Director, Solutions Engineering and Design, and Preethy G, Solutions Engineer, VMware T... - VMware Information Security. Why the Path to Passwordless is the Way Forward
By Craig Savage, Security Solutions Strategist—VMware Security and Resiliency Sometimes you can’t see the ... - How Automating the Security Stack Has Reaped Unexpected Benefits, Including Reducing Human Error
By Craig Savage, Security Solutions Strategist—VMware Security & Resiliency Automation has proven vita... - Integrating and Sustaining Resilience in Our DNA—The Story of the VMware Global Resiliency Program
By Prasad Saranjame, Head of Physical Security & Resiliency (PS&R), and Cheryl LaTouche, Senior Manager, ...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS
Virtually Ghetto
- Big updates to the vCenter Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) Fling
The vCenter Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) team has been working hard over the last couple of months on some pretty excit... - Automating the creation of NSX-T “Disconnected” Segments for DR testing on VMware Cloud on AWS
Disaster Recovery (DR) and Disaster Avoidance (DA) on VMware Cloud on AWS is still one of the most popular use case amon... - How to fix “extensions/v1beta1” & missing required field “selector” for Yelb Kubernetes application?
As you can see from my recent tweets, I have been spending some time with Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI) and specifically... - Using PowerCLI to automate the retrieval of VCSA Identity Sources
Similiar to automating the retrieval of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) password policies using PowerCLI, we can ext... - How to deploy the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with a custom MAC Address?
I recently had a question that came in from our field where a customer needed to deploy the vCenter Server Appliance (VC...
ESX Virtualization
- VMware vSphere 7.0 Announced – vCenter Server 7 Details
VMware vSphere 7.0 has been announced by VMware. The product release is not known yet, but we have details on what's has... - VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Profiles
VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Profiles is a completely new feature in vSphere 7.0 and has nothing to do with ESXi host profi... - VMware vSphere 7.0 DRS Improvements – What’s New?
vSphere 7.0 brings also new improvements in DRS. While since its inception, DRS was always cluster oriented where the go... - What is vCenter Server 7 Multi-Homing?
VMware vSphere 7 has been announced. Make sure to check our vSphere 7.0 WordPress page where we centralize all the artic... - What is vCenter Server Update Planner? – vSphere 7.0
In this post, we'll discuss a new feature of vSphere 7.0 – What is vCenter Server Update Planner? This feature wil...
Cormac Hogan
- Deploying flannel, vSphere CPI and vSphere CSI with later versions of Kubernetes
I recently wanted to deploy a newer versions of Kubernetes to see it working with our Cloud Native Storage (CNS) feature... - Getting started with VCF Part 14 – Connecting vRA to NSX-T WLD (alternate method)
In my most recent VMware Cloud Foundation post (part 13), I highlighted the fact that if you used NSX-T as the networkin... - Getting started with VCF Part 13 – Connect vRealize to WLDs
I’m still on my VMware Cloud Foundation v3.9 journey. My latest task was to connect my vRealize Components to my W... - Getting started with VCF Part 12 – NSX Manager Backups
I kept seeing an orange banner when I log into my SDDC Manager displaying a warning about my NSX Manager being backed up... - Getting started with VCF Part 11 – External Storage
I got an interesting question recently on my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) blog series. An observation was made that all...
Scott's Weblog
- An Update on the Tokyo Assignment
Right at the end of 2019 I announced that in early 2020 I was temporarily relocating to Tokyo, Japan, for a six month wo... - Modifying Visual Studio Code's Bracketing Behavior
There are two things I’ve missed since I switched from Sublime Text to Visual Studio Code (I switched in 2018). Fi... - HA Kubernetes Clusters on AWS with Cluster API v1alpha2
About six months ago, I wrote a post on how to use Cluster API (specifically, the Cluster API Provider for AWS) to estab... - Technology Short Take 124
Welcome to Technology Short Take #124! It seems like the natural progression of the Tech Short Takes is moving toward mo... - Region and Endpoint Match in AWS API Requests
Interacting directly with the AWS APIs—using a tool like Postman (or, since I switched back to macOS, an applicati...
vSphere-land
- vSphere 7.0 Link-O-Rama
Your complete guide to all the essential vSphere 7.0 links from all over the VMware universe. Bookmark this page and kee... - VMware announces vSphere 7.0: Here’s what you need to know
VMware just announced the latest release of vSphere, 7.0, and it’s their biggest release to date. Before we dive i... - Top vBlog 2020 starting soon, make sure your site is included
All right let’s do this, Top vBlog 2020 is about ready to go. The last Top vBlog 2018 kicked off at the end of 201... - Will there be a VMworld event this year?
With the continued spread of the coronavirus more and more large event conferences are being canceled. Facebook has alre... - Sign up now for VMware’s big launch announcement on 3/10
VMware has announced an upcoming event where they will reveal “new product details across VMware’s complete modern...
NTPRO.NL
- Free e-book: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure for Dummies
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VMware HCX is an application mobility platform that is designed for simplifying application migration, workload reb... - vRealize Network Insight Cloud - Onboarding VMware Cloud on AWS
This video walks through the process of onboarding a VMware Cloud on AWS environment to vRealize Network Insight ... - Best Practices Guide - Enterprise Java Applications on VMware
This paper discusses best practices for running Enterprise Java Applications on VMware vSphere virtual machines. Th... - Demo of VMware NSX-T Migration Coordinator
Migration Coordinator is a tool that's built into VMware NSX-T that enables migrating from NSX for vSphere (NSX-V...
Virten.net
- Intel NUC with 64GB Memory Support (6th - 10th Gen)
Intel NUCs can go up to 32GB Memory for about 5 years. With the growing memory requirements of VMware Software, these nu... - Backup vSphere Cluster with ghettoVCB
The ghettoVCB script is a well known free backup solution for standalone ESXi Hosts created by William Lam. The script w... - Adding ESXi Host to an EVC enabled Cluster fails
Adding an ESXi host to an EVC enabled vSphere 6.7 Clusters fails with the following error message: The host's CPU hardwa... - 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...
vEducate.co.uk
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Today VMware ran their announcement event “App Modernization in a multi-cloud world” event, which leads with their vSphe... - Introducing VMware TAM Lab YouTube Channel
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In my previous post, I looked at the architecture you may want to implement to test the various features of Veeam Backup... - Building a Veeam Lab – a recommended architecture
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vNinja
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VMExplorer
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In this video I’ll be reviewing my final steps around completing this build. More information on the overall compo... - Home Lab Gen V Build: Part 5 – Motherboard Install
In this video I’ll be reviewing what it took to install the motherboard, what to look for when you buy a used CPU,... - Home Lab Gen V Build: Part 4 – First Install Steps
In this video I’ll be covering the first installation steps I take to prepare the case and power supply for the bu... - Home Lab Gen V Build: Part 3 – Motherboard Overview
In this video I’ll cover an overview of the X79 motherboard I choose from my Gen V Home lab. If you like my ‘no-no... - Home Lab GEN V Build: Part 2 – Case Selection
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