A wish list of dream features for a vSphere 6.5 deployment — TechTarget
With VMworld 2016 mere months away and a vSphere beta program underway, check out this list of features we’d like to see in a new version of vSphere.
Best Places to Work in IT 2016: VMware no. 26 among large organizations — Computerworld
This Palo Alto, Calif., provider of cloud and virtualization software and services promotes a culture of collaboration, honesty and community service. VMware encourages its IT staffers to innovate and act as R&D pioneers. The company offers learning and career growth opportunities and celebrates social responsibility and community involvement — encouraging the latter by allowing employees to take up to 40 hours of paid time off per year to volunteer. The company organizes wellness fairs, fitness events, service learning fairs and weekly social gatherings, and its award-winning campus features on-site cafes and gym facilities.
VMware launches new service to manage endpoint security — Network World
VMware wants to help companies get a better handle on the security of the computers their employees use. The new TrustPoint product the company announced Monday uses software to make it possible to track and manage computers easily and quickly, without taking up a whole bunch of data.
Released: NSX 6.2.3 – Packed Full Of New Features!
Last week VMware released NSX-v 6.2.3 Build 3979471 and it’s anything but your standard point release. Running through the list off the release notes this could have easily been a major dot release. In good news for vCloud Air Network Service Providers there have been some major enhancements to the Edge Services Gateways which adds availability and protocol enhancements as well as added general stability through bug fixes and security updates.
Virtualization The Future: Sparse VM Swap Object in VSAN 6.2
Those of you who have a good understanding of VSAN at this stage will know that a virtual machine deployed on the VSAN datastore is deployed as a set of objects, and not a set of files, which is how a VM is deployed on traditional datastores. Those objects include the
VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Arkin — VMware Radius
Arkin offers a platform that has been purpose-built for NSX environments, significantly lowering time to resolution in the SDDC.
How to run a script from a vCenter Alarm action in the VCSA? — virtuallyGhetto
As more and more customers transition from the vCenter Server for Windows to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), a question that I get from time to time is how do I run a script using a vCenter Alarm from the VCSA? Traditionally, customers would create and run Windows specific scripts such as a simple batch script or a more powerful Powershell/PowerCLI script. However, since the VCSA is a Linux based operating system, these Windows specific scripts would no longer function, at least out of the box.
Configure VSAN on HP Servers
For a new End User Computing (EUC) project I installed a Hybrid Virtual SAN (VSAN) configuration on HP Proliant server hardware. VSAN will be used as storage layer for VDIs. Each HP Proliant DL360 Gen9 server has the following components:
VCAP6 Deployment Lab Beta Exams: Register Now!
Hi Everyone, I am really excited to announce that registration for the the new VCAP6 Deployment Labs is available now through Pearson Vue, with a first appointment date of June 15, 2016.
Can all VSAN Witness VMs for ROBO be in the same VLAN? — Yellow Bricks
Yesterday I received the question if all VSAN Witness VMs for ROBO can be in the same VLAN? The excellent VSAN 2 node and Stretched Cluster guide for VSAN describes an example of how things can be implemented with different VLANs for the VSAN Witness, which would look like this:
Things to Consider When Upgrading Your VMware Disaster Recovery Solution
Once upon a time, you protected your VMs with VMware Site Recovery Manager, and now you are wondering how to upgrade your DR solution with minimum impact on the environment. Is it as seamless as you think?
Enhancements to the VM Tools Version-Mapping File
VMware ESXi GA releases, and certain patch releases, include VMware Tools installers for the most common guest OSs. A helpful resource that customers have used to map ESXi releases to VM Tools versions is available online at: https://packages.vmware.com/tools/versions
EMC XtremIO: VMware ESXi Multi-Array Settings
The following table represents the recommended VMware vSphere ESXi host settings to be applied when an ESXi host(s) is connected to a single array and also details multi-array settings when at least one of the arrays is XtremIO.
Just Another IT blog: How access NSX through APIs
When talking about automation, the capability of receiving remote calls is the success factor of any plataform, might be via command line or API calls. VMware NSX is not an exception, providing APIs functionality you can monitor, manager and troubleshoot it remotely.
NSX for vSphere 6.2.3 Release Notes
Document updated 09 June 2016
VCAP6-DCV Deployment – Objective 3.1 – Implement and Manage vSphere Standard Switch (vSS) Networks
Objectives 3.1 are broke down as the following
Quick Tip – How to create a Windows 2016 ISO supporting EFI boot w/o prompting to press a key
We had a question this week from a customer that was looking automate the installation of the latest Windows 2016 Tech Preview running on vSphere. They were booting the ISO using the EFI firmware and found that they would always be prompted with the “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD ….” message as shown in the screenshot below.
NSX 6.2.3 with Free Log Insight Entitlement released
VMware has release an update for their network virtualization platform NSX. Together with some minor changes to the product itself, VMware announced that all users with a NSX 6.2.3 (and beyond) license are now entitled to vRealize Log Insight for NSX at no additional charge.
SDN will change your job, not kill it: Level 3
There are many conversations to be had about network virtualization in general, and SDN in particular. One conversation we don’t always hear about is the human factor – which is to say resistance from telecoms department heads who see SDN as a challenge to their livelihoods, either through consolidating networking departments or automating resources to the point of making employees redundant.
What’s New in NSX 6.2.3
VMware announced on June 9th, 2016 the new version of the NSX platform version 6.2.3. A minor release to their network virtualization platform.
