Add All-Flash Support to vSAN 6.0/6.1/6.2 STD

Add All-Flash Support to vSAN 6.0/6.1/6.2 STD – via VMware News and Updates

Add All-Flash Support to vSAN 6.0/6.1/6.2 STD

With vSAN 6.5, we announced that all-flash support would be available to all editions (STD, ADV and ENT). Following that, there have been a few threads on if pre-vSAN 6.5 customers could now deploy vSAN on all-flash hardware. The answer is yes, and we now have an official KB (#2148560) available on this.


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Working Remote: How We Successfully Run Clarity…

Working Remote: How We Successfully Run Clarity as a Completely Remote Team – via Jehad Affoneh

Working Remote: How We Successfully Run Clarity…

Clarity started with a team of a few engineers and designers and has grown to a total of nine. We worked remote since the very first day. Even though we’re 9 members, we live in 6 different cities. This is the story of how we made it work and work well!


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How to Gain Full Monitoring into Hadoop Clusters

How to Gain Full Monitoring into Hadoop Clusters

How to Gain Full Monitoring into Hadoop Clusters

Because of its flexibility, scalability, resiliency, and power, Apache Hadoop is the big data solution of choice for many organizations of all sizes. However, one of the challenges that users face comes with visibility.


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Top 10 CXO trends to watch in 2017 – TechRepublic

Top 10 CXO trends to watch in 2017 – TechRepublic

Top 10 CXO trends to watch in 2017 – TechRepublic

The C-suite will become more involved in cybersecurity, analytics, and IoT as we move further into the new year, experts predict. Here’s what your company needs to know.


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SAP Transformation with Accenture and VMware

SAP Transformation with Accenture and VMware

SAP Transformation with Accenture and VMware

Accenture and VMware teamed up to accelerate innovation and business transformation for a multi-national manufacturing company, resulting in 23% TCO reduction, decrease in provisioning time from 6 weeks to 90 minutes, and $210 million in overall savings.


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Divining the Data Center 2017: 5 Things to Come…

Divining the Data Center 2017: 5 Things to Come for the Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Divining the Data Center 2017: 5 Things to Come…

In the first installment of our 2017 Predictions blog series, Lee Caswell, VP of Products, Storage & Availability at VMware, sets out 5 key things to expect for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) in 2017. Drawing on predicted trends from industry analysts such as the decline of fibre channel and the rise of all-flash storage, this first blog post looks at the key role HCI will play in the development of data center infrastructure in 2017.


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VMware AirWatch UEM Adds Adaptiva Technology To…

VMware AirWatch UEM Adds Adaptiva Technology To Unify Modern And Legacy Windows Apps

VMware AirWatch UEM Adds Adaptiva Technology To…

VMware AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management is filling in a gap with Adaptiva peer-to-peer technology that will let AirWatch manage, update, and patch both the new Windows 10 applications and legacy 32-bit applications.


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(From Archives…) What are Dependent,…

What are Dependent, Independent Disks & Persistent and Non-persisent Modes? – CormacHogan.com

(From Archives…) What are Dependent,…

I had a query about this recently, and actually it is a topic that I have not looked at for some time. Those of you configuring virtual machine disks may have seen references to these different configuration options and may have wondered how they affect the behavior of the virtual machine. Read on to find out the subtleties between Independent Persistent Mode and Independent Non-persistent Mode disks, and what impact they may have.


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Guest Blog: Our Top 4 Mobile Security Lessons…

Guest Blog: Our Top 4 Mobile Security Lessons from 2016 – via VMware AirWatch Blog

Guest Blog: Our Top 4 Mobile Security Lessons…

As businesses slow down over the festive break, it’s a good time to look back over some of the mobile threats that emerged in the past year to better prepare for what’s ahead. Upon reflection, mobile security is clearly more important than ever. Today’s mobile devices are living in a hostile environment, where well-crafted and sophisticated attacks are on the rise. Here are four of the top mobile security lessons we’ve learned from 2016.


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Protect hosts from hardware degradation with…

Protect hosts from hardware degradation with vSphere High Availability – via TechTarget

Protect hosts from hardware degradation with…

New to vSphere 6.5, Proactive High Availability helps protect hosts from hardware degradation by partnering with hardware vendors to detect problems and evacuate VMs.


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Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware…

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN)

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware…

Demonstrate how Extended Oracle RAC is implemented on Virtual SAN Stretched Cluster highlighting these use cases: – Workload feasibility – Site maintenance – High availability – Workload load balancing/mobility


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Essentials of the Software-Defined Data Center

[Video] Essentials of the Software-Defined Data Center

Essentials of the Software-Defined Data Center

VMware Certified Instructor and Senior Technical Trainer Brian Watrous provides an overview of the essential components behind the Software-Defined Data Center. Watch the rest of this series for more details on the products and technologies behind the SDDC. For more video tutorials, sign up for a free 60-day trial subscription to the VMware Learning Zone at http://www.vmware.com/go/learningzone


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Publishing VMware Digital Badges for Technical…

Publishing VMware Digital Badges for Technical Certifications – via Wahl Network

Publishing VMware Digital Badges for Technical…

I recently received an email from a company named Acclaim to accept a badge proclaiming that I had earned the VMware Certified Implementation Expert 6 – Network Virtualization certification back in 2014. I must have missed the memo on this, because low and behold there is an official blog post about it on the VMware Education and Certification Blog.


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