Gotta Secure Them All—Enterprise Apps! [slideshare.net]
Here are 10 facts about the unrelenting flood of apps at work and IT’s daunting task to secure enterprise apps. Read more at blogs.air-watch.com and blogs.vmware.com/euc.
Digital Transformation Impact on Enterprise Architecture — via VMware Network Virtualization Blog
Digital transformation is a top business initiative for CIO’s. What does it really mean for IT and how does it impact the business itself? In this post, we will try to cover some of the basics.
Managing the SDDC with the vRealize Code Stream Management Pack for IT DevOps [VMware Cloud Management Blog]
Within the Software Defined Data Center, or SDDC, all things are naturally becoming software defined. This includes not just our virtualized infrastructure, but all of the policy-based management and automation tools that are used to enable a hybrid cloud. Each of these tools have their own configurations which help to define and manage your SDDC. Those configurations, which essentially define the SDDC, have their own lifecycle as well. This begs the question, what’s the most effective way to manage the lifecycle of these SDDC objects?
VMware Becomes Linux Foundation Gold Member, Pledging Increased Support for Open Source Development
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, announces VMware has become a Gold member of The Linux Foundation. VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility.
New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0003 [VMware Security & Compliance Blog]
Today VMware has released the following new security advisory: “VMSA-2017-0003 – VMware Workstation update addresses multiple security issues”
VMware Named to Great Place to Work and Fortune 2017 “100 Best Companies to Work For” List [VMware Radius]
Today, VMware received a prestigious and public acknowledgement of our high-impact workplace as one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For.
Using End Point Operations agent with vRealize Operations Manager [vxpresss.blogspot.com]
End Point Operations as a feature of vRealize Operations Manager is an area where I get a lot of questions. During a workshop with a customer today, I was asked about a number of things which rang a bell in my head. I spent some time with the customer to de-mystify a lot of apprehensions around EPOps and the conversation ended into a meaningful action plan.
vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Evolves Security and Network Management for the Software Defined Data Center
vRealize Network Insight is rapidly becoming the management platform of choice for Software Defined Data Center customers looking to manage their virtual and physical network infrastructure and implement micro segmentation. vRealize Network Insight 3.3 continues to drive industry leadership in micro segmentation planning and network troubleshooting by delivering-
A Simple Terraform on vSphere Build [blog.codybunch.com]
This post will talk a bit about how to use Terraform to deploy a simple config against vSphere. Simple? Here’s what we’re building:
vSAN 2 Node with Direct Connect [Virtual Blocks]
Traditional vSAN 2 Node configurations require connectivity between the vSAN tagged VMkernel ports, and the vSAN Witness Appliance’s VSAN tagged VMkernel port.
Log Insight: Double or Triple Counted ESXi Hosts [sflanders.net]
As I covered in the past, Log can be licensed per OSI or CPU. If you are using OSI licensing for ESXi then you may notice the same hosts are counted more than once. In this post, I will cover how to fix this issue. Read on to learn more!
VCAP-DTM Deploy Prep: La La Land Lab and Horizon software versions [pascalswereld.nl]
VCAP-DTMmmmmm. After securing the VCP-DTM for version 6 and getting the pass results in for the version 7 DTM Beta, my sniper target is set for the VCAP-DTM’s. Maybe I should cut down on Battlefield 1 a bit ;). Anyhow…..
Powershell: VMware NSX duplicate VTEP addresses [vmguru.com]
Roughly a half year ago we came across a situation in which an VMware NSX environment was having problems consistingly applying routing and firewall rules. After some troubleshooting it appeared to be a problem with duplicate VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Enpoint) addresses on the vSphere hosts. We fixed the problem, but we wanted to have some sort of periodic check to alert us, should this occur again.
Upgrade to large disks VMWare ESXI 6.0 [VMware Communities]
Hi! I’m using VMWare ESXI 6.0 on a HP Proliant Server. It have 2 disks in RAID 1, 600GB for the virtual machines. I want to migrate all to new disks that are already there. 2 disks in RAID 1, 1.2TB. What is the best way to do that? I want to continue with all data and configuration untouched, like all the configuration (IP and so on) remains the same on my network. Sorry for my bad english and thanks in advance
ESG Lab Review Validation: NSX, vRealize Network Insight, Log Insight, vRealize Suite of products
“If your organization is interested in improving the agility, security, and economic efficiency of your networks, ESG Lab recommends taking a close look at VMware NSX.”
vRealize Operations is easy – Creating a custom vROps dashboard [VMware Cloud Management Blog]
vRealize Operations Manager is a stand-out product for monitoring your application, virtual, and physical infrastructure. vROps comes pre-loaded with some amazing dashboards to get you going on day one. Additional management packs available in the VMware Solution Exchange and third parties like Blue Medora can also be easily installed to extend the capabilities of vROps. If you own the advanced or enterprise editions of vRealize Operations Manager, you can even create custom vROps dashboards. Best of all, it is incredibly easy!
Machine Learning on vSphere 6.5 with Nvidia GPUs – Episode 2 [VMware VROOM! Blog]
In a previous blog [1], we looked at how machine learning workloads (MNIST and CIFAR-10) using TensorFlow running in vSphere 6 VMs in an NVIDIA GRID configuration reduced the training time from hours to minutes when compared to the same system running no virtual GPUs.
VMware vSphere 6.5 Security Questions [plain-virt.blogspot.com]
Been to many customers and have many questions on how our vSphere 6.5 Security enhancement does and how different is it from others.
VCDX Defense Tips: An Interview with Brett Guarino [VMware Education & Certification Blog]
The VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) is the holy grail of VMware certification. Those who opt to pursue the VCDX have already achieved at least one VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and two VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) certifications. They are truly VMware experts.
VMware vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Feature Walkthrough [dabcc.com]
vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) continues to enhance the visibility and management of overlay and underlay networks. With the launch of version 3.3, a number of new features were introduced. In this blog post, I will cover four of the new features, including new event management options, user-defined event enhancements, improved NAT visibility, and new IP address space support.
