Financial Services Company Transitions to the Digital Era with VMware SDDC
Deluxe Corp. sought VMware professional services to help speed their transformation into a digital company. VMware NSX, vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations provides security, scalability, and visibility into their new Software Defined Data Center, which increases business agility.
vSphere Replication Traffic Isolation [justait.net]
Once again I was working on a vSphere Site Recovery Manager project using vSphere Replication as a replication technology and had to explain how to isolate replication traffic from others network traffics, while explaining it is never a problem, I was wondering how many out there still have doubts about it, so creating this post is my way to try reach as many of you as I can.
Technical Sales 201 – What’s New in vRealize Log Insight 4.3 [youtube.com]
In this enablement session, I provide a Technical Sales 201 level overview of the recent release of vRealize Log Insight 4.3. vRealize Log lnsight delivers heterogeneous and highly scalable log management with intuitive, actionable dashboards, sophisticated analytics and broad third-party extensibility. It provides deep operational visibility and faster troubleshooting across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
VMware Courts Telcos With vCloud NFV 2.0 — via SDxCentral
VMware announced a host of new virtualization products and enhancements as part of Vcloud NFV to target its telco customers.
Why the Critical Piece of VMware’s NFV 2.0 is the “Network Model” NSX MIGHT Support [blog.cimicorp.com]
I mentioned in my blog yesterday that a network and addressing model was critical to edge computing and NFV. If that’s true, then could it also be true that having a virtual-network model was critical to vendor success in the NFV space? The VMware NFV 2.0 announcement may give us an opportunity to test that, and it may also ignite more general interest in the NFV network model overall.
VMware Horizon Virtualization Pack for Skype for Business (Beta) Is Now Available! [VMware EUC Blog]
The Horizon 7 product team is excited to announce that the VMware Horizon Virtualization Pack for Skype for Business (beta release) is now available for download. Organizations can use the virtualization pack with Skype for Business to make optimized audio and video calls within Horizon 7 desktops without negatively affecting the host infrastructure.
Stretched Storage and SRM Facebook Live TechTalk with GS Khalsa
During the 10 minute live stream, GS will talk about: Why stretched storage? Stretched storage vs. SRM vSAN stretched and SRM
vSpeaking Podcast Episode 38: Storage Performance [Virtual Blocks]
Have you ever stopped to think what if conventional wisdom on the consumption of resources is wrong? This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we bring in one of VMware’s performance experts, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Peter Koehler to break down some common misconceptions around storage performance and provide a deeper look into how vSAN stacks up against traditional clustered file systems.
Transforming Security: Principle of Least Privilege – Tom Corn & Shawn Bass, VMware
Transforming Security: Principle of Least Privilege. Discussion with Tom Corn, SVP Security Products at VMware and Shawn Bass, VP End-User Computing at VMware.
VMware vSphere 6.5 Security Questions [plain-virt.blogspot.sg]
Been to many customers and have many questions on how our vSphere 6.5 Security enhancement does and how different is it from others.
5 Lessons for Successful BYOD Deployments [biztechmagazine.com]
Dazzled by the potential benefits of bring-your-own-device programs? Be sure to address these items for a positive rollout.
Technical Sales 201 – What’s New in vROPs 6.5 [youtube.com]
In this enablement session, I provide a Technical Sales 201 level overview of the recent release of vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs) 6.5.
“Any Device” Promise Gets Real, Apple OS Updates & More Top Mobile News [AirWatch Blog]
Earlier this week, VMware announced exciting updates to its digital workspace platform. New Webinar Workspace ONE AirWatch March 2017VMware Workspace ONE and VMware AirWatch updates focus on giving the people what they want: simple access on any device—and I mean any device.
How to split vCenter Servers configured in an Enhanced Linked Mode [virtuallyghetto.com]
An interesting question that came up on the VMTN forum the other day (thanks to Andreas Peetz for sharing via Twitter) was how to split two vCenter Servers configured in an Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM)? Due to an organization changes in the customers environment, they needed to separate out their two vCenter Servers and run them independently of each other. Although this may sound like an rare event, I have actually seen this use case come up several times now which maybe from a business unit restructuring, spinning out or selling off company assets which then requires the customer to split their existing vCenter Servers that is configured with ELM.
Why Hyper-Converged Infrastructure for Data Center? [myvirtualjourney.com]
One of the fastest-growing solutions for evolving to the next-generation data center is Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). In an HCI solution, all the typical hardware-based data center resource pillars – storage, compute, and networking – are virtualized and collapsed onto an industry-standard x86 server. Since the resources are software-based, and managed from a single management console, a well-architected HCI solution can dramatically increase efficiency, improve flexibility, and reduce TCO across the data center — without any trade-offs on performance or availability.
2 Node Direct Connect Facebook Live TechTalk with Jase McCarty
During the 10 minute live stream, Jase will: Describe a quick feature introduction Cover technical requirements and installation process Offer cost benefits of 2 Node Direct Connect
VxRail and Pivotal Cloud Foundry [Virtual Blocks]
This is VxRail a HCIA, Hyper Converged Infrastructure Appliance. VxRail is an appliance, that decreases the complexity of management of your compute and storage. The daily experience is simplified but at the same time offers a powerful and agile solution that can grow as you need it to.
VMware NSX and vRNI Enabling Customer Operations
read more — http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2017/03/nsx-vrni-customer-ops.html
New Features Coming to vSphere with Operations Management [VMware vSphere Blog]
This has been a big month for releases, especially for vSphere with Operations Management! Earlier this month, both vRealize Operations (vR Ops) and vRealize Log Insight released updates. Then, just this week, vSphere 6.5.0b was released.
3 Ways to Optimize SAP Performance in vROps [VMware Cloud Management Blog]
Nearly every component of the IT stack contributes to application performance, which can make it challenging to identify what may be causing issues when they arise. For many organizations, a lack of visibility can lead to mean-time-to-innocence hunts — wasting time and creating alert storms that drain the productivity of your teams.
