New Release: PowerCLI 6.5.1
It’s PowerCLI release day and this is a significant one! This new release of PowerCLI is versioned at 6.5.1 rather than what you probably expected which would be 6.5 R2 (following on from our last release). We have made this change in order to fall in line with the best practices for being used in the PowerShell Gallery!
How to configure Harbor registry to use Amazon S3 Storage
In this guide I will show you how to configure your Harbor registry to use S3 as the storage backend for image repositories. This will allow you to consume S3 storage instead of local storage or a docker volume for images pushed to the Harbor registry.
VMworld 2017 US Training & Certification
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Getting started w/the new PowerCLI 6.5.1 Get-VsanView cmdlet – http://www.virtuallyghetto.com
One of the things that I am most excited about from an Automation standpoint with the vSAN 6.6 release is that customers using PowerCLI will now have complete access to the vSAN Management API which we had initially introduced back in vSphere 6.0 Update 2. In PowerCLI 6.5R1, customers only had access to high level vSAN cmdlets which did a pretty good job covering the broad set of vSAN functionality. However, it did not expose the complete vSAN Management API and this has been something many customers have been asking about.
vSAN 6.6 Online Health Check and Performance Service Improvements
a5f20f02-4f78-4d58-bdef-8958c371115bThe Native VSAN health UI was introduced with VSAN 6.1. This was an external plugin that could run a number of basics checks on a cluster. With vSAN 6.2 this feature and functionality became a core art of the product in the form of the Health UI which can be found within the Monitor Tab, under VSAN and Health. Dozens of proactive configuration and state checks are made. The list of checks has expanded in new versions of vSAN to help proactively alert users to potential risks in their environment.
vSpeaking Podcast Episode 41: vSAN 6.6 Part 2
Last week VMware announced the launch of vSAN 6.6. Even more so than previous releases, this is a feature-packed release with advanced enterprise features that make vSAN faster, more cost effective and more secure than ever before. This week on the vSpeaking Podcast we bring in Peter Koehler for Part 2 of our vSAN 6.6 coverage and walk us through some of the details of this feature packed release.
Storage Policy Based Management for Containers Orchestrated by Kubernetes
In a previous blog, we learnt how stateful containers orchestrated by Kubernetes can leverage storage exposed by vSphere (vSAN, VMFS, NFS) by using standard Kubernetes volume, persistent volume and dynamic provisioning primitives.
Certification Insights: Updating your Email and Account Information
Changing jobs is an exciting time, with lots of people to notify and documents to update. If you use your employer email address for your VMware Education & Certification (myLearn) account, you’ll want to make sure you change your account information before your last day. Here’s how: After you log into your VMware Certification account, […] The post Certification Insights: Updating your Email and Account Information appeared first on VMware Education & Certification .
Nominations for the 2017 Top vBlog voting categories are now open!
Just like prior years in addition to the traditional top 50 voting I’m opening it up to allow voting in specific categories as well to help distinguish certain types of blogs. To do this I have created a form to allow you to nominate your blog or website for one of the categories that I have defined if your blog fits one or more of the categories, if it does not then don’t nominate it as all blogs on the vLaunchPad will automatically be included in the general top blog voting.
vSphere Use Case: Enhanced Application Performance and Availability
Learn how vSphere Enterprise Plus delivers enhanced application performance and availability.
VMware Q4 Seen Solid Ahead Of Possible Big Lift From Amazon Partnership – http://www.investors.com
Checks with resellers indicate cloud vendor VMware (VMW) “saw healthy renewal activity” in Q4, William Blair analyst Jason Ader wrote in a research note Tuesday, maintaining his outperform rating on VMware stock.
Take a Lab, Win a Drone
Take any eligible Hands-on Lab, April 19 – May 19, and enter to win a DJI Mavic Pro drone. See the Details: http://bit.ly/2oshRQd
AeroData Revolutionizes Its Data Center With VMware NSX
AeroData, Inc., a major player in the airline industry, improves customer agility and availability with VMware NSX.
Disk format change going from 6.x to vSAN 6.6?
Internally I received a comment around the upgrade to 6.6 and the disk format version change. When you upgrade to 6.6 also the version of disk changes, it goes to version 5. In the past with these on-disk format changes a data move was needed and the whole disk group would be reformat. When going from vSAN 6.2 (vSphere 6.0 U2 that is!) to vSAN 6.6 there is no data move needed. The update is simply a metadata update, and on the average cluster will take less than 20 minutes.
VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab Deployment DEMO
In this post, we’ll explore a new vSAN 6.6 feature allowing you to deploy vSAN via VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) easily to greenfield environments, without the need to allocate a storage space for the VCSA on some temporary local datastore. Note that nested environments are not supported for production environments, but allows a very good learning and homelabbing. So this post will walk you through the VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab Deployment DEMO.
Retail Tech Trends: What’s Hot and What’s Not in 2017:
There’s been much buzz around the latest retail tech trends following the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) “Big Show 2017.” The overwhelming display of innovation this year focused on three key areas that are transforming the retail industry: the Internet of Things (IoT), augmented/virtual reality, and cloud advancements. Retailers looking to maintain a competitive edge will need to invest in these three areas.
My DockerCon 2017 Day #2 – cormachogan.com
This is day #2 of DockerCon 2017. If you want to read my impressions of DockerCon 2017 Day #1, you can find it here. Today, as well as attending the keynote, some breakout sessions and visiting the expo, I wanted to highlight a couple of VMware announcements that were made in this space yesterday. First of all, we announce the release of vSphere Integrated Containers v1.1. The big-ticket item in VIC 1.1 is that the key items of VIC Engine are now merged into a single OVA appliance for ease of deployment. As well as that, we also released Photon Platform v1.2. The big-ticket item here, in my opinion, is support for Kubernetes v1.6. But there are a bunch of additional improvements other than those outlined here, so check out the links for…Read More
Save 20% off VCP Exams at Dell EMC World 2017
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USB to SDDC – http://www.youtube.com
Alan Renouf and William Lam present USB to SDDC at the Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2017
9 Tools You Should Be Using in Your VMware Environment
One of the many things we do as TAMs is ensure that our customers don’t have “shelfware” lying around. If we spend money on something, we want to use it, right? What about software or tools that are free or included as part of a purchase, but are not well publicized? As we start a new year, I thought it would be a great idea to introduce some of these free or lesser-known tools, to give them a little time in the spotlight and hopefully help you get even more value out of your VMware® investments.
