VMTN Gets virtuallyGhetto: Community Warrior #4 [blogs.vmware.com/vmtn]
It is my pleasure to announce the newest VMware Technology Network Community Warrior Badge is being awarded to one of VMware’s very own, William Lam.
Creating a Percentage Super Metric with vRealize Operations [blogs.vmware.com/management]
Have you ever wanted to monitor the percentage of something, but been stuck with just the raw measurements? This is where vRealize Operations super metrics come into play. Super metrics are a mathematical formula in vRealize Operations which contain one or more numerical values. They can be used to calculate averages, percentages, sums, min and max, among others. In this blog, we’ll take a look at how we can create a percentage value using a super metric.
What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6 [blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks]
VMware vSAN has been innovating at a rapid pace. With each new release, we’ve delivered greater value to our customers through new features that have propelled adoption by mainstream customers for any workload, any application. More than 7,000 customers have chosen to entrust their most important workloads to vSAN! This momentum has not waned as vSAN recently won 3 industry awards for being the Product of the Year in this space!
vSAN 6.6 – Native Data-at-Rest Encryption [blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks]
Security is top of mind for many of you. VMware introduced advanced security for the modern data centers with the release of vSphere 6.5, and we are excited to now be extending security to vSAN with the industry’s first native HCI security solution.
Log Insight 4.3: User Alert History [sflanders.net]
Log Insight has always featured the ability to create user alerts. User alerts can be triggered in a variety of ways including via email, vROps, and/or webhooks. One potential limitation of Log Insight user alerts is that they were fire and forget. What I mean is that there was no easy way to tell natively within Log Insight if/when a user alert had triggered. You could go to Manage Alerts on Interactive Analytics and individually run each alert over a desired time range, but this operation would take time and consume resources on Log Insight. What would be really nice is if user alert history could easily be displayed in Log Insight.
VMware Virtual Storage to Hook Up Flash with Docker [datacenterknowledge.com]
Newer, containerized applications will now be able to make use of persistent volumes for existing databases.
Orchestrate Stateful Containers Using Docker Swarm and vSphere Docker Volume Service [blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks]
As described in this blog, we can see that users have strong demands to run data intensive workloads in containers. Although Docker has good support for running stateless applications which dominate the micro services era, it lacks enough support to enable users to run stateful applications effortlessly.
vSphere 6.5 Enhanced Logging [www.justait.net]
Among all the amazing new features and enhancements of vSphere 6.5 there’s always one of two that flies under the radar, until you need it.
How do you change ESXi 6.5 host names and DNS configuration? [searchvmware.techtarget.com]
Admins have options when it comes to changing an ESXi 6.5 host name, but only the vSphere Web Client has full functionality in the latest release.
Converged Infrastructure Benefits [www.emc.com]
At 55% faster application development and 36% lower costs, achieving real business results with the #1 Converged Infrastructure portfolio1 has never been easier.
VMware vSAN 6.6 – What’s New for Day 2 Operations? [vninja.net]
VMware har just announced vSAN v6.6, with over 20 new features. While new and shiny features are nice I’d like to highlight a couple that I think might be undervalued from release feature-set perspective, but highly valuable in day to day operations of a vSAN environment, otherwise known as Day 2 operations.
VMware’s New vSAN 6.6 Improves Its Hyper-Converged Infrastructure With Increased Security, Performance [www.crn.com]
VMware says vSAN 6.6 is the first hyper-converged infrastructure technology to include native encryption and to support Intel’s new Optane 3D XPoint SSD technology.
May 4 Webinar: Using vRNI to Visualize and Secure Your Data Center Virtual Network
vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) is a network analytics and security modeling tool designed for the VMware based virtual datacenter. By utilizing vRNI to identify and profile traffic inside the virtual data center, an engineer will be able to make accurate security decisions that will result in accurate and rapid deployment of distributed firewall rules into the NSX enabled virtual data center. This webinar will provide the following to the attendees:
VMware vSAN 6.6 Announced [www.vladan.fr]
The release number of next release VMware vSAN is 6.6. A first thing to mention is that VMware vSAN is no longer tightened to major VMware vSphere releases, which means that starting vSAN 6.6 we will see the progress of vSAN independently on vSphere. VMware vSAN entered already its 6th iteration (correct me if I’m wrong). We are following this exciting technology since the beginning, and the readers of our blog certainly remember the excitement we keep, about this technology, going forward.
Chad Sakac Congratulates VMware on a Successful vSAN 6.6 Launch
VMware vSAN 6.6 will help customers evolve their infrastructure with minimal risk through native encryption, robust availability and the broadest choice of hardware platforms, including cutting-edge flash technologies such as Intel® Optane™ solid-state drives (SSDs).
VMware vSAN 6.6 Release – Whats New [chansblog.com]
VMware has just annouced the general availability of the latest version of vSAN which is the backbone of their native Hyper Converged Infrastructure offering with vSphere. vSAN has had a number of significant upgrades since its very first launch back in 2014 as version 5.5 (with vSphere 5.5) and each upgrade has added some very cool, innovative features to the solution which has driven the customer adoption of vSAN significantly. The latest version vSAN 6.6 is no different and by far it appears to be have the highest number of new features announced during an upgrade release.
Getting Started with NSX Load Balancing [blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization]
In my conversations with customers and peers, load balancing is becoming an increasingly popular discussion. Why you may ask? Simple, load balancing is a critical component for most enterprise applications to provide both availability and scalability to the system. Over the last decade we have moved from bare metal servers to virtual servers and from manual deployment of operating systems to using tools like Chef, Puppet, vRA or other custom workflows. In addition to the movement towards virtualization and the API being the new CLI, we are also seeing a movement to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) where Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) such as routing, VPN, firewalls, and load balancing are moving to software. The value of…Read More
VMware vSAN 6.6 demo [www.yellow-bricks.com]
I was playing around with a vSAN 6.6 environment yesterday and I figured I would record a quick demo of some of the new functionality introduced. Took me a bit longer than expected, but here it is. I hope you will find it useful, a 1080p version can be viewed on youtube.
How to monitor CPU, memory and networking in VMware vCSA 6.5 [searchvmware.techtarget.com]
Admins can monitor CPU and memory use, manage network settings and get updates through the new-look vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface.
VM showing that HA failure response is disabled in 6.5? [www.yellow-bricks.com]
I had a customer asking me today why on each VM it was showing that all HA responses are disabled. This customer is running vSphere 6.5 and below you can see what the UI showed. Note that it still says the VM is Protected, yet none of the protection mechanisms appeared to be enabled
