Defining the Software Defined Data Center

Defining the Software Defined Data Center

Defining the Software Defined Data Center

The software-defined data center is the ideal architecture for private and hybrid clouds. The software-defined data center extends virtualization to all data centers, resources, and services. Learn more at http://www.vmware.com/it-outcomes


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Vulnerability Note VU#228519 – Wi-Fi Protected…

Vulnerability Note VU#228519 – Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) handshake traffic can be manipulated to induce nonce and session key reuse

Vulnerability Note VU#228519 – Wi-Fi Protected…

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/228519 US CERT notified organizations today that WPA2 is vulnerable to a flaw called KRACK (Key Reinstallation attACK). A list of affected vendors and updates are available in the link. WiFi manufactures were notified on August 28th to start development for patching.


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Technical Insights about Horizon Cloud on…

Technical Insights about Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure

Technical Insights about Horizon Cloud on…

After much anticipation, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure is finally released. Horizon Cloud now offers three different options providing capacity for desktops and hosted applications. With Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, you gain all of the benefits of a cloud-managed service, including the ability to manage RD Session Hosted desktops and applications on Microsoft […] The post Technical Insights about Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .


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Now available: Top ranked VMworld 2017 Hands-on…

Now available: Top ranked VMworld 2017 Hands-on Lab “VMware NSX – Getting Started”

Now available: Top ranked VMworld 2017 Hands-on…

Among the 150,000 VMs deployed during VMworld 2017, here are the Top 10 most popular Hands-on Labs. This is the perfect opportunity for you to learn about our latest and greatest products and solutions.


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Episode 3: Performance Comparison of Native GPU…

Episode 3: Performance Comparison of Native GPU to Virtualized GPU and Scalability of Virtualized GPUs for Machine Learning

Episode 3: Performance Comparison of Native GPU…

In our third episode of machine learning performance with vSphere 6.x, we look at the virtual GPU vs. the physical GPU. In addition, we extend the performance results of machine learning workloads using VMware DirectPath I/O (passthrough) vs. NVIDIA GRID vGPU that have been partially addressed in previous episodes: Episode 1: Performance Results of Machine […] The post Episode 3: Performance Comparison of Native GPU to Virtualized GPU and Scalability of Virtualized GPUs for Machine Learning…Read More


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PSC Load Balancing with NSX – Pascal’s Wereld

PSC Load Balancing with NSX – Pascal’s Wereld

PSC Load Balancing with NSX – Pascal’s Wereld

In this blog post, I want to describe the manual steps on how to deploy and configure an NSX load balancer for the Platform Service Controllers (PSC). Hey wait, weren’t you doing PowerNSX automation stuff before? Yes and I still mean to do so. But with automation comes checking if the procedure actually works before…Read More


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New white paper available: vSphere APIs for I/O…

New white paper available: vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering (VAIO)

New white paper available: vSphere APIs for I/O…

Advertise here with BSA Over the past couple of weeks Cormac Hogan and I have been updating various Core Storage white papers which had not been touched in a while for different reasons. We were starting to see more and more requests come in for update content and as both of used to be responsible for this at some […] ” New white paper available: vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering (VAIO) ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.


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Road to VCAP6-NV: Objective 1.3 – Configure and…

Road to VCAP6-NV: Objective 1.3 – Configure and Manage Transport Zones | Let’s v4Real on WordPress.com

Road to VCAP6-NV: Objective 1.3 – Configure and…

In this blog post I will cover section 1 objective 1.3 of the VCAP6-NV Deploy exam. Objective 1.3 – Configure and Manage Transport Zones Create Transport Zones according to a deployment plan Configure the control plane mode for a Transport Zone Add clusters to Transport Zones Remove clusters from Transport Zones Create Transport Zones according…Read More


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Deploy VCSA in Workstation 14 | The Wifi-Cable…

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Deploy VCSA in Workstation 14 | The Wifi-Cable…

VMware Workstation 14 was released recently and you can now set up the VCSA in your Workstation Lab environment more efficiently than ever. I need to do some quick testing from my laptop and need to deploy the VCSA. There are many blog articles out there that outline how to do this in previous versions….Read More


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Virtual Networking: Poll-mode vs Interrupt

Virtual Networking: Poll-mode vs Interrupt

Virtual Networking: Poll-mode vs Interrupt

The VMkernel is relying on the physical device, the pNIC in this case, to generate interrupts to process network I/O. This traditional style of I/O processing incurs additional delays on the entire data path from the pNIC all the way up to within guest OS. Processing I/Os using interrupt based mechanisms allows for CPU saving The post Virtual Networking: Poll-mode vs Interrupt appeared first on NielsHagoort.com .


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VMware Cloud on AWS – Elastic Resource Management

VMware Cloud on AWS – Elastic Resource Management

VMware Cloud on AWS – Elastic Resource Management

In my previous post, I talked about the setup of a SDDC on AWS. Now I want to focus on resource management and the scalability features Add/Remove Hosts One of the coolest features of VMC, i…Read More


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VCAP6-NV Study Guide | Let’s v4Real

VCAP6-NV Study Guide | Let’s v4Real on WordPress.com

VCAP6-NV Study Guide | Let’s v4Real

Section 1 – Prepare VMware NSX Infrastructure Objective 1.1 – Deploy VMware NSX Infrastructure components Objective 1.2 – Prepare Host Clusters for Network Virtualization Objective 1.3 – Configure and Manage Transport Zones Section 2 – Create and Manage VMware NSX Virtual Networks Objective 2.1 – Create and Manage Logical Switches Objective 2.2 – Configure…Read More


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