New Certification: AWS Cloud Practitioner | TheVirtualBoi
After about a month of preparation, I was able to successful sit Amazon’s AWS Cloud Practitioner exam. This is the first of many that I hope to obtain. I was unable to obtain the AWS Solutions Architect Associate at first go, so I regrouped and took this foundation course in hopes that it would boost…Read More
Adding a Load Balancing Rule for PXE to Prevent Timeouts and Failures
Load balancing in a global R&D environment is a complex task. On an average day, VMware IT operations receives almost 6,000 ESXi build requests from different R&D teams to do performance testing and quality assurance (QA). During peak periods, we can have thousands of requests for TFTP (trivial file transfer protocol) connections for simple file The post Adding a Load Balancing Rule for PXE to Prevent Timeouts and Failures appeared first on VMware on VMware .
Supermicro vSAN ReadyNode – Now certified with Intel VMD
Recent market studies from IDC and 451 Research shows how critical the core HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) software is to the fast-growing HCI market, and VMware vSAN is leading the market. Michael Haag has posted a nice blog detailing this. You can read it here. To keep pace with this fast-growing journey, we need enablement of new The post Supermicro vSAN ReadyNode – Now certified with Intel VMD appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
UX updates to VMware Identity Manager admin console
We are excited to announce that we’re delivering several UX updates to the admin console in our VMware Identity Manager 3.2 release. To help you become familiar, this blog describes the various changes. Bulk of these changes in the admin console can be categorized into two buckets: – UX changes in the Catalog section – […] The post UX updates to VMware Identity Manager admin console appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .
Windows Defender reports false positive for PowerShell Modules
Over the weekend, Microsoft released a Windows Defender signature file that falsely reports many PowerShell modules, including PowerCLI as containing a virus. This is a FALSE POSITIVE widely affecting the PowerShell community. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/40fa56dd-b73f-456a-9d97-cdb4500bc7ed/latest-updates-indicated-peasectoa-infection-?forum=WindowsDefenderATPPreview There is no official statement from Microsoft yet, but the PowerCLI community on VMware {Code} has been…Read More
Free NSX Webcast Series Starts Soon!
Security, automation, and networking remain top priorities (and top challenges) for IT professionals. How can IT continue to provide for the needs of the business while ensuring that end users and sensitive company data remain secure? The answer: VMware NSX®. And starting February 1, our resident NSX experts are kicking off the first session The post Free NSX Webcast Series Starts Soon! appeared first on VMware Professional Services and Education Insights .
Virtually Speaking Podcast #67 Resource Management
Two weeks ago Pete Flecha (a.k.a. Pedro Arrow) and John Nicholson invited me to their always awesome podcast to talk about resource management. During our conversation, we covered both on-prem and the features of VMware Cloud on AWS that help cater the needs of your workload. Being a guest on this podcast is an honour The post Virtually Speaking Podcast #67 Resource Management appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .
Samsung launches 800GB Z-SSD for supercomputing | ZDNet
The new SZ985 SSD boasts a ultra-low latency of 16 microseconds.
Paul McSharry’s Elastic Sky Challenge – Hands on Lab
Do you have what it takes to configure a Software … Read More
Introducing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in VMware Identity Manager 3.2
The Importance of Identity Management RBAC Role-based access control (RBAC) allows you to segment what type of access is granted to administrators in different functional roles. It’s important to provide access to enough tools for an administrator to do their job, without granting the keys to the kingdom unnecessarily. For example, VMware Identity Manager, a […] The post Introducing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in VMware Identity Manager 3.2 appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .
VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4: Multi-Session Identity Firewall
In this video, we demonstrate how the Multi-Session Identity Firewall feature in NSX for vSphere 6.4 enables per user-session security for customers use Remote Desktop Services through VMware Horizon RDSH or Citrix XenApp. Augmenting the existing Identity Firewall feature, Multi-Session Identity Firewall in NSX for vSphere 6.4 leverages User Context in order to differentiate users that may be connected to the same session host and apply the appropriate security policy for each user.
Registering the Pure Storage VASA Provider
Hot on the heels on Pure Storage’s recent announcement on Virtual Volume (VVol) support, I wanted to take a closer look at their VVol implementation for myself. Thanks to the support team over at Pure, they were able to very quickly update our lab array to the latest release that has support for VVols. Once […] The post Registering the Pure Storage VASA Provider appeared first on CormacHogan.com .
New KB articles published for week ending 28th January 2018
VMware vRealize Automation “Error processing ping report” messages in logs in vRealize Automation 7 Date Published: 2018/1/21 vRealize Automation Appliance 6.2.x Workaround for CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 (aka Spectre and Meltdown) Date Published: 2018/1/24 VMware SDDC Manager SDDC Manager UI is unable to display the physical inventory Date Published: 2018/1/22 VMware Cloud Foundation Workload Domain creation […] The post New KB articles published for week ending 28th January…Read More
Deploying Kubernetes on vSphere with Bosh
Cloud Foundry Container Runtime allows you to deploy Kubernetes clusters on cloud platforms using BOSH. This video will demonstrate how to use BOSH to upgrade the version of Kubernetes in a CFCR-created cluster without experiencing any downtime in the cluster.
Introducing… The VMware Cloud Provider Platform
The VMware Cloud Provider Platform is a comprehensive Cloud operating system that helps Cloud Providers deliver increased efficiency and business agility to their end customers.
Heavy Reading – Smart NICs: Accelerating Virtualized Applications
Simon is an independent consultant who contributes regularly to Heavy Reading and other Heavy Reading projects…MORE
Malwarebytes product patch pummels user CPUs | ZDNet
A malformed patch update angered users dealing with bloated CPU and RAM usage.
Top 3 VM Replication Software for VMware vSphere Environments
This post will highlight some of the known replication software for VMware VM replication. We will focus on Top 3 VM Replication Software for VMware vSphere. There are a lot of backup/replication vendors out there, but in this post, we’ll pick just 3 of them (including VMware) and highlight some of their features and functions. […] Read the full post Top 3 VM Replication Software for VMware vSphere Environments at ESX Virtualization .
Identity Manager Clustering and Load Balancing with NSX
In this blog post, I would like to write up the procedure for setting up an NSX Edge Load Balancer for a VMware Identity Manager cluster. Like discussed in this post and this post, NSX Edge Load Balancers will be all over the place in a Workspace ONE platform environment. And this is one place… I am also working on testing the available persistence configuration of Workspace ONE NSX Edge load balancers (heads up to a blog post), and adding to the NSXHorizonJumpstart script more Workspace ONE firewall sections and load balancing configuration. If only my new year’s resolution was to grow four extra brains and hands, this would be published a little faster….
VMware NSX for vSphere End-User Computing Design Guide 1.2
This guide highlights design and deployment considerations when using NSX to implement network virtualization, create a secure end user environment, and load balance Horizon infrastructure. The intended audience is virtualization, networking, and security architects who are interested in deploying Horizon for virtual desktops and NSX in a vSphere environment. Solid conceptual understanding and hands-on experience with both NSX-v and Horizon products is recommended for successfully…Read More
