Save 15% on selected VMware Training and…

Save 15% on selected VMware Training and Certification Exam Vouchers

Save 15% on selected VMware Training and…

Are you keeping up with the leading-edge of technology and ready to take on the New Year? From January 22nd – 26th, save 15% when you purchase selected VMware training and certification exam vouchers from the US VMware online store. Once your purchase is completed on US VMware store, you will receive a token to The post Save 15% on selected VMware Training and Certification Exam Vouchers appeared first on VMware Professional Services and Education Insights .


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Introducing the New vRealize Operations Service…

Introducing the New vRealize Operations Service Discovery Management Pack – David Davis on vROps Post #45

Introducing the New vRealize Operations Service…

In my continuing series on the vRealize Suite, I’ve been focusing recently on all the new features in vRealize Operations 6.6. In my last post I covered the New Capacity Dashboards in VMware vRealize Operations 6.6 and, before that, the 5 Must Knows of Automated Workload Balancing with vRealize Operations and the Top 7 Dashboards in vRealize Operations 6.6. In this post, we’ll take


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Demo of the VMware NSX 6.4 Context-Aware Firewall

Demo of the VMware NSX 6.4 Context-Aware Firewall

Demo of the VMware NSX 6.4 Context-Aware Firewall

Context- aware firewall enhances the visibility at the application level and helps to override the problem of application permeability. Visibility at the application layer helps you to monitor the workloads better from a resource, compliance, and security point of view. Firewall rules cannot consume application IDs. Context-aware firewall identifies applications and enforces a micro-segmentation for EAST-WEST traffic, independent of the port that the application uses. Context-aware or…Read More


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VCSA 6.5 Fails to Boot

VCSA 6.5 Fails to Boot

VCSA 6.5 Fails to Boot

So one of our field engineers reached out to me because they had a power outage of some sort and their vCenter appliance failed to boot with these errors about starting up the services. So this is a common that has happened many times as seen from these KBs and community posts: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/547779 https://cormachogan.com/2015/06/03/fsck-of-vcenter-server-appliance-6-0-partitions/ https://communities.vmware.com/thread/567888 … Continue reading VCSA 6.5 Fails to Boot →


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Certification Insights: Providing Feedback on…

Certification Insights: Providing Feedback on the Program

Certification Insights: Providing Feedback on…

We constantly strive to improve the VMware Certification program, from policies to exam delivery methods. A critical part of that process is gathering constructive feedback from our candidates. Here are a few options to providing feedback to our certification team: Comment on blog posts like this one – we post frequently about new exams, policy The post Certification Insights: Providing Feedback on the Program appeared first on VMware Professional Services and Education Insights .


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Tips for Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 in a…

Tips for Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 in a Large-Scale Environment

Tips for Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 in a…

By Tom Ralph, Sr. Cloud Architect, VMware Introduction As a first adopter of VMware products under the VMware on VMware program, IT was able to deploy the vSphere 6.5 beta, release candidate, and general availability versions before they were released to public. Our goal in this deployment was two-fold. First, we wanted to take The post Tips for Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 in a Large-Scale Environment appeared first on VMware on VMware .


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Workstation Pro 14: USB Flash Drive Not…

Workstation Pro 14: USB Flash Drive Not Detected – Discover your answer here on #VMTN

Workstation Pro 14: USB Flash Drive Not…

I am running a clean install of Workstation Pro 14.0 on a Windows 10 computer and I no longer have the ability to connect to any USB flash drive(s) under the menu VM >> Removable Devices as I did in the previous version.


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Alexa for Business likely to win in smart…

Alexa for Business likely to win in smart office, leverage AWS, Echo, developers and consumers | ZDNet

Alexa for Business likely to win in smart…

Amazon is taking Alexa to the office and here’s why the digital assistant will be able to scale via developers, consumerization and the sheer scale of AWS.


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vSpeaking Podcast Episode 67: Resource Management

vSpeaking Podcast Episode 67: Resource Management

vSpeaking Podcast Episode 67: Resource Management

Do you design your cluster with memory overcommitment in mind? The benefit of DRS goes way beyond managing overcommitment of resources. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we bring in author of the Host Resources Deep Dive Frank Denneman to explain some of the changes in vSphere 6.5 as it pertains to resource management. The post vSpeaking Podcast Episode 67: Resource Management appeared first on Virtual Blocks .


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NSX Transport Zone Cluster Removal Issues

NSX Transport Zone Cluster Removal Issues | vswitchzero

NSX Transport Zone Cluster Removal Issues

Ever remove a cluster from your NSX transport zone only to see it reappear on the list of clusters available for disconnection? Unfortunately, the task likely failed but NSX doesn’t always do a very good job of telling you why in the UI. I was recently attempting to remove a cluster called compute-b from my…Read More


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VCP6.5-DCV Objective 10.1 – Create and Manage…

VCP6.5-DCV Objective 10.1 – Create and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines and Templates

VCP6.5-DCV Objective 10.1 – Create and Manage…

Today’s objective is VCP6.5-DCV Objective 10.1 – Create and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines and Templates. HA, DRS and FT are core technologies of VMware clusters. It’s important to master their requirements, configuration, and troubleshooting. Check our VCP6.5-DCV Study Guide page which is starting really to take shape and fills up with topics from the Exam Preparation Guide (previously […] Read the full post VCP6.5-DCV Objective 10.1 – Create and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines and…Read More


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VMware Pulse IoT Center is Now Generally Available

VMware Pulse IoT Center is Now Generally Available

VMware Pulse IoT Center is Now Generally Available

Today, we are proud to announce the general availability of VMware Pulse IoT Center, the first solution in a new family of VMware Internet of Things (IoT) offerings. I want to thank our engineering, product management and product marketing teams for all of their efforts and diligence to deliver the solution to market. We put The post VMware Pulse IoT Center is Now Generally Available appeared first on Pulse IoT .


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GitOps: High velocity CICD for Kubernetes

GitOps: High velocity CICD for Kubernetes

GitOps: High velocity CICD for Kubernetes

This blog post explains techniques for development teams who strive for high velocity continuous delivery using Kubernetes and Docker. When we say “high velocity” we mean that every product team can safely ship updates many times a day – deploy instantly, observe the results in real time, and use this feedback to roll forward or back. The goal is for product teams to use continuous experimentation to improve the customer experience as fast as possible.


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VCP6.5-DCV Objective 5.2 – Configure vSphere…

VCP6.5-DCV Objective 5.2 – Configure vSphere DRS and Storage DRS Cluster | ESX Virtualization

VCP6.5-DCV Objective 5.2 – Configure vSphere…

Today we’ll cover another topic from latest VMware Certification exam. VCP6.5-DCV Objective 5.2 – Configure vSphere DRS and Storage DRS Cluster


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