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Hyper-Convergence Delivers the Best of Cloud and On-Premises Infrastructure
Although organizations are moving more applications and services into the cloud, certain workloads still require the control, reliability, and security of the on-premises infrastructure. Hyper-converged…Read More
Why More Organizations are Moving Disaster Recovery to the Cloud?
Even with increased awareness of the cost of downtime, the majority of North American businesses aren’t ready to deal with an IT-related disaster. In a recent survey of about 1,000 IT professionals…Read More
NSX-T T0 Active-Active Gateway and BGP Peering with Dell Networking ToR Switches
NSX-T supports BGP as the only dynamic routing protocol to peer the Edges (T0 Gateways) with the customer network. BGP is supported only on the Tier 0 gateways unlike NSX-V which supports dynamic routing on both the DLR and ESGs. Peering of T1 and T0 Gateways are fully managed by NSX-T and is…Read More
The art of planning your VMworld sessions
The content catalog for VMworld has opened last week and I already know I marked way too many sessions as favorite for my own good. That’s why I decided on writing a couple of tips to the art…
Boost Developer Velocity with an Intermediate Certificate Authority for Kubernetes Clusters
This post is the final installment of a three-part series highlighting an easy path forward for operations teams that need to up their certificate-management game for Kubernetes. The first entry covered the tools you can use for automated certificate management. The second entry deployed the Harbor container registry with an SSL endpoint to show the The post Boost Developer Velocity with an Intermediate Certificate Authority for Kubernetes Clusters appeared first on Cloud Native Apps Blog.
vRealize Operations REST API: Create Application and Application Tier Objects
I’ve been working with my colleague John Dias on a demo that involves deploying VMs via Cloud Automation Services and automatically configuring monitoring them with vRealize Operations. We needed a way to create Application and Application Tier objects during the provisioning process. Looking through the REST API documentation, there are no API calls specifically for The post vRealize Operations REST API: Create Application and Application Tier Objects appeared first on VMware Cloud Management.
Ambassador, Mentor, Community Leader: Spotlight on Paul McSharry
VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX) are part of an elite group of architects leading virtualization implementations around the world. VCDX candidates take a long road to building their designs in preparation for the rigorous defense panels. It takes mentorship and a strong community to encourage our Experts to be the best. This is just one The post Ambassador, Mentor, Community Leader: Spotlight on Paul McSharry appeared first on VMware Education Services.
Kubernetes goes in for nip and tuck, comes out with 25 ‘enhancements’: We take a look at v1.15
A new release of Kubernetes, version 1.15, today went live with 25 enhancements including support for go modules in Kubernetes Core, a new Events API in alpha and High Availability (HA) improvements.
NSX-T routing deep dive – How a stateful service drastically changes routing – Part 1
I am going to walk through a south to north packet walk with two different topologies. T0 in ECMP + T1 with no stateful services and a T0 in ECMP + T1 with stateful services.
vSpeaking Podcast Episode 119: Exploring GPU Compute
Can GPUs be used in vSphere for applications other than VDI? Just ask your company’s data scientists, machine learning practitioners or developers if they want to compute their operations faster. In the consumer market, a GPU is mostly used to accelerate gaming graphics. Today, GPGPU’s (General Purpose GPU) are the choice of hardware to accelerate computational workloads The post vSpeaking Podcast Episode 119: Exploring GPU Compute appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
vSphere Compliance: Common Criteria, NIST 800-53, and DISA STIG
Security is a hot topic everywhere in IT, but right behind it is its cousin, compliance. VMware vSphere is a great platform for organizations that have regulatory compliance needs. Hundreds of time-saving, easy-to-use, and flexible features in vSphere align closely with compliance frameworks, and VMware provides guidance on how to configure these features to meet The post vSphere Compliance: Common Criteria, NIST 800-53, and DISA STIG appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog.
4 Ways to Save on Training and Certification at VMworld 2019
Registration is now open for VMworld 2019 US in San Francisco, California (August 25-29) and VMworld 2019 Europe in Barcelona, Spain (4-7 November). Add Training & Certification to Your VMworld Registration VMworld is VMware’s premier education and training destination for technology professionals. Take advantage of discounted training and certification offers available through your VMworld registration. The post 4 Ways to Save on Training and Certification at VMworld 2019 appeared first on…Read More
Free course: Introduction to NSX
This course, which is a pre-ICM level course for VMware NSX®, provides an overview of the fundamentals of physical networking and VMware vSphere® networking.
New Release: VMware PowerCLI 11.3.0
Today marks the release of VMware PowerCLI 11.3.0 and this one brings the count up to 732 different cmdlets. The combination of all these cmdlets allow us to manage and automate a majority of the VMware ecosystem! The HCX module receives the bulk of the new cmdlets, however there is also a new cmdlet to […] The post New Release: VMware PowerCLI 11.3.0 appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog.
Learn how to create on-demand networks with VMware Cloud Assembly and NSX
https://bit.ly/2XrfOBw Learn how to create on-demand networks with VMware Cloud Assembly and NSX
10 most important differences between OpenShift and Kubernetes
UPDATED on 10.6.2019 (after the release of OpenShift 4.1): Added information on OpenShift 4.OpenShift has been often called as “Enterprise Kubernetes” by its vendor – Red Hat. In this article, I’m describing real differences between OpenShift and Kubernetes.
VMware Acquires Bitnami
Read more – Bitnami is the leader in application packaging solutions, providing the largest catalog of click-to-deploy applications and development stacks for every major cloud and Kubernetes environments. The post VMware Acquires Bitnami appeared first on Partner News.
Learn More About VMworld 2019 US
Register Now VMworld US in San Francisco is around the corner and it’s time to plan for it. Here are the top 10 reasons why you should attend this preeminent digital infrastructure event of the year. Hear Perspectives about what’s coming next in IT from top VMware leaders and industry experts in…Read More
An In-depth Look at SR-IOV NIC Passthrough
SR-IOV or “Single Root I/O Virtualization” is a very interesting feature that can provide virtual machines shared access to physical network cards installed in the hypervisor. This may sound a lot like what a virtual NIC and a vSwitch does, but the feature works very similarly to PCI passthrough, gr
