Homelab considerations for vSphere 7

Homelab considerations for vSphere 7

Homelab considerations for vSphere 7

With the vSphere 7 Launch Event just a few days away, I know many of you are eager to get your hands on this latest release of vSphere and start playing with it in you homelab. A number of folks in the VMware community have already started covering some of the amazing capabilities that will […]


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An Introduction to Spring Projects

An Introduction to Spring Projects

An Introduction to Spring Projects

Spring is one of the projects we wrote about in “Boomerang Back: The Return of Pivotal Open Source Projects” and the family of Spring Projects are among the most notable to return to the VMware fold. Below, we’ll highlight two Spring Projects – Spring Boot and Spring Framework – but for weekly updates on Spring, The post An Introduction to Spring Projects appeared first on VMware Open Source Blog.


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Scaling Distributed Machine Learning leveraging…

Scaling Distributed Machine Learning leveraging vSphere, Bitfusion and NVIDIA…

Scaling Distributed Machine Learning leveraging…

1 Introduction Organization are quickly embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Deep Learning to open new opportunities and accelerate business growth. AI Workloads, however, require massive compute power and has led to the proliferation of GPU acceleration in addition to …Read More


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What’s New in vSphere 7.0 Storage Part II:…

What’s New in vSphere 7.0 Storage Part II: GuestInfo VirtualDiskMapping

What’s New in vSphere 7.0 Storage Part II:…

This is a new kind of “what’s new” than what I usually talk about–it is not really a “storage” feature in the specific sense. But it is a really useful one that …


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Using NSX-T Loadbalancer for the NSX-T…

Using NSX-T Loadbalancer for the NSX-T Management Cluster – Part 1

Using NSX-T Loadbalancer for the NSX-T…

Starting with NSX-T v2.4, we have a converged NSX-T manager appliance which handles the Manager, Controller and Policy API roles. We usually deploy a recommended minimum of 3 NSX-T manager instances to make up the NSX-T Management Cluster. The cluster is accessed (or consumed by CMP) via a VIP or…Read More


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Deploy VCSA via PowerShell

Deploy VCSA via PowerShell

Deploy VCSA via PowerShell

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about how organizations can provide services can operationalize the principles behind Infrastructure as Code in a way that’s accessible. In my experience, if a tool isn’t easy to use, it won’t be used. This is one of the biggest barriers to …Read More


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Introducing the VMware vExpert Security Program

Introducing the VMware vExpert Security Program

Introducing the VMware vExpert Security Program

In case you haven’t heard, earlier this month, the VMware Security Products Team and Carbon Black launched the VMware vExpert Security Program (original post can be viewed here). To join the program, you must already be a vExpert and interested individuals should reach out to kmin@vmware.com. If …Read More


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Why Your Digital Transformation Needs SD-WAN

Why Your Digital Transformation Needs SD-WAN

Why Your Digital Transformation Needs SD-WAN

The digital transformation of networking is revolutionizing the way enterprises conduct business. Companies everywhere are capitalizing on a variety of cloud-based applications—from voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) calling to video streaming—to boost productivity, reach new markets and …Read More


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vSpeaking Podcast Ep 150: What’s New in vSphere 7

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 150: What’s New in vSphere 7

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 150: What’s New in vSphere 7

This month VMware announced vSphere 7 touting it as the biggest innovation since the launch of ESXi. This is a prettty signifigant release. So far the virtually speaking podcast covered part of the release in two previous episodes (vSphere with Kubernetes and vSphere Lifecycle Manager in the …Read More


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VMware Horizon 7.12 and VMware Horizon Client…

VMware Horizon 7.12 and VMware Horizon Client 5.4 – What’s New

VMware Horizon 7.12 and VMware Horizon Client…

VMware Horizon 7 version 7.12 is now released, along with VMware Horizon Client 5.4. This release includes many new features and enhancements to Horizon Connection Server, Horizon Agent, Dynamic Environment Manager, and more. Watch this video to learn the details.


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VMware Unified Access Gateway: Deployment…

VMware Unified Access Gateway: Deployment Utility and Horizon – Feature Walk-through

VMware Unified Access Gateway: Deployment…

In this video, learn how to deploy Unified Access Gateway using the Deployment Utility tool, how to configure Horizon edge service to provide secure access to desktops and applications for remote workers, including required configuration on Horizon Connection Servers. VMware End-User Computing (EUC) solutions empower the digital workspace by simplifying app & access management, unifying endpoint management & transforming Windows delivery. Learn more on the Digital Workspace Tech Zone: https://techzone.vmware.com.


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Skyline is the Future

Skyline is the Future

Skyline is the Future

By Russ Swan, Support Account Manager, VMware Premier Services Skyline proactive support helps you avoid problems before they occur and reduces the time spent on resolving active support requests. With just a few clicks, you can increase team productivity and the overall reliability of your VMware environments. Do you want proactive information about The post Skyline is the Future appeared first on VMware Support Insider.


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Changing the Foundation of the vRealize Network…

Changing the Foundation of the vRealize Network Insight Architecture

Changing the Foundation of the vRealize Network…

Welcome to a “behind the curtains” article that is written by the vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) engineering team, and highlights the technical challenges around scaling the massive data lake, that is vRealize Network Insight. We are focusing on the efforts that took place last year when vRNI …Read More


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Read-Write-Many Persistent Volumes with vSAN 7…

Read-Write-Many Persistent Volumes with vSAN 7 File Services

Read-Write-Many Persistent Volumes with vSAN 7…

A few weeks back, just after the vSphere 7.0 launch event, I wrote an article about Native File Services in vSAN 7.0. I had a few questions asking why we decided on NFS support in this initial release, and not something like SMB or some other protocol. The reason is quite straight-forward. We are positioning vSAN as a platform for both traditional virtual machine workloads and newer containerized workloads. We chose NFS to address a storage requirement in Kubernetes, namely a way to share…Read More


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Getting started with VMware Cloud Foundation…

Getting started with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.0 @vmwarevcf

Getting started with VMware Cloud Foundation…

On March 10th, VMware announced a range of new updated products and features. One of these was VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 4.0. In the following series of blogs, I am going to show you the steps to deploy VCF 4.0. We will begin with the deployment of a Management Domain. Once this is complete, we will commission some additional hosts and build our first workload domain (WLD). After that, we will deploy the latest version of NSX-T Edge Cluster to our Workload Domain. The great news here is that this part has now been automated in VCF 4.0. Finally,…


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