The top 5 EUC security takeaways from VMware Explore 2022
In the security track at VMware Explore, our team had the pleasure of engaging with some of the best in the industry, who shared ideas, insights, and what keeps them up at night. In the panel sessions and one-on-one chats, we discussed top-of-mind critical security issues affecting […]
Building a VMware SASE Lab with Terraform
Quickly deploy a disposable test environment for VMware SASE using Terraform. Learn more: https://developer.vmware.com/web/dp/samples?id=7991#. 00:02 – Repository Overview 02:50 – Edge Profile Overview 04:25 – Terraform Apply 06:13 – Edge Build Explanation 06:56 – Port Forwarding Windows RDP 08:12 – Edge is Up and Operational 08:31 – Shutting Down the Edge 09:26 – Terraform Destroy
Detailed Design – Site Protection and Disaster Recovery
The design considers the components of the this validated solution. It includes numbered design decisions, and the justification and implications of each decision.
Reminder: vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6.7 End of Support on October 15, 2022!
Hey, fellows administrators, this is a gentle reminder that the End of General Support for vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6.7 is October 15, 2022. It is recommended to upgrade to vSphere 7 as soon as possible. During VMware Explore, the new version of vSphere was announced, vSphere 8. The End of […]
Automating VM Migration AND their Firewall rules to VMC – virtually2cents 🙂
vRNI Notes – Moving a group of App VMs + Associated FW Rules from VMC to VMC A few months ago, my colleague Tom Zukowski demo’ed the vRealize Network Insight and HCX Fling to a group of internal employees and he mentioned there was an ability to also export the existing firewall rules […]
Quick Tip – Correctly naming TKR’s in Local Content Library for vSphere with Tanzu in vSphere 8
Customers can create a Tanzu Kubernetes Releases (TKR) content library by either subscribing to VMware’s online repository or by creating a local content library and manually importing the images, which can be useful for air-gapped or non-internet accessible environments. If you automatically subscribe to VMware’s online repository, the TKR images (OVF) will automatically be downloaded […]
Protecting vSphere From Specialized Malware
Over the past few years, threat actors have adapted their tactics to focus more on specific operating systems and operating environments that carry the most sensitive data, or where an attack can have the greatest effect. By increasing the development and use of specialized techniques, cyber crimina
AKO – Multitenancy – Each cluster get’s their own Avi Tenant
This guide will walk you through how to set each K8s cluster to use their own Avi tenant (and possibly their own VIP Subnet). Multitenancy is important especially if you want to limit the blast radius of a specific K8s cluster, or you could do this to set some RBAC controls in Avi so […]
Migrating to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware HCX
VMware HCX can seamlessly migrate vSphere workloads from an on-premises environment to a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. Here we highlight key capabilities of VMware HCX, such as Mobility Groups and Mobility Optimized Networking, and provide a demonstration of a vSphere workload migration leveraging […]
HCX Manager and HCX Connector DNS are not working after deploying
When I deploy the latest versions of HCX Manager 4.4.0-build 20427536 and HCX Connector 4.4.2-build-20502808, for some reason, DNS is not set on the deploy of the OVA, and HCX Manager and HCX Connector DNS are not working after deploying. When I try to connect the HCX to vCenter (as the first option
Uplevel Your Career, and Become a VMware Certified Professional
Did you know that the VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)certification ranks among the top 10 highest-paying IT Certifications for 2022? As many recruiters from leading organizations are struggling with finding the right talent in highly skilled, specialized roles such
vSphere with Tanzu – new TKG 2.0 ClusterClass Preview – CormacHogan.com
One of they key features of the TKG 2.0 on vSphere 8 announcement at VMware Explore 2022 is the consolidation of our the Tanzu Kubernetes offerings into a single unified Kubernetes runtime. This can be considered the second edition of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. It will still come in two flavors.
VMware Explore Europe Session Scheduling – Now Available in the Content Catalog!
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Solution Interoperability – Site Protection and Disaster Recovery
Integrate the validated solution with components added to your VMware Cloud Foundation environment by other validated solutions. You can use such validated solutions for monitoring and alerting, logging, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and life cycle management with certain considerations.
Data Placement and Resilience in ESA
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vSphere Distributed Services Engine – Networking Offload and Acceleration Previe…
vSphere Distributed Services Engine, formerly known as Project Monterey … now gives us the ability to offload tasks to a DPU (Data Processing Unit) that have historically been done by x86 CPUs on the hypervisor.
Quick Tip – Downloading ESXi Image (ISO or ZIP) from vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)
Prior to vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM), the creation of an ESXi Image Profile was done separately using the vSphere Image Builder service. If you needed to download a specific ESXi Image Profile (ISO or ZIP) for importing into another environment or to simply create a bootable installer, it was intuitive to download the image within […]
DPU solution could change the game for VMware’s network and application security…
VMware Inc. announced an intriguing development on the security front during its recent annual conference. The virtualization pioneer unveiled an enhancement for its NSX network platform that leverages data processing unit acceleration using smart network interface controllers.
How to convert a standard cluster to a stretched cluster while expanding it!
On VMTN a question was asked about how you could convert a 5-node standard cluster to a stretched cluster. It is not documented in our regular documentation, probably as the process is pretty straightforward, so I figured I would write it down. When you create a stretched cluster you will […]
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