VMware makes virtual desktops faster, easier to deploy and manage — via SiliconANGLE
VMware Inc. is updating its Horizon virtual desktop services to reduce the cost and complexity of delivering Windows desktops over a network and improving performance for users as well.
10 Innovative New Networking Products That Are Turning Heads — via CRN
Here are eight products launched in 2017 that are turning heads.
Using vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for vSAN for better visibility — via Virtual Blocks
Log data has a long history of being difficult to work with. Almost every system, component, and application can generate massive amounts of unstructured data just cryptic enough to dissuade the typical administrator from harnessing the value it holds. Much of the time, log data is viewed only when something isn’t working.
SPBM: Configuring VVol Replication — via Virtual Blocks
Now that vSphere 6.5 supports array-based replication (ABR), customers are starting to configure replication in their VM Storage Policies. Before you configure your policies for replication below are a few prerequisites to check.
How vSAN Enables You to Scale to Tomorrow — via Virtual Blocks
While no technology is ever “future proof,” we all hope that any big technology purchase will last and give us a satisfactory return on our investment. We look for assurance that it can not only take advantage of the newest and flashiest applications and technologies, but also have the agility and extensibility to adopt newer and better technologies in the future.
Potential ESXi Host Preparation issues with NSX 6.3 — via virtuallyGhetto
While working on updating my vGhetto Automated vSphere Lab Deployment script to add support for NSX 6.3 with vSphere 6.5, I ran into an issue with the Host Preparation step. Although the resolution turned out to be quite simple, it was very difficult to diagnose the problem.
NSX Growth and Success in 2016 — via VMware Network Virtualization Blog
Last week VMware hosted its Q4 2016 earnings call and shared financial results. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and the executive team have frequently highlighted VMware NSX growth and success on these calls. For Q4, NSX license bookings grew over 50 percent year-over-year. Annualizing our Q4 total bookings for NSX, it is now at a $1B run rate. With one month into 2017, we’d like to share more on NSX customer success in 2016.
VMware on VMware: vRealize Network Insight
With Network Insight, like the name suggests, it really opens your eyes. VMware IT can identify issues with our NSX deployments that we hadn’t been aware of. We have visibility into things that what would have been black holes in the past. We now have better control and tracking of our virtual distributed firewalls with vRNI enabling micro-segmentation planning. That’s a huge help when it comes to meeting audit and compliance requirements.
Horizon View API — via The SLOG
VMware recently added an Horizon View API as part of the PowerCLi 6.5 R1 release, which allows customers to interact with Horizon without the need for using the User Interface (UI). Amazing as this new Horizon API is, it’s not as easy as the usual PowerCLi CmdLets we are used to using and I’ve personally found information/settings difficult to find using the API.
vSAN Availability Part 12 – Data Protection and Disaster Recovery — via JeffHunter.info
This is the final article in my vSAN Availability blog series. To wrap things up, I thought it made sense to briefly discuss data protection, replication, and disaster recovery.
Update on Intel NUC 7th Gen (Kaby Lake) & ESXi 6.x — via virtuallyGhetto
Intel just started shipping their i3 7th Gen (Kaby Lake) Intel NUCs and no surprise, Florian of virten.net has already gotten his hands on a unit for testing. The Intel NUCs is a very popular platform for running vSphere/vSAN-based home labs, especially for their price point and footprint. Last week, Florian discovered from his testing that the built-in network adapter on the 7th Gen NUC was not being detected by any of the ESXi installers and had published his findings here.
How well do you know new vSphere 6.5 features and upgrades? — via TechTarget
Test your knowledge on the new vSphere 6.5 features as well as all of the other changes that came with the VMware’s latest release of its core virtualization product.
Containers as a Service using VMware Admiral and Photon OS — via the iland blog
In this blog, Solutions Architect, Richard Stinton, walks us through the basics of VMware’s new platform, Admiral.
How to patch VMware VCSA 6.5 via ISO patch downloaded from VMware Patch Portal — via ESX Virtualization
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 can be patched and (or) upgraded in several ways. We have already installed latest patch via ZIP file downloaded from within My VMware space, but today we’ll explore another way to patch VCSA. We will learn How to patch VMware VCSA 6.5 via ISO patch downloaded from VMware Patch Portal.
NSX Bytes: NSX-T and What’s Coming in 2.0 — via VIRTUALIZATION IS LIFE!
A couple of weeks ago in my NSX-v 6.3 and NSX-T 1.1 release post I focused around NSX-v features as that has become the mainstream version that most people know and work with…however NSX, in it’s Nicira roots has always been about multi-hypervisor and has always had an MH version that worked with Openstack deployments. The NSBU has big plans for NSX beyond vSphere and during the NSX vExpert session we got to see a little about how NSX-T will look beyond version 1.1.
Kubernetes on vSphere with kubernetes-anywhere — via CormacHogan.com
I already described how you can get started with Kubernetes natively on vSphere using the kube-up/kube-down mechanism. This was pretty straight-forward, but not ideal as it was not very reliable or easy to follow. Since writing that piece, Kubernetes have moved on to a new deployment mechanism called kubernetes-anywhere. In this post, I will show you how to deploy Kubernetes onto a vSphere environment with a vSAN datastore, using the kubernetes-anywhere utility.
Prepare Your Organization for Enterprise Wearables & Things — via AirWatch Blog
More than 20 billion things will be connected to the internet by 2020, recently estimated analyst firm Gartner. In 2017 alone, Gartner estimates the Internet of Things (IoT) could reach 8.4 billion devices—as ZDNet pointed out, that means IoT could outnumber the global population for the first time this year.
Setting yourself up for a success with virtualization — via Michael Ryom
I am going to try to address a few issues I have seen quite a lot in my virtualization career. It is not that you have to take extra care when virtualizing, but your virtual environment will never be better than the foundation you build it on.
Enabling Two-factor Authentication with VMware Verify
With VMware Verify, organizations can apply two-factor authentication to all corporate applications or to speci c applications containing sensitive corporate information. By combining an extra layer of trust to your applications with an easy to implement solution, Verify enables enterprises to enhance security of sensitive corporate information and protect employee data.
Maximizing Performance in VXLAN Overlay Networks — via Miguel Gómez
Network virtualization has always played a key role in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering of public cloud service providers and more even so in Telefónica, where the integration between our Cloud and Connectivity services is one of our top priorities.
