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VMware NSX Unplugged: Networking Field Day (#NFD15)
Being a product of the 90’s, one of my favorite past times was MTV’s “Unplugged” series. Whether it was Pearl Jam, or 10,000 Maniacs, or Eric Clapton, there was something about the acoustic, raw, uncut nature of the show that drew me in and made me look at my favorite bands in a new way.
Getting Started with NSX Load Balancing [blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization]
In my conversations with customers and peers, load balancing is becoming an increasingly popular discussion. Why you may ask? Simple, load balancing is a critical component for most enterprise applications to provide both availability and scalability to the system. Over the last decade we have moved from bare metal servers to virtual servers and from manual deployment of operating systems to using tools like Chef, Puppet, vRA or other custom workflows. In addition to the movement towards virtualization and the API being the new CLI, we are also seeing a movement to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) where Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) such as routing, VPN, firewalls, and load balancing are moving to software. The value of…Read More
VMware vSAN 6.6 demo [www.yellow-bricks.com]
I was playing around with a vSAN 6.6 environment yesterday and I figured I would record a quick demo of some of the new functionality introduced. Took me a bit longer than expected, but here it is. I hope you will find it useful, a 1080p version can be viewed on youtube.
vSphere 6.5 Security Configuration Guide (Hardening Guide) Release Candidate [blogs.vmware.com/vsphere]
Security Configuration Guide? What’s that you ask? That’s what now used to be called the vSphere Hardening Guide. Well, I didn’t come up with that name, folks who created it many, many years ago called it that. But like everything else in this world, change comes and change is good.
Maximum number of vCenter Servers per Single Sign-On (SSO) Domain [virtuallyghetto.com]
This particular question and its variations have been raised quite a bit lately by our field and customers. For me, this was an opportunity to see if we can provide some additional clarification and help explain some of the nuances that may have been causing some of the confusion around the supported maximums for both vCenter Server and the Platform Services Controller (PSC).
Where in the World are VCPs? [Infographic]
It’s that time of year! 2016’s “Where in the World are VCPs” infographic was such a hit, we decided to refresh it for 2017. The VMware Education Services team is proud to announce that the VCP community grew (11%) to represent a total of 189 countries this year. Which country do you represent?
VMworld 2017 Global Registration is Live! [blogs.vmware.com/vmworld]
Join the industry’s top thought leaders, subject-matter experts and IT professionals at VMworld 2017 to immerse yourself in the latest in cloud infrastructure and digital workspace innovations. At VMworld, you’ll discover the technology, trends, and people like you who are shaping digital business. Registration is now live for both VMworld 2017 US and VMworld 2017 Europe – don’t delay!
Announcing the new VMware NSX Community at VMUG!
Chris McCain, Director of Product Management at VMware, and Brad Tompkins, CEO at VMUG, join forces to talk about the new NSX community at VMUG, dedicated to network and security virtualization. This free community will offer individuals an opportunity for Q&A with NSX experts and product managers, special community content, discussions with peers, and much more. So signup for the new NSX community at VMUG today, get active immediately, and you could be one of our lucky winners in the month of April! Join today: http://www.vmug.com/nsx Read the blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2017/04/nsx-community-vmug
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An overview of current storage vendor support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) [vsphere-land.com]
VMware’s new external storage architecture, Virtual Volumes (VVols), turned 2 years old this month as it launched as part of vSphere 6.0. The new VASA specification for VVols has been under development by VMware for over 6 years and it’s up to storage vendors to set their own development pace for supporting it. In this post I’ll provide an update on how each storage vendor is positioned to support VVols, this is entirely based on what is published in the VVols HCL (see below figure) and some research I have done. It will not cover things like the capabilities and scalability for VVols that is up to each vendor to dictate what they are capable of doing with VVols and how many VVols that they can support on a storage array.
