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Best practices to keep your vSphere environment secure
VMware introduced a lot of new features that focused on security in vSphere 6.5. But, beyond those features, you can follow these practices to improve security.
NSX & VMUG Training & Certification Announcement [Extended Version]!
Grab the popcorn, and watch the full conversation between Brad Tompkins, CEO at VMUG, and Chris McCain, Director of Product Management at VMware.
HPE Synergy – the first composable infrastructure – now certified for vSAN
vSAN continues its journey of growth with more than 7,000 customers have chosen to entrust their most important workloads to vSAN. To support this journey, we are committed to work with our partners and enable the next generation hardware platform for our mutual customers.
How does VMware vSphere 6.5 improve its Content Library?
Introduced in vSphere 6.0, the Content Library was a nifty tool, but had some serious limitations. VSphere 6.5 changes that with a number of new capabilities.
Secure Boot for ESXi 6.5 – Hypervisor Assurance
I’ve talked about how vSphere has been moving towards a “secure by default” stance over the past few years. This can clearly be seen in the new vSphere 6.5 Security Configuration Guide where the number of “hardening” steps are growing smaller with every release. In this blog post we will go over another “secure by The post Secure Boot for ESXi 6.5 – Hypervisor Assurance appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .
Make your journey to the SDDC a reality with expert NSX training from VMware!
VMware NSX™ is the network virtualization and security platform for the software-defined data center. NSX brings virtualization to your existing network and transforms network operations and economics by delivering a completely new operational model for networking.
PowerCLI 6.5.1 Installation Walkthrough
We released PowerCLI 6.5.1 two weeks ago and the response has been incredible! The VMware.PowerCLI module is closing in on 4,000 downloads from the PowerShell Gallery and we’ve received a ton of good feedback. There seems to be quite a few questions and comments over this new installation method so I created a walkthrough video […] The post PowerCLI 6.5.1 Installation Walkthrough appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog .
Learn basic to advance vSAN in 80 minutes – Anything Virtual and Cloudy
Purpose: If you are working in Virtualization and Cloud space, then you must have heard about Software Defined Storage (SDS). It is part of Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) (a term coined by VMware). Since VMware started the SDDC journey and is a pioneer in this technology, so, today I am going to cover VMware solution in…Read More
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
