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5 Reasons why SD-WAN should be part of your hybrid cloud strategy

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5 reasons why SD-WAN should be part of your hybrid cloud strategy Introduction SD-WAN is a highly-available, well-established, carrier class solution that facilitates on-demand, seamless and secure connectivity between any two points in a network. It is typically sold as a service with centralized, cloud-hosted orchestration and life-cycle management with zero touch deployment for rapid Read more...

vCloud Usage Meter 3.6.1 Hot Patch 2

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We are pleased to announce a minor update to vCloud Usage Meter 3.6.1 with UM 3.6.1 Hot Patch 2. If Usage Meter is currently not experiencing issues mentioned below, updating to this patch is not necessary.  Hot Patch 2 resolves issues that occur when generating reports in large setups and resolves issues in vCenter collections and metering vSAN and NSX. Hot Read more...

Usage Meter requirement for SMTP

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As we continue to enhance the features and capabilities of Usage Meter, one of the changes that has people asking questions is why we are requiring the configuration of SMTP when installing Usage Meter 3.6.x. This was a change from 3.5.x where SMTP was not a requirement.  Usage Meter Monitoring One of the key reasons Read more...

Onboarding to VMware Cloud Provider Hub and using self-service automated service activation for tenants

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VMware Cloud Provider HubTM is the platform for VMware Cloud Provider partners (VCPP) to get access to VMware XaaS services. Currently the services we support are VMware Cloud on AWS allowing partners to go asset-light and VMware Log Intelligence , a simple and powerful log collection and analytics tool helping manage cloud operations. These services Read more...

VMware vCloud Director 9.5 – Cross-VDC Networking Blog Series – High-Level Provider Design

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In this blog series, we will be covering several aspects of Cross-VDC Networking inside of VMware vCloud Director 9.5. This was created by Daniel Paluszek, Abhinav Mishra, and Wissam Mahmassani. This blog covers the following: Overview of the High-Level Design Failure Scenarios Overview The goal of this high-level design is to provide optimal availability of Read more...
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vCloud Director 9.x Advanced Load Balancing with F5 Big-IP

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vCloud Director exposes NSX load balancing services through the edge gateways, which enables tenant users to deploy their own load balancer instances. However, this makes sense only for the local site. In this blog post, we will show you how by integrating F5 Big-IP with vCloud Director, you can have an abstract multi-site load balancer, which Read more...

VMware announces the General Availability of VMware Cloud Provider Hub for partners to offer multi-cloud managed services

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VMware is excited to announce the General Availability of VMware Cloud Provider Hub 2.0 – a centralized portal for partners to transact, deploy and manage VMware XaaS offerings, thereby enabling the partners to offer multi-cloud managed services. Multi-cloud challenges for Enterprises The multi-cloud world has opened tremendous opportunities and choices for enterprises to deploy their workloads. Enterprises Read more...

The VMware Cloud Provider Hub – The Platform for partners for delivering managed services – What’s New

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  VMware today launched the VMware Cloud ProviderTM Hub for VMware Cloud Provider Program partners. Cloud Provider Hub is a platform for partners providing end-to-end customer lifecycle management including purchase, provisioning and management of VMware XaaS services. Cloud Provider Hub is the evolution of the Managed Services Platform 1.x. With this release, VMware is enabling Read more...