By Brian Morton, Technical Program Manager (Cloud and Productivity Engineering); Lyubomir Lyubenov, Cloud Architect; Brandon Bazan, Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, all VMware This year at VMworld 2019 US, our Hands-on Labs (HOLs) were more popular than ever. Attendees were able to test drive full working versions of VMware technologies without having to purchase Read more...
By Iliyan Petkov, Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer The VMware Cloud & Productivity Engineering (CPE) team has spent the last 18+ months transitioning traditional operations to a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) model. Now, entire environments are built and managed by code (commonly known as Infrastructure-as-Code, IaC), making them much more adaptable to cloud-based Read more...
By Zaigui Wang, Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Operations; Mohammed Kajamoideen, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Administrator; Chanh Chi, Senior Director, IT—all VMware VMware IT employs VMware vSAN™, an enterprise-class storage virtualization software, for lifecycle management of regional deployments such as VMware Horizon® 7and branch office footprints—in addition to main production data centers. While Day 0 and Read more...
By Catherine Greenberg, Director, VMware on VMware Program The VMware on VMware team is excited to share our IT best practices and VMware product deployment journeys at VMworld 2019 US, and we hope to see you there! Great advice, one on one If you’re an existing VMware customer, schedule a meeting Read more...
By: Chanh Chi (Senior Director, IT), Charlene Huang (Database Architect), Jino Jose (Lead Applications Database Administrator), Grant Nowell (Director, IT Infrastructure PMO & Compliance), Donald Philpott (Senior Manager, Global DC Metro & Backbone), Stephen Sheen (Manager, IT Infrastructure PMO) and Zaigui Wang (Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure) VMware’s production workloads, including the majority of Read more...
by Tom Ralph, Sr. Cloud Service Architect, IT, VMware VMworld attendees are invited to watch a video of his presentation at VMworld 2018. VMware’s hybrid cloud environment comprises nine data centers, many public clouds, over 200K managed virtual machines (VMs) and 50+PB of raw storage, just to mention a few statistics. And our private cloud Read more...
by Gaurav Pruthi, Lead Cloud Infrastructure Administrator, VMware, and Zaigui Wang, Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Operations, VMware The VMware vSphere® Standard Switch (vSS) contains both data and management planes at the individual host level. This configuration lacked overall management efficiency and hindered integration with other advanced tools and applications. That’s why the decision was made Read more...
By Lyubomir Lyubenov, Cloud Service Architect, VMware, and Jeremy Sage, Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer, VMware One of the most popular areas at any VMworld is the Hands-on Lab (HOL), where attendees can test drive VMware technologies without purchasing equipment, software, or licenses. With more than 20,000 attendees in Las Vegas this year, the HOL Read more...
By Chris Mutchler, Cloud Service Architect; Lyubo Lyubenov, Cloud Service Architect; and Jeremy Sage, Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer, VMware VMware Hands-on Labs (HOL) offer VMware customers special access to the latest VMware technologies without requiring purchase of equipment or licenses. While available year-round, the HOL program sees major use at the VMworld conferences. HOL Read more...
