VMware vSphere Blog

Photon OS 4.0 Beta Release is now available

Kishan Malur posted November 6, 2020

Photon OS team at VMware is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Photon 4.0. Photon 4.0 builds upon the innovation of our enterprise class, Open Source virtual appliance OS, which can be found powering thousands of deployments the field. With exciting improvements to the 3.0 rev 2 release, Photon 4.0 comes with new Read more...

Introducing VMware Tools New Download Page & Inclusion in the Product Lifecycle Matrix

sahuad posted November 6, 2020

Overview VMware Tools are an indispensable component of the vSphere environment, be it to enhance the VM’s overall performance or to ensure that VMs are secure, safeguarded, and hardened. VMware tools have always played an essential and critical role. Up till now, VMware Tools were developed and released as a subset of vSphere. Customers could Read more...

Bitfusion 2.5.0 Release Gives You the Features You Want

James Brogan posted November 5, 2020

VMware announces the release of vSphere Bitfusion version 2.5.0 with exciting new features, these include bare metal support for clients, backwards compatibility for clients, improved health checks, and much more. You can read the details on the TechZone, here. Read more...

Photon OS announces migration to New Package Repository

Kishan Malur posted October 29, 2020

Photon OS currently hosts the required packages and other artifacts using public servers on Bintray. As such, when a user issues any tdnf commands, Photon OS looks for the package updates in the Bintray repository. Going forward, we will be transitioning away from this service to one that is hosted at packages.vmware.com/photon. Over the last few weeks the team has been busy getting things ready, and the new repository is already populated with all the packages and artifacts and is ready to take over to continue serving packages Read more...

Don’t Miss Our “5 Ways to Keep Attackers Out” Live Stream on Thursday

Bob Plankers posted October 27, 2020

Join us tomorrow, October 29, at 6:00 AM Pacific for the last of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month talks (early in case our EMEA friends would like to join — cybersecurity is, in fact, a global task). This talk will cover ways to keep attackers out of vSphere and our related infrastructures. It’ll be short (~20 Read more...

Join Us Live at 11 AM Pacific Today to Talk Compliance Audits

Bob Plankers posted October 22, 2020

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and we’re on our third week of live talks. In fact, the third one starts in just a few hours. Join me at 11 AM Pacific on October 22, 2020 as we talk about surviving compliance audits in a vSphere environment. No registration needed, just show up over in our YouTube Read more...

Join Us Live on October 22 to Talk about Compliance Audits and vSphere!

Bob Plankers posted October 20, 2020

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and we’re on our third week of live talks. This week I will be talking about compliance audits and regulatory work, specifically surviving an audit. Join me at 11 AM Pacific on October 22, 2020. No registration needed, just show up! Compliance is one of those things we, as vSphere Admins, Read more...

The Fast Lane for Data Transfer – Paravirtual RDMA(PVRDMA) Support for Native Endpoints.

sahuad posted October 15, 2020

Overview Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a revolutionary technology that enables host devices (devices connected over a network) to read and write data present in their main memory without the CPU’s and the operating system’s involvement. In a nutshell, computers connected over a network using a particular type of network card can bypass remote system processors and Read more...

Learn How vSphere Will Power Your Future Career: Join the VMUG Event on Oct 15

Himanshu Singh posted October 14, 2020

If you want to invest in your career for the next decade (and beyond!) using the power of VMware vSphere, make sure you register and join the VMUG Professional Development Virtual Event. On October 15, vSphere users, experts, and enthusiasts from around the world will gather at this can’t-miss online extravaganza. From career tips to Read more...

Securing Applications with vSphere: Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Bob Plankers posted October 13, 2020

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and to celebrate we are doing weekly live streams on different topics related to the weekly themes of the month. This week the overall theme is “Securing Devices at Home and Work,” and in the vSphere world we are thinking about workloads. Applications and workloads are the reason that our Read more...