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Announcing Project Dimension Beta

Kit Colbert posted November 6, 2018

The beta program for Project Dimension was officially announced at VMworld Europe 2018. Learn more and find out how to inquire about joining the program. Read more...

External Platform Services Controller, A Thing of the Past

Emad Younis posted November 6, 2018

VMware is deprecating the external Platform Services Controller deployment model. In a future vSphere release (not update release), there will no longer be an option to deploy the external PSC The Platform Services Controller (PSC) was first introduced in vSphere 6.0. It served a couple of purposes. First, it was to simplify the distributed vCenter Read more...

Announcing the vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide

Mike Foley posted November 2, 2018

Back in March I released the vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide (a.k.a “The SCG”). At that time, I went in to detail on more than just the guide. I covered the topic of why some guidelines are removed or changed. I also covered how more settings were set to “secure by default” now Read more...

Announcing General Availability of VMware vSphere Platinum

Shubha Kumbadakone posted October 31, 2018

Today, I am excited to announce the general availability of VMware vSphere Platinum, the latest edition of our industry leading compute platform, VMware vSphere. Included in vSphere Platinum is VMware AppDefense that extends the core capabilities of vSphere to deliver purpose built and application centric security. It uses machine learning to learn and lock Read more...

vSphere Update Manager Enhancements in vSphere 6.7 Update 1

David Stamen posted October 31, 2018

vSphere 6.7 Update 1 is now out, and with that the vSphere Client is now Fully Featured for your vSphere Environment. With the addition of vSphere Update Manager in the vSphere Client we have quite a few new workflows compared to the old vSphere Web Client. Let’s highlight some of these new improvements. We have Read more...

Migrate to the vCenter Server Appliance

Nigel Hickey posted October 30, 2018

vSphere 6.7 is the final release that will include vCenter Server for Windows. VMware’s direction for vCenter Server is the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The good news is there’s a dedicated migration tool to help customers transition to the VCSA. Today I would like to announce several new VCSA migration product walkthroughs. These new walkthroughs Read more...

Announcing vSphere Upgrade on vSphere Central

David Stamen posted October 29, 2018

vSphere Central has always been a great resource to find content, but it has previously been grouped by product such as vCenter Server, Security, ESXi and Virtual Machine, and other categories. When trying to share content on vSphere Upgrade it overlaps all of these categories. We have created a new consolidated vSphere Upgrade section that will Read more...

Announcing the vSphere 6.7 Topology and Upgrade Planning Tool

David Stamen posted October 25, 2018

As part of vSphere Central we previously had a Topology and Upgrade planning tool for vSphere 6.5. It focused on common upgrade and migration paths from vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 to vSphere 6.5. With the support for Enhanced Linked Mode with Embedded vCenter Server deployments in vSphere 6.5 Update 2 and vSphere 6.7 there have been Read more...

What’s New in vCenter Server 6.7 Update 1

Emad Younis posted October 17, 2018

Today I’m happy to announce vSphere 6.7 Update 1 is now generally available. This release includes a single vSphere Client to manage them all. I’m referring to the HTML5 based vSphere Client, now fully featured. Also, included in this release are the necessary tools for convergence and repointing. An external Platform Services Controller (PSC) for Read more...

Fully Featured vSphere Client in vSphere 6.7 Update 1

Abhijith Prabhudev posted October 16, 2018

We’re pleased to announce that the vSphere Client is now ‘Fully Featured’ in vSphere 6.7 Update 1. This means that you can manage all aspects of your vSphere environment using the HTML5-based vSphere Client, no need to switch back and forth between the vSphere Client and the vSphere Web Client. We’ve ported all remaining features Read more...