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VMworld 2018 vSphere Security Sessions

Mike Foley posted August 20, 2018

It’s that time of year again! The time when we all pack our comfortable shoes and head to Las Vegas for VMworld! As we are all dealing with the seemingly ever-increasing IT security issues that plague our industry, VMware is there to help you make sense of it and deal with it in as easy Read more...

Get Ready for an Action-packed Agenda with VMware Cloud on AWS at VMworld 2018

Adam Eckerle posted August 19, 2018

The following is a guest post from Sonali Desai, Product Marketing Manager at VMware. VMware Cloud on AWS is going to celebrate its one-year anniversary at VMworld 2018, and it is going to have even bigger and louder presence than last year. So, you can expect a lot of buzz about VMware Cloud on AWS Read more...

Learn about vSphere Upgrade at VMworld 2018

David Stamen posted August 13, 2018

With vSphere 5.5 going end of life on September 19, 2018, we have been organizing workshops all over the world to better educate customers and partners to upgrade to vSphere 6.x. If you have already upgraded to vSphere 6.0 or 6.5, you may be interested in the latest features and wonder what your upgrade path Read more...

Eliminate the Windows Reboot after Updating VMware Tools

Eric Gray posted August 3, 2018

The VMware Paravirtual SCSI driver for Windows Server 2016 is now distributed by Microsoft via Windows Update. If this update is applied in conjunction with other Windows patches, it may eliminate a subsequent guest OS reboot when updating VMware Tools. Read more...

What’s New in vSphere 6.7 Hands-on Lab

Adam Eckerle posted July 31, 2018

This is a guest post from Julie Roman, Technical Account Specialist at VMware and Lab Captain for the What’s New in vSphere 6.7 Hands-on Lab. I’m excited to announce the release of the What’s New in vSphere 6.7 Hands-on Lab (HOL-SDC-1911-01)! This lab goes over all the new features and has videos or hands-on walk-throughs Read more...

vSphere Upgrade Series Part 3: Upgrading vSphere Hosts

Nigel Hickey posted July 20, 2018

In Part 1 Preparing to Upgrade & Part 2 Upgrading vCenter Server of the vSphere Upgrade Series we prepared our environment for an Upgrade and then completed the vCenter Server & vSphere Update Manager (VUM) upgrades to version 6.7. In this post we will cover the upgrade process for Upgrading vSphere Hosts (ESXi) via vSphere Update Manager Read more...

Learn about vSphere 6.7 at VMworld 2018

Adam Eckerle posted July 20, 2018

vSphere 6.7 was released in April of 2018 and has garnered quite a lot of interest from our customer and partner community. If you haven’t yet taken a look at this latest release and the features within, then VMworld 2018 is a great venue to do just that. With the VMworld US Content Catalog and Schedule Read more...

vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server – End of Availability

Sanmeet Jasuja posted July 16, 2018

VMware is announcing the End of Availability (EoA) of vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server starting with the next release and all future releases of Log Insight. The current version of Log Insight, version 4.6.x, is the last release that will support the Log Insight for vCenter Server capability. The next release will not accept Read more...

Timekeeping within ESXi

Will Pien posted July 11, 2018

Overview Precise timekeeping is a key attribute for many types of applications. At a high level, it allows these applications to accurately construct the precise sequence of events that have occurred or is occurring in real time. For example, in the financial services industry, it’s important to timestamp transactions with sufficient granularity and accuracy from Read more...

vSphere 6.7: Suspend and Resume of GPU-attached Virtual Machines

Justin Murray posted July 9, 2018

VMware vSphere is the Universal Application Platform of choice for deployment of all kinds of applications – from end-user virtual desktops to very large databases, machine learning systems and in-memory data management systems. vSphere 6.7 became generally available in April 2018. This article describes a set of use cases and a demonstration for a new feature Read more...