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vSphere 7 Update 1 – Unprecedented Scalability

Jatin Purohit posted September 24, 2020

vSphere continues to deliver the ability to scale your infrastructure to meet the demands of modern application workloads such as Kubernetes clusters/pods, or high-performance application workloads. Let’s glance at the increased scalability numbers and see how it can benefit you in your journey towards application modernisation. Increased Cluster Scale In vSphere 7 update 1, the total number of ESXi hosts in Read more...

It’s Easier Than Ever to Tell VMware What You Think

sahuad posted September 23, 2020

Overview “At VMware, we listen but more importantly we act.” The latest integration of vSphere Ideas Portal with vSphere client takes this statement to a whole new level. vSphere Ideas portal is platform where customers can directly share their ideas/feature requests and can also vote for the requests posted by others.Any customer with a valid Read more...

#vSphereChat Recap: VMworld 2020

Bob Plankers posted September 22, 2020

VMworld 2020 is quickly approaching! To prepare for this first-ever virtual VMworld, we hosted a vSphere Tweet Chat with our friends over at VMware Events and vSAN. Joining us to answer eight rapid-fire questions were VMware experts from across the company and world: Josh Townsend (@joshuatownsend), Rick Walsworth (@RickWalsworth), John Dias (@johnddias), Bob Plankers (@plankers) Read more...

Learn about vSphere with Tanzu at VMworld 2020

Mike Foley posted September 22, 2020

On September 15th, 2020 VMware announced vSphere 7 Update 1. With this release came the announcement of vSphere with Tanzu. vSphere with Tanzu introduces the ability to run Kubernetes workloads on vSphere Enterprise Plus without having to run the full VMware Cloud Foundation Stack. Networking is accomplished using vSphere Distributed Switches and a Load Balancer Read more...

vSphere 7 Update 1 – vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS)

Niels Hagoort posted September 21, 2020

The vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) is a new capability that is introduced in the vSphere 7 Update 1 release. It’s first release provides the foundation to work towards creating a decoupled and distributed control plane for clustering services in vSphere. The challenge being that cluster services, like the vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), depend on Read more...

VMware Announces End of Support for Internet Explorer 11

sahuad posted September 18, 2020

In the light of Microsoft announcing the end of support for Internet Explorer 11 by MS365 products and the official guidance from MS for IE11 users to migrate to MS Edge, VMware has decided to end the support for IE11 by all active versions of the vSphere Client, starting from the next update in the release line of Read more...

The Future of the ESXi Host Client

sahuad posted September 18, 2020

Overview VMware is constantly working to improve the products offered to customers aiming to provide solutions based on modern and reliable technologies and positioning security and stability of customer workloads at the centre of our goals. As part of the products technical evolution VMware always considers the official regulations and standards which customers must comply Read more...

How do I Integrate VMware Cloud on Dell EMC into an Existing Data Center? (Part 1)

mherreras posted September 17, 2020

By Matt Herreras, Director, Technical Marketing for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC This post is the first in a three-part series leading up to VMworld 2020. The series will deal with challenges and solutions for technology integration and workload migration. The third and final post will complete the series. It will showcase VMware Read more...

vSphere 7 Update 1 – vSphere Lifecycle Manager Improvements

Jatin Purohit posted September 17, 2020

vSphere Lifecycle Manager helps you keep your vSphere infrastructure consistent by applying the desired state configurations to all the ESXi hosts in a cluster. In vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM), the desired state is defined via the cluster image (desired image), consisting of vendor add-ons, ESXi version, and hardware specifics Firmware and Drivers. The vSphere 7 Read more...

Announcing VMware vSphere with Tanzu: The Fastest Way to Get Started with Kubernetes

Kit Colbert posted September 15, 2020

Last year at VMworld, we announced Project Pacific, a ground-breaking rethinking of vSphere that deeply integrated Kubernetes with the platform. Earlier this year, about six months after the Project Pacific announcement, we released VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with Tanzu, which incorporated the Project Pacific technology. While we have many VCF Tanzu customers and many customers are Read more...