Are you running Hyper-Converged Infrastructure or about to make the transition to HCI? Moving to HCI requires organizations to rethink how they store and secure their data from the foundation to the application. VMware HCI includes end-to-end security for applications, infrastructure, data, and access. Two core VMware technologies, VMware vSphere 6.7 Platinum™ and VMware vSAN, Read more...
I am excited to share that I just finished refreshing the very popular Next-Gen Virtualization for Dummies book. If you haven’t checked it out yet, know that its a short and easy read with direct, to-the-point information. Despite the short length, I think it has a lot of very useful information. With this Read more...
Flings are awesome! Have you heard about VMware’s Flings website? It’s packed with free tools (130 at the time of writing) that can make your life much easier, and it’s where a number of features are road tested before they get rolled into a product. One of the most popular examples of this is the Read more...
Did you hear the news at #DellTechWorld? Project Dimension is now VMware Cloud on Dell EMC! If you’re looking for more information on what that actually means, go check out Kit Colbert’s blog post. But if you’re at Dell Technologies World, and you want to know how catch up with the team in person, you’re Read more...
At VMworld last year, we announced Project Dimension, which extends VMware Cloud to deliver the SDDC infrastructure and hardware as-a-service to customers’ on-premises locations. Because it is a cloud service, VMware takes care of operating the infrastructure: deploying it; troubleshooting issues; and performing patching, upgrading and maintenance. This means customers can focus on differentiating their Read more...
Are you attending Dell Technologies World? The VMware team is excited to meet you at the show. We would love to tell you about the latest offerings on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Please join us to learn about our products through one of the many interaction opportunities listed below. vSphere Platinum With the Read more...
We announced the deprecation of vFlash Read Cache (vFRC) in the release notes of vSphere 6.7 Update 2. vFRC continues to be supported for vSphere 6.0/6.5/6.7. However, the next major release will not. VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache is being deprecated. While this feature continues to be supported in the vSphere 6.7 generation, it will be Read more...
Note: vSphere 6.7 Update 2 was recently announced and is generally available as an update and download. The announcement of vSphere 6.7 Update 2 informed us of many new features like DRS-MM (DRS in Maintenance Mode), CPU scheduler options for vulnerabilities like L1TF, as well as new vSphere ROBO licensing, and updates to vSphere Read more...
The vSphere ROBO license model is perfect for organizations that have Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) locations with a few hosts running workloads. Although being feature-rich, the ROBO clusters lacked the ability of automatic virtual machine migration when entering maintenance mode to perform upgrade or update operations. With the announcement of the vSphere 6.7 Update Read more...
The release of vSphere 6.7 Update 2 was announced (and will soon be generally available as an update and download), bringing improvements and fixes to all editions of vSphere. This includes vSphere Platinum 6.7 Update 2, the premier edition of vSphere that features AppDefense. If you aren’t familiar with VMware AppDefense it is cutting edge Read more...
