Today, 2017-08-29, VMware announced/introduced VMware Pivotal Container Service which is a collaboration with VMware, Pivotal and Google Cloud to deliver VMware Pivotal Container Service (VMware PKS). Not really sure about the PKS but maybe it is to point out Kubernetes or maybe PCS is already taken:) Components included are e.g. NSX, Kubernetes, vRealize Automation, Wavefront telemetry Kubernetes, …
Yesterday, 2017-08-28, VMware announced a new version of vCloud Director, (vCD) meaning the most current release will be 9.0. Latest available vCD version today is 8.2 and was released February 2017. There is not that much information available yet about new features and capabilities but here are a few: Flex UI is gone and there …
Yesterday, 2017-08-28, VMware announced the next version of their network virtualisation product NSX-T meaning the latest and greatest version will soon be 2.0. NSX-T replaced NSX-MH which was the first NSX version to support multi-hypervisor. NSX-T can provide network virtualisation for both multi-cloud and multi-hypervisor environment. To be more specific we are talking about: …
Nice opening by Pat Gelsigner when he talks about the disaster in Houston and sends his thoughts and prayers…. Then we got a bit of a history lesson when work transformation since 1810 was brought up and point was that we are aiming on or must focus on creating higher value jobs. VMware Vision: Any Device Any …
VMware Intergrated OpenStack (VIO), which is a VMware supported OpenStack distribution has been around for a few years. It built on the OpenStack Ocata release and it runs on top of the VMware SDDC and it offers the following capabilities/meet the following use cases: Implementing a Developer Cloud Running Containers Leveraging Network Virtualization (VMware NSX) The …
Today, 2017-08-28, Backup & Replication version 7.2 is released. The 7.2 beta program was announced in July which I blogged about here. NAKIVO is present during VMworld in Las Vegas so swing by their booth #829 to learn more about their new version. All the major features included in the beta program made it to the GA …
It just got to my attention that one of my blog sponsors, Turbonomic, is running a pretty cool social media promotion during the 2017 VMworld event in Las Vegas which started yesterday, 27 August. There are three really nice prices: Oculus Rift Google Home Nvidia Shield The only thing you need to do to participate …
As you might have seen over the last couple of days VMware has announced that a few components and or features will be deprecated in the next major release of vSphere. The next release of vSphere will be a terminal release and the information in this blog post does not apply. vCenter Server for Windows …
This years US based VMworld conference is just a few days away and this year it will take place at Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center in Las Vegas August 27-31. As I previously blogged about here I have received a VMware blogger pass and will fly in to Las Vegas on Sunday Nutanix will be …
Yesterday, 2017-08-22, Zerto released a new version of their Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) and there are quite a enhancements and new features available. As I know many of my readers will be at VMworld next week it makes sense to step by the Zerto boot #630 and check out all goodness. Below is a short summary …
A few days ago an updated version of Nutanix AHV best practices guide (BPG) was released meaning the latest version available is 3.1. The BPG still covers the following areas: Networking Virtual Machine High Availability Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler VM Deployment Nutanix Guest Tools VM Data Protection Hypervisor Mobility and Conversion Live Migration CPU Configuration Memory …
Updated: 2018-07-29: Added a link to another online REST client and a JSON formatter to provide you with some additional options. ——————————————————————————- Original Post: Over the years I have worked with JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to create various automation and or orchestration workflows which integrate with system providing a Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface …
Yesterday, 2017-08-16, Nutanix released a new version of its Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Pack meaning the latest release is now version 2.0. A major change in this version is that it uses Nutanix Representational state transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API) and the dependency for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been removed. …
While travelling back home from last weeks Nutanix sales kick off in Las Vegas i tried to do some performance testing in my home lab via the airplane WiFi connection. After a resent request the airline has actually open up for outbound SSH connections so i was able to access my home lab via SSH …
THANK YOU FOR YOUR VOTES, MUCH APPRECIATED Starting with the THANK YOU is a bit backwards but it’s the most important part of this blog post. 31:st of May 2017 the annual top vBlog voting hosted by Eric Siebert at vSphere-land and sponsored by Turbonimic, for the second year in a row, started and yesterday 10 …