About one month ago I wrote about the VMware vCloud Director 9.5 announcement here and today, 2018-10-04, it was officially released. Two things I didn’t mentioned in the release announcement, since I didn’t have any information, were: vCloud Director deployment models. I did mention that it will be changes but not what changes. There are …
Tag Archive: VMworld 2017
vCloud Director 9.5 Announced
Almost one year ago I wrote about the vCloud Director (vCD) 9.0 announcement here and a few days ago vCloud Director 9.5 was announced. This means VMware announces 9.5 during the VMworld (a few days earlier but anyway) timeframe this year as well. There are some interesting changes and new features coming along with this release. Haven’t …
vCloud Director 9.0.0.2 Released
Yesterday, 2018-01-16, VMware released a minor update to vCloud Director (vCD) meaning latest and greatest version is now 9.0.0.2. This release focuses on resolving issues and not on new features which is usually the way with these minor minor updates. A few resolved issues I have seen or heard about are: Change SID for …
vCloud Director 9.0 Released
Yesterday, 2017-09-28, exactly one month after the announcement which I wrote about here VMware released VMware vCloud (vCD) director 9.0. Below are some of the new features ans functionality included in the new release: New HTML5 based UI which can be accessed via: https://{vCD _URP_IP}/Tenant/{organization_name} However, the old Flex based UI is still available. New …
VMworld 2017 Breakout Session – Troubleshooting vSphere 6 Made Easy
Session “Troubleshooting vSphere 6 Made Easy: Expert Talk – INF9205R” was presented by Ragavendra Kumar who works as a Technical Support Supervisor at VMware and Abhilash Kunhappan who is a Staff Technical Support Engineer at VMware. The following areas were covered: vCenter Server ESXi Server Network Storage The session included both methodology & actually tips and …
VMworld 2017 Las Vegas – Day 2 General Session Summary
Today I managed to get a blogger/press table at the general session on time, skipping breakfast was the key, and not like yesterday when I got my place 5 min after the general session started:) Pat Gelsinger started with inviting Michael Dell on to the stage and they answered pre-prepared questions from the audience. You …
VMworld 2017 Breakout Session – Extreme Performance Series: vSphere Compute & Memory Schedulers
One of the longest blog post headings I have seen:) After 30 min lunch break which meant I didn’t get lunch i attended the breakout session “Extreme Performance Series – vSphere Compute & Memory Schedulers SER2344” presented by Xunjia Lu who is a Staff Engineer. !! Resources coasts money so we have to schedule them …
VMworld 2017 Breakout Session – Distributed Networking and Security Services NET1932
After the initial General Session between 09:00-10:30 I went on with a breakout session “Distributed Networking and Security Services – NET1932” presented by Anirban Sengupta who is a Sr Direcrot NSX and Jayjant Jain who is a NSX Architect. The session started with a lesson in traditional datacenter and application setup meaning the protecting of …
vRealize Automation and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
A very short blog post to let you know that I have created a blog post around VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud on the Nutanix Next community. It is called: vRealize Automation and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud The following is the blog post introduction The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform is a hardware-agnostic …
VMware PKS Announced
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, …
vCloud Director 9.0 Announced
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 …
NSX-T Version 2.0 Announced
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: …
VMworld 2017 Las Vegas – Day 1 General Session Summary
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 Integrated OpenStack 4.0 Announced
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 …
Turbonomic Promotion During VMworld 2017 Las Vegas
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 …
Win A VMworld 2017 Ticket Via Infinio
In case you have missed that Infinio, a long time VCDX56 blog sponsor, is giving you a chance to win a full conference pass to VMworld 27-31 August 2017 in Las Vegas. In addition to the conference pass you also get a chance to win: A 1:1 meeting with the Infinio executive team A place at …