While responding to a security advisory may not be a daily occurrence in a VMware vSphere environment, the occasion still arises when a prompt response is needed. This will depend on a number of different things, like how critical the threat is, and what processes your organization may already have in place. If you do …
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At VMworld 2017, VMware announced the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. If that wasn’t enough, a new VMware Cloud on AWS feature was announced at the AWS re:Invent 2017 conference in Las Vegas. The reason why VMware Site Recovery Manager (also known as SRM) changes the VMware Cloud on AWS game is quite simple. …
Learning a new technology can seem daunting at first. This year marks 10 years of me working with VMware technologies, which blows my mind. When I was first learning VMware, I was just like anyone else starting out, and I really had no idea what I was doing. I was sitting in front of a …
Upgrading your vSphere environment can be done with the click of a button, thanks to VMware vSphere Update Manager. However, just because you can doesn’t mean you should! Rebecca Fitzhugh and I presented a session entitled Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 the VCDX Way at VMworld 2017. While performing the upgrade itself is easy, it is …
In VMware vSphere, there are an infinite number of ways to accomplish almost anything. Many architects and administrators tend to do things “their” way, from location they install ESXi to, to the way they access a virtual machine in vCenter. When it comes to making VMware vSphere networking design choices, the same holds true. VMware …
At the Tuesday VMworld keynote, VMware announced the launch of Pivotal Contaier Service, also known as PKS. Let’s take a closer look at what this offering is. The Players PKS is a partnership between VMware, Piovotal, and Google Cloud. They seek to provide customers with a Kubernetes-based container environment with a familiar VMware-based experience. The …