Today, VMware unveiled what it's calling the "Modern Network Framework for Data Center and Cloud Networking". As the name states, it's not a new networking product but is all about building a framework on top of the various networking products in the Virtual Cloud Network portfolio, that includes NSX and VMware SD-WAN etc, and defining [...]
In my last post, I talked about What's new in vSphere 7 Update 1 when it comes to vSphere. This one covers the important bits (in my view) when it comes to vSAN. Due to the importance of vSAN for most vSphere environments, it's good to see such a number of new features coming through. [...]
Today, VMware is releasing vSphere 7 Update 1 and along with fixes and enhancements, there are some notable additions related to Tanzu. For that reason, VMware's tagline for this update is "Developer-Ready Infrastructure". In this post, I will cover the important bits that you should be paying closer attention to. vSphere with Tanzu When vSphere [...]
I see disaster recovery as one of the best use cases for VMware Cloud on AWS and there is a good reason for it. Typically, the main requirement is to have a degree of geographic separation between the production and DR sites. That means a different datacenter and which automatically means that a lot of [...]
If you live and breathe VMware products, as part of work or just because you love them so much, you must have heard that the second round of vExpert applications for 2020 is now open. You have until 20th June 2020 to submit your application and all being well, the announcement for the successful applicants [...]
Recently, I attended Cloud Field Day 7 and to my delight, VMware presented some really great technical sessions on VMware Cloud on AWS, which is one of my favourite subjects and an area I focus on heavily at work. The session I am talking about in this post covered some of the enhancements that are [...]
The way things were going, it didn't seem likely that I'd be attending Cloud Field Day 7 but that's the way things are in the Tech Field Day family and all of a sudden, I am also a part of this instalment now. As you would expect these days, the event will be held [...]
vSphere 7.0 has brought a fundamental change - not only in how the platform is built but also how the resources that are run on top are managed, in the form of native integration of Kubernetes. Being an integral part of the platform, the underlying networking also had to be adapted accordingly and NSX 3.0 [...]
It was time for vRetreat 2020 and Patrick invited me to attend as always. How could I say no! We were all set to go but then things changed and this version of vRetreat was turned into a virtual event. However, you can always count on the vCommunity to make any event a success, even [...]
A week or two ago, a team of the great people at VMware got together to create a VMware appliance, in order to help out with the Folding@Home project. The project has been around for many years but Amanda Blevins was instrumental in galvanizing the VMware community to donate their spare CPU/GPU cycles to the [...]