It&#rsquo;s time for a quick update on the VMware Virtual SAN routed network deployments with Brocade white paper! I published earlier this year. By request, the section on Multicast considerations has been expanded and clarified about protocol choices. The configuration example now includes commands to implement all Multicast functionality in the spine-leaf routed network. Also,

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With the release of vSphere 6.5, I have noticed a renewed interest in the adoption of Virtual Volumes. One of the top topics of discussion with customers has been the VASA Provider and the way in which storage vendors are providing it as part of their Virtual Volumes implementation. Well, I think it&#rsquo;s time for

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One of the key improvements to the VMware PowerCLI 6.5 R1 release is the absence of PowerShell snapins. All of the remaining snapins have been converted to modules! Snapin History If you don&#rsquo;t know why this is such a big deal, let me take a second to cover some history on snapins. Going back to […]

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Using macOS 10.12 Sierra and VMware Fusion 8.5? It’s time to update! And with the biggest sale of the year going on right now, there’s never been a better time to getup to date if you’re on Fusion 7 or older. Today we’ve released an update to our favourite Mac virtualization product to address some […]

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Strike down new attacks before they happen. Get a free copy of the new eBook from VMware to discover what&#rsquo;s next in mobile security. The state of cybersecurity is scary. Businesses have watched security breaches expose more than 851 million records in the last decade, and nearly 6.2 million records have been compromised since 2016 […]

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It should come as no surprise that earlier this week at the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit in the United Kingdom, a prime topic of conversation was data center modernization. As demands for innovation grows, and digital business evolves, making the public cloud a part of your IT infrastructure has become a […]

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VMware vSphere 6.5 introduces a new graphical interface for Auto Deploy and Image Builder. It can be enabled via the Web Client or CLI.

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Starting Jan. 1, 2017 Solution Reward eligible SKUs will reflect changes to align with Cloud Management Platform use cases. The new Solution Competency requirement to receive Solution Rewards for each of these products is as follows: Management Operations Solution Competency will be required for vRealize Suite Standard and vCloud Suite Standard edition Solution Rewards. Management […]

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With the massive shift to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), we cannot deny that the traditional SAN and NAS markets are declining very quickly. According to Wikibon, traditional storage markets are declining close to 20% annually and they predict that traditional storage will go from being the dominant player today to a niche solution in less than

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The release of vSphere 6.5 introducesenhancements to several of VMware&#rsquo;s storage management capabilities, including enhancements to Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM), Storage IO Control (SIOC), virtual disk management, and of course the highly anticipated 2.0 version ofvSphereVirtual Volumes. This week we continue our coverage of vSphere 6.5 and bring in VMware Product Manager Ben Meadowcroft to

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vRealize Network Insight Case Study   California Department of Water’s IT Infrastructure and Operations has leveraged several industry standard technologies and tooling to maintain and operate their data center. Many of these tools were built for individual silos of compute, network and security. First of all, during the design phase of their new Cloud 3.0

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