Month: November 2023

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VMware expands private AI with IBM, Intel…

.@VMware continues to innovate in the #AI space by teaming up with @IBM and @Intel for groundbreaking generative AI. What will each partnership offer? Find out here: VMware expands private AI with IBM, Intel… VMware has announced three expanded partnerships for its private AI service, with IBM Consulting and Intel all set for long-term collaboration…
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22nd November 2023 0

VMware Explore 2023 – Major Announcements -…

VMware Explore 2023 – Major Announcements -… Read here all about the major VMware Explore announcements from 2023 in Barcelona. Focus was on VMware Cloud Foundation, data and artificial intelligence. VMware Social Media Advocacy


22nd November 2023 0

VMware K8s Networking – Technical Deep Dive to…

VMware K8s Networking – Technical Deep Dive to… Often, Kubernetes and cloud native applications are a strange world to traditional network and security teams. However, any legacy or modern app needs […] VMware Social Media Advocacy


22nd November 2023 0

Deploy VMware Cloud Foundation Cloud Builder…

Deploy VMware Cloud Foundation Cloud Builder… As part of my series on deploying and managing VMware Cloud Foundation using Terraform, this post will focus on deploying the VMware Cloud Foundation Cloud Builder appliance using the vSphere Terraform provider. I’ve used this provider in the past to deploy the NSX Manager appliance. Check out […] VMware…
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21st November 2023 0

Terraform Module for Deploying VMware Cloud…

Terraform Module for Deploying VMware Cloud… I have been working a lot with Terraform lately and in particular the Terraform Provider For VMware Cloud Foundation. As I covered previously, the provider is something that is in development but is available to be tested and used in your VMware Cloud Foundation instances. I spent this week…
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21st November 2023 0

VMware Cloud Foundation Terraform Provider:…

VMware Cloud Foundation Terraform Provider:… Following on from my VMware Cloud Foundation Terraform Provider introduction post here I wanted to start by using it to create a new VCF instance (or perform a VCF bring-up). As of writing this post I am using version 0.5.0 of the provider. First off we need to define some…
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21st November 2023 0

Sizing VMs with VMware Aria Automation

Sizing VMs with VMware Aria Automation When I first started building VMs with Aria Automation I would configure vCPU and Memory via Properties on the VM object itself, something like this. This prompts the user for input, giving them a default, minimum, and maximum available values for vCPU and Memory (among others). There are many…
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21st November 2023 0

VMware Aria Operations Dynamic Thresholding

VMware Aria Operations Dynamic Thresholding At its core, VMware Aria Operations is a powerful data analytics engine: consuming data from vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and other non-VMware sources, analyzing that data, and providing feedback to the consumer. Part of analyzing that data is to determine what’s normal and what’s not, using things like […] VMware Social…
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21st November 2023 0

On-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore…

On-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore… Hard to believe VMware Explore Barcelona just concluded a couple of days ago! Hats off to the VMware Explore production team who have already published a large majority of the breakout session recordings including the presentation PDF! On Friday, I had shared an update and out of […] VMware…
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20th November 2023 0

Flexible Topologies with vSAN Max

Flexible Topologies with vSAN Max vSAN Max offers many of the topology options available in a vSAN HCI cluster. Learn more about the benefits and design considerations of using vSAN Max with these alternative topologies here! VMware Social Media Advocacy


20th November 2023 0