Service Mesh Workshop hosted by VMware Date: Monday, March 30, 2020 Time: 9:00 – 15:00 Location: RAI Amsterdam In the adoption of service mesh technologies, DevOps and SREs have found challenges in managing microservices deployed on multicloud while meeting enterprise and security requirements. Learn about service mesh technology and multi-cluster management approaches in this…
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vSphere and vSAN 6.7 introduce an all new level of visibility, and interoperability between the hypervisor, vSAN, and vRealize Operations 7.5 and above. This interoperability offers the best of both worlds: Simple, need-to-know information presented in a single unified pane of visibility, with an easy way to drill into the full infrastructure analytics application for…
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Hi all, it’s been a while since I last posted. You know how it is, time flies when you’re having fun, which we always are of course working at VMware. I wanted to quickly highlight that vSphere 6.0 goes end of general support on the 12th of March 2020. That might seem some ways away…
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Yes that’s right, you read that correctly, in 2019 you will be able to run VMConAWS and/or AWS native in your on premise private cloud! AWS CEO Andy Jassy (left) and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (right) announced this week at Amazon’s re:Invent 2018 conference in Las Vegas, that the partnership between AWS and VMware will…
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To encrypt or not to encrypt, what is the difference?? The integrity, or rather the protection of data at rest and in motion are hot topics, both in and outside the datacentre. This article focuses more on the two VMware options of data at rest encryption – VM encryption and vSAN encryption. It’s easy…
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In this blog I go through my ideas on the lab architecture and design Part #1 to this blog series focused on the hardware choices I went through and the reasons I discarded some perfectly good options for others. This, as with so many things comes down to the bottom line – costs. This, the…
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In an update from my previous post, I wanted to tell you about some of the exciting updates in Skyline v1.4 announced at VMworld Vegas 2018. Skyline is no stranger to VMworld, and this year did not disappoint, with a raft of updates, hands on labs and expert sessions, including a few tables dedicated to…
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If you’re not familiar with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), you can trust me that it is a tried, tested and much loved service available within AWS, helping DBAs by simplifying the use of MariaDB, SQL, MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL. Being an AWS offering, RDS comes with all of the features that you would expect…
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VMware have announced big changes to the way it names and versions its certifications. Starting from now, August 2018, certifications will align to the year in which they are passed, with a new annual release and update schedule for all VCP, VCAP, and VCDX certifications! For example: Instead of: VMware Certified Professional – Desktop and…
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2018 hasn’t been too good for Intel in terms of Security. Sadly a new vulnerability has been found in Intel Core and Xeon Processors. Impacted processors include: Intel Core™ i3/i5/i7/M processor (45nm and 32nm) 2nd/3rd/4th/5th/6th/7th/8th generation Intel Core processors Intel Core X-series Processor Family for Intel X99 and X299 platforms Intel Xeon processor 3400/3600/5500/5600/6500/7500 series…
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