Session: BRK2485 What is SDS? Cloud-inspired infrastructure and design - Commodity HW, cost efficiencies Evolving technologies - Flash, network performance, VMs and containers Data explosion - Device proliferation, modern apps Scale out with simplicity - Integrated solutions, rapid time to solution, policy-based management Storage Customer choice: Private cloud with traditional...
Session: FND2204 Superior performance and reliability – fault tolerance and self-healing baked in Robust, Proven architecture Flexible, future-ready foundation Deeply integrated with other products Office 365 introduces the new features, baked, refined, then packaged into Exchange 2016. Final release will be fall/winter 2015 Exchange 2016 focus areas: Better collaboration, smarter...
Session ID: BRK2466 2016: The power of Azure with the control of the datacenter Microsoft Azure stack: Taking advantage of Azure services on premises Deploy enterprise-grade virtualization and IaaS platform Fritionless "cloud cadence" infrastructure upgrades What are frictionless upgrades? Rolling upgrades, mixed-mode clusters Benchmark-setting scale, performance and resilience Best-in-class for...
Session: FND2201 Skype for business is the next generation Lync UI redesigned to mimic that of Skype. Lync client is dead. Shows a demo of new UI that is very Skype-like but has Lync control features Shows off the Polycom Roundtable 100, a small room enabling video system Skype for...
So here we are, at Microsoft Ignite 2015 in Chicago. This is the first ever Ignite conference, a combination of TechEd and other conferences into one HUGE venue. Whenever I attend conferences I live blog, and this will be no exception. Today we are graced by Satya Nadella, the Microsoft...
Session: BRK1301 Microsoft Edge: Enables new experiences on the web Powered by a new rendering engine Works with Internet Explorer 11 to provide interoperability and compatibility State of the web: IE is 20 years old IE has a lot of proprietary features IE9 10 11 include a lot of modern...
If you are a VCSA (vCenter server appliance) convert, and wish to use the vCenter server appliance, this post is for you! It assumes you already have an external VCSA PSC setup, per Part 10. So this post will walk you through a similar deployment process, but this time install vCenter instead...
In case you missed it, VMware has released a number of product updates to address critical vulnerability in JRE. JRE is used in many products, so a wide range of products are affected. You can read the full bulletin here. The bulletin details which product version you need to be...
Hot off the presses is a critical patch for ESXi 5.5, dated March 7, 2015. This addresses two VSAN patches: Upgrading from VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201502001 (Build 2456374) or VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201501001 (Build 2403361) to vSphere 6.0 might result in VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Data...
Now that we are pretty far into this series, we can finally install our Windows vCenter. This will leverage our external PSC, for maximum scalability. Depending on your environment size, you may need to scale up the VM's hardware specs for optimal performance. Consult VMware documentation for sizing guidance. In this exercise...
One of the lesser known SSL certificates in the vSphere 6.0 product is called the VMware Directory Service certificate. This is used by the built-in LDAP server for authentication and encryption. It's most an internal use only certificate, and one that some customers may not worry about replacing. In fact, per...
As mentioned in my vSphere 6.0 installation series, you can configure the new VMCA to be a subordinate to your enterprise CA. This is great, and opens up new certificate management options for organizations that wish to use trusted SSL certificates. However, you may run into a situation where this...