Pat Gelsinger walks on stage and welcomes Michael Dell to the stage. Pat and Michael are doing a prepared Q&A. First question is regarding lackluster support, such as quality of people and hold times. Pat says he is disappointed in hearing such feedback, as he thinks they have good NPS...
Session: SER2342BU Mike Adams vSphere 6.5 Updates: Simplified experience - One appliance, modern APIs, simplified architecture Built-in security- Secure data, secure infrastructure, secure access, better logging, trusted boot chain Universal app platform - Any application, anywhere, VMware core technology Proactive data center mgt - Predictive DRS, proactive HA, integration of...
Session: FUT3040BU, Richard Brunner Speed analysis is dependent on storage and database access latency. A key component is local storage latency - nothing can compete with DRAM What if you can move storage closer to the processing? You can with byte-addressable persistent memory (PMEM) Future vSphere will bring PMEM support...
Session: STO1980BU, Ben Meadocroft, Matt Amdur Any Cloud, Any Application, Any Device VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC running on AWS bare-metal Sold, operated and supported by VMware Support for containers and VMs Global AWS footprint and availability Physical host config: Based on i3p.16xlarge 2 sockets 512GB RAM 8x 1.788 NVMe...
Session: SAI3237SU, Tom Corn, Sr. VP Security Products Network exploitation is easier today due to the distributed nature of applications and components. Hack one layer, and you can move across boundaries via application firewall holes. We need to shrink the attack surface area. Least privilege. Align controls to applications. Microsegmentation...
Note: This week I'll be live blogging from VMworld 2017. As always, this will be live, and so please excuse my typos and grammar issues. Pat Gelsigner walks on stage. This is Pat's 6th VMworld and he became CEO 5 years ago. Pat mentions the disaster in Houston and sends...
About a month ago, VMware released news of an updated version of Horizon, version 7.1. As it turns out, the day it was announced I was at a customer site doing a Horizon install and they were all excited about the 7.1 features. They were most interested in Blast Extreme...
Hot off the press, are three updates for VMware products. First, Workstation Pro 12.5.4 was released, which addresses a critical security issue. According to VMware "This vulnerability might allow a guest to execute code on the operating system that runs VMware Workstation 12 Pro." You can read the full release...
Session: INF8108 Teaser: 5.5 to 6.0 is 300% faster for vCenter operations From 6.0 to 6.5(?) is another 100% higher. HTML5 vs. Flex client: Shows a chart with dramatically faster HtML5 performance over Flash client. VCSA vs. windows - When you have a datacenter with heavy load the VCSA far...
Session: INF8375 What happened since VMworld 2015? End of availability of C# client in next major release HTML5 web client fling 6.0 U2 - Q1 2016 Pricing and packaging changes - No more vSphere "enterprise" edition, or vSOM standard and enterprise. End of sale of vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 (August...