Category: VMware

VMworld 2015: 5 Functions of SW Defined Availability

Session: INF4535 Duncan Epping, Frank Denneman Introduction to SDA (Software defined availability): VM, server, storage, data center, networking, management. Business only cares about the application, not the underlying infrastructure. vSphere HA Configured through vCenter but not dependent on it Each host has an agent (FDM) will be installed for monitoring...

VMworld 2015: Horizon Air at Low Cost

Session: EUC6082 Quick DaaS Overview Desktop as a service from VMware Tiered role separation, user experience, enterprise integration, choice of device, security Offerings: Public cloud: VMware Horizon Air, Horizon DaaS powered service provider; Private cloud Cloud makes complex easy Typical Deployment Model MPLS link from on-prem to VMware cloud services...

VMworld 2015: Day 2 keynote

Sanjay Poonen (VMware, EUC) We live in a fantastic world transformed by smart phones VMware is laser focused on EUC. Any application any device. Consumer grade interfaces with enterprise security According to IDC VMware leapfrogged Citrix for EUC AirWatch is a market share leader Jim Alkove from Microsoft comes on...

VMworld 2015: vCSA Best Practices

INF4528, William Lam, VMware VCSA is on parity with Windows server in terms of scale and performance VUM still requires a Windows server (future version will not) FULL VUM capabilities in vSphere web client in 6.0 U1 Deployment types: Embedded (PSC and VC), or PSC as external Multiple vCenters can...

VMworld 2015: Hot topics in VMware R&D

Moore's Law: Old faithful + rising tide In the future Moore's law will be less predictable Moore's law may end around 2020 or 2022 Silicon lattice will be a limiting factor in how small transistors can go Past 40 years the industry has marched towards homogeneous (x86, ARM, CMOS, etc.)...

VMworld 2015: Monday Keynote

VMware President Carl Eschenbach Record attendance at VMworld. More than 23,000 20 people have been to all 20 VMworlds (21 including Carl) Theme: Ready for Any Challenges: Innovation, productivity, security, cost, agility Run - Run a true hybrid cloud platform Built - Build and embrace containers Deliver - Any app...

VMworld 2015: vCenter Appliance as First Choice

Session: INF5975 Transforming software delivery with software appliances Accelerat e time to value Simplify software management Performance Security Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) vCSA Security hardened Suse OS (SLES 11 SP3) vCenter server and vPostgreSQL DB in a single VM Appliance shell and UI support for appliance configuration vCenter...

vSphere 6 Hardening Guide GA

During much of my career, I've been in the Government space and had to implement DISA STIGs for a variety of products including hypervisors. If you are a VMware customer and plan on using vSphere 6.0, you will be pleased to know that the vSphere 6.0 hardening guide is now GA....

vSphere Install Pt. 16: User Solution Certificates

Now that we have vCenter installed, it's time to update our User Solution certificates for the vCenter services. This is a fairly straight forward process, using the combination of the VMware Certificate Manager tool and my vCenter 6.0 Toolkit. The VMware Certificate manager tool will automatically create the private keys...

vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 15: VCSA vCenter Install

vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 15: VCSA vCenter Install

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...

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