TechTarget: Users give thumbs-up to lower-end versions of VMware’s NSX
After almost three years of tepid acceptance from users, two new lower-end versions of VMware’s NSX network offering have stirred interest among some users.
Virtualization Review: 5 Great Opportunities at VMworld 2016
Training, Q&A and book signings are some of the things you can do at virtualization’s biggest show this year.
CormacHogan.com: Kubernetes on Photon Controller
Another container framework that VMware customers can evaluate on Photon Controller is Kubernetes, developed by Google and now open-sourced. Kubernetes is another popular framework that allows customers to automate, manage and scale containers. Just like my previous article on Mesos and Docker Swarm, the Photon Controller and Kubernetes deployment steps are very similar.
vExpert 2016 Second Half Applications are Now Open
Applications for the 2016 vExpert program are now open. This is the second and last chance to apply for vExpert in 2016. Applications will be accepted until July 1st at midnight PDT. The vExpert 2016 second half announcement will be on August 19th 2015. Current 2016 vExperts do not need to apply.
New #vRealize Log Insight Videos in the Learning Zone
VMware Learning Zone subscribers get one year of unlimited access to our cloud-based video training library taught by top VMware experts, including all our new releases. This month, Steve Flanders continued his series on VMware vRealize Log Insight with several new videos:
#vRA and NSX – Using Baseline Security Groups
vRA and NSX came together back when vRA (a.k.a. vCAC) 6.0 was released, just as VMware was transitioning from vCNS to NSX. In vRA 6.x, inventory-collected security groups must be selected (checked) per Reservation prior to being available for consumption by a multi-machine blueprint (and only MMBP’s support NSX in vRA 6.x). As I’ve highlighted several times before, the latest release of vRealize Automation (7.x) delivers deeper integrations with NSX and unified service authoring capabilities to make delivering application-centric networks the new norm. See this post for how vRA and NSX are better together…I won’t repeat those details here.
#vSphere Thick Client End of Life – A Look at the HTML 5 Client Fling #h5client
On May 18th VMware announced the end of the road for the C# vSphere Thick Client. The next version of vSphere-the thick client-will not be available. VMware has been building up to this moment and previously announced they wanted to move to a web based client to have maximum comparability and mobility. The current versions of the vSphere thick client will remain supported (5.5, 6.0) until their end of life cycle. So what does the future look like for the vSphere Client? VMware will keep the existing Flash web client and introduce the HTML5 based vSphere Client. The Flash web client will remain so third party developers can migrate their plugins over to the long term HTML5 client.
Deploy and configure #VMware NSX in 23 minutes – VMGuru
VMware NSX is completely software based. This means it’s flexible as heck and you can have a lot of instances running concurrently. It also means you can go crazy with your network topology designs and amount of tinkering you can do with your virtual network. I am someone who loves to tinker. Sometimes a bit too much. A consequence of this, is that I sometimes break my virtual test lab and have to re-install it and return to the starting point. This has happened a few times.
A Guide to Fumbling Through #PowerCLI
PowerCLI can come in quite handy in a vSphere environment, especially when you’re managing a large number of hosts. Sure, you can find sample scripts on the Internet to run, but it is also a good idea to at least get a fundamental understanding of how PowerCLI works. After all, you wouldn’t want to let a script loose in your environment if you didn’t have any idea what it did.
[Technical webcast] Understanding the Benefits of Containerized Desktops
Join us for this technical webcast and learn about the security and productivity benefits of Horizon FLEX. This policy-based, containerized solution helps you deliver a corporate desktop to laptops you might not own—and extend legacy desktops to modern hardware.
