The Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) is a customer-managed, VMware Cloud Verified environment consisting of vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, and vCenter Server. Customers have full control of their VMware environments, while leveraging the capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution provides bare metal compute, advanced L2 Network, and storage-rich infrastructure to deliver a full-fidelity VMware service…
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VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.3.1 VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid provides Enterprise organizations with a consistent, upstream compatible, regional Kubernetes substrate across SDDC, Public Cloud, and Edge environments that is ready for end-user workloads and ecosystem integrations. TKG builds on trusted upstream and community projects and delivers an engineered and supported Kubernetes platform for end users…
Read More →How does CloudHealth do this? CloudHealth ingests and aggregates data from cloud providers, containerized or on-premises environments, and third-party integration tools, to become your single source of truth for multi–cloud management. Our platform helps customers tackle their cloud challenges by simplifying financial management, streamlining operations, and improving collaboration across multi-cloud environments. But what does that mean? How does CloudHealth…
Read More →In vRealize Network Insight 6.6, we introduce a new feature that allows you to focus on your Crown Jewels (Mission critical entities such as VMs or Physical IPs within your multi-cloud infrastructure that require threat protection). The Crown Jewels can be added and managed within vRealize Network Insight, as shown in Figure 1 below. Once…
Read More →Kpack, a Kubernetes-native container build platform, is a powerful tool that helps DevSecOps teams build and update containers automatically. It is already a core component of VMware’s commercial container build offering, VMware Tanzu Build Service. VMware Tanzu Community Edition, the freely available, open source distribution of the Kubernetes-based Tanzu platform With the addition of kpack, Tanzu Community Edition…
Read More →The Use Case In our demo lab, we have a live demonstration using a simple, two-tier application. This application is an e-commerce shopping cart deployed from vRealize Automation and monitored by vRealize Operations (and Log Insight and vRealize Network Insight). Here is the application topology as viewed in Service Broker: The web tier can scale…
Read More →New Terraform VMware Cloud Director Provider release – 3.5.0 with support for tenant operations for the NSX-T Advanced Load Balancer (ALB) and many other features. Additional way of connecting to VCD with API Token VCD 10.3.1 adds the capability of generating an API access token for provider and tenant. These tokens cannot be used directly to authenticate against a VCD: users should first exchange the token for…
Read More →I will describe the following for vRealize Log Insight Cloud What is a Log Source ? A log source is component (hardware or software) which generates log data. It could be either a physical (server, storage, or network) device in your private cloud or any software/tool running in private/public cloud. Following table illustrates some of the…
Read More →At AWS re:Invent 2021, the ability to peer VTGWs to AWS TGWs in the same region, also referred to as intra-region peering was announced. VMware and AWS have been working on this solution diligently and we are excited to announce VMware Cloud on AWS support for this new capability in this announcement blog. Equally exciting is that this…
Read More →vRealize Network Insight Cloud is available as a SaaS or on-premises solution for end-to-end network visibility, troubleshooting, and analytics. It works closely with NSX-T 3.2. vRealize Network Insight Cloud also helps optimize multi-cloud network performance with troubleshooting capabilities for applications, virtual machines, physical servers, or Kubernetes. NSX Federation Customers use NSX Federation to scale across…
Read More →VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.3 presents the DR and Migration Plans. This new feature will help Providers and their tenants define the exact steps to perform during failover or migration. There is a new menu called Recovery Plans where both DR and Migration plans can be created. Even though tenants can also access this menu, it is not available…
Read More →We are delighted to announce that OSE 2.1 is now available and offers many new features and enhancements to start immediately benefitting from. The plethora of the OSE 2.1 new capabilities span from global bucket sync policy applied to a single or multi-site tenants, through the app and subordinate user role customization to Kubernetes backup…
Read More →Since its introduction in vSphere 7.0.GA, vSphere Lifecycle Manager (VLCM) User Interface for vSphere Client (HTML-based) was gradually improved through subsequent update releases. Let’s see some of the features that have been added since it was released. Importing image from a host while creating a cluster, you can now choose an ESXi host to extract the…
Read More →When using the vSphere CSI driver in a multi cluster Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI) environment, pods start failing to attach or detach volumes. Cause The vSphere CSI driver uses the cluster-id for the volume create spec. If there are multiple kubernetes clusters in the same vSphere using the same cluster-id, each time one of…
Read More →New learn sites that focus on each of the services in vRealize Automation, all accessible from the Learn vRealize Automation portal: Learn vRealize Automation Learn Cloud Assembly Learn Code Stream Learn Service Broker Learn SaltStack Config Learn Orchestrator These new developer-focussed sites aim to provide in-depth resources as a living technical reference for each service,…
Read More →Cloud Director continues to innovate and help Cloud Providers drive growth and relevance with their customers. 10.3.1 is no exception, with this release providing updates to Core, Networking and Tanzu services. What’s new in Core? In 10.3.1 we have delivered a much more efficient method to backup and restore the Cloud Director appliance. A new…
Read More →Tanzu Community Edition (Tanzu Community Edition) VMware Tanzu Community Edition is a full-featured, easy-to-manage Kubernetes platform for learners and users VMware SASE VMware CASB VMware Cloud Director 10.3 release (Not unique for VMworld, but still fairly new –> Just Released VMware Cloud Director 10.3 – Partner News ) VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Now Supports NVIDIA GPUs in Amazon Web…
Read More →Enabling Site Protection The Site Protection and Disaster Recovery Solution is enabled with a new drop-down option found in the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook. This new drop-down provides you several options: Exclude: If you don’t want this VCF instance to participate in any Site Protection and Disaster Recovery relationship with another instance…
Read More →With NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB), enterprise-class applications with local load balancing, global server load balancing (GSLB), and Web Application Firewall (WAF) for workloads running on Azure VMware Solution. You can deploy the delivery service. As your data center grows or migrates from on-premises to Azure VMware Solution, NSX ALB’s full-featured load balancer enables customers…
Read More →PurposeThe following information provides a sample configuration on how to get an LDAP setup with Usage Meter. Resolution Pre-requisites: A configured LDAP server. Procedure Below is the sample configuration of a user LDAP authentication with Usage Meter. Replace the contents of /ec/nslcd.conf with information from your environment. See the example below: [email protected] [ /etc ]# cat /etc/nslcd.conf…
Read More →To start, we are releasing the first of the five VMCRF pillars, Plan. This pillar provides the necessary guidance to help organizations start preparing for their transformative initiative. which also includes the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Service providers: VMware Cloud on AWS Azure VMware Solution Google Cloud VMware Engine Oracle Cloud VMware Solution The Plan pillar…
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