Announcement of Azure VMware Solution support for VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer #VMwareNSX #azure
By: Date: 10/10/2021 Categories: VMware Tags:

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…

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How to configure vCloud Usage Meter 4.4 LDAP Authentication #VMware
By: Date: 10/10/2021 Categories: VMware Tags:

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: root@photon-machine [ /etc ]# cat /etc/nslcd.conf…

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Connect any Kubernetes cluster to Amazon EKS
By: Date: 19/09/2021 Categories: AWS Tags:

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now allows you to connect any Kubernetes cluster to AWS and visualize it in Amazon EKS via the AWS Management Console. You can connect any Kubernetes cluster, including Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters running on-premises, self-managed clusters on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and other Kubernetes clusters running outside…

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Shielded instances now available in OCI
By: Date: 19/09/2021 Categories: OracleCloud Tags:

Shielded instances harden the firmware security on bare metal hosts and virtual machines (VMs) to defend against malicious boot level software. How Shielded Instances Work Shielded instances use the combination of Secure Boot, Measured Boot, and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to harden the firmware security on your instances. Secure Boot and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) are available on…

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The Cloud SQL out-of-disk recommender is now generally available.
By: Date: 12/09/2021 Categories: googlecloud Tags:

MySQL   |  PostgreSQL   |  SQL Server The Cloud SQL out-of-disk recommender proactively generates recommendations that help you reduce the risk of downtime that might be caused by your instances running out of disk space. You can apply these recommendations when a Cloud SQL instance is trending toward a storage limit. How it works The Cloud…

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New VMware Cloud Ready Framework (VMCRF)
By: Date: 12/09/2021 Categories: VMware Tags:

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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Getting started with Amazon EKS Anywhere
By: Date: 11/09/2021 Categories: AWS Tags:

Many customers operate their own data centers for data residency, latency, regulatory, or compliance considerations. With EKS Anywhere, you get Amazon optimized defaults for cluster configuration, machine operating systems, and 3rd-party integrations. These optimizations let you focus on your business innovations rather than complex component compatibility or disparate deployments between your on-premises and cloud environments….

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Upgrading applications using Helm
By: Date: 05/09/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Custom Themes I will explain how to perform upgrades using Helm operators Run the following command: helm install wp bitnami/wordpress You will force an update of the image of the MariaDB container. Let’s first check the version of the current image: kubectl describe statefulset wp-mariadb | grep Image Getting the current image of the StatefulSet…

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Migrating from HashiCorp Packer to EC2 Image Builder
By: Date: 05/09/2021 Categories: AWS Tags:

Customers often ask how to migrate their Windows and Linux operating system golden image build factory configured in Hashicorp Packer over to Amazon EC2 Image Builder so they can be free from the operational management of their build infrastructure, reduce developer dependency, create re-usable components, and easily integrate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) native services for end-to-end automation and…

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Run multiple instances of SQL Server on one Amazon EC2 instance
By: Date: 05/09/2021 Categories: AWS Tags:

How to install multiple instances of SQL Server (of the same or different version) on a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. The information in this post applies to all supported SQL Server versions and editions on EC2. Solution overview When you install SQL Server for the first time, the installation is the default MSSQLServer instance. You…

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Using AWS Lambda to enable static IP addresses for Application Load Balancers
By: Date: 23/08/2021 Categories: AWS Tags:

Update: On July 15, 2021, AWS Lambda will deprecate Python 2.7 as a supported runtime, formally ending our Python 2.7 support. The Lambda function and CloudFormation in this blog post have been updated to use Python3. You can use AWS Global Accelerator to get static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in…

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Azure Key vault can’t access
By: Date: 17/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Problem Statement: As a tenant administrator you can’t inspect KeyVault contents created by other people (“you are unauthorized to view these contents”). Solution: You can assign appropriate permission in access policies. Go to Azure portal>Key vaults>Settings>Access Policies Click “Add Access plocies” Key permissions: Select all under “Key Management Operations” and “Cryptographic Operations” Select yourself as…

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Azure App Service on Linux
By: Date: 16/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags: ,

App Service on Linux to host web apps natively on Linux for supported application stacks. To view the latest languages and supported versions Run az webapp list-runtimes –linux Currently supported featuresLimitationsTroubleshoot performance issuesContinuous deployment to Azure App Service Currently supported features Deployments FTP Local Git GitHub Bitbucket Languages and frameworks Node.js Java PHP Python .NET…

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Kubernetes Nodepools Explained
By: Date: 13/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Introduction This article will explain and show the use cases for using Nodepools in Kubernetes: Describe nodepools. System and user nodepools: what are they? How can I use Labels and nodeSelector to schedule application pods on a particular nodepool? How can Taints and Tolerations be used to schedule only certain application pods on a nodepool?…

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Getting started with task networking on Amazon ECS with Windows containers
By: Date: 12/08/2021 Categories: AWS Tags:

In this post, we will walk through the steps for using awsvpc network mode for Windows containers running in Amazon ECS. Background: Previously, Windows tasks on Amazon ECS supported only default network mode, which relied on Docker’s default networking to set up the network stack for the containers. In the default network mode, all the containers are…

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How to set Azure blob for Immutable storage
By: Date: 01/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags: ,

Immutable storage for Azure blob that enables users to store business-critical data in a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) state. Immutable storage supports two types of policies:Time-based retention Legal holdSelect from Azure PortalTime-based retention Immutable storage supports two types of policies: Time-based retention Time-based retention allows users to add policies and store data for a…

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Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.21
By: Date: 18/07/2021 Categories: AWS Tags:

Kubernetes runtime changes and EKS In version 1.20, Kubernetes deprecated Dockershim, which allows Kubernetes to use Docker as a container runtime. Docker is still fully functional, but users will need to migrate to a different container runtime before support is removed in a future Kubernetes release. We’ve been hard at work making sure there is a…

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Power your genomic data analysis on Azure with Azure CycleCloud
By: Date: 10/07/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Researchers around the world have access to a greater variety and volume of genomics data than ever before. Genomics is now available to a vast majority of researchers, pushing forward the discovery at a tremendous pace and changing people’s lives. This growth is happening because of the perfect storm between genomic testing and technological improvements….

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Limited Preview: New Azure VMs for confidential workloads
By: Date: 02/07/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Today, we’re announcing the limited preview go-live of the DCsv3-series and DCdsv3-series Azure Virtual Machines, starting in the East US 2 region.  These VMs dramatically improve the state-of-the-art for confidential workloads. Based on Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Processor, we’ve increased encrypted memory by 1000x and increased CPU cores (up to 48 cores) for more performance….

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AWS App Mesh ingress and route enhancements
By: Date: 18/06/2021 Categories: AWS Tags:

App Mesh is a fully managed service mesh and provides a logical boundary for network traffic between the services that reside within it. App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and ensuring high availability for your applications. App Mesh, along with enabling a rich set of capabilities to manage east-west, inter-service…

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Deploying Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux Servers.
By: Date: 13/06/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Hi IT Pro,   The following is step-by-step document for Defender for Endpoint Linux (MD ATP for Linux) deployment.  Let’s start your MD for Endpoint Linux deployment!  ________________________________ Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Linux (MD ATP)support for Linux with kernel version 3.10.0-327 or later, including the following Linux flavours :  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or higher  CentOS 7.2 or higher  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS…

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