Category: Advocacy

What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.5 – Technical…
What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.5 – Technical Whitepaper What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.5 – Technical… This paper will discuss the new and enhanced features in vSphere 6.5 across various areas of technology. VMware Social Media Advocacy

What’s new in VMware vSphere 6.5
Below is the link to a VMware blog on the new look and features in vSphere 6.5 http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/10/whats-new-in-vsphere-6-5-vcenter-server.html High-Level bullet points of new or improved features: New deployment interface. Migration Tool built-in. Can go from 5.5/6.0 and from Windows to Appliance. Can use the installer for Installs, Upgrades, Migrations and Restores. Can deploy installer from ...

Amazon Web Services & VMware Cloud
This video was posted on YouTube by AWS and is a good intro to what this is all about at a high-level. It looks like AWS will get a credible hybrid cloud play out of this and VMware gets to utilise the geographic scale and flexibility of AWS. I really like how you can ...

VMware Validated Design Documentation for Software-Defined Data Center v3.0 is available
Version 3 of the VMware Validated Design Documentation is out. If you are into VMware technologies, software defined data center architecture or happen to be studying for an exam this documentation is a great read. Here is the link to the VMware v3.0 documentation My favourite in the v2.0 series was the Reference Architecture Guide. Always ...

vSphere 6.0 Update 2m – KB article
Interesting KB article to read if your considering utilising the VMware migration tool to vSphere 6.0 Update 2m. Here is the link.

Goodbye vSphere Client for Windows (C#) – Hello…
Goodbye vSphere Client for Windows (C#) – Hello HTML5 Goodbye vSphere Client for Windows (C#) – Hello… Today we have two important announcements. First, the C# client (AKA Desktop Client/thick client/vSphere Client for Windows) will not be available for the next version of vSphere. Current versions of vSphere (6.0, 5.5) will not be affected, as ...

What You Need to Know About Dogspectus
What You Need to Know About Dogspectus What You Need to Know About Dogspectus Find out everything you need to know about the ransomware “Dogspectus” and how it impacts your mobile enterprise security strategy. VMware Social Media Advocacy

NSX – Availability and Redundancy
#VMware NSX – Availability and Redundancy (via virtualizationgains.com) NSX – Availability and Redundancy vSphere administrators normally have two great fears, failure of Storage and failure in the network layer, as both of these can result in 100s or 1000s of virtual machines simultaneously going off line. VMware Social Media Advocacy

Prediction: By end of 2016, VMware Horizon will…
Prediction: By end of 2016, #VMware Horizon will be neck-and-neck with Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp (via TechTarget) Prediction: By end of 2016, VMware Horizon will… I predict that by the end of next year, VMware Horizon 6 will be neck-and-neck with Citrix XenDesktop / XenApp in the enterprise. I base this prediction on talking to many customers ...

8 Most Popular VMware EUC Product Diagrams &…
8 Most Popular #VMware EUC Product Diagrams & Charts, According to Social 8 Most Popular VMware EUC Product Diagrams &… Thanks to recent product releases and the expertise of our VMware End-User Computing (EUC) technical and creative teams, we’ve developed some great resources for our @VMwareHorizon social followers in the past month or so. And ...