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Dell-EMC-VMware Event: Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Let The Transformation Begin

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Dell-EMC-VMware Event:

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

“Let The Transformation Begin”

 

 

Dell EMC and VMware invite you to Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Watch our heroes transform and learn about the future of digital transformation with the Dell EMC VxRail/VxRack SDDC appliances powered by VMware vSphere 6.5, vSAN 6.6 and VMware Cloud Foundation. Transform your data center with a fully integrated, pre-configured, and pre-tested hyper-converged solution.

Whether your datacenter needs are large or small, Dell EMC VxRail and VxRack SDDC are the easiest and fastest hyper-converged options to stand up or extend a VMware environment while dramatically simplifying IT operations and lowering capital and operational costs.

Together, Dell EMC and VMware bring you highly configurable solutions to enable your digital transformation.

Be sure to register soon, limited availability in each city!

This exclusive early premiere will be in the following cities:

Denver, CO
Dublin/East Bay, CA
Orange County/San Diego, CA

 Phoenix, AZ
Chicago, IL
Cincinnati, OH		 Cleveland, OH
Indianapolis, IN
Pittsburgh, PA
Minneapolis, MN
Kansas City, MO
Louisville, KY		 Charlotte, NC
Dallas, TX
Jacksonville, FL		 Memphis, TN
Nashville, TN
Raleigh, NC
San Antonio, TX
Hartford, CT
Philadelphia/Oaks, PA		 Long Island, NY
Rochester, NY
Silver Springs, MD		 Jersey City, NJ

 

Intel Optane the new benchmark SSD to beat

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Intel Optane the new benchmark SSD to beat [michaelryom.dk]

Intel Optane the new benchmark SSD to beat

For a very long time Intel 3700 series of SSDs has held the crown as the best all round SSD for the enterprise market. Intel did something special with this line of SSDs. They stop talking IOPS and latency at least as the main focus and started focusing on where it really would hurt mainstream storage vendors. What was new was QoS or consistency and power loss protection. These features are enterprise graded. Many vendors will claim that they have power loss protection, but non-like Intel did and even today, you have to understand the vendor’s power loss protection in order to validate if it is any good for your needs. This of course was not what hit most medias covering the SSD market. What Intel really changed here was the QoS you…Read More

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VMware vSAN First HCI To Support Intel Optane

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VMware vSAN First HCI To Support Intel Optane [storagereview.com]

VMware vSAN First HCI To Support Intel Optane

​Intel launched its first Optane-based product for the enterprise last week, the Optane SSD DC P4800X series. Summarizing of the technical details, the P4800X in its first incarnation is a 375GB SSD in an add-in-card form factor. Software defined solutions like VMware vSAN are uniquely qualified to take full advantage of this new technology, as they’re already architected to leverage advancements in hardware. VMware has done just that, offering launch support in both ESXi 6.5 and vSAN 6.5.

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VMware Cloud on AWS – More details emerging

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VMware Cloud on AWS – More details emerging [thefluffyadmin.net]

VMware Cloud on AWS – More details emerging

More details regarding VMware Cloud on AWS are starting to come out of VMware. Tonight I attended an awesome #vBrownbag webinar on #VMWonAWS, hosted by Chris Williams‏ (@mistwire) and Ariel Sanchez‏ ( @arielsanchezmor).

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vSAN Got a 2.5x Performance Increase: Thank You…

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vSAN Got a 2.5x Performance Increase: Thank You Intel Optane! [blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks]

vSAN Got a 2.5x Performance Increase: Thank You…

Today, March 19th Intel announced the Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X—the first flash device built on the much-anticipated 3D XPoint technology. This is exciting news for vSAN customers, since—as a result of Intel and VMware’s active collaboration—we are pleased to offer day 1 support of vSAN 6.5 and ESXi 6.5 with the Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X. This is the first Intel Optane NVMe drive (375GB) to be made available with more coming soon (750GB and 1.5TB).

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New To AWS? Here Are AWS Terms In Plain English!

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New To AWS? Here Are AWS Terms In Plain English!

 

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Are you new to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and need to learn their lingo? Click the below link and check out this great guide to all the AWS terms in simple English. You don’t need to be a technical person to understand these terms with this great resource.

AWS In Plain English:  https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english

 

 

Step by Step Configuration Guide for Using Openfiler as Shared Storage in ESXi and vSphere Environment

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Step by Step Configuration Guide for Using Openfiler as Shared Storage in ESXi and vSphere Environment – via VMware Insight

Step by Step Configuration Guide for Using…

As part of setting up Home Lab for virtual environment, we read about installation of Openfiler appliance in the previous article “Installation Guide – Openfiler as Shared Storage for Virtual Environment Lab”. Let’s move on to the configuration part and see how we can manage this appliance for accessing shared storage ESXi Hosts.

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Glimmers of Hope for IoT Security – via VMware CIO Vantage

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Glimmers of Hope for IoT Security – via VMware CIO Vantage

Glimmers of Hope for IoT Security

Amid reports of massive IoT hacks, the industry is ramping up initiatives to bolster the security of the IoT ecosystem.

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[Webcast] Five Essentials for Unified Endpoint Management for Windows 10

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[Webcast] Five Essentials for Unified Endpoint Management for Windows 10

[Webcast] Five Essentials for Unified Endpoint…

Sign up for our EUC webcast on 1/11 to find out how you can deliver peak user experience across any Windows device with Unified Endpoint Management for Windows 10:

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Oracle on VMware vSAN – Dispelling the Licensing Myths

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Oracle on VMware vSAN – Dispelling the Licensing myths

Oracle on VMware vSAN – Dispelling the…

Introduction to VMware vSphere & vSAN Some key things to keep in mind when we talk about VMware vSphere Platform , ESXi hypervisor and vSAN: VMware vSphere is a platform of virtualized hardware that creates a total abstraction layer between the O/S and the Hardware ESXi, is a non-Para virtualized, Type1 hypervisor and therefore makes […] The post Oracle on VMware vSAN – Dispelling the Licensing myths appeared first on Virtualize Business Critical Applications .

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Interested in VMware Cloud on AWS? Learn More With These Videos

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Interested in VMware Cloud on AWS? Learn more with these videos

Interested in VMware Cloud on AWS? Learn more…

This year at VMworld Barcelona we provided a technical preview of the VMware Cloud on AWS service. With this partnership, we’re bringing the most trusted private cloud and the most used public cloud together for a seamless and integrated software-defined data center experience. It allows customers to use VMware’s proven tools on AWS’ global footprint. The post Interested in VMware Cloud on AWS? Learn more with these videos. appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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Gooligan Malware: What You Need to Know |…

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Gooligan Malware: What You Need to Know | Mobile Security Alert

Gooligan Malware: What You Need to Know |…

Two weeks ago, mobile security firm Check Point Software announced they found a new piece of malware used to generate ad revenue on the Android platform. Gooligan, as reported by Check Point, roots infected devices. Once rooted, Gooligan stole “authentication tokens that can be used to access data from Google Play, Gmail, Google Photos, Google […]

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VMware Cloud on AWS at re:Invent 2016 Keynote

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VMware Cloud on AWS at re:Invent 2016 Keynote

VMware Cloud on AWS at re:Invent 2016 Keynote

AWS CEO, Andy Jassy and VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger discuss VMware Cloud on AWS at re:Invent 2016 Keynote

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First Look at AWS Management Portal for vCenter Part 1: Deployment

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First Look at AWS Management Portal for vCenter Part 1: Deployment – Niktip’s Blog

First Look at AWS Management Portal for vCenter…

Cloud has been a hot topic in IT for quite a while, for such valid reasons and benefits it brings as agility and economies of scale. More and more customers start to embark on the cloud journey, whether it’s DR to cloud, using cloud as a Tier 3 storage or even full production migrations for […]

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VMware Cloud on AWS Deeper Dive (Technical Preview)

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VMware Cloud on AWS Deeper Dive (Technical Preview)

VMware Cloud on AWS Deeper Dive (Technical…

Dig a little deeper to see how the VMware SDDC stack runs on AWS to provide a consistent operational hybrid model that delivers capacity and services on demand. Includes a look into networking configuration options and the power of elastic DRS (eDRS) and auto remediation.

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Work Productivity Reimagined: VMware Workspace ONE + Salesforce

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Work Productivity Reimagined: VMware Workspace ONE + Salesforce – VMware EUC Blog

Work Productivity Reimagined: VMware Workspace…

The modern workforce relies on fundamental business apps like Salesforce to get work done. Whether you use Salesforce to service customers, close deals, analyze data and nurture leads, or you rely on apps within the Salesforce App Exchange, Salesforce is a vital component across many teams within an organization.

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Deploying to AWS with Software Components on…

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Deploying to AWS with Software Components on vRealize Automation 7 – DefinIT

Deploying to AWS with Software Components on…

Recently I’ve been working on some ideas in my lab to leverage the AWS endpoint on vRealize Automation. One of the things I needed to get working was getting Software Components working on my…Read More

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Announcing VMware backup with Azure Backup Server

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Announcing VMware backup with Azure Backup Server

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Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) is a cloud-first backup solution of Azure Backup to protect data and workloads across heterogeneous IT environments of enterprises. It is available as a free download with Azure Backup without the requirement of System Center License or an SQL license for the server DB. We are excited to announce that Azure Backup Server now supports VMware VM backup to disk and to cloud for offsite copy or long term retention. Prior to this update, Azure Backup Server protected workloads such as SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint and files on Windows servers running either on physical machines or Hyper-V, VMware virtual machines.

What can customers expect from VMware VM backup with Azure Backup Server

  • Agentless Backup: Azure Backup Server uses VMware’s VADP API to protect VMware VMs remotely without installing agents on vCenter or ESXi servers, freeing administrators from the hassle of managing agents for VMware VM backup.
  • Discoverability and Auto-Protection: Customers can seamlessly discover and protect VMware VMs residing on external storage targets too such as NFS and cluster storage. Managing large environments is effortless since VMs are discovered and protected at folder level. Any future VMs added to a protected folder are backed up automatically.
  • Integrated Hybrid backup: Customers can back up to disk for faster operational recovery and to cloud for offsite copy or long term retention.

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4 No-Bull Insights Into the AWS/VMware Deal

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4 No-Bull Insights Into the AWS/VMware Deal – InfoWorld

4 no-bull insights into the AWS/VMware deal -…

Amazon plus VMware equals a hybrid cloud that enterprises can’t resist. But here are four other things that could come of the partnership

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Connecting a VPN between AWS and VMware NSX

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Connecting a VPN between AWS and VMware NSX – VMGuru

Connecting a VPN between AWS and VMware NSX

Amazon Web Services has a few ways of giving you connectivity: internet, Direct Connect (a physical line) and VPN. While AWS has a ton of examples for firewall/VPN vendors, there is none for connecting with NSX. I needed to connect a NSX network with AWS for a proof of concept and had to figure out how to configure AWS and what settings to use on the NSX Edge VPN. Behold, the fruits of my labor!

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VMware Introduces Kubernetes as a Service On…

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VMware Introduces Kubernetes as a Service On Photon Platform – StorageReview.com

VMware Introduces Kubernetes as a Service On…

Today at VMworld Europe 2016 in Barcelona, VMware, Inc. announced built-in support for Kubernetes in VMware Photon Platform, this support will allow the ability to deliver Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS).

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What Does the VMware/AWS Mashup Mean to IT Pros…

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What Does the VMware/AWS Mashup Mean to IT Pros and CIOs? – The New Stack

What Does the VMware/AWS Mashup Mean to IT Pros…

You would expect an agreement between the number one private cloud company and the number one public cloud company to make waves. You might not realize the new categories of applications the VMWare/AWS integration makes possible as your company’s online transactional processing (OLTP) and other operational functions get access to the mountains of data now residing in the cloud.

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Interested In Taking The New VCP7-DTM Beta Exam?

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Interested In Taking The VMware Certified Professional 7 —

Desktop and Mobility (VCP7-DTM) Beta Exam?

 

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VCP7-DTM Beta Exam…Click Here!

 

 

VMworld EMEA Announcements: VMware Cloud on AWS

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VMworld EMEA Announcements: VMware Cloud on AWS

WOW! I think we just witnessed one of the biggest VMware-announcements we will remember for a long time this year at VMworld 2016. VMware is going to run a full vSphere SDDC-stack (vSphere / VSAN / NSX) bare-metal on AWS. Let me emphasize on this: It’s running BARE-METAL, so NO nested hypervisor. AWS will be The post VMworld EMEA Announcements: VMware Cloud on AWS appeared first on Cloudfix.

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VMware Cloud on AWS – Elastic DRS preview

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VMware Cloud on AWS – Elastic DRS preview

The VMworld Europe keynote featured the future VMware Cloud on AWS services. In short this services gives VMware customers instant scale and global reach delivered by AWS while continuing to use their own skill set driving and operating VMware SDDC environments on-prem and in-cloud. Avoid the risk that comes with… The post VMware Cloud on AWS – Elastic DRS preview appeared first on frankdenneman.nl.

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VMware partners with AWS. VMware Cloud on AWS…

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VMware partners with AWS. VMware Cloud on AWS is born -Brian Graf’s Virtualization Blog

VMware partners with AWS. VMware Cloud on AWS…

An epic announcement was made today, where VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will join together to create “VMware Cloud on AWS”. Although there was an apparent leak last week that a partnership was coming, most speculation was wrong about what this means. Let’s dive in! VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) At this point, there … Continue reading »

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VMware and Amazon Web Services Announce…

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VMware and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership

VMware and Amazon Web Services Announce…

Today, VMware and AWS are announcing a strategic partnership that brings the two leaders in Enterprise IT together to deliver a vSphere-based cloud service running on AWS. This service will make it easier for customers to run any application, using a set of familiar software and tools, in a consistent hybrid cloud environment.

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Windows Server 2016 Support

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Windows Server 2016 Support

Windows Server 2016 Support

This week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Server 2016. VMware has been testing technical preview releases and is preparing to support Windows Server 2016 on VMware vSphere. Once final validation is complete, VMware will publish support for Windows Server 2016. Please be sure to check the VMware Compatibility Guide for details. Additionally, VMware will The post Windows Server 2016 Support appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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