Yesterday was a big day on the release front. A lot of vSphere and related products received updates. I must admit I was pleasantly surprised by the large number of fixes in the various products and components. If you look at the release notes it…

We’ve all been there. Day Zero, your new infrastructure is finally being delivered. You or someone is putting together what you’ve long been waiting for; the solution to all your current operational misery and drama. Your all new, all virtual datacenter. New servers, more RAM,…

VMware is working hard to provide more and more application management plugins for vRealize Operations. In previous versions vRealize Hyperic was used to perform application monitoring, with the newer versions of vRealize Operations this is done using the EndPoint Operations agent (EPOPS agent). Application specific intelligence…

VMware is working hard to provide more and more application management plugins for vRealize Operations. In previous versions vRealize Hyperic was used to perform application monitoring, with the newer versions of vRealize Operations this is done using the EndPoint Operations agent (EPOPS agent). Application specific…

If you are operating a full VMware SDDC environment you’re using a lot of components from the VMware portfolio. VMware vCenter Server, vSAN, NSX, vRealize Operations and Automation. But how is the health of your overall solution? How is everything working together? Wouldn’t it be nice…

Exciting news: vSphere 6.5 went General Available today. The newest version of VMware’s top notch hypervisor is available to the general public as of today! Check out our article on it to see what’s new! Also, take a look at the release notes for vSphere…

Once again VMware has enhanced a fundamental feature of vSphere, Distibuted Resource Scheduler (DRS) now got even smarter. The great thing of VMware is that they take fundamental features like vMotion and DRS and make them even better. Like with all the vMotion enhancements in vSphere 6,…

Almost every year VMware announces a new version of its core product: vSphere. vSphere, or ESX and vCenter, has been around for quite some time and it is the core product for your Software Defined Datacenter. After so many years of revolution and innovation, what…

The VMware Validated Designs (VVD) is a set of documentation that is maintained by VMware to provide a holistic and standardised datacenter designs that span across compute, storage, networking and management platforms. It’s basically a blueprint on how to implement and operate a SDDC-based private…

Companies are increasingly relying on multiple public and private clouds to run their applications, but are daunted by the challenge of managing and securing applications across diverse cloud platforms. When customers combine a best-in-class private cloud with leading public clouds they have the strongest, most flexible…

With the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), VMware laid out the vision for the architecture of the hybrid cloud. In an SDDC, compute, storage, and networking services are decoupled from underlying hardware infrastructure and abstracted into logical pools of resources that can be more flexibly provisioned…