You want micro-segmentation? vRealize Network Insight is your friend!
As many of you have probably heard, in June 2016 VMware acquired Arkin Net. Arkin Net offers 360 degree visibility, enables faster deployments via micro-segmentation planning, and delivers significantly lower time to resources, leveraging constructs like ‘time machine’, natural language search, and contextual analytics. Now 2…
VMware launches AirWatch Express
Yesterday VMware launched AirWatch Express. AirWatch Express is an Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution that enables you to manage Windows, Mac, iOS and Android devices from a simple, single, interface. It is positioned for organizations needing to manage 10-500 devices. Why AirWatch Express Two words: Simplicity and…
Blue Medora vRO plugin for F5 BIG-IP
Lately I am trying to follow as much as I can about orchestration and automation and recently I followed a webinar from Blue Medora. This webinar was focused on the release of their vRealize Orchestrator plugin for F5 BIG-IP. This plugin enables automation of BIG-IP tasks such…
Update your knowledge at VMware’s Summerschool
It has become sort of a tradition; The VMware Summerschool at the VMware offices in Utrecht, Netherlands. Every year during the summer, VMware’s SE’s get up and in front of a whiteboard and beamer to talk about the old and the new things in VMware’s…
VMware Fling – DRS Doctor
DRS is a very powerful vSphere feature that has been around for years. It’s constantly monitoring host performance to ensure that VM demand is satisfied. When DRS determines that another host in a cluster could better suit a VM, a migration recommendation is generated, and…
VMware NSX 6.2.3 released
VMware NSX 6.2.3 was released today and it’s a good one! There’s a lot of improvements and some new stuff in there, it’s a hell of a maturing release. Below are a few highlights. NSX for vShield Endpoint license There’s a default license generated when…
Microsoft’s Convenience Update breaks VMware networking
Two days ago, Microsoft recently released a Convenience Update patch for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This update has incompatibility issues with virtual machines running on the VMware vSphere virtualization platform. This incompatibility is confined to one specific configuration scenario: It impacts…
Bye bye, VMware vSphere C# client
VMware has announced that the vSphere C# client will no longer be available with the next release of vSphere. It should not come as a big surprise as VMware has been preparing for this for a long time. VMware has been transiting away from the C# client…
Dutch VMUG UserCon 2016 impressions
Last week the dutch VMUG UserCon was held again and it was amazing. I think it’s safe to say that it again was the biggest VMUG usergathering in the world for the second year in a row with around 1.000 attendees. Virtualization clearly has a…
Join us at Dutch VMUG UserCon 2016!
There are times when I’m especially proud to be Dutch. Last year, the Dutch VMUG UserCon was the largest VMUG gettogether in the world. Almost 1.000 particpants gathered in the venue in Den Bosch to exchange knowledge, listen to sessions, network and enjoy a drink….
Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex
Cisco has just announced a new line of HyperConverged appliances called HyperFlex. With this announcement, Cisco has officially entered the HyperConverged market with an appliance with integrated compute, storage and network. The HyperFlex line initially consists of three flavours and features the hardware of the…
VMware Announces App Volumes 3.0
Yesterday VMware announced App Volumes 3.0 which is the 5th version in little over a year that VMware is bringing to the market. With the rapid innovations that the App Volumes team are making VMware claims that the product can be used in almost every IT enviroment…
VMware NSX PowerShell Extension Open Sourced
VMware NSX has an open API and it’s pretty easy to consume. PowerShell is the same way; it’s easy to learn and easy to extend. This week, Anthony Burke and Nick Bradford released a PowerShell extension called PowerNSX. As the name suggests, it’s all about…
vRealize Operations 6.2 released
Today, vRealize Operations (a.k.a. vROPS) version 6.2 was released. This has been a long awaited update. vRealize Operations 6.2 is the latest release of the VMware integrated vRealize Operations Suite. Updates cover all major areas of the product including installation, configuration, licensing, alerting, dashboards, reports,…
VMware Fling – VMware Access Point Deployment Utility
With Horizon 6.2 VMware introduced the VMware Access Point, which is a virtual appliance designed to allow secure remote access to virtual desktops and applications served by Horizon 6. The VMware Access Point is very similar to the View Security Server, but offers some additional benefits. VMware…