The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld – Part 1
VMworld Europe took place in Barcelona last week and my experience was mostly centered around NSX. A few technical sessions and a lot of meetings later, I have been given an insight into the future of virtual networking and it’s awesome! In a mini series…
VMworld parties, fun or business?
When you visit or visited VMworld before, do you or did you ever get these comments? Did you have a nice holiday? Did you go for the parties? VMworld is not work If so, forward this article to those people to educate them what is really going…
vRealize Automation 7 – LifeCycle Extensibility
The new vRealize Automation 7 LifeCycle Extensibility is probably one of the most impressive and powerful new features. LifeCycle Extensibility is an Event Broker Service which enables providers to register and manage events, producers and consumers. You can now use the out-of-the box extensibility, by plugging new functionality without the…
VMware Identity manager and the 3 reasons why companies should use it
During VMworld 2015 one of the sessions I followed was about the VMware Identity manager (vIDM) and the 3 reasons why companies should use it. There might be even more then those three reasons, but in this article I will stick to those described in the…
vCloud NFV Kick-starts Telco Providers
During VMworld Europe 2015, VMware announced a new program under their vCloud naming, called vCloud NFV (Network Function Virtualization). What is vCloud NFV? vCloud NFV is essentially a bundle with the best of VMware targeted to telecom/service providers (or any NFV company) to kickstart them…
VMworld TV Daily wrap-up Wednesday
As always Jeremy van Doorn and Eric Sloof did a wrap-up of all the action at VMworld with the VMworld TV Daily wrap-up. If you’re unable to join VMworld, or want to know what you missed this is a good way to catch up and make…
VMware Announces Plan To Acquire Boxer
Today VMware announced the plan to acquire Boxer a solution which allows you to provide your business critical applications like e-mail the look and feel of the applications we are used to with our personal devices. This while still remaining in control of your data and applying your business…
VMworld TV Daily wrap-up Tuesday
As always Jeremy van Doorn and Eric Sloof did a wrap-up of all the action at VMworld. If you’re unable to join VMworld, or want to know what you missed this is a good way to catch up and make your planning for tomorrow. VMworld…
vRealize Automation 7 – New Architecture & Installation
Today VMware announced the long awaited new version of their cloud management product vRealize Automation 7 (vRA7). This new release, previously known under codename Bellatrix, is a major overhaul and includes many new features and enhancements. vRealize Automation 7 Architecture First of all, vRealize Automation…
vRealize Automation 7 – Improved Authentication
Today VMware announced the long awaited new version of their cloud management product vRealize Automation 7 (vRA7). This new release, previously known under codename Bellatrix, is a major overhaul and includes many new features and enhancements. Authentication Another huge improvement in vRealize Automation 7 is…
vRealize Automation 7 – Converged Blueprints
Today VMware announced the long awaited new version of their cloud management product vRealize Automation 7 (vRA7). This new release, previously known under codename Bellatrix, is a major overhaul and includes many new features and enhancements. Converged blueprints A long awaited new feature is the…
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Get ready for VMworld 2015 Europe – the world’s #1 cloud and virtualization technology conference! From 12 to 15 October VMworld Europe will be returning to Barcelona’s Fira Gran Via. VMworld 2015 Europe is almost upon us! For the eighth consecutive year, VMworld is visited…
Track infrastructure changes with vRealize Automation Data Collection
vRealize Automation Data Collection is the process where it connects to its infrastructure source endpoints and their compute resources to collect all kinds of information. Within vRealize Automation there are different data collection types: Infrastructure Source Endpoint Data Collection; Updates information about virtualization hosts, templates, and…
Setup provisioning of vCloud Air workloads
You may think you know Blueprint creation but this part differs a bit from a traditional blueprint in vRealize Automation. Normally in vRealize Automation, a single blueprint is created, published and added to the Catalog. The provisioning of vCloud Air workloads is a bit different,…
Setup a vCloud Air Endpoint in vRealize Automation
Every company nowadays want to do ‘something’ with cloud services. For this POC I had one use case proving we could deploy workloads to vCloud Air just like you would deploying the to the local vSphere infrastructure. vCloud Air is available as a subscription service…