After spending a few days playing with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB) APIs, I am happy to share my latest automation lab deployment script for deploying vSphere with Tanzu using the new NSX ALB which was introduced with the latest vSphere 7.0 Update 2 release. 🙌 BOOM!!! Fully […]
vSAN 7 Update 2 RDMA Support
Networking Matters The nature of a distributed storage system like vSAN means that a network connecting the hosts is heavily relied upon for resilient connectivity, performance, and efficiency. Traditionally, vSAN has relied upon TCP communication to move data between hosts in a reliable and consistent manner. vSAN 7 Update 2 now supports clusters configured for RDMA-based (Remote Direct Memory Access) networking. Specifically, RCoE v2 (RDMA Converged over Ethernet version 2) will be supported.
Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation Subscription: Consume Multi-Cloud Infrastructure through VMware Cloud Universal
Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation Subscription Today, as part of the launch of VMware Cloud Universal, we are excited to deliver VMware Cloud Foundation Subscription that enables customers to proactively adopt multi-cloud infrastructure and accelerate their application modernization journey. VMware Cloud Universal is a program that includes subscription-based offers that give customers the financial flexibility to … Continued The post Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation Subscription: Consume…Read More
Deployment of VMware Cloud Director 10.2 on VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0
VMware Cloud Director on VMware Cloud Foundation is quite beneficial for providers as it saves time in the deployment and configuration of underlying infrastructure required for VMware Cloud Director. There are various ways by which one can deploy VMware Cloud Director on VMware Cloud Foundation. This video talks about one of the deployment scenario and demonstrates the end to end deployment process of VMware Cloud Director 10.2 in the management domain of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0. Products covered: VMware Cloud Director, VMware Cloud Foundation
Announcing Limited Extension of VMware vSphere 6.5 General Support Period
By — Paul Turner, VP Product Management, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware This month marks a full year that many businesses transitioned to a work from home model with the onset of the global pandemic. That’s created challenges for some of our customers with regards to IT operations and strategic planning. It has also led … Continued The post Announcing Limited Extension of VMware vSphere 6.5 General Support Period appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog.
We are excited to announce the general availability of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.3, which introduces support for Kubernetes 1.20.
First steps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB)
As part of the vSphere 7.0 Update 2 (U2) launch, VMware now provides another Load Balancer option for vSphere with Tanzu. This new Load Balancer, built on Avi Networks technology (and previously known as Avi Vantage), provides another production-ready load balancer option for your vSphere with Tanzu deployments. This Load Balancer, now called the NSX Advanced Load balancer, or NSX ALB for short, will provide Virtual IP addresses (VIPs) for the Supervisor Control Plane API server, the TKG…Read More
Having succeeded in moving vSphere beyond VMs with its embrace of Kubernetes, VMware moves ahead by including support for Nvidia AI software.
Deploying an ESXi scripted installation aka Kickstart running within a VM (Nested ESXi) has a number of benefits, especially for testing and development purposes. This was something I did regularly as a customer, especially with new releases of ESXi to ensure our existing automation scripts and […]
vSAN 7 Update 2 Technical Overview
The presentation provides a technical overview of VMware vSAN, up to and including vSAN 7 Update 2
