Highlights
VMware Tanzu Community Edition: A Free Kubernetes Platform for Learners and Users
VMware Tanzu Community Edition can help you build your cloud native skills. It’s a freely available, community-supported, open source distribution of VMware Tanzu that you can install and configure in minutes on your local workstation or favorite cloud. More than a Kubernetes distro, it’s a full-featured, easy-to-manage Kubernetes platform that’s perfect for learners and users alike.
Join us for a pragmatic introduction to VMware Tanzu Community Edition. We’ll fill you in on all the important details: what it is, how to get it, what you can do with it, how to get started, and where to get help.
A Scalable Platform for Continued Innovation and Better Services
Achmea is a major financial services provider in the Dutch market. The market and society are constantly changing, so the challenge is to keep innovating and remain relevant to customers.
In order to reduce the diversity within the IT environment and also benefit from economies of scale on a technological level, Achmea decided to standardise on VMware technology and Azure Cloud from Microsoft. They opted for VMware Cloud Foundation because it offers a future-proof platform.
This not only allows Achmea to continue to digitize and innovate their activities and services, they also make them perfectly ready for the cloud. Their aim is that 80 percent of their applications run in the cloud by 2025.
Podcast: The Economics of Cloud Health
In this episode, hear from CloudHealth experts about all things related to cloud cost management including FinOps, Zombie Infrastructure, and the latest announcements. Learn how CloudHealth can improve the overall Economics of your Cloud Infrastructure.
Product Update
New Features on VMware Marketplace – Commercial Transactions and More!
Read our latest release blog to learn more about what we’ve been working on this month – including commercial transactability, integration of Marketplace APIs with vRealize products, and new filters.
40+ vRealize True Visibility Suite Management Packs on VMware Marketplace
Now, you can access all vRealize True Visibility Suite management pack details through VMware Marketplace, including technical details, feature description, version history, and more. Click here to learn about VMware Marketplace and how to easily access information about True Visibility management packs.
VMware Skyline Advisor Pro: Now Available
The next level of proactive intelligence, Skyline Advisor Pro, is now available. Advisor Pro is faster, smarter and easier to use than its predecessor, Skyline Advisor:
- 12X faster
- New product end-of-life Insights and historical Insights
- Redesigned UI/UX and coming soon: a REST API for integrating Skyline Findings data into your preferred tools.
In addition, Advisor Pro features in-depth Proactive Insights Reports, which are available exclusively to VMware Success 360 customers.
Current Skyline customers with Auto Update enabled will be automatically updated to Skyline Collector v3.0 and Advisor Pro. If Auto Update is not enabled, make sure to update all of your Collectors to v3.0 to activate Advisor Pro. New Skyline customers can get started here.
Securing Workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS
Organizations moving to hybrid cloud models need to shift their mindset from reacting to threats to anticipating and managing risk as it applies to their unique infrastructure. A Cloud Workload Protection solution enables you to identify, manage, and secure your workloads. This will help you decrease risk, ensure better application scalability, and increase compliance. We are excited to announce Workload Security solution now available on VMware Cloud on AWS. Learn how Carbon Black Workload Protection enables you to identify, manage, and secure your workloads.
Tanzu Services – Videos, Guides, and More!
Learn how to leverage Tanzu services with these videos, technical guides, and more.
NEW: 2-Host Entry Scale Stretched Clusters
Stretched Clusters empower customers all around the world to bring their mission critical applications to VMware Cloud on AWS without compromising on availability or resiliency. We’re excited to announce the final iteration of our effort to make Multi-AZ resiliency available to customers of any size. Entry scale Stretched Clusters now allow a Multi-AZ deployment to be created with as few as 2-Hosts!
Workspace ONE UEM Doc Improvement Project and Feedback
In this episode, I talk to Justin Sheets about how we are improving the Workspace ONE UEM API documentation to help you get started. We are looking for your feedback! I also review all of the EUC product updates from the previous week. Be sure to send us your feedback regarding this podcast to [email protected]!
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) integration with Workspace ONE UEM
In this episode, I talk to Darren Weatherly and Pim van de Vis about leveraging VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) to configure Windows devices in Workspace ONE UEM. Introducing your new host or new hosts? Be sure to listen to hear what’s happening with the DWTZ Podcast. We skipped last week but cover the latest releases from EUC [22:46], including productivity apps for the past two weeks.
Workspace ONE UEM 2109
This week we review Workspace ONE UEM 2109, which has been released to SaaS, as well as other EUC products.
Recognizing and Removing Friction Points in the Developer Experience on Kubernetes
How Tanzu Application Platform helps deliver a rapid path to production with a streamlined end-to-end developer experience on any Kubernetes.
VMware Tanzu Application Platform: Turning Developer Definition into a Running Kubernetes Pod
Kubernetes is the highest abstraction available to modern application developers today, sitting above containers and VMs. It also is arguably the most complex to get started with, VMware believes, being a mostly DIY user experience.
In this research, 451 Research analyzes the complexity and financial investments needed to work with Kubernetes and discusses the new VMware Tanzu Application Platform as the promise of turning developer definition into running a Kubernetes pod – without requiring extensive knowledge of Kubernetes.
Temporary Removal of ESXi 7 Update 3 from Download Site
After careful consideration, we have removed the ESXi 7 Update 3 release from our Product Downloads site. We made this decision to protect our customers from potential failures which may occur as they upgrade to ESXi 7 Update 3. While we believe that this would only impact a limited set of customers, it was serious enough for us to take this action. When we have resolved the upgrade issues in ESXi 7 Update 3, we will notify our customers that they may resume upgrades to ESXi 7 Update 3 at that time. For more information, read the announcement here.
Events
Digital Workspace Office Hours
Join us for sessions that will enable you to leverage all of your Workspace ONE and Horizon capabilities and get more out of your digital workspace investments. During 60-minute, interactive webcasts, you’ll engage with our experts about various topics and explore:
- Common pitfalls
- Frequently asked questions
- Best available resources
Register for future sessions or view previous ones on-demand to get onboarding and optimizing tips from VMware experts.
Whitepaper
Configuring Universal Broker for Horizon
This Deployment Considerations guide explains the Universal Broker, a component of the Horizon Service, and how to start using it in your existing VMware Horizon® environment.
VMware News
Dynamic Environment Manager: Workspace ONE UEM Integration – Feature Walk-through
Learn how to set up the integration between Workspace ONE UEM and Dynamic Environment Manager. The Workspace ONE UEM 2109 release allows Workspace ONE UEM customers to take advantage of the capabilities of Dynamic Environment Manager for the Windows Desktop fleet.
Cybersecurity Journey to Zero Trust: Episode 1
Episode 1 of 4 – The Journey to Zero Trust; a look into how Cybersecurity, designed for perimeter protection and keeping unwanted traffic and malicious actors out and authorized people, endpoints and applications safe within from them, morphs into a completely new paradigm, whereby ‘all’ endpoints, users, services and traffic can no longer be implicitly trusted!
View along as VMware’s Andrew Osborn and Dennis Moreau walk you through (4) episodes to help guide the discussion and the viewpoints of where this began and how it will be realized.
Workspace ONE Experience Workflows Powered by Boomi – Technical Overview and Feature Walk-through Videos
Workspace ONE Experience Workflows, powered by Boomi, enables users to quickly complete tasks across multiple 3rd-party business systems all from Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub. These tasks arrive as notification cards that allow users to respond with actions, such as approving or denying a request, without leaving Intelligent Hub.
The Technical Overview video is the first of a two-part series, introducing Workspace ONE Experience Workflows and the Boomi integration with Workspace ONE Hub Services.
The Feature Walk-through video is the second of the series, covering Experience Workflows and the Boomi integration with Workspace ONE Hub Services in more depth.
Workspace ONE UEM 2109: What’s New
This video walks through the latest key features released in Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management 2109.
Professional Development
NEW VMware Tanzu Standard Overview Path
Explore a live environment featuring vSphere with Tanzu and Tanzu Mission Control with our latest TestDrive Experience. Learn about Tanzu Standard products and get hands-on experience.
A Platform Cookbook for IT Admins Looking to Enable and Support AI/ML Workloads for their Teams
Announcing the availability of a deployment guide that illustrates step-by-step, the process for setting up the AI-Ready Enterprise Platform from VMware and NVIDIA!
The platform includes NVIDIA Enterprise AI Suite, VMware vSphere® 7 Update 3a, VMware vCenter® 7 Update 3a, and vSphere with VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ Service.
Two scenarios are covered – 1) Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster or stand-alone VM with vGPU 2) Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster or stand-alone VM with both vGPU and RoCE backed passthrough NIC.
Customer Success Stories
Container Technology Paves the Way to the Digital Future
Facing the German Online Access Act as well as increasing customer requirements, modernization is also on the agenda of the DVZ Mecklenburg-West Pomerania data processing center GmbH, IT service provider for the state administration of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
As a result of many years of virtualization with VMware vSphere®, DVZ M-V GmbH opted for VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid to implement advanced container technology and modernize all business processes.
The project was realized within remarkably short period of time in partnership with the evoila Group, giving DVZ a deep dive into container technology. The innovation driver thus paves the way to a digital future for public administration.
Japanese Restaurant Grows From Three to 18 Outlets with VMware Cloud
Oshinei Enterprise opened its first outlet in the provinces, instead of Bangkok, with the aim of making quality Japanese food accessible to everyone. But expansion was slow as it did not have an IT team to set up the systems in each new branch.
Oshinei turned to Cloud HM for help. The VMware Cloud Verified partner moved the servers in the outlets onto its enterprise cloud, which is built on VMware vSphere®, VMware NSX® Data Center and VMware Cloud Director®, and functions as Oshinei’s IT team through its managed services.
Since it now takes only 48 hours to set up the IT infrastructure in a new branch, Oshinei can open new outlets more efficiently and was able to expand from three to 18 outlets within three years.
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