Highlights
Save the Date for VMware Explore 2023
We’re excited to announce the next event dates and locations for VMware Explore 2023! Let’s Go!
Win a pair of vSphere-branded sneakers!
To celebrate the start of 2023 on the right foot(wear), we’re giving away 23 pairs of some of the most stylish-yet-techie Converse sneakers the vSphere community has ever seen. How can you enter, you may ask? Follow the vSphere LinkedIn page, then tag a friend in the comment section of our Giveaway post to get them to follow us too.
Winners will be picked randomly in March 2023, but the more friends you tag, the more times you’ll be entered! The Giveaway ends on March 15, so start tagging! See the blog post for details.
Register Now for VMware’s Horizon Virtual Demo Session
Join us for a tour of VMware’s Virtual Desktop and App Solution called Horizon. The demo session will show how you can equip your teams with a digital workspace that’s available at any time and place, and on any device.
With deep integration into the VMware technology ecosystem, the Horizon virtual desktop and application platform offers an agile cloud-ready foundation, modern best-in-class management, and end-to-end security for today’s Anywhere Workspace.
During our biweekly demos on Wednesdays at 1pm, VMware EUC Specialists will highlight how you can elevate your Digital Workspace Experience with the efficient and secure delivery of virtual desktops and apps from on-premises to the cloud.
Customer Success Stories
GuideOne Migrates 800+ Workloads with Zero Downtime using VMware Cloud on AWS
See how GuideOne migrated 800+ on-premises workloads with zero downtime, while exceeding ROI estimate by 25% over a 3-year period using VMware Cloud on AWS.
Product Update
SDDC Import/Export Tool for VMware Cloud on AWS
Export SDDC configuration, automate SDDC deployment, and migrate firewall rules from on-premises NSX-T to the cloud with this tool.
Manage your SDDC Groups with the Latest VMC Terraform Provider
The latest release of the VMC Terraform Provider (v1.12) now supports the creation and management of SDDC deployment groups.
Cluster Conversion to the I4i Instance Type
Learn how SDDCs using the I3(en) instance type can be converted to the newer I4i instance type without downtime or operational impact.
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution : A Differentiated VMware Cloud Platform
Watch the webinar our for a deep-dive into how Oracle Cloud VMware Solution: 1) Helps customers adopt cloud without compromise 2) Unlocks complete administrative control for managing your cloud 3) Offers security at the forefront and intrinsic to the platform 4) Provides performance and scale to meet performance-intensive workloads
VMUG Virtual Session: Protecting your Mission Critical Workloads with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
In this webinar, we’ll provide an overview of how Oracle Cloud VMware Solution solves customers’ challenges and discuss OCVS’s primary use cases with a specific focus on helping our customers achieve a true cloud-based business continuity and disaster recovery solution.
New VMware Skyline Release with Aria Operations for Logs Integration and Log Assist Enhancements
The Skyline team recently released new versions of VMware’s proactive intelligence SaaS product: VMware Skyline Collector 3.3 and Advisor Pro with VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) product integration, Log Assist enhancements and new proactive Findings. Skyline is included with your Production, Premier, VMware Success 360 and VMware Aria Universal Suite support subscriptions at no additional charge.
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.1 Enhances Lifecycle Management and Extends Kubernetes to the Edge
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid has become a trusted tool to automate the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters. The simplicity of management has quickly turned it into a valuable asset in many organizations.
Meet the New VMware RabbitMQ, Accessible as a Service, and Register for the Beta Today
Sign up to try the beta release of VMware RabbitMQ as a service, a managed service offering of the wildly popular messaging and streaming broker.
Updated Tanzu Mission Control Technical Overview
Updated version of the Tanzu Mission Control Technical Overview slide deck
Tanzu What’s New Weekly Series
Do not miss the Tanzu What’s New blog series, which is a weekly update. Find February’s weekly updates here: Feb 3, Feb 10, Feb 17 .This blog has Tanzu Product releases for that week, Knowledge Base Articles with How To guides, troubleshooting tips and resolutions, Product Updates, Technical blog recommendations, Customer Success Stories, Tanzu Blogs and Videos, Webinars and Events. Do bookmark them and Enjoy catching up with Tanzu updates.
VMware NSX is Part of Every Google Cloud VMware Engine Private Cloud – How to Leverage It
When you deploy a new private cloud on Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), production-ready VMware NSX infrastructure is also provisioned – all in under an hour. Once your private cloud is deployed, it takes just a few clicks to set up VMware NSX. You can quickly set up a new network segment using the IP network of your choice, including optional DNS services according to your use case. And you can configure policies in the distributed firewall to add protection to workloads. Learn more.
How to use NetApp CVS as datastores for Google Cloud VMware Engine
Using external NFS datastores can lower TCO for customers running storage heavy workloads in Google Cloud VMware Engine by enabling independent scaling of compute and storage. Google has announced that they are enabling the use of NetApp Cloud Volume Service NFS shares as datastores for Google Cloud VMware Engine. Read more.
Events
Simplify and Scale Enterprise Spring Apps in the Cloud
VMware’s Adib Saikali and Microsoft’s Asir Selvasingh will be hosting 2 interactive virtual sessions on March 23rd, where they will show the value Azure Spring Apps Enterprise can bring to your organization.
VMware Tanzu Developer Connect | Public Sector
Enhancing the Developer Experience Unlock developer productivity and user experience with a Kubernetes abstraction layer that enables faster, more secure app design, development, and delivery.
Join VMware Tanzu virtually for a hands-on workshop that abstracts away the individual components in the DevSecOps toolchain and leverages these techniques in building, testing, verifying, deploying, and operating applications.
VMware Loves Kubernetes
Attention all Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Solution Architects, Platform Teams, Product Managers, and Developers!
Do you want to enhance your developer experience and see how it can accelerate your workflow? Are you looking to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of platform engineering? Are you interested in learning about Backstage, Developer Portals, and Internal Development Platforms?
Then come join us at our local Dallas CNCF meetup, where you’ll have the opportunity to delve into the all of these topics! This meetup is the perfect opportunity to network and gain insights from local Dallas industry experts and community members.
Register now to secure your spot and start your journey towards a better developer and platform experience!
Simplify and Scale Enterprise Spring Apps in the Cloud
Struggling to quickly develop and deploy Java or polyglot apps? Bogged down with implementation challenges and management effort?
If you’re an application developer, architect, or platform engineer looking to build and scale enterprise-ready apps in the cloud, Azure Spring Apps Enterprise is a fully managed service that can help you reach your goals sooner − all while minimizing busywork and maximizing security with Azure. Want to learn more?
Join an interactive virtual session where we will show the value Azure Spring Apps Enterprise can bring to your organization. We will cover the following topics:
Ideal use cases for Azure Spring Apps Enterprise
How to streamline deployment, scaling, patching and resilience for your apps
How to simplify cloud-native app architecture with Azure Spring Apps Enterprise, including security, request routing, configuration, discovery, and more
How Azure Spring Apps simplifies DevSecOps for polyglot applications
Live: Multi-Cloud Expedition LinkedIn Live Events Series
The Multi-Cloud Expedition is a 6-video livestream series airing on LinkedIn in February and running every month leading up to VMware Explore 2023. On the Multi-Cloud Expedition, we’re bringing together experts from across VMware to discuss and demonstrate solutions to the most pressing multi-cloud challenges today. Join live discussion about increasing developer velocity Wednesday February 22nd, 2023 from 8:00-8:30 AM PT on our corporate LinkedIn channel. Make sure to share the event with your LinkedIn network and encourage your customers to attend!
Thought Leadership
vSphere on DPUs – A Day 1 Experience | Breakroom Chats Episode 12
Welcome to this edition of vSphere Breakroom chats, where Dave Morera from VMware will walk us through the user experience of onboarding DPUs from AMD/Pesando and NVIDIA on a vSphere 8 based infrastructure.
All About vSphere+ Cloud Console | Breakroom Chats Episode 13
Welcome to this edition of vSphere Breakroom chats, where Rashmi Hegde and Shobhit Bhutani from VMware, discuss the vSphere+ Cloud console. Rashmi shares a demo of the cloud console interface and the different capabilities.
Whitepaper
Moving to VMware Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub Catalog
If you are wondering about the difference between the legacy AirWatch web clip app catalog and the Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub app catalog and how to migrate, this is the article for you. There are several considerations, and this guide covers them all. Find out everything you need to know to migrate successfully.
Enforcing macOS Security Compliance Project Baselines: Workspace ONE Operational Tutorial
This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating, deploying, and enforcing a baseline security profile from the macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP).
Creating Larger Capture Disk For Use With App Volumes Command-Line-Capture Program
While administering End User Computing environments, it is sometimes necessary to have more than 10GB of space for creating packages for VMware App Volumes. This tutorial provides the required steps to create different sized capture disks when using the App Volumes Command-Line Capture program.
Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen Architecture
Learn about the architecture of the new Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen to deliver virtual desktops and applications. Understand the concepts, the components that make up the service, how to deploy it, and how to scale deployments.
Horizon Configuration
Gain insights into Horizon installation and configuration, cloud pod architecture global entitlements, group policies, and True SSO including for Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure. This chapter is not intended to replace the product documentation, but to reference and supplement it with additional guidance.
Network Ports in VMware Horizon
This document lists port requirements for connectivity between the various components and servers in a VMware Horizon® on vSphere deployment. This document applies to all versions of Horizon 8 2006 onwards.
App Volumes Architecture
Learn how to architect your environments using App Volumes to deliver, update, assign, and manage the lifecycle of applications and users across virtual desktop (VDI) and published application environments. Use App Volumes to deliver software that is not in a golden image for VDI and RDSH, and to use user-writable volumes for specific use cases that cannot be delivered by packages.
Demo
VMware Cloud Flex Compute Automation Demo
See how easy it is to automate VMware Flex Cloud Compute with REST APIs called from a Python script. Email [email protected] to participate in the Early Access program.
VMware Workspace ONE Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Overview Demo
This video demonstrates how Workspace ONE enables organizations to deliver an engaging and productive experience for employees.
Register Now for VMware’s Workspace ONE Virtual Demo Session for the Healthcare Industry
Join our March 29th VMware Workspace One UEM demo to learn how your IT team can provide enhanced secure, consistent, simple, and frictionless access to all the digital resources required to provide optimal care.
VMware’s modern endpoint management solution is an intelligence-driven digital workspace platform designed to help enable simplified and secure delivery and management of any app on any device for all Healthcare use cases (Clinical, Hybrid, Remote).
During this Workspace ONE demo focused on the Healthcare industry, Specialists will highlight the Unified Endpoint Management console as well as our Intelligence automation/compliance engine.
Register Today for VMware’s Workspace ONE Virtual Demo Session for the Retail Industry
During VMware’s April 12th VMware Workspace ONE demo you will learn how our modern management solution helps enable simplified and secure delivery and management of any app on any device, anywhere.
Join Ed Durbin, Sr. Director of Global Retail Industry Group, and Dave Dwyer, EUC Solutions Engineer, to speak on their experiences with customers and highlight the Unified Endpoint Management console, Intelligence, and Zero Trust Security.
Professional Development
Chance to Get $25 Gift Card from Gartner
Please take a moment to write a review on Gartner Peer Insights about your experience with VMware Cloud on AWS.
VMware Videos
Delivering Horizon Published Apps on Demand with VMware App Volumes
Learn how to configure Horizon published apps on demand, including adding an App Volumes Manager to Horizon, associating the manager with a server farm, creating an app pool from App Volumes Manager, and entitling end users in Horizon.
VMware Identity Services: Intro to Centralized User Management – Technical Overview
Sascha Warno provides a technical overview of the newly released VMware Identity Services. He also discusses SCIM and how VMware will use it to implement a more centralized user management.
VMware Identity Services: Azure AD Integration – Feature Walk-through
In this second VMware Identity Services video of the series, Sascha Warno walks you through setting up Azure AD as a cloud identity source.
VMware Identity Services: Okta Integration – Feature Walk-through
In this third video of the VMware Identity Services series, Sascha Warno walks you through setting up generic SCIM 2.0 sources with Okta.
How to Upgrade VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated
This video gives a quick overview of how to upgrade VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated.
VMware Best Practices
SRE Principles for Edge Management and Improving Resiliency Using the Best of Kubernetes
This post focuses on SRE at the edge and covers effective ways to deploy, operationalize, and manage edge deployments with Kubernetes.
When Is the Right Time to Adopt a Kubernetes Management Tool?
As platform teams scale their Kubernetes estate from a handful to dozens of clusters they increasingly benefit from automation tools that replace manual tasks they perform on their environment.
Analyst Report
Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is an emerging discipline among organizations embracing cloud native technologies. When applied properly, platform engineering can enable rapid innovation and continuous security. Read this report from Gartner highlighting the need and value of platform engineering.
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