VMware President Carl Eschenbach Record attendance at VMworld. More than 23,000 20 people have been to all 20 VMworlds (21 including Carl) Theme: Ready for Any Challenges: Innovation, productivity, security, cost, agility Run - Run a true hybrid cloud platform Built - Build and embrace containers Deliver - Any app...
Session: INF5975 Transforming software delivery with software appliances Accelerat e time to value Simplify software management Performance Security Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) vCSA Security hardened Suse OS (SLES 11 SP3) vCenter server and vPostgreSQL DB in a single VM Appliance shell and UI support for appliance configuration vCenter...
Just over two months ago Nutanix took the covers off our Acropolis hypervisor at our .Next Conference in Miami. Even prior to that announcement, Nutanix has been working behind the scenes with a number of close partners for ecosystem support. I'm very proud to announce that today that Citrix XenDesktop...
Now that Nutanix Acropolis is shipping with NOS 4.1.3, I wanted to cover a few basics in a series of blog posts. Most of you won't be familiar with Acropolis, which is based on KVM. If you've used KVM in the past, you will know how difficult it can be....
If you are Nutanix customer, you know that we release new version of our NOS platform on a very frequent basis. Release timing varies, but every 2-3 months you will see releases pop up. Some are major with a boatload of new features, and some are more bug fixes with...
When dealing with hypervisors it is not uncommon to be required to supply specific drivers in order to recognize the virtual hardware, such as NICs and SCSI controllers. A while back I wrote blog articles on how to inject VMware drivers (PVSCSI and VMXNET3)Â into a Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows...
During much of my career, I've been in the Government space and had to implement DISA STIGs for a variety of products including hypervisors. If you are a VMware customer and plan on using vSphere 6.0, you will be pleased to know that the vSphere 6.0 hardening guide is now GA....
The SaaS market is becoming very popular, and software that was once only on-prem is now migrating to the cloud. I'm excited to announce that with VMTurbo 5.2, it is now offered as SaaS deployment through AWS. This means you can now control your on-prem environment with VMTurbo in the cloud....
Last year I blogged about the creation of Veeam v7 best practice guides for Nutanix plus VMware and Hyper-V. Those guides have been very popular, and helped a number of our customers and SEs. One of the number one compliments of Veeam that I hear from the field is now...
Now that we have vCenter installed, it's time to update our User Solution certificates for the vCenter services. This is a fairly straight forward process, using the combination of the VMware Certificate Manager tool and my vCenter 6.0 Toolkit. The VMware Certificate manager tool will automatically create the private keys...
Just like last year, VMTurbo is giving away a select number of free tickets to VMworld. They cover the conference fee, you cover travel and hotel. A great deal for those where your company won't send you, or you are an independent consultant. There are three drawings, one each on...
As you know if you've been following my blog this week, Ignite 2015 took place in Chicago with hundreds of great sessions. In fact, this year all but one or two sessions were spot on. You can easily download all of the great Channel 9 recordings using the PowerShell script...