Category: Virtual News

VDI Design Guide Part II – released!
Currently only in paperback….
Johan van Amersfoort has released Part 2 of his amazing book, the VDI Design Guide. Just released, it’s already on the way to my house for Sumer reading list.
Johan’s page, announcing the release.
Link to the book on Amazon

Containers in the Cloud – what are your options?
came across this post, and thought I would share.
Not everyone is familiar with all the options out there, and this post covers AWS, Azure, and GCP offerings as well as hybrid options.
That being said…. orchestration of all these workloads, security, and access need something to make life easier, regardless of where the workloads run…
That is what VMware Tanzu (specifically Tanzu Mission Control) is about.

Continue reading “Virtual Updates 2021-07-26”

iSCSI IQN change during upgrade
So Duncan Epping posted this in his blog.
He specially states that the upgrade from 7.0-update1 to 7.0-update2 is where the issue was found.
Check out his blog post if you use iSCSI!!!!

HPE acquires Zerto
In case you missed this during the days before 4th of July…
I can see this continuing to be a product folks use, even if they are not HPE customers today.
HPE Press Release is here.
Zerto Blog post is here.

Continue reading “Virtual Updates 2021-07-12”

New VDI Design Guide Vol 2 available for free download
Johan van Amersfoort is someone I get to speak to once in a while, and is responsible for lots of cool EUC solutions, but most notably, the VDI Design Guide.
He has just completed the update to this book, and is offering it up for free download! Print versions coming in the next month or two.
Check out his post here, and follow the link to register for the download.

VMworld 2021 Registration is open
Another year of the virtual conference…
Maybe 2022 will be back in person.
This event is Oct 5 – Oct 7.
Get registered here….

Nutanix .Next 2021 Registration is open
Another year of the virtual conference…
Maybe 2022 will be back in person.
This event is Sept 20 – Sept 23.
Get registered here…

Continue reading “Virtual Updates 2021-06-28”

ESXi & SD/USB installations
Continuing on from the post on 2021-05-31….
more info about this potential issue from Christian Mohn, and the justification for migration to internal NVMe drives for the boot drive….
I’m not one to support workarounds for production, but if you DID update to 7.x and need the workaround until your replace your boot drives, this could help.

VMworld 2021 – what content to expect
A revival of customer presentations getting priority?
Registration opens for VMworld, June 15th, 2021.
VMware Blog post is here.

Continue reading “Virtual Updates 2021-06-14”

ESXi 7.0.2 Update 2a – potentially killing SD/USB?
Christian Mohn just posted about a situation where he began having issues with his boot drive (a USB device).
This is a known issue at VMware, KB # 83376.
In short, since 7.0 was released, with the changes in the boot drive partition scheme, I have been rethinking a 12/13 year old habit of using SD cards for the boot drive of an ESXi server…..maybe its time to start doing internal NVMe or SSD only…..

vCenter Patches for 6.5, 6.7, & 7.x
Bob Plankers highlighted this in a post of his on 5/25/2021.
In short…PATCH YOUR vCENTER SERVERS!!!!
This is a critical Patch!!!
Release Notes for vCenter 6.5.0 Update 3p are here.
Release Notes for vCenter 6.7.0 Update 3n are here.
Release Notes for vCenter 7.0.2 Update 2b are here.

Continue reading “Virtual Updates 2021-05-31”

Short Update this week….
Spent a lot of time playing with new software releases, teaching a class, and preparing for another….plus got knocked out of commission for a few days (Long story…)

VirtuallyGhetto is now williamlam.com
I can only speculate that VMware mad him change it…
virtuallyghetto.com was a go to for so many people.
WilliamLam.com has the same content…..but it just doesn’t feel right.

Continue reading “Virtual Updates 2021-05-17”

Tanzu – what are all these different offerings?
Tanzu….there are 9 offerings under Tanzu.
Just like vRealize, which has 10+ offerings….
So, how to break down all the terminology, the software and the what works with what?
Check out the post here.
One of the best breakdowns of the Tanzu portfolio I’ve seen…
(definitely helps with all the renaming of Tanzu over the past year)

Continue reading “Virtual Updates 2021-05-03”