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Virtual Updates 2024-03-04

Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston
In Boston for May 1-2 (Wed & Thursday)?
Sign up for the Robotics Summit & Expo!

VMware sells its EUC business
Sold to KKR at auction.
No mention of VMware Workstation/Fusion.
Let’s see what happens now….
KKR News post is here.
VMware Blog post is here.
Reuters article is here.

vSphere 8.0 Update 2b released
Been just about 6 months since Update 2a….
Not overly impressed with the release notes.
Did the upgrade a few times in the lab….all flawless….
Deployed net new….all good.
vCenter Release Notes are here.
ESXi Release Notes are here.

Virtual Updates 2024-02-19

VMware Edge Compute Stack
VECS (VMware Edge Comute Stack).
VECO (VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator).
Learn what those new terms mean in the post.
But is this the replacement for the old ROBO offerings?
It might be, as it comes with VVF….gotta learn more…
VMware Blog post is here.

VMware ESXi “Free” edition is gone!
Wow. Homelabbers are going to be out of luck now….
VMware KB 2107518 is here.

vSphere – How to collect # of cores & # of TiBs of Capacity
This is something that’s been asked quite a few times over the weeks….
Never hurts to post again….
VMware KB 95927 (script download is in the upper right of the page).

Virtual Updates 2024-02-05

VMware & The Broadcom acquisition
So it’s been about 6 weeks now, and lots of news around this.
Nothing concrete of course, but lots of tidbits of information.
Just a lot of things all going on at once can be a bit…overwhelming?
Dec 11 – Broadcom simplifies Licensing.
Dec 11 – VMware Horizon & VMware Carbon Black “up for sale”
Dec 21 – Broadcom hands VMware Partners “Termination Notice”
Dec 29 – Broadcom ending VMware Channel Program.
Jan 8 – William Lam Highlighting VCF and VVF and other offerings
Jan 17 -Himanshu Singh posted VVF (VMware vSphere Foundations)
Jan 16 – Aria Simplification (licesnsing, cause its part of VCF now)
(VCF – vCloud Cloud Foundation, and VVF – VMware vSphere Foundation)
Jan 22 – VMware blog post discussing end of availability, and what the new product offerings are (as there has been perceived miscommunication….
Jan 25 – CRN article Broadcom making shareholders rich, rivals happy, and VMware Partners bitter.

1Password Blog – Mother of all breaches….
1Password Blog post highlighting the latest breach…
26 billion records breached?
It amazes me how many people don’t use Password Managers.
I’ve been biased to 1Password for over 10 years…
Note a 50% discount ($18) for 1 year subscription near the bottom…
Even Mercedes-Benz had a breach, though poor password/key management.

Virtual Updates 2024-01-22

It’s a very short post this week.
Been trying to hold off to get more details on the VMware side of things…

Virtual Updates 2023-12-25

Well, the last update of the year….
Just did a quick check….
I’ve been doing this now for 5.5 years, and have posted 147 of times….
Funny how it just became a habit.
Hope you all find something useful in most of these posts….

VMware CBT bug – revisited after 8 years….
Remember 2015 when vSphere 6 had a CBT bug?
No….lucky you.
I remember, and had a customer impacted for weeks!
This affects vSphere 8.0 Update 2.
CBT’s QueryChangedDiskAreas may lose some data changed on the disk after disk is hot-extended. It only happens on ESXi 8.0u2
VMware KB 95940 is here.
Veeam Forums post is here.

VMware Simplifies Licensing Model
We will see…I have mixed feelings on this.
No more potential to renew S&S for Perpetual licensing…all subscription.
They mention a price reduction for VCF licenses.
I’m looking forward to learning more about this…..
VMware News post is here.

Virtual Updates 2023-12-11

Broadcom purchase of VMware finally done
Took a while, but done on Nov 22, 2023.
Broadcom News page link here.
VMware News page link here.

VMware EUC to spin off into its own, org/BU/company?
While the post doesn’t say anything specific, many of us foresaw that this was going to happen.
Just wish the gave more details here…..
VMware Blog post is here.

Virtual Updates 2023-11-20

vSphere 8.0 Update 2 – Performance Best Practices
Link to the download page is here.

Horizon View Licensing
A well worded breakdown of Horizon licensing.
I wish this breakdown was on the main Horizon page…
…keeping this for reference!
VMware Blog post is here.