Virtual Updates 2021-06-28

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…

vSphere 6.x certificates issue
The team ran across this one again just recently, & thought I’d share.
If you are ever loose access to your vCenter server, or if you are doing an upgrade, and have a certificate issue….
The VMware KB Article 79428 covers the issue & resolution.

VMware Snapshots – best practices for Performance
World
Funny though….vSAN & VMFS perform pretty much the same.
vVols is king of the performance world here when discussing snapshots (this is due to vVols using the backend SAN for handling snaps MUCH more efficiently….)
Wonder when vSAN & VMFS based snapshots will get rewritten…
VMware Blog post is here.

VMware Cloud Universal – new additions?
Adding a new level of Enterprise Plus that includes vRNI.
Can run on prem, AWS, Azure, GCP….
VMware Blog post is here.

Horizon View Agent – what’s installed?
find out what options are installed for the Horizon Agent via this PowerCLI script, provided by Chris Halstead.

Windows 11 – coming soon
This free upgrade is coming by end of year (we’ll see).
It is starting to look like macOS.
I’m sure there are plenty of place to dive into what’s coming….
A synopsis is here.

VMware Flings of Note
VEBA (VMware Event Broker Appliance) 0.6.1 released!

Nutanix Bible gets Updated
The Nutanix Bible has recently gotten an update.
Always a great source of information on how the Nutanix platform functions.
Lots of little improvements, that just make this very long document much easier to consume.
This Nutanix Dev Blog goes over the updates.

Continuing Education – a list of resources that come with references (of people who have used those sites and are happy with the results).
Nutanix .NEXT – September 20-23 (Virtual Event)
VMworld – October 5-7 (Virtual Event)
CodeClouds
HashiCorp Learn
KubeAcademy
Nutanix University
PluralSight / A Cloud Guru (PluralSight purchased A Cloud Guru)
Udemy
vBrownBag
VeeamOn 2021 – recordings
VMware Customer Connect Learning (old VMware Learning Zone)
VMware Hands On Labs