When Virtualization Breaks
The Past, Present and Future of Kubernetes with Craig McLuckie (The Podlets, Ep… The Past, Present and Future of Kubernetes with… Today on The Podlets Podcast, we are joined by VMware’s Vice President of Research and Development, Craig McLuckie! Craig is also a founder of Heptio, who were acquired by VMware and during his time at Google he was part of bringing Kubernetes into being. Craig has loads of expertise and shareable experience in the
Why Kubernetes on Virtual Machines? Why Kubernetes on Virtual Machines? The case for Kubernetes on virtual machines as opposed to bare metal. VMware Social Media Advocacy
Continue readingA few days ago, I posted a DVS management script that added hosts, uplinks and mapped VM based on user inputs in the form of prompts and csv file. A colleague of mine used that script and found a use case where it could be seriously destructive. I will refer to that as V1 script in rest of the post Failed use case: The V1 script made use of Auto assign vmnic to DVS uplink.
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Continue readingHello 2020 and my fist technical post of the year. Use case: You have built a new vCenter from scratch and would like to move host from an existing vCenter server to this one. As a preparation for this migration you performed following steps 1 Created Network mapping of all VMs in the source vCenter server 2 Exported the Distributed switch configuration from the source vCenter server 3 Imported the Distributed switch configuration to the
Continue readingVMware + Pivotal: Combining the Skills, People and Leadership to Deliver Modern… VMware + Pivotal: Combining the Skills, People… VMware Happy New Year! As we enter the 2020 decade, I am very pleased to announce that VMware has completed the Pivotal acquisition, and I want to officially welcome Pivotal to VMware. (Read the close press release here). Global enterprises understand The post VMware + Pivotal: Combining the Skills, People and Leadership to Deliver Modern Apps
Continue readingVMware Completes Acquisition of Pivotal VMware Completes Acquisition of Pivotal VMware, Combined with Pivotal, Committed to Connecting Infrastructure and Application Owners to Accelerate Software Delivery and Drive Business Outcomes VMware Social Media Advocacy
Continue readingConnecting to a vPostgres instance: For most VMware products you can connect to the vPostgres instance using the command below Sometimes, the default user for vPostgres is not “postgres”. The above command will fail in that case. One such application is Site Recovery Manager. For these applications, you can find the vPostgres user details by reviewing the out of ps -aux command. Look at the line 3, the location following “-D” is where you should
Continue readingVMware Launches Cloud Native Master Specialist Exam & Badge VMware Launches Cloud Native Master Specialist… As VMware accelerates into the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Application space we rely on our partner’s skills and capabilities to help guide and deliver on our vision to customers. Today we’re proud deliver another step in enabling our Partners’ success in this space with the VMware Cloud Native Master Specialist exam and badge. This badge VMware Social Media Advocacy
Continue readingVMware vSAN Wins CRN’s Product of the Year Award! VMware vSAN Wins CRN’s Product of the Year Award! VMware is pleased to announce for the fourth year in a row, vSAN is the CRN Product of the Year in the Software Defined Storage category! We’re thankful for our partner’s recognition, and we’re excited to extend our leadership momentum. We were recently recognized as the market leader in HCI based on HCI software by The post
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