Top 5 newly added VMworld sessions to register for!Top 5 newly added VMworld sessions to register...Advertise here with BSA As VMware has just done a major announcement (vSAN 7.0 U1 and vSphere 7.0U1), additional sessions have been added to the VMworld agenda. I already did a top 15 post not too long ago, so I... Continue Reading →

Design Studio Goes Virtual (and Global)Design Studio Goes Virtual (and Global)This year, the EUC user experience team will once again turn out in numbers for the VMworld Design Studio event. In the two days following VMworld, admins will have an opportunity to participate in an exciting series of UX workshops that pivot off of the... Continue Reading →

New VDI Calculator (HTML) debuts today!New VDI Calculator (HTML) debuts today!Over the years, the VDI Calculator has been used thousands of times by architects and infrastructure teams to size VDI deployments. Just in 2020 alone, the tool has been used over 3,000 times, with the USA and Russia leading the charts. I also see that... Continue Reading →

VMware Fusion v12 - Kubernetes / Kind integrationVMware Fusion v12 - Kubernetes / Kind integrationI recently took a look at the container integration features in VMware Fusion v11.5.6 through the vctl command line feature. I was intrigued to read about a future feature coming in version 12, which included some Kind integration. For those of... Continue Reading →

Kubernetes Observability & Monitoring in the CloudKubernetes Observability & Monitoring in the CloudAs we’ve seen in the previous Kubernetes blog posts (part 1,2,3), more and more IT workloads are getting deployed using Kubernetes. Kubernetes has become the platform of choice for developers to create applications on top of. It is easy to write a distributed... Continue Reading →

PVSCSI Controllers and Queue Depth – Accelerating performance for Oracle WorkloadsPVSCSI Controllers and Queue Depth –...For readers who are familiar with the Asterix and Obelix series, the magic potion refers to the potion brewed by Getafix, that gives the Gaulish warriors superhuman strength. One of VMware’s magic portion for Oracle workloads is the ‘Paravirtualized SCSI... Continue Reading →

What’s New with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1What’s New with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1The VMware Cloud Foundation product team is pleased to announce the upcoming release of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1. This new release builds upon the industry momentum and traction from the March announcement of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 with Tanzu by introducing new features... Continue Reading →

A sneak preview of #VMworld2020 in the next episode of vSpeaking Podcast Ep 167vSpeaking Podcast Ep 167: VMworld 2020 Preview...With VMworld 2020 rapidly approaching, it's time for the Virtually Speaking Podcast's annual VMworld Preview episode. For the first time in history this event will be completely online. This week we welcome Duncan Epping and Ken... Continue Reading →

Announcing VMware vSphere with TanzuAnnouncing VMware vSphere with TanzuvSphere with Tanzu lets you drop enterprise-grade Kubernetes into the infrastructure you already have, and be up and running with modern apps quickly.VMware Social Media Advocacy

A Quick Look at What's New in vSphere 7 Update 1A Quick Look at What's New in vSphere 7 Update 1vSphere 7 Update 1 is the best & greatest shipping vSphere, and brings with it new features like vSphere with Tanzu, new lifecycle management improvements, cluster management changes, backup improvements, EVC for GPUs & graphics,... Continue Reading →