VMware News: January 2021

Highlights:

National Stock Exchange Builds Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure to Accelerate Delivery of Transformative Modern Applications

VMware serves as the infrastructure backbone for the second-largest electronic stock exchange in the world. To stay competitive on the global stage, National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) sought to modernize its IT platform to keep pace with the growth in trading volume and introduce new solutions for its customers. Learn how NSE deployed a VMware solution to modernize the data center and build a quick and scalable hybrid cloud infrastructure, while ensuring security.

Kubernetes with vSphere. Integrated Simplicity with Kenny Coleman

In this session we will look at vSphere with Tanzu and go into the architecture of how vSphere is integrating at multiple points of Kubernetes to simplify RBAC, storage management, and cluster lifecycle management. The demo will show how easy it is to stand up a cluster and ready to deploy any application.

Learn What’s New in VMware Cloud on AWS

Learn how VMware Cloud on AWS is bringing improved compliance, workload protection, and enhancement in scale, usage, and migration capabilities.

Professional Development

VMware Hands-on Labs Jumpstart Raffle Contest

We selected a few labs to help you explore products that will enhance your learning around VMware private and hybrid cloud solutions. At the end of the event, 3 randomly drawn winners will each receive (1) Apple Macbook Pro and (1) Apple AirPods Pro. The more labs you take, the better your chances will be to win! This contest will be open from December 1, 2020 – February 3, 2021. Learn more here!

I’m a VMware Admin: What Do I Do with Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters?

If this is your first time using Kubernetes, Kubeapps is a great way to see what’s possible. So let’s take a look at the deployment using vSphere with Tanzu.

From Objects to Capabilities: Joe Hoh on Infrastructure Team to Platform Team

What’s different about the day in the life of a DevOps Platform pro from an infrastructure pro? In speaking with Joe Hoh of Great American Insurance Company it’s all about delivering capabilities instead of objects. The work isn’t measured by the number of VMs delivered and tickets fulfilled. It’s about adding new capabilities to developers and their business use cases. And that is much more rewarding work. Learn more here!

vSphere with Tanzu 201

This course provides a technical dive into vSphere with Tanzu using the Hands-On Lab

Events

Workspace ONE Onboarding: Tips form then Field

Join experienced architects from VMware Professional Services as they share their tips and resources for onboarding Workspace ONE.

• Mobile Device Management – February 11, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. PST
• Windows 10 Modern Management – February 25, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. PST

During these 30-minute sessions, our experts will cover onboarding best practices for Workspace ONE including:

• Common Pitfalls
• Frequently Asked Questions
• The Best Resources to Get Started Don’t miss these valuable webinars

Save your spot today.

Demo

Leveraging Fluent Bit on Tanzu Kubernetes Grid to send VEBA logs to vRealize Log Insight

Introduction With the recent v0.5 release of the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) project, the ability of deploying the core component, the VMware Event Router, via a Helm chart to an existing Kubernetes cluster was introduced. William Lam introduced this and all the other great new features and enhancements in his corresponding blog post. This earned very positive feedback from the community and opens even more doors in terms of flexibility as well as extensibility.

Product Updates

29 NEW Proactive Findings in VMware Skyline

Skyline proactive intelligence continues to help keep you out of harm’s way with 29 new proactive findings across VMware Security Advisories, VMware Validated Designs, top Support Request trends, vSAN Health alignment and more. As a reminder, Skyline is included at no additional charge with your Production Support, Premier Support or Customer Success 360 contract. Download Skyline today to keep your environment productive and healthy.

Save money using vSAN TRIM/UNMAP in VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud on AWS introduced the TRIM/UNMAP feature flag with the M12 release. This is the same functionality that was introduced in vSAN 6.7U1. You can have it enabled in your M12 and newer SDDC by requesting enablement of the TRIM/UNMAP feature flag in chat support. Learn how to leverage this feature and get tips for space reclamation.

Day 2 VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC Scale Up…in Four Clicks or Keystrokes!

Learn how you can upscale your medium SDDC to large with just a few clicks.

New Proxy Support, Registry Service Trust, and Separate Disks on vSphere with Tanzu

A rundown of new functionality in vSphere with Tanzu as it relates to the Tanzu Kubernetes clusters. Learn more here!

Whitepaper

Announcing VMware Cloud Migration Tools Whitepaper

All workloads are not created equal. Part of the workload assessment and migration planning process includes an understanding of the different tools and migration types that are available. This paper provides an overview of the different migration strategies and migration tools that can be used to migrate workloads to a given VMware Cloud™ SDDC. These migration tools span from native offerings from VMware to 3rd party solutions that enable workload relocation to cloud native rehosting based on your business and application needs. Download the VMware Cloud Migration Tools whitepaper.

VMware News

Follow VMware Marketplace on Twitter!

VMware Marketplace is now on Twitter! Follow us for product updates, new solution announcements, partner news and much more.

Thought Leadership

VMware Cloud on AWS Unlocks the Potential of Cloud for Businesses Globally

See examples of the business momentum and economic value of VMware Cloud on AWS in this infographic.

(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About SRE

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a hot topic, but what exactly does it entail? And do you have to follow the principles to a T in order to achieve benefits from it? If you’re searching for answers to these common questions, look no further.