VMware News: July 2021

Highlights

Digital Workspace Office Hours

Join us for sessions that will enable you to leverage all of your Workspace ONE and Horizon capabilities and get more out of your digital workspace investments. During 60-minute, interactive webcasts, you’ll engage with our experts about various topics and explore: – Common pitfalls – Frequently asked questions – Best available resources Register for future sessions or view previous ones on-demand to get onboarding and optimizing tips from VMware experts.

Ready to Deploy VMware Cloud on AWS?

Visit our new VMware Cloud on AWS page to learn more about our self-service offering. Start at your own pace with a full-featured single host deployment, or deploy a production environment to migrate and modernize your applications, extend data center capacity, and deliver disaster recovery.

Let’s get started and tackle those priority initiatives today.

Demo: VMware Tanzu Standard Edition with Microsoft Azure

In this demo, we look at using VMware Tanzu Standard edition with Microsoft Azure. Namely, the two products that will be seen are Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Tanzu Mission Control.

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is the enterprise container runtime that utilizes cluster API to enable full lifecycle management.

Global or fleet-wide management is the capability brought by Tanzu Mission Control. Tanzu Mission Control can inherit Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters to do provisioning and lifecycle management through its intuitive graphical user interface.

Product Update

VMware Marketplace: Continuous and Automated Validation for Its ISV and Ecosystem Solutions

VMware Marketplace’s new continuous and automated validation capability (or CVaaS) enables ISVs to validate the latest versions of their applications on the latest versions of VMware deployment platforms and vice-versa. Watch this video to learn more about how to validate your applications on VMware Marketplace.

Build a Data Analytics Platform in Minutes Using Deployment Blueprints

Cloud native deployment patterns for data platforms and solutions simplify deployment complexity and enable data platforms to be deployed in minutes instead of hours or days. Learn more here!

Tracing the Path to Clear Visibility in DevOps

Learn all about the latest enhancements to the VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront platform.

Firewall Rules for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on VMware Cloud on AWS

To deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) into a VMware Cloud on AWS environment, specific firewall rules must be created to allow proper communication between components. Learn how to setup the firewall rules needed to properly deploy TKG management clusters and Tanzu Kubernetes clusters into VMware Cloud on AWS.

Podcast: High Availability and Resiliency with VMware Cloud on AWS

Listen to this podcast episode to learn key capabilities of VMware Cloud on AWS that provide resilient and highly available infrastructure to customers. VMware experts talk about how VMware Cloud on AWS handles infrastructure failures, AWS regional failures, and much more.

What’s New in VMware Cloud on AWS: July 2021

Learn about new capabilities and improvements to workload security, enterprise workload support, commerce experience, scale, customer experience, resiliency, migration, subscription options, advanced cloud management, and more.

Configuring safe and secure connectivity to your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

Learn about different options and guidelines for providing secure connectivity to vCenter deployed in the VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.

Skyline Now Supports vRealize Automation and vRealize Lifecycle Manager

We’re pleased to announce new Skyline Collector 2.8 and Advisor releases with support for vRealize Automation 8.1 and above, and vRealize Lifecycle Manager v8.2 and above, Customer Connect notifications, expanded Support Request visibility and LDAPS for Active Directory Authentication support.

Customer Success Stories

NWTF Digitalizes Financial Inclusion with SD-WAN

Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF), one of the Philippines’ first microfinance institutions, provides sustainable financial services to help less-privileged women achieve self-sufficiency to live dignified and independent lives.

To keep pace with its rapid expansion to other islands in the Philippines, NWTF requires reliable and scalable connectivity between its branches and headquarters. Since deploying SD-WAN, NWTF has been able to ensure priority transmission for mission-critical applications, enhancing connectivity and productivity across rural and urban areas of the Philippines. Learn more here!

Sparkassen-Finanzportal Transforms Customer Experience with Tanzu

Sparkassen-Finanzportal (SFP) is the central provider of communication and digital services to Sparkassen, the German savings banks. Challenged by a decentralized structure, it was often difficult to optimize the customer experience. Working with Tanzu Labs, SFP reimagined and delivered a new, innovative customer experience for its real estate portal in just 10 weeks.

Sentara Healthcare Stops Outages & Saves Millions with HCI

This not-for-profit healthcare organization has adopted a hyperconverged infrastructure that includes vSAN and NSX. The highly scalable infrastructure reliably supports a digital workspace environment featuring Horizon virtual desktops serving 12,500 concurrent Epic EMR users. The solution has prevented outages, saved the company millions of dollars and helped it meet compliance needs.

Events

Black Hat USA 2021

Introducing the VMworld 2021 Content Catalog

The Content Catalog is here! Browse this year’s content and get a head start on building your VMworld 2021 experience. With 600+ sessions, you’ll find plenty of content to fit your industry, role, and business challenge. With so many sessions, filter by session type, track, audience, product, or technical/business level. Register today to join thousands of the brightest people in IT online at VMworld 2021.

Watch On-Demand: VMware Cloud on AWS Use Case Deep Dive Webcasts

Join VMware Cloud on AWS Experts as they deep dive into VMware Cloud on AWS Use Cases, including scaling capacity and extending your data center to the cloud, and how to scale your virtual desktops and applications to the cloud for remote work.

Thought Leadership

Why Path-to-Production Analysis Is a Must for Software Development Teams

Path-to-production analysis enables you to identify all the steps in the process, including the wait time and duration (cycle time) of each of them. Learn more here!

Understanding the Differences Between Dockerfile and Cloud Native Buildpacks

Container images enable you to bundle an application with all of its dependencies—soup to nuts, all the way down to the OS file system. However, the responsibility of providing the runtime and OS shifts from the ops or IT team that formerly created and maintained the target environment to the dev or DevOps team that is now packaging the application as an image.

So, organizations must reimagine how they ensure consistency, security, transparency, and upkeep of these modernized artifacts. Here, we compare two approaches to see how they measure up when it comes to meeting, or exacerbating, these challenges.

Save Time, Save Money with Google Cloud VMware Engine

Google Cloud VMware Engine is the only available solution for migrating your datacenter workloads to Google Cloud Platform quickly and securely. Plus, Google Cloud VMware Engine accelerates “cloud-first” strategies while saving time and money. Discover how through our new infographic. For more information, please contact GCVEsales@vmware.com.

Whitepaper

Whitepaper: Put the Hybrid Cloud to Work for You: VMware Cloud on AWS

Moving to the public cloud offers your organization some unquestionable and very attractive benefits. But there are definite challenges along the way that are as unique as the workloads you run and how much of your on‑premises operations you want to move to the public cloud. This paper will help you assess your own cloud readiness and present why VMware Cloud on AWS is an optimal solution to consider when it comes to modernizing and future‑proofing your existing applications.

Professional Development

CKAD Practice

This course is a port of Liptan Biswas’ CKAD practice challenge. It provides an environment that can be launched quickly and on-demand, and designed to allow you to practice for the CKAD certification exam. This resource is by no means exhaustive, so be sure to consult additional references as you prepare to take your examination.