At Dell EMC World 2017, the 14th generation of PowerEdge servers was announced. There is not a lot of information available but some of the key information: * The new Intel Xeon processors (‘Xeon Scalable Family’) * iDRAC version 9 will be available with support for SecureBoot, BIOS Recovery capabilities, signed firmware and iDRAC REST …
This week VMware released vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) version 1.1. Below are the product highlights and a small introduction to the new product. Information about VMware Integrated Containers vSphere Integrated Containers comprises three components: VMware vSphere Integrated Containers Engine, a container runtime for vSphere that allows developers who are familiar with Docker to develop in …
Photon Platform version 1.2 has been released this week. Keep in mind the support for VMware ESXi 6.0 has been dropped for Photon Platform version 1.2. What’s new: Support for Kubernetes 1.6 Simpler Cluster Management Static and Dynamic Persistent Volumes Master and Worker Node High Availability Pod Networking and Enhancements AD/LDAP and Security Quota Based …
On March 16 2017, I attended the NLVMUG 2017 in the Netherlands. Frank Denneman from VMware presented the opening keynote about “VMware Cloud on AWS”. The NLVMUG is a one-day event and displayed 65 sessions, a remarkably high number. The NLVMUG is one of the largest/is the largest VMUG in the world. This week the …
A security vulnerability has been discovered in some VMware products (CVE-2017-5638). It’s a critical vulnerability which allows remote code execution (RCE) on Apache Struts 2. The vulnerability affects the following VMware products: – DaaS 6.X / 7.X – Hyperic 5.X – vCenter 5.5 / 6.0 / 6.5 – vROPS 6.X
I recently got a question about enabling and disabling the quest time synchronization for virtual machines. The customer asked about a solution to change the settings from within the operating system instead of the VMware vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client. Normally you would change the virtual machine time synchronization settings by hand with the …
When deploying some virtual machines in a test environment I ran into the following problem. In most cases, I make use of a VMware vCenter Storage DRS cluster, in this case when deploying a virtual machine the best-suited datastore is selected for the virtual machines. The only problem is not all customers are entitled to …
On 1 February 2017, I passed the VMware VCAP6-DCV Deployment exam (3V0-623). This was my first VMware VCAP exam that I ever did. I prepped for about two months in my Home Lab environment and a couple of times I used the VMware Hands-on Labs. The main goal wat to exercise all the objectives listed …
With the release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 in November, there was an announcement made about the vSphere 6.5 support. “Yesterday, with impeccable timing, VMware announced the general availability of vSphere 6.5. As always, we started work on the full integration of vSphere 6.5 since its beta, however, we now need adequate time to …
Currently I am studying for my VMware VCAP6-DCV Deploy exam. The VMware blueprint specifies objectives required for this exam like iSCSI, NFS and VVol. To test/exercise those storage protocols you need a LAB environment with a storage platform. After searching on the internet I found the Dell EMC UnityVSA storage appliance.