There&#rsquo;s a new era in public cloud computing - and it&#rsquo;s fueling digital transformation! Lucky for you, as a VMware customer you have powerful resources at your disposal to stay up to date with the latest systems innovations that&#rsquo;ll provide you with the best ways to maximize your VMware investment and create an agile enterprise

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Happy workloads support great service to the line of business and efficient resource management—in the best scenario, a &#rsquo;win-win&#rdquo; for IT and the business stakeholder. But the pursuit of perfection comes at a cost; hence &#rsquo;perfect&#rdquo; and &#rsquo;optimal&#rdquo; workload placement may look different. In this post we&#rsquo;ll take a look at the hidden costs of

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This post comes from Matthew Avery, a member of the vSphere Integrated Containers engineering team. I am excited to discuss volume supportwithvSphere Integrated Containers and its differences from standard Docker deployments. The important difference to note between VIC and Docker is that VIC leverages the robust vSphere environment in order to interact with pools of

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Review these guidelines to help you understand more about how this impacts your organization. Note that after 24 Feb., partners will no longer be required to complete a Specialization Training to gain access to the Federal and/or Academic SKUs and pricing. Partners currently holding the Specializations will be able to continue transacting, however we ask […]

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This is the thirdpost in the series about building a three-tier application for demonstration, lab, and education purposes. At this point, you have downloaded Photon OS and prepared the base template according to the specifications and have built and tested the database server, db-01a. Workingfrom thebottom-up, we move to the application server, which sits between […]

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Network virtualization with VMware NSX can bring enormous benefits to your organization: stronger security, a bridge to the hybrid cloud, support for your future vision for SDDC. One way to smooth the adoption process is by considering how people, processes and technologies will interact with the solution during your planning stages. Excerpted from a recent […]

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Now is the time for ISVs and service providers to join the VMware vCloud Director® partner ecosystem. The opportunities have never been better. New Training ISVs get streamlined access and certification to vCloud Director. And because service providers get more pre-certified capabilities with new releases of vCloud Director, they can more rapidly monetize services for […]

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By PhilipBardaville When you have a problem that needs immediate attention, successful uploads of logs from your system are the best way to a speedy resolution. I&#rsquo;ve laid out, below, some best practices that you will find useful. Firstly, be proactive. Always open a support ticket immediately with VMware either via the web, your vCenter […]

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There is sometimes a perception by healthcare technology users that virtual machines are free, and resources are unlimited. We, as healthcare IT professionals, have a responsibility to properly set expectations with our application and financial teams, and to show them the true costs of the projects they undertake to help healthcare providers. Cost of the […]

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Dell EMC just launched the first installment of theXpert Video Series. Guided by a superhero, this video series will tackle important subjects on all things VxRail, the first of which is on drive failures.   In Episode I, you&#rsquo;ll get an inside look at how VxRail, powered by VMware vSAN, handles various drive failure situations

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While many of us were buzzing last week over events leading into Inauguration Day, you may have missed that last Thursday was also &#rsquo;Get to Know Your Cusomer Day&#rsquo;. It&#rsquo;s a day observed on the third Thursday of January and dedicated to better understanding customer habits and needs.   In a 2016 survey, conducted by

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  In my last post, I talked about all the awesome you can do with the webhook feature available in vRealize products today. In this post, I would like to drill into one of the possible integrations: ServiceNow. Read on to learn more!     Types of Integration There are two possible types of integration

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Editor’s Note:You may haveheard about thenew Puppet Plugin for vRealize Automation announced at PuppetConf this October fromour previous blog. Today, we are pleasedtohear from Puppet about the generalavailability of this new plugin. Read on more for details about how the latest integration can benefit our joint customers of vRealize Automation and Puppet. By Lindsey Smith,

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