Posts tagged "vmware-2"

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Connecting VMware Cloud on AWS to Native AWS Services - a UKVMUG presentation

Dec 13, 2018

I had the huge pleasure today of presenting a community talk at the UK VMUG in the stellar location of the UK National Space Center in Leicester...there was an actual rocket! I've been super interested in the recent love fest of VMware and AWS. The titans of private and public clouds have entered into a marriage of stratospheric nerdy potential. I recently attended AWS re:Invent ( What interest...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: VMware at AWS re:Invent

Nov 28, 2018

VMware and AWS have both made a significant investment in VMware Cloud on AWS. One of the interesting facets of this relationship is how the VMware and AWS communities are starting to cross over more than when VMware thought of AWS as just "a book seller"! The Power of Community VMware has always had an extremely vibrant community. Some of it was timing, having a technology that became ubiquito...

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Generating vCenter Solution User Certificates With Custom Names

Sep 28, 2018

Many enterprises require replacing all vCenter certificates with Enterprise CA trusted certificates. vSphere 6.5 has made the certificate updating process so much easier than the complication of the vSphere 5.x days. Basic vCenter now has a single Machine SSL certificate as well as four Solution user certificates: machine (different from machine SSL), vpxd, vpxd-extension, vsphere-webclient. Al...

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Serverless, Show Me the Servers! - A UK VMUG 2017 Presentation

Nov 16, 2017

I was happy to be asked to present at the National UK VMUG about Serverless. I had done the closing keynote last year so pretty relieved that I was at least invited back! The presentation was similar to the ( I had done in July although updated as the Serverless ecosystem is moving at breakneck speed. Changes of note since July are the addition of the new and momentum gathering ( framework, Azu...

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Can I order some servers for my serverless please - London VMUG Presentation

Jun 22, 2017

I was super happy to be able to present again at the London VMUG today on some tech that's going to make a huge impact, Serverless. Yes, its a dumb name, as dumb as cloud but basically refers to Functions as a Service. I went through what it is, covering the important points of event driven user defined functions spun up and down on demand. There's no infrastructure to manage from the point of...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: My wrap up thoughts + a VMworld Hot or Not

Sep 20, 2016

I arrived at VMworld a little sceptical this year. So much is changing in IT, cloud and DevOps is actually delivering the promises of a better way to do things, I wasn’t sure VMware was up to the task of pivoting/extending beyond being the best VM hypervisor/management company around. I do see tons of things happening at VMware. Cloud native apps and container management are being worked on fur...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: An Industry Roadmap: From storage to data management - STO7903

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ Next up to another storage session with one of the fathers of VSAN, Christos Karamanolis, who is also a VMware Fellow, I’ve heard Christos speak a number of times and he’s very much worth listening to. Christos started reiterating that data provides tremendous business value potential with a huge uptick in the amount...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: CLOVE: Congestion-Aware Load Balancing from the Virtual Edge

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I spoke to Aditi Ghag. This is all about building a congestion aware, fine-grained, distributed network load balancer. This means as soon as the packet enters the network at the vSwitch or physical...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: Corfu Distributed Shared Log

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I had been to a session which I blogged about: ( so here are my notes from that: Michael Wei spoke about Corfu which is an open source distributed open scale platform. He went through how a typical...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: Enabling vMotion with Passthrough SR-IOV Network Devices for Latency Sensitive Apps

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I spoke to Xin Xu. Currently VMware has a number of features for allowing latency sensitive apps to have a more direct path to the hardware which obviously speeds things up. However this breaks som...

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