Plain Virtualization

If you have been following, VMware release NSX from acquisition of Nicira over the last two years.  The concept of overlay was new to the market and change many from looking at Network Virtualization.  It also introduced the first micro-segmentation concept into the virtualization world where it is not possibly done. NSX was released with the capability from distributed firewall (DFW), Routing and Switching, VPN as well as Load Balancing in the virtual network environment. Many have viewed NSX as an expensive solution however many wasn't aware what NSX really provide.  A majority of NSX deployment were attracted by the micro-segmentation ability which at today context the only way to do so is to place a firewall behind every single physical server.  That however still does not provide protection on all the VMs that can be running on one physical server which DFW has the ability to do so. Looking at just the above example, the cost of implementing micro-segmenta...

Today marks the announcement from VMware to end the availability in future release of vSphere Client for Windows also known as the C# Client by many.  The last version and will be vSphere Client 6.0.  Any version of vSphere alongside with support will still be released. With this, there will only be one client moving forward in the next release of vSphere (lightly announced in Aug 2016 during VMworld as usual).  As also stated there will be two edition of Web Client in next release namely: Flex and HTML5. There will be plugins from other vendors that will not work since the time to create support for HTML5 will take times, so it makes sense for those who are dependent on those plugin to utilize the Flex.  For users who are not using any Flex dependent plugin, you can fully utilize the HTML5 based web client completely and enjoy the requirement of using Flash and away from the security vulnerability that comes with it. Currently there is a Fling of the HTML5 c...

This has been something which was announced here but many customers are not aware. Yes vRealize Log Insight (vR LI) is now bundle into every vCenter Edition. Yes you hear it right. Don't be too contented. Nothing is for free unless there is a catch. And yes it does. The catch here is it only cover 25 OSI (OS Instance). It does come with many content packs to work with vR Log Insight. Horizon View NSX OpenStack vCenter Operations Manager (5.x) vCloud Automation Center (6.0) vCloud Director vCNS Virtual SAN vRealize Automation (6.1, 6.2) vRealize Operations Manager (6.x) vSphere If you find vR LI is something useful, you can always add more 25 OSI Packs or you can license them by per CPU model via vRealize Suite/vCloud Suite. If you do the latter, I would recommend you to use the free 25 OSI pack for external device. This has been made unaware by many and like to repeat this is only for vCenter edition from vSphere Standard and above (if there is any edition ...

The time of the year again for the voting for the top 12 vBlogs that you have find useful and you have been following.  These bloggers have put in effort to share what they know and contribute their own time outside work and using their personal time to contribute back to the bigger community. It only takes less than 5 mins to complete the voting.  Just head over here to vote for the top 12 vBlogs that you felt meaning to you in one way or the other.  If you do not have exact 12, include those you felt have put in effort in doing so.