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If you are not aware, vSphere 6.0 is coming to the end of general support on 12th Mar 2020. If you are still running 6.0 or below, it is a good time to quickly planned for an upgrade to at least version 6.5 or 6.7 since it got extended for a full 5 years from the day of release for vSphere 6.5 which is 15th Nov 2021. You can refer to the KB . Once the end of general support, what this means is, there will be no new patches to fix bugs. You will only get support based on what is recorded in KBs. Also things without any engineering effort. You will only receive technical guidance before the end of support. Here is a good article to understand the different support after End of Life of a product. Update 14th Mar 2020 Softwares release with vSphere 6.0 that are ending general support are as follows: Center Server 6.0 vCenter Update Manager 6.0 ESXi 6.0 Site Recovery Manager 6.0 and 6.1 vSAN 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 vSphere Data Protection 6.0 and 6.1 vSphere Replication 6.0 and 6...

Yes, you read it correctly. The vExpert program for the year 2020 will be open next Monday, 25th Nov 2019 PST. This has been announced in the vExpert Twitter tweet . To recap for those who are applying. My experience FAQ to be qualified, show your contribution vExpert portal to create an account to apply and benefits list List of vExpert Pro around the world to help you Get ready your engine. Make your Mark! Closing date 10th Jan 2020. Update 26th Nov 2019 SGT The application has gone live.

Here is a summary that was announced during VMware VMworld 2019 Barcelona. As usual, the remind which was announced in VMworld 2019 US on VMware Tanzu hit the stage once again in Barcelona. Here are the summary of what was announced: VMware Workspace One delivers Day Zero Employee experience [ news ] Workspace one for Microsoft Endpoint Manager to manage the wide deployment of Windows 10 devices. [ news ] [ article ] Project Maestro, VMware Telco Cloud Orchestrator across 4G and 5G [ article ] [ news ] VMware new Security Solutions brings intrinsic security to the modern distributed enterprise [ news ] [ NSX Distributed IPS/IDS ] At the same time, vRealize Network Insight 5.1 was released with support for assessment for VMC on AWS and NSX SD-WAN. It also includes Application Day 2 operations performance by observing the degrading in traffic. Check out more details here .