Plain Virtualization

If you are running VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) which comes from Workspace One known as Workspace One Access or in vRealize Automation (vRA), this is something you need to take note and action right now. The security advisories with a CVSSv3 rating of more than 9 is been release and it is best to update to the fixed version. Since this is used for SSO access and all many users will be leveraging this, to avoid serious impact it is best to apply the fixed at soonest. Refer to VMSA-2022-001 .

There are some confusion out there on VMware Horizon 6 Bundle.  You can take a look at the available products that are in Horizon Standard, Advanced and Enterprise Edition https://www.vmware.com/products/horizon-view/compare. Here we will use the Horizon Enterprise bundle as an example as the products which are available in the Advanced Edition will be what we will be going through. All editions from the bundle except Horizon Standard (only CCU) comes in both Named Users (NU) and Concurrent Users (CCU) licensing.  However there are products in the bundle that has no way in doing a CCU licensing even if you have purchase the CCU licensing.  This is because the way it is used is an active connections or active user and not possible to be a concurrent connection method. Let's take for example: Horizon View, this can be in NU or CCU.  Reason is simple you can have a fixed number of users who will always access the virtual desktops, that will help with a NU licensin...

With VMworld 2015 starting today, there will always be new announcement.  Here I am going to summarize what are the new stuff that will be release in a nutshell and detail some of them in later post. vSphere 6.0 U1 - Tech preview of vSphere Web Client Update Manager - able to migration embedded PSC to external PSC - added vCloud Air web client to plugin Virtual SAN (VSAN) 6.1 - stretch cluster in All-Flash VSAN - 2 nodes ROBO office with witness in main site - vSphere Replication to support 5 minutes RPO   vSphere with Operations Manager 6.1 (vSOM), vRealize Operations 6.1 (vR Ops), vRealize Operations Insight 6.1 (vROI) vR Ops Standard Edition now comes with SDDC management packs which include VSAN, vCloud Ai, NSX Update 17th Sept 2015: Apparently vR Ops 6.1 Advanced and above will have these management packs. - New OS & Applications monitoring starting with 5 supported apps.  More to come. - Tech preview: Workload Placement Engine (WLP) working with ...