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Right before VMworld, VMware has announcement some new releases. Two of which that has lots of new stuff to look forward to is vSphere and vSAN. Here I am going to list down all the resources that you can read or watch to find out more on what is new in both vSphere 7.0 Update 1 and vSAN 7.0 Update 1. vSphere 7.0 Update 1 Check out the announcement  here  and the youtube video  here . AMD SEV-ES Support in vSphere 7 vSphere With Tanzu - Networking with vSphere Distributed Switch vSphere 7 Update 1 – AMD SEV-ES   AMD SEV-ES Support in vSphere 7 ( video ) vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) (updated) vSphere Lifecycle Manager Improvements (updated) Unprecedented Scalability (updated) As usual, with almost in every release, you see the maximum supported numbers goes up. However, one of the key supported on CPU security is from AMD on SEV-ES. Check out the article  here . vSAN 7.0 Update 1 Check out the announcement  here  and video . Duncan Epping have ...

Recently I sign up for VMware vSphere Instructor Certification Workshop (ICW). I have never attend other instructor workshop so far but I must say, the one from VMware is not as easy as it is not just going through a typically training to be VMware Certified Instructor. You can check out more details of the requirements here . It is an intense 5 days workshop. I am fortunate to have two of our senior technical trainers from VMware, Habeeb and Murali . Together we have 6 candidates including myself. Some are having their second attempt while some like myself is attending for the first time. Everyone are from different background. Some candidates are also trainers for other products. We were given the course materials for vSphere 6.7: Install, Configure & Manage workshop including the instructor slides and student's notes and lab toget ourselves equipped. At the same time, we were given our first day module to present. We do have amble time for the first presentation treating ev...

Constantly even myself, we found difficult to setup the vSphere web client.  Often I always forgot what to do again and again from vSphere 5.0, 5.1 and now 5.5.  I decide to just document this down so that the web client can work as a breeze.   The first thing after setting up your vCenter 5.5, you would need to: Log into the web client using the SSO administrator: Change the password for the SSO administrator account (administrator@vsphere.local) Change the password expiry to from the default 90 days to your requirement (Note: '0' will not work although the message state so when you click on the textbox, instead do a 9999 if you require no expiry. Refer to KB ) Add your domain into the Identity Sources under Administration>Single-Sign-On>Configuration Set it to Default Domain by clicking on the Global Icon Add your accounts or groups to be SSO administrator going to Administrators under Groups in Administration>Single-Sign-On>Users and Gr...