Plain Virtualization

A great day 1 for VMworld 2021. If you have not manage to listen and attend to all the sessions, there were several project been announced. Here are a summary for those who missed it. A quick summary of some of the topics can be found here . Project Cascade (Tech Preview) A unified kubernetes interface across VMware Cloud for IaaS (infra) and CaaS (container). This in turn provide open CLI, API and GUI. This address the problem that developers have to learn a different interface for every cloud running kubenetes. With Project Cascade, developer only need to know one and run in any Cloud. With initial milestone for VM service on VMware Cloud. The good thing is this is build on open foundation. Read more about it here . Project Arctic (Tech Preview) This allows vSphere to have cloud connectivity giving it Cloud-aware. This is extremely useful for customer who are still running on prem workloads and leveraging the cloud for use case such as DR. This allows customers to consume VMware Clou...

 After changing my role as previously mentioned, it has taken some time off my blogging time. Still I want to pen down some important things that one should be looking at. vExpert Application If you are looking to renew vExpert and missed the dateline earlier the year, or is not already a vExpert, the second half application is now open, check out my post and hope it helps. Sign up now till 9th July where it closes. VMworld 2021 Yes the registration for VMWorld 2021 has now open. Do sign up now to avoid disappointment. vCenter Vulnerability https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0010.html If you have not been getting notified, you should be worried whether or not your vCenter Server is internet facing. This is a very critical vulnerability as it has a CVSS score of 9.8/10. Make sure you get it patched. This is an issue affecting the way vSAN plugin validation and authentication with vCenter Server via vSphere Client (HTML5). vCenter Server version 6.5 and above are ...

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 .

This year, from the success of vWarrior last year, VMware Singapore is hosting VMware Odyssey™ at #vFORUMSG Singapore. VMware Odyssey (rebrand) was held at VMworld 2019 this year and will be in VMworld Barcelona as well. If you haven't registered for vForum 2019 Singapore, which will be on 14th Nov, Friday, head over here . This is a competition among teams to showcase your technical capabilities in our Hands-on Lab environment across the VMware portfolio of solutions and win exciting prizes! There will be 4 rounds of Odyssey (Group stage, Voyagers of Venus (VoV), Semi-Finals and Finals). Voyagers of Venus (VoV) will be the bonus round and all teams that are participating (who have a female in their team) will be able to participate in that round.  The difference is that we are only allowing the females of the team to enter the tournament area, cause we want to showcase their capabilities.  The top 3 teams from the VoV round will help their team receive ti...

In Asia Pacific, this is what we have been waiting for the biggest event of all time at in Singapore; VMware vForum 2014! Every year there are more than 3000 participants from customers to partners within the Asia Pacific region with our various sponsors gather at this major event bringing with the announcements from VMworld both held in San Francisco to Barcelona. This year without fail VMware Singapore is hosting it annual biggest event in Singapore at its usual same venue Raffles City Convention Center. If you are new to VMware or just getting started or you are already in the matured level of building your cloud, this is an event not to be missed.  Not only will you get to meet up with all the professionals on the field and get to know all the solutions available to meet your needs, you will also get to understand what on the market just for you at one single day and place! What's different this year from other years, is it is a 2 days event.  First day with all t...

If you are like me grounded in Singapore and have no opportunity to attend the VMworld in San Francisco or Barcelona, no worries!  VMUG Singapore with sponsorship from PureStorage , is going to bring all the announcements made in San Francisco back to Singapore right after the second day key notes. The details of the event can be view here .  If you are able to attend, please register so we can estimate the crowd.  Whether you can arrive on time or after its fine, just come join us!  Register yourself so you can be updated of future VMUG Singapore events too! Also join our Facebook Group VMUG ASEAN . Details of the event is as follows: Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Time: 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Location: RedWorks 71 Robinson Road #07-01 Singapore 068895 See you guys there!