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Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware Cloud Foundation is VMware’s unified SDDC platform for the hybrid cloud and it’s based on VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization technologies to deliver a native integrated software stack that can be used on-premises for private cloud deployment or run as a service from the public cloud with consistent and simple operations. VMware has announced the upcoming release of VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3.  This new release comes with many new capabilities to help further simplify the tasks of deploying, operating and maintaining a VMware based hybrid cloud.

Reading Time: 2 minutesOn December, 4th 2017, I’ve been invited at the VMUG CZ Meeting and it was a nice opportunity to meet some friends (and know new friends). It was also the opportunity to bring my experience with stretched clusters, mainly in VMware environment, in a presentation that I’ve titled “The dark side of stretched cluster“, in order to pointing not only at the pro of this configuration, but also at the possible cons.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMware has announced a preview of VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension service as an add-on service to VMware Cloud on AWS. (like the Site Recovery add-on). Hybrid Cloud Extension service will enable customers to adopt the latest VMware Cloud on AWS offers, without the need to refactor applications and redo security and compliance architectures. Hybrid Cloud Extension service will provide large scale application migration and mobility between legacy VMware vSphere environments (vSphere 5.0+) and VMware Cloud on AWS to support this use case.

Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring AWS re:Invent 2017 event, VMware has announced a new service based on VMware Cloud on AWS. The new service brings VMware enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Disaster Recovery as a Service to the AWS Cloud. VMware Site Recovery™, a robust disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering that protects workloads between on-premises datacenters and VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as between different instances of VMware Cloud on AWS.

Reading Time: 2 minutesStarting with vSphere 6.5 you have some limitations with OVF format. For example you cannot export in OVA format anymore. Note that you can still import in OVF or OVA. But you may have also some issues in OVF import.

Reading Time: 2 minutesMicrosoft ufficializza un nuovo servizio (al momento in preview) su Azure che risponde al binomio VMware e Amazon (relativo all’offerta VMware Cloud on AWS). La soluzione si chiama VMware in Azure, e si tratta di un ambiente vSphere installato bare-metal all’interno dei datacenter Azure. Non ci sono dettagli architetturali, come ad esempio il numero di host minimi (su VMware Cloud on AWS è 4), il tipo di storage utilizzato (si utilizzerà la Cloud Foundation e quindi vSAN?). L’unica certezza è che l’intero servizio è implementato tramite partner VMware e non direttamente tramite VMware.

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware has recently released the new verion of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) 3.6 that adds key capabilities that enhance network and security visibility in customers’ SDDC and AWS environments, and that enable customers to confidently deploy, manage and scale their VMware NSX deployments. VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security and helps customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. Also it can accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

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