Today (June 20, 2018), At the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington DC, VMware announced VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud. This offering will bring the ease, simplicity, and agility of moving to the cloud to those running workloads in GovCloud….
It’s official! I’m excited to announce that VMware Cloud on AWS now has an easier way for you to quickly deploy and use our service. We are now offering 1-node/1-host Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC’s) for customers to be able to…
VMware Cloud on AWS comes with 16TB NVMe (raw) per host, which equates to 64TB raw when you create a 4-node cluster. Granted, vSAN configurations will consume part of that so the usable space is roughly 10TB/host. That being said,…
It’s no secret that one of the many benefits of using vSphere is vMotion, the ability to migrate running workloads (with no downtime) from one physical host to another. In vSphere 6.0 we announced the ability to perform long-distance vMotion and…
In this blog, we’ll cover Part 3 of our VMC Integrations series, discussing how to leverage an Amazon Application Load Balancer (ALB) with VMware VMs. What we’ve covered previously: Understanding VMC Integrations with AWS Services – Part 1 – ENI,…
In our previous post, Understanding VMC Integrations with AWS Services – Part 1 – ENI, we discussed the security aspect of how VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) works and the Elastic Network Interface that allows us to have this high-bandwidth,…
Happy New Year to all of you out there! I wanted to take some time to dive a little deeper into how the AWS integrations work with VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). Many of you have already seen the above…
I recently had the need to update some of my PowerShell scripts and needed to know any and all cmdlets that used the -ResourcePool or -Location parameters. Turns out you can use this handy little property (‘Definition’) to search parameters…
With vSphere 6.5, we added a number of ‘Additional Options’ to DRS. These additional options uplevel some of the “Advanced Options” (which we don’t talk about much) that we’ve found are valuable to our customers. The Three that we added…
Let’s face it, you look down at your taskbar and you have 5 PowerShell/PowerCLI sessions open. You open each session and scroll through the commands. Each session was used for something unique and you have hundreds of commands run in…