This week, Tuesday the 16th, was the first meetup organized by Amazic. The nice thing for me is that Amazic is located in Nieuw-Vennep which is also my hometown. After the food and drinks, Luke Hasty started the evening. Mohamed Yassini, the founder of Amazic told us a bit about the background of this meetup. His goal …

Today VMware announced VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure. The solution helps customers bring VMware virtual desktops and applications to the increasing global presence of Microsoft Azure in the enterprise. The addition of VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure puts VMware in a unique position to offer customers …

The Host Profiles CLI Fling (hostprofilescli) is a command-line utility that allows vSphere administrators to perform several operations with Host Profiles that are either not currently possible through existing user interfaces, or possible only through graphical interfaces. Recall that Host Profiles is a feature of …

vCenter Cluster Performance Tool is a Powershell script that uses vSphere PowerCLI to obtain performance data for a cluster by aggregating information from individual hosts. You have the following options to specify in the script. An “interval” of 20s or 300s. The default is 20s, and corresponds to real time …

Get the new Fling: ESXi Learnswitch! Get the new Fling: ESXi Learnswitch! This Learnswitch Fling is developed as a full fledged MAC Learning feature on a DVS. VMware Social Media Advocacy

vSphere Docker Volume Service is now Docker Certified! We are happy to announce that VMware has joined Docker Certification Program and vSphere Docker Volume Service (vDVS) plugin is now available on Docker Store! VMware Social Media Advocacy

Kubernetes and VMware NSX [blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization] Kubernetes and VMware NSX Organizations are moving away from static infrastructure to full automation on every aspect of IT. This major shift is not happening overnight. It is an evolutionary process, and people decide to evolve their IT at different …

VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.0 Architecture Reference Poster On March 2nd 2017 we released the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 4.0. A milestone release in our commitment to delivering our customers standardized, proven, and robust data-center level designs for the Software-Defined Data …

New Fling: Cross vCenter VM Mobility - CLI New Fling: Cross vCenter VM Mobility - CLI Cross vCenter VM Mobility - CLI is a command line interface (CLI) tool that can be used to migrate or clone a VM from one host to another host managed by a linked or isolated vCenter (VC) instance. VMware Social Media Advocacy

Where in the World are VCPs? It’s that time of year! 2016’s “Where in the World are VCPs” infographic was such a hit, we decided to refresh it for 2017. The VMware Education Services team is proud to announce that the VCP community grew (11%) to represent a total of 189 countries this year. Which country do you …

Yesterday VMware released a new version of the ESXi embedded host client. The ESXi Embedded Host Client is a native HTML and JavaScript application and is served directly from your ESXi host! It should perform much better than any of the existing solutions. Please note that the Host Client cannot be used to manage …

Yesterday VMware published the list of vExperts for 2017. This is the first time that I applied for the VMware vExpert program and I'm honored to have been chosen as one of the few vExperts this year. What is the vExpert program? The VMware vExpert program is VMware's global evangelism and advocacy program. The program …