VMworld General Session, Day 2, Tuesday August 27th, 2019: VMware Tanzu demos, and new CTO announcement!

August 27, 2019September 4, 2019 CaptainvOPs

Day 3 of VMworld 2019 in San Francisco is underway, and it is the second day of General sessions. Clearly today’s theme is Kubernetes, and VMware’s Ray O’Farrell kicked off the keynote by talking about VMware Tanzu and Tanzu’s mission control.

The Keynote then included the integration of NSX-T with Tanzu. The ability to test changes, to see the impact on the environment before going live, was truly amazing

There was also an interesting demo with VMware Horizon and Workspace ONE, showcasing the usage deploying work spaces rapidly from the cloud, and creating zero-trust security policy withing workspace ONE with Carbon Black

Pat jumped up on stage to announce that Ray O’Ferrell (@ray_ofarrell) would be leading VMware’s cloud native apps division, and Greg Lavender (@GregL_VMware) was named the New CTO of VMware.

VMware also announced a limited edition t-shirt that would be given away later that day. VMware had roughly 1000 of these shirts made up, and luckily I was able to get a shirt before they ran out.

Plenty of people were upset about not getting a shirt due to the limited run. Gives a whole new meaning to nerd rage…. (sorry I couldn’t help myself).

VMworld General Session, Day 1, Monday August 26th, 2019: VMware Tanzu, and Project Pacific.

August 26, 2019August 27, 2019 CaptainvOPs

The start of VMworld 2019 in San Francisco is underway, and Pat kicked off the general session talking about his excitement for being back in San Francisco, while poking fun at us “Vegas lovers”. Pat also talked about technology, our digital lives, and technologies role being a force for good. He talked about charities, and cancer research foundations.

Pat Then talked about The Law of Unintended Consequences, and how technology has advanced, we as a society have given up certain aspects of Privacy, the need to combat disinformation at scale available widely on the social media platforms.

Surprisingly, according to Pat, Bitcoin is Bad and contributes to the climate crisis.

First Major Announcement with Kubernetes, as VMware has been focussing on containers

Pat then announced the creation of VMware Tanzu, which is the initiative to have a common platform that allows developers to build modern apps, run enterprise Kubernetes, and platform to manage Kubernetes for developers and IT..

Second Major Announcement, Project Pacific. An ambitious project to unite vSphere and Kubernetes for the future of modern IT

Interestingly, Project Pacific was announced to be 30% faster than a traditional Linux VM, and 8% faster than solutions running on bare metal.

Project Pacific brings Kubernetes to the VMware Community, and will be offered by 20K+ Partner resellers, 4K+ Service providers and 1,100+ technology partners.

Tanzu also comes with mission control, a centralized tool allowing IT Operations to manage Kubernetes for developers and IT.

From VMworld: Introducing Project Pacific!

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 captainvopsrd

Introducing Project Pacific

From VMworld: Introducing Project Pacific!

Today VMware announced Project Pacific, what I believe to be the biggest evolution of vSphere in easily the last decade. Simply put, we are rearchitecting vSphere to deeply integrate and embed Kubernetes. Project Pacific evolves vSphere to be a native Kubernetes platform. What’s driving this shift? Fundamentally it goes to what constitutes a modern application. The post Introducing Project Pacific appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog.

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Introducing Project Pacific

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VMworld 2019: Your Chance to Win Bose Headphones

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VMworld 2019: Your Chance to Win Bose Headphones

Security Keynotes at VMworld 2019 About a month ago, we published a VMworld security guide, which shortlisted 100 to 300 level sessions that best illustrate VMware’s strategy and vision while providing a deeper understanding of our products. This time, we’ll be focusing on two security keynotes, with the first one highlighting how AppDefense can The post VMworld 2019: Your Chance to Win Bose Headphones appeared first on VMware Security.

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VMware vSAN 6.7 U3 is Generally Available

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VMware vSAN 6.7 U3 is Generally Available

Download vSAN 6.7 U3 VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 3 (U3) is generally available to download! vSAN 6.7 U3 delivers container-ready infrastructure through Cloud Native Storage (CNS) to support agile, next-gen application development; enhancements to management for consistent operations across hybrid clouds; under-the-hood performance improvements; and a new vSAN Enterprise Plus edition, which includes vRealize Operations to enable self-driving operations, intelligent remediation, The post VMware vSAN…Read More

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New Release: PowerCLI 11.4.0

August 20, 2019 captainvopsrd

New Release: PowerCLI 11.4.0

August is always a great month when it comes to new releases, and this year is no different. Even before VMworld, there have already been announcements for vSphere 6.7 Update 3, NSX-T 2.4.2, and a new version of HCX. The PowerCLI team has one more exciting release for you in the form of PowerCLI 11.4.0! […] The post New Release: PowerCLI 11.4.0 appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog.

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