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Tech Preview: Aria Migration Service
As businesses move from a single dedicated infrastructure to flexible multi-cloud models, IT teams are challenged with assessing, analyzing, planning, modernizing, executing, and operationalizing the migration of workloads across multiple clouds. Each of these areas require the combination of niche and complex tooling with great skill. A slip in any of these stages leads to lost time, money, and reputation, thus requiring businesses to keep them watertight.
What’s New in vRealize Log Insight Cloud - August 2022
Greetings everyone! We’re kicking off VMware Explore 2022 with some powerful new updates to vRealize Log Insight Cloud. As you may or may not have heard already, the vRealize Suite is being rebranded to ‘VMware Aria’, and vRealize Log Insight Cloud is being rebranded to ‘Aria Operations for Logs’. For simplicity’s sake, we’re going to still use the name ‘Log Insight Cloud’ for this blog, but further videos and publications will refer to the product by its new Aria name.
What's New in Cloud Management at VMware Explore
The growing complexity of multi-cloud environments has given rise to the need for an effective cloud operating model that can cut through the “noise”. Today, VMware Cloud Management is replacing that noise with cloud operations that is equal parts melody and harmony.
Announcing Aria Operations 8.10
(Formerly vRealize Operations) You may have heard that a few things around VMware have been changing lately (for example – the product name for this blog). And while change can be hard in some instances, we need to remember that innovation is impossible without change. I look forward to sharing our innovative new features with you as we introduce Aria Operations 8.10.
vRealize Reaches Major FedRAMP Authorization Milestone
We are super excited to announce that the vRealize Cloud Universal (vRCU) services have completed the internal FedRAMP gap analysis and AWS GovCloud (US) onboarding, a major step in our FedRAMP process! These services are now ready to start their third-party assessments, and on track for submission to the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB).
Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.9
vRealize Automation 8.9 is now generally available for download. vRealize Automation 8.9 – Modern Infrastructure Automation Platform Demand for new application development continues to rise globally, as we see an increase in the use of modern application frameworks by developers and the use of Kubernetes in production by organizations. This further creates an even greater need for organizations to adopt a multi-cloud strategy and be able to execute apps in any public cloud.
Refreshed vRealize Hands-on-Labs
Dave Overbeek posted 1 hour ago VMworld is just around the corner and even though we won’t be able to meet face-to-face this year I’m still looking forward to it! It’s going to be a great event for you, VMware and for our vRealize Cloud Management solutions. As we do at every VMworld we refresh our Hands-on-Labs content for you so you can get some “stick time” with the latest and greatest in the management stack.
vRA and vROps 8: The Peanut Butter & Jelly for Your Hybrid Cloud
Dave Overbeek posted 3 hours ago The vRealize team has always driven a “better together” solution between vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Operations (vROps), and with the 8.0 releases of these products we have hit a new high. Together they become the cornerstone of any Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and provide a pairing not seen since peanut butter and jelly first came together.
VMware vRealize Hands on Lab T-shirt Giveaway
Dave Overbeek posted 3 minutes ago Attention VMworld 2019 Europe attendees! Want to get the MOST out of your SDDC? Want to learn about the latest and greatest advancements in the vRealize Suite? Want to show off with a new Cloud Management t-shirt? We have the answer for you! Come to the Hand on Labs (HOL) at VMworld 2019 Europe and complete one of three VMware vRealize Lightning Labs between Monday, November 4, 2019 through Wednesday, November 6, 2019.
And the Workload Optimization Train Keeps on Rollin’…
Dave Overbeek posted 10 minutes ago If you have been paying attention to our blogs, you’ve heard us preach about the importance of enabling continuous workload optimization in your environments. You’ve learned about Business and Operational intent, a main component of your self-driving datacenter, which allows you to configure vRealize Operations to meet your specific datacenter goals and purpose.
Cloud Management Platform (CMP) - Intelligent Provisioning and Optimization
Cloud Management Platform (CMP) – Intelligent Provisioning and Optimization Dave Overbeek posted 13 minutes ago 0 Comments One of the main drivers of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) is to have the different solutions work together seamlessly. That means the business, automation, compliance, operations, optimization, capacity, etc… All these components need to work to provide you with a unified feel and flow.
Self-Driving all the way to the Host? Oh yeah Host Based Placement!
As you hopefully saw in my first blog, vRealize Operations 7.0 is the key to your new self-driving driving datacenter! If you missed it you can read it HERE. Enjoy! But that’s not the end of the self-driving story.
Start Running a Self-Driving Datacenter – vRealize Operations 7.0 Workload Optimization! - VMware Cloud Management
vRealize Operations 7.0 is the key to your new self-driving driving datacenter! Going self-driving will save you time and money, reduce your number of fire-drill headaches and make you look like a superstar to your bosses. To turn on self-driving you need to enable workload optimization which lets you automate the business and operational intent in your datacenters.
Workload Optimization – The Key to your Self-Driving Datacenter! - VMware Cloud Management
vRealize Operations 6.7 is here and it comes loaded with great new features that will make your life better! Included in these is an improved capacity engine to help you better manage your environment, integrated cost analysis so you know how much your environment actually costs and where you can save $, and an integration with Wavefront to help you quickly and easily onboard new applications for monitoring.
Become a Cloud Ninja with the NEW vRealize Operations Certification for VCPs - VMware Cloud Management
Are you vRealize Operations savvy? Do you want to showcase your expertise to your boss and peers? Would you like VMware to endorse your IT operations knowledge and skills? Well now you can! VMware has recently launched the vRealize Operations Specialist Digital badge for VMware Certified Professionals (VCP).
How Much VMware Cloud on AWS Will I Need? - VMware Cloud Management
There are a number of things to think about before bringing a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC into your business. All of these are GREAT questions and for answers to these check out a blog I wrote last week. But there is a question you need to ask yourself first, “How much VMware Cloud on AWS do I need?” This blog post will help answer that question for you.
Automated Workload Balance - VMware Cloud Management
Welcome to your lights-out datacenter! With vRealize Operation 6.6 automated workload balance is easier and more controllable than ever. This latest release of vRealize Operation gives you the ability to balance workloads across clusters and datastores, simple controls to govern how much balance you want based on your business needs, three ways to activate it (automated, scheduled or manual), and a powerful dashboard from which you can view and regulate everything related to balance.
Predictive DRS Made Simple - VMware Cloud Management
In 2016 VMware made big news with our Predictive DRS (pDRS) announcement and analysts and customers have been buzzing about it ever since. Predictive DRS is a game changer and helps you in the fight against resource contention. As you know, when contention occurs, applications slow down and your users are affected. Successfully mitigating resource contention is one of the most critical issues faced by any administrator of a virtualized environment.
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