Learn about the exciting new features and enhancements that vSphere 8 Update 1 brings to improve operational efficiency, elevate security and supercharge workloads. For more, see https://core.vmware.com
Friday, April 21. 2023
VMware Labs has released a new Fling - Power Actions
Power Actions is a remote plug-in that enables you to run PowerCLI scripts from the vSphere Client, and implement custom actions on the vSphere inventory objects.
Power Actions integrates the PowerCLI in the vSphere client to provide automation capabilities for the standard vSphere management client. Power Actions is a remote plug-in that enables you to leverage the PowerCLI capabilities from the vSphere Client.
For example, as an administrator, you can define a new action for a virtual machine object by writing a PowerCLI script that accepts a virtual machine as a parameter and saving it into a script/content library.
You can then share it with other users within your company who can execute the script as-is, without requiring PowerShell knowledge. Power Actions is available for download as a virtual appliance from the VMware Flings website and can be installed through the vSphere client plug-in installer.
New Release – Power Actions 1.0 by Kamen Nikolov
Sunday, April 9. 2023
VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing April 2023
The VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing is a quarterly online series designed to help organizations succeed with their multi-cloud strategies. This session—Navigate Economic Headwinds with a Cloud-Smart Approach—explores how IT organizations can use cloud services to help their companies not only endure global macroeconomic challenges but emerge from this turbulent economic environment in an even stronger position.
Through thought-leadership discussions and product demonstrations, you’ll learn how to optimize spend across your private and public clouds, and to bolster resiliency in the face of increasing cyberthreats. Speakers include VMware CEO Raghu Ragharam and other VMware business and technical leaders, including Vittorio Viarengo, Purnima Padmanabhan, Chris McCain, John McLoughlin, TJ March, Brandon Gordon, and Michael McLaughlin.
Thursday, March 30. 2023
Free e-book - The Legacy Trap
Most organizations have hit a legacy wall. They’re now unable to change how their core business works because their IT systems are too old and unchangeable.
This ebook will show you how to apply the business-driven methodology, that many organizations have used to escape the legacy trap, as well as:
- How to recognize your business is being held back by technical debt
- How business outcomes drive successful modernization outcomes
- How to build and execute on a modernization strategy
- Some common missteps with traditional approaches to modernization
Friday, March 17. 2023
New Technical White Paper - VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 Tagging Best Practices
Writing code to use VMware vSphere tags can be challenging in large-scale environments. In this technical paper, VMware discusses the scalability limits of tags and gives some tips and tricks for writing performant tagging code in Java or PowerShell.
Saturday, March 4. 2023
VMware Labs has released a new Fling - vSphere Alert Center
The vSphere Client has a mechanism to report errors and critical events to the user, called "Alarms". However, you need to manually log in to the client and check them - there is no way for those alarms to be pushed as notifications to the user/VI admin. To solve this issue, Kiril Aleksandrov, Boris Stoicov and Yoan Petrov have built vSphere Alert Center. This tool is capable of checking for, retrieving, and notifying you of such events.
vSphere Alert Center runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The technologies we have used for its implementation are Angular, Electron, and vSphere.js. The Fling connects to and monitors multiple vCenter instances simultaneously, providing detailed information about the detected alarms.
The alarms fetching interval can be custom-defined. If the user requires more detailed information to troubleshoot the issue, they can easily open the vSphere Client web portal directly from the application. The customers' data is stored securely on the local file system in encrypted form.