Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

Legacy hardware-based load balancers don’t meet modern enterprise application delivery requirements in a multi-cloud world.

You need a modern software load balancer which separates the data and control plane to deliver application services beyond traditional load balancing solutions. Services such as real-time application analytics, security and monitoring, predictive autoscaling of application traffic, multi-cloud global server load balancing, and end-to-end automation.

Download the Multi-Cloud Load Balancing for Dummies book and learn how to:

• Deliver consistent services across clouds
• Enable elastic on-demand autoscaling
• Automate routine application delivery tasks
• Gain real-time visibility and analytics
• Empower developers with self-service
• Simplify advanced security management\
• Modernize microservices app delivery

To prepare for the delivery of an upcoming training course, I've deployed a few virtual machines in Fusion on my new iMac. I've configured this iMac with 32 GB of memory and I'm running vCenter 6.7, vRealize Operations 7.5, vRealize Orchestrator 7.6 and one nested ESXi 6.7 host with 4 Photon VM's on it.

Since all these solutions must be connected and registered, I had to find a way to provide DNS services with the lowest overhead. First I've looked at Dnsmasq but this tool wasn't so easy to use. I've found a great alternative called Namo, it even has a graphical user interface. 

NAMO is a tool to easily configure a local DNS Server on your Mac. So NAMO helps you to call a virtual machine running in Fusion from your desktop or another virtual machine via a domain name in your network. Queries that are not resolvable are forwarded to your provider. The only downside, you have to pay 19 € for the license.

This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX-TTM Data Center environment.

In this course, you are introduced to workflows of various networking and security constructs along with several operational and troubleshooting tools that help managing and troubleshooting your NSX-T Data Center. In addition, you are presented with various types of technical problems, which you will identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic process.

VMware has released a VRA new training course, during this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vRealize® Automation.

I'm delivering this training course at Zaventem Belgium from the 24th of June till the 28th of June 2019. This class has been guaranteed to run. If you're interested you can register here. I'm looking forward to meeting you!

You learn about the configuration and use of the vRealize Automation platform, including self-service provisioning and the creation of catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, software components, and on-demand VMware NSX networks.

This course also covers interfacing vRealize Automation with other systems using VMware vRealize Orchestrator to leverage workflows, creating approval cycles, and managing machine lifecycles to conserve resources.

In addition, you will better understand and know how to achieve the benefits of automation as a component of the software-defined data center.