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VMware announced the General Availability of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) 1.2 last week. The new version comes with many enhancements and features. Some of the notable enhancements released in the newer version are: Support for deployment to Microsoft Azure TKG 1.1.x supported two platforms. vSphere and Amazon EC2. Starting with version 1.2, TKG now…
VMware Certified Technical Associate (VCTA) certifications are a new set of associate-level certifications that were released during VMworld a couple of weeks ago. I have covered the details about these certifications in my previous blog post. The VCTA exams validate the skills and knowledge required by candidates performing operational tasks within a virtualized infrastructure, in…
Nested ESXi deployments are one of the best ways to test VMware products and their functionality in a lab setup. While I was setting up my 6.7 P01 environment to do some testing, I ran into a weird issue of ‘tryFormatDevice’ that i hadn’t seen before with nested installs. The error is about the installer…
Historically, VMware vSphere has been made available in three major editions based on the features they unlock: Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. There also have been editions that cater to a lot of industry use cases such as ROBO, vSOM, Essentials, etc. for companies that don’t need all the enterprise features. One of the challenges…
Pat kicked off the VMworld keynote session today with a series of announcements covering areas including cloud, data center and Kubernetes. It is hard to keep up with all of these announcements at VMworld. Here is a list of most (if not all) of the announcements that were made today. I will be writing a…