Day 2 of VMworld 2017 in Barcelona kick off with another General Session . Following the General Session, I attended the following sessions:
Session 1 - #LHC1882BE - Service Overview for VMware Cloud on AWS
This session, with Marc Umeno, covered how to delivery VMware Cloud on AWS “As A Service”. Marc re-introduced the current vision of **VMware Cloud on AWS **platform before highlighting the different responsibilities of both VMware and the Customer.
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 13, 2017.
Here is the links to all of my blogs covering VMworld 2017 in Barcelona:
- VMworld 2017 – My Schedule
- VMworld 2017 – My Tips For First Timers
- VMworld 2017 - Getting there and Getting registered
- VMworld 2017 Day 0 - Partner Exchange
- VMworld 2017 Day 1 - General Session
- VMworld 2017 Day 1 - Sessions
- VMworld 2017 Day 2 - General Session
- VMworld 2017 Day 2 - Sessions
- VMworld 2017 Day 2 - VMworld Party!
- VMworld 2017 Day 3 - Sessions
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 13, 2017.
After a good evening at the #vRockstar event, Partner Exchange (PEX) day was kicked off early for me with a session a couple of sessions.
Session 1 - #PAR4376BE - NSX Assessment Led Selling
The purpose of this session, with Atif Qadir and Dan Watson, was to get partners to think about how to position VMware NSX by understanding the IT and Business problems of a customer’s physical network. This is initially delivered by completing a VMware Virtual Network Assessment (VNA), but is not just about selling VMware Network Log Insight (vRNI). Understanding and interpreting the information provided by vRNI for the customer is key to identifying the use cases for VMware NSX. Customers are often surprised by the detail of the information generated. Still one of the biggest blockers to the adoption of VMware NSX remains the fact the customer doesn’t realise (or acknowledge) there may be a problem.
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 13, 2017.
Day 1 of VMworld 2017 in Barcelona kicked off with another General Session . Following the General Session, I attended the following sessions:
Session 1 - #MMC1532BE - Using VMware NSX Cloud for Enhanced Networking and Security for AWS Native Cloud
With Amol Tipnis and Percy Wadia
This session concentrated on how VMware NSX Cloud can be used to provide a single pane of glass across multiple public clouds. Note: Currently VMware NSX Cloud is only available in AWS but development for MS Azure is on going.
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 12, 2017.
This year I decided not to sit in the General Session but watch it from the hang space to see what that was like. I think I prefer the General Session Room as it is more of an immersive experience. However, the ability to use a table/desk to take notes does help lots!
General Session
The General Session, with Pat Gelsinger, was very similar to the one in Las Vegas - it was only 2 weeks ago after all . There we obvious changes for the European community, especially with the reference customers. The key message was consistent from the previous years at VMworld and continued to be around Any Cloud, Any Application, Any Device.
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 12, 2017.
I previously attempted the VMware Certified Implementation Expert 6 - Network Virtualization and, unfortunately, I wasn’t successful . It was the same old story with most VCAP exams, time simple ran out.
As I am at VMworld this week it seemed rude not to take a second attempt for 1/2 price.
The exam center had a few issues, both with overbooking (it seems the PEX keynote is the ideal time for everyone to take exams!), internet issues (which meant I had time added on by pearson) and missing cursors during the exam. On the plus side, the computers and screens in the VMworld exam center are a significant magnitude better than a normal exam center.
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 11, 2017.
This is the first in a series of posts covering my time at VMworld 2017 in Barcelona.
Flights
I decided to fly in earlier this year, so after a 0700 start I got to London Heathrow and got on the 10:45 BA flight to Barcelona! The flight was relatively smooth but as I don’t fly as much anymore, I forgot those in cattle class don’t get fed for free anymore!
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 10, 2017.
Skills and Abilities
Objective 4.2 - Configure and Manage Service Composer
- Create/configure Service Composer according to a deployment plan:
- Configure Security Groups
- Configure Security Policies
- Configure Activity Monitoring for a Security Policy
- Create/edit/delete Security Tags
- Create a Security Tag
- Edit a Security Tag
- Assign a Security Tag
- Detach a Security Tag
- Delete a Security Tag
- Configure Network Introspection
- Configure Guest Introspection
Objective Prerequisites
The following prerequisites are assumed for this Objective:
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 7, 2017.
This post is a number of posts that make up a VCAP6-NV Study guide .
In this post we will look at how to work with NSX Security Tags.
What are NSX Security Tags?
Security Tags are labels which can be associated with a Virtual Machine. Security Tags can then be used (amongst other things) to populate dynamically populate Security Groups with objects.
Adding or removing Security Tags to a VM can be done dynamically in response to various criteria such as antivirus or vulnerability scans, and intrusion prevention systems.
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 7, 2017.
This post is a number of posts that make up a VCAP6-NV Study guide .
In this post we will look at how to generate a Self Signed SSL Certificate on an existing VMware NSX Edge Service Gateway (ESG) or NSX Edge. Once generated, the SSL certificate could be used for SSL VPN or Load Balancing.
Prerequisites
- A working deployment of VMware NSX.
- A deployed NSX Edge Services Gateway
Generate Self Signed SSL Certificate
Note: These steps assume you are not even logged into vCenter Server. Skip the first few steps if you are!
Written by Christopher Lewis on September 6, 2017.
- Operating a Private Cloud - Part 3: Creating a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Automation
- Operating a Private Cloud - Part 2: Creating a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Operations
- Operating a Private Cloud - Part 1: Understanding Pricing Cards in VMware Aria
- Zero2Hero - Using Aria Automation to Deploy Multiple Machines with Multiple Disks - Part 5
- Zero2Hero - Using Aria Automation to Deploy Multiple Machines with Multiple Disks - Part 4