The book covers the following, with this introduction coming straight from the book.
"So, why do you need to modernise your data center? It all
begins with the digital transformation that is sweeping the
planet — and disrupting businesses at a fundamental level. In
every industry, companies are under pressure to interact with
their customers in new ways, through new channels, and to
delight them with new personalised experiences."
The book is written by Theresa Villatore-Silva and consists of 48 pages.
Security Hardening Guides provide prescriptive guidance for customers on how to deploy and operate VMware products in a secure manner.
Guides for vSphere are provided in an easy to consume spreadsheet format, with rich metadata to allow for guideline classification and risk assessment.
They also include script examples for enabling security automation. Comparison documents are provided that list changes in guidance in successive versions of the guide.
There's various guides on the site, but today we were only concerned about vSphere 6.5.
Worth having a look to see how much of the guides you follow?
As a VMware Certified Instructor, I spend time talking about VMware products, on a couple of the courses we talk about vSAN and what it gives up from a policy based software defined storage architecture.
I'm now finding that with products such as Dell VX Rail and other HCI solutions, delegates are asking more questions, and showing more interest in these lessons.
I always recommend playing with the product, and again, thanks to those at VMware, we have two really useful Hands on Labs to look at.
The first lab is the vSAN 6.7 Getting Started, in the lab:
"vSAN delivers flash-optimized, secure shared storage with the simplicity
of VMware vSphere for all of your critical virtualized workloads."
The second lab is the vSAN 6.7 Advanced, in the lab:
"In this lab, you will be challenged to scale-out a vSAN cluster and to recover from misconfiguration issues."
Are you Free October 9th 2018? If the answer is yes, why not sign up for the VMware vForum Online Fall 2018?
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Modernises Data Centers
Integrates Public Clouds
Transforms Networks and Security
Secures Digital Workspaces
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Sometimes we need to play with products to better understand them. Obviously from a business point of view, playing with live production system can cause a bit of disruption.
I've been teaching courses before and a delegate decides to try what we're learning on their live kit, and a couple of times this has caused the live kit to function less well, just because I can give a virtual machine 64 vCPUs , doesn't mean I should.
VMware have now released a list of their most popular Hands On Labs, best bit is, they are free.
The course is 3 days in length and can be attended either in classroom, onsite, or Live on Line
This three-day course teaches you skills for deploying and managing a VMware Cloud on AWS infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you deploy and manage the VMware Cloud on AWS and VMware vSphere® features that build a foundation for a hybrid infrastructure. You also discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Anyone planning to migrate, build, or hybridize with VMware Cloud on AWS can benefit from this course.
Outline:
1 Course Introduction
2 Introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS
3 Deploying an SDDC
4 VMware Cloud on AWS: Storage
5 VMware Cloud on AWS: Networking
6 Working with On-Premises VMware vSphere
7 VMware Cloud on AWS Permissions and Security
8 Scaling the SDDC and Host Management
9 Virtual Machine Management
10 Working with Other AWS Services
11 Using Other VMware Products with the SDDC
12 Maintaining and Troubleshooting VMware Cloud on AWS
