VMware
Today saw a bunch of announcements from VMware, including vSphere 7.0 Update 1, vSAN 7.0 Update 1, VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1 and I thought it might be useful to post a list of some of the resources that has been published.
VMware vSphere 7 Update 1 With Tanzu enables administrators to run Kubernetes clusters in vSphere, without any other requirements!
Not only has VMware with this move adressed the VMware Cloud Foundation requirement for getting started with running modern applications on vSphere, but since there is no requirement for NSX or even vSAN for this to work the entry level point has been dramatically lowered. It’s basically Kubernetes infrastructure on vSphere, with your choice of networking, storage and load balancing solutions!
VMware has updated the requirements for running Kubernetes workloads on VMware Cloud Foundation, and I’m happy to see that the requirements has been scaled down quite a bit. The news is that it is now supported to enable the Kubernetes Supervisor Control Plane on the management Workload Domain, letting go of the hard requirement of running it in a seperate Workload Domain.
The dust has settled a bit after the big VMware vSphere 7 release, and vSphere 7 with Kubernetes, and there is now some really good resources available for those looking into the details about the various Kubernetes and Tanzu parts of it.
All in all, Cloud Foundation 4.0 seems to be a solid version upgrade, with a lot of promise. The tight integration between Cloud Foundation and vSphere with Kubernetes, coupled with the other managementment tools already available from VMware should prove to be a solid foundation (pun intended) for anyone looking to provide both traditional virtualization and container workloads in their on-premises datacenters going forward. The problem, in my not so humble opinion, with this is that vSphere with Kubernetes is (for now?) only available through Cloud Foundation 4.0. That is a very limiting form factor for delivery, and something that might just slow the adoption rate for it considerably.
During todays Online Launch Event App Modernization in a Multi-Cloud World VMware announced the next generation of VMware Cloud Foundation; version 4.0. This release includes support for the new versions of vSphere and vSAN as well as updates to the vRealize Suite and NSX.
vSAN 7 has finally been announced, and it comes with a good set of new features and improvements, here is a quick rundown of the highlights.
VMware has just announced the list of vExperts for 2020, and I’m honored to be awarded for the tenth year in a row! That being said, I’m happy to see the list of Norwegian vExperts grow! It wasn’t that many years ago that we were only two (or for the first couple of years, only one!), now the count is at 12!
Way back in 2017, the CA/Browser Forum voted on Ballot 193 – 825-day Certificate Lifetimes, which passed. In short, this means that CA issued certificates issued after March 1st 2018 can not have a validity period longer than 825 days. macOS Catalina implements this change, as described in Requirements for trusted certificates in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15. So it’s been a long time coming, but most of us are just now realizing how this affects us.
Warning: This also applies to Self-signed certificates, like the ones issued for VMware vSphere and related solutions, like NSX-T and others, where the default age is 10 years or so.
My good friend, and colleague, Eirik Vada was interviewed by Ather Beg, the NSX Roving Reporter, during VMworld 2018. Since he doesn’t toot his own horn, I decided to do it for him!