VMware DRaaS – as Simple as That

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is one of the most recent acquisitions made by VMware. The intention of the service is to provide a Cost Optimized DRaaS (DR as a s service) solution in Cloud to vSphere customer. The solution has gone through some great improvements post acquisition and have many more planned in the upcoming…

VMware Cloud on AWS as On-Demand DaaS Platform

In the recent times we have seen increased adoption of Remote work preferences, both for organizations as well as workers. Given the restrictions lately, Working outside of their company’s main location and having a choice of work environment is now a initiative for many companies. Companies are choosing to provide IT services to end users even in…

Using vRealize Operations 8.x to Effectively Monitor VMware Cloud on AWS

You would have seen many articles and posts already out there talking about natural integration of vRealize Operations with VMware Cloud on AWS. vROPS v8.0 release had out of box integration with VMConAWS with purpose built metric collections and Dashboards which are very effective in monitoring the VMC environment. This post is focused on some…

VMware Cloud -Terraform Provider Officially Released

In one of my recent posts, i showed here how VMware vSphere Terraform provider can be used to provision VMs inside a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. However before provisioning VMs inside a VMware Cloud SDDC, you need to stand up a VMConAWS SDDC first. This was possible via UI. You can now however use…

VMware Cloud on AWS now has MRC (Monthly Recurring Charge) Model

In the recent announcement on VMC New Releases on 10th Jan 2020, VMware launched MRC (Monthly Recurring Cost) subscription Model. This means now clients have an option to pay 1 or 3 yearly committed term subscription cost through monthly installments. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/0/rn/vmc-on-aws-relnotes.html This gives flexibility to client to subscribe either paying upfront or pay in a…

VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware Cloud Assembly

This is an extension to one of my previous posts on Cloud Assembly based Cloud Agnostic Blueprints. In the previous post i used Cloud Assembly, cloud agnostic blueprint to provision on an On-Prem vSphere environment. This time, i will try to do the same on a VMC (VMware Cloud on AWS) SDDC. Step 1 :…

Terraform with VMware Cloud on AWS – Provision VM with Tags

This is a quick lab demo writeup which shows how we can use the Terraform provider to provision Virtual Machines in a declarative format in a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. As per my last Terraform post , you know the steps to create a Terraform IaaC. I will demonstrate how in a declarative fashion,…

Announcing VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta

Announcing VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta At AWS re:Invent 2019, VMware is announcing the VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta program and we are opening Beta nominations to select a set of customers that meet the Beta program requirements. VMware Social Media Advocacy

Cloud Models Comparison – Why VMC is a better choice. Part 2

In continuation to the Part 1, in this post i would like to elaborate on how the commercial modelling of subscription based cloud is done. There are many tools available for cloud comparison, which besides the application fitment assessment, also does TCV comparison of running workloads across On-prem or Multiple clouds. However each tool has…

Cloud Models Comparison – Why VMC is a better choice. Part 1

In the world of Multi-Cloud and Hybrid IT, while organisations (consumers) are enjoying the benefits of this homogeneity, at the same time the Financial teams are struggling to work out the economics of this Multi-cloud. The On-prem vs. Public consumption brings in a paradigm shift in outlook towards TCO/ ROI discussions. To understand this, lets…

Terraform – The New Hotness

This is the first of the new series of blogs i plan to write on Terraform. Terraform is one of the prominent ways for write, plan and create Infrastructure as code. It has become the de-facto standard for IaaC now. Terraform Basics Providers: Providers are Infrastructure types we can interact with. Terraform has multiple providers…

Shifted Gears

Hi All, Thanks for following my posts. Its been a while i have written anything. I have recently shifted gears and relocated to Singapore. The change in city, job and responsibilities with family have kept me occupied, but im back on track now. For people who may want to know, i have joined the Managed…

vRealize Operations – Custom Dashboard: Top-N VMs/Datastores with High IOPS

Creating Custom Dashboards in vROPs is a very common norm with users who are using vRealize operations extensively. While there are many relevant OOB Dashboards which can serve customers requirements very easily, one of my customer recently asked for a Top-N VMs receiving High IOPS. There is already a OOTB dashboard which shows the same…

VMware Wavefront – SNMP based Integration

VMware Wavefront is consistently working to increase its supported integrations. The recent additions to the list of OOTB integrations is Physical Devices monitoring using SNMP. SNMP based integration allows monitoring of SNMP enabled environments/devices like Physical servers, network switches, storage devices etc. Wavefront SNMP integration provides both traps and poll data.Post setting up SNMP integration,…

VMware Cloud Assembly – Cloud Agnostic Blueprint

As mentioned in my last post, VMware Cloud Assembly provides a capability to create Cloud Agnostic Blueprints. Cloud Agnostic Blueprint means now you can create a single Blueprint which can be deployed on multiple endpoints (Public or Private cloud environments). This helps decreasing Blueprint Sprawl and make Blueprint management much easier for a cloud admin.…

VMware Cloud Assembly – Building your first Blueprint

VMware Cloud Assembly is the multi-cloud provisioning service from the buffet of VMware Cloud Automation services.  As a part of enrolling to VMware Cloud Assembly, its a subscription based service. After subscribing to the service as a next step you need to integrate Cloud Assembly platform with your endpoints (which could be a on-prem or…

VMware Log Intelligence – Getting Started

Log Intelligence is a part of Vmware Cloud Services and using it you can see through all your Infrastructure and App logs hosted on Private or Public Cloud in real time. I would like to spend some time in describing the way you enroll to the VMware Cloud Services. Step 1: Enroll to the Log…

Twitter Text Mining and Data Analytics using Wavefront by VMware

Recently during my Wavefront session at vForum India, i planned to do a demo for Custom Integration with Wavefront. While there are plenty of out of box integrations with VMware Wavefront, there is always a scope of custom integrations. The idea is to derive a fact while you may have any application, you can instrument…

VMware Wavefront – Relevance for your Operations

VMware Wavefront is the new shinny tool in the armory of the VMware Cloud Management suite of solutions.   Wavefront has come to VMware family as a part of an acquisition concluded in May 2017. By definition Wavefront is a SaaS based, real-time metric monitoring tool with streaming analytical capabilities. Its powered by a strong analytical engine…

vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager – Do it Yourself

vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) is a fantastic approach from VMware to simplify the deployments, minimize administration and ensure best practices adoption for vRealize solution stack. Organizations who have embraced the journey of Private Cloud and want to take the DIY approach can use vRSLCM as a toolset to manage their Deployments without getting into…