With this trip, I also had the chance to participate in the co-located CiliumCon NA, which was a full day of presentations related to Cilium CNI topics, and really kicked things off and got me into a k8s state of mind for the rest of the conference.
There were quite a few interesting presentations, which will take some review to process. In the end, I started jotting keywords to search for review later :lol: I enjoyed Tim Hockins keynote on how far Kubernetes has come.
A fun event during the week was getting to watch the premier of the eBPF Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb_vD3XZYOA with several of the key players in attendance! Immediately after, I attended the Cilium Hive Mind Mingle, which was a celebration of all things Cilium, eBPF and Isovalent.
I think this conference may replace my VMworld / Explore yearly attendance of the past decade, both because of my job focus and the very different vibe of the 2 conferences: Explore has refocused on client stories (rather than technical deep dives), but is still a commercial focus; KubeCon has that OSS energy, with constant inovation and an impossible number of things to investigate.
]]>I will be testing some of these in the Lab when I get time, particularly the NSX VPC feature. Interested in checking if quotas on VPC work!
]]>There is also a new release (though all the docs still use the old naming): https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vRealize-Network-Insight/6.8/rn/vmware-vrealize-network-insight-68-release-notes/index.html
The most obvious change is the new Home page you start on upon login. One neat feature is the heat map view of issues, you can click on the tiles to jump to the objects.
It will take a bit to get used to the navigation changes, but overall I expect Network Insight to remain an important tool in our troubleshooting and microsegmentation toolkit.
]]>Here's the release notes: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX/4.0/rn/vmware-nsx-4001-release-notes/index.html
The release notes include a link to this extremely detailed doc on N-VDS migration: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/79872
]]>Here's the latest on 3.2.1: https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2022/05/nsx-t-3-2-1-rolling-upgrade-for-nsx-management-plane.html/
Don't forget to follow the Upgrade Checklist: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/3.2/upgrade/GUID-E35506A7-8050-482A-BABA-F356D2AC3B65.html
]]>Here's the announcement: https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2021/12/nsx-t-3-2-innovations.html/
]]>Here's the announcement: https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/04/announcing-vmware-vrealize-network-insight-5-2.html
]]>Some interesting sessions:
See the blog post announcing it: https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2020/04/nsx-t-3-0.html/
I expect an update to the NSX-T Design Guide in the next month or 2, you can find it here: https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-37591
]]>See the blog post announcing it: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/04/vsphere-7-new-generation-vsphere.html
Many new features are covered in the What’s New posts: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/tag/vsphere-7
Some insight into the Development time from virten.net: https://www.virten.net/2020/04/vmware-vsphere-7-0-ga-download-links-available/
With NSX-T 3.0 around the corner, there will be plenty to do while we have stay-home orders in the USA for the next month or 2.
]]>See the blog post announcing it: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/moving-red-hat-summit-2020-virtual-experience
I did attend Red Hat Summit 2019 in Boston, and got to witness the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 announcement. It’s been an interesting year, with the IBM acquisition closing: I’ve already seen a lot of activity with new Open Source webcasts coming from IBM. I just hope that this doesn’t turn out the way the Sun acquisition by Oracle did: a lot of technical capabilities that were developed during the Sun era were not properly marketed, and while much of it seeded later development (containers, virtual desktops, grid computing), there was undoubtedly lots of technology and talent that were left by the wayside.
]]>See the blog post announcing it: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/03/vsphere-7.html
There was also a full presentation this afternoon, linked to from the Application Modernization blog: https://www.vmware.com/app-modernization.html
More to come, but I figure this is a good point to pickup this blog and start
some new VMware posts.