Moving forward with its ecosystem, VMware EXPLORE has just announced the coming of vSphere 8 later this year. As per usual, there are all kinds of changes coming. This time, however, more focus is placed on management and lifecycle simplification and unification. Changes will affect services like VMware Tanzu, ESXi, vCenter Recovery, and others.
Windows 11 22H2, aka Sun Valley 2, is the latest release of the Windows 11 Operating System (OS). Bringing new promising features, it provides the users with lots of possibilities that are definitely worth looking at.
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is one of the tools you can use to install the vendor’s operating systems, including Windows Server, Windows 10 and 11. You will be able to personalize the deployment configuration and then carry it out over your business’ network. Once you’ve worked on the desired setup, the rest is straightforward.
Cockpit graphical user interface (GUI) provides all the basic configs for Linux server management without the need for text-based commands. Working in an enterprise, for an admin, will most likely mean working in a heterogeneous IT environment. Frequently, Windows services will be primary, so managing a Linux server can be a bit of a drag for someone who’s not too well-versed in it.
VMware Skyline Advisor Pro is a new platform for collecting broad data and revealing contextual insights into your vSphere environment. The online service allows collecting data from your entire IT infrastructure, peer into how different product interactions behave, capture patterns, trends, events, and configs, and then design compliance around that.
VMware GuestStore enables you to distribute virtual machine (VM) agents, configuration files, VMware Tools upgrades, and custom content from a single shared repository. This way, you can ensure that the content within your vSphere environment is always consistent and correctly distributed, also thanks to the GlobalConf feature.
Cross vCenter Server vMotion has been greatly enhanced in vSphere 7.0 Updates U3c. For one, it’s now been integrated into the vSphere web client, which makes it much easier to access and operate. But, among its new updates, one stands out the most: the ability to execute a clone bulk operation between vCenter servers with different SSO domains.
VMware further integrates its services with various cloud providers. This time, VMware Cloud Console received an update with regards to Google. Notably, you can now use it to access Google Cloud VMware Engine, which is a service managed by Google that enables running the VMware platform directly in Google Cloud once connected.
The software provides the ability to configure the entirety of a user’s profile at scale. It’s designated for cloud desktops, physical desktops, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with VMware Horizon, and remote desktop services (RDS). You can configure the entirety of the user’s experience as well as the desired relevant OS settings.
VMware Imager allows automating the process of building Windows 10 virtual machines. Instead of setting up a Golden VM image, you can choose the desired features in Imager and set off the pipeline. This eases the admin routine, reducing reliance on a specific task and human errors. You can stop the process at any stage and tweak stuff, too.
