How becoming a VMware vExpert changed my life
Most people think they are just like everyone else - I was also one of them. Let me share my story about becoming a vExpert and tell you, that this perception of "like everyone else" is wrong. I had to learn that as well. In 2012, I started to work for a small VMware Cloud Provider Partner (VCPP)...
Multi-Tenancy on VMware Cloud Foundation with vRealize Automation and Cloud Director
In my article VMware Cloud Foundation And The Cloud Management Platform Simply Explained I wrote about why customers need a VMware Cloud Foundation technology stack and what a VMware cloud management platform is. One of the reasons and one of the essential characteristics of a cloud computing...
VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload – Agentless Protection for vSphere Workloads
At VMworld 2020 VMware announced Carbon Black Cloud Workload (CBC Workload) as part of their intrinsic security approach. For me, this was the biggest and most important announcement from this year's VMworld. It is a new offering, which is relevant for every vSphere customer out there - even the...
Introduction to Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution (ACVS)
VMware's hybrid and multi-cloud strategy is to run their Cloud Foundation technology stack with vSphere, vSAN and NSX in any private or public cloud including edge locations. I already introduced VMC on AWS, Azure VMware Solution (AVS), Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) and now I would like to...
VMware Cloud Foundation And The Cloud Management Platform Simply Explained
I think that it is pretty clear what VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is and what it does. And it is also clear to a lot of people how of where you could use VCF. But very few organizations and customers know why they should or could use Cloud Foundation and what its purpose is. This article will...
Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE)
In June 2020 VMware and Google made the announcement that Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) is generally available. Almost exactly one year ago, the market received the information that VMware's Cloud Foundation (vSphere, vSAN and NSX) stack will come to Google Cloud. With this milestone VMware is...
Multi-Cloud Load Balancing and Autoscaling with NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks)
Do you want to build your private cloud like a hyperscaler is doing it? You know that VMware Cloud Foundation is becoming the new vSphere, but still wonder how you can implement software-defined load balancing (LB) or application services and features like autoscaling or predictive scaling? Then...
VMware Multi-Cloud and Hyperscale Computing
In my previous article Cross-Cloud Mobility with VMware HCX I already very briefly touched VMware's hybrid and multi-cloud vision and strategy. I mentioned, that VMware is coming from the on-premises world if you compare them with AWS, Azure or Google, but have the same "consistent infrastructure...
Michael Rebmann
