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Join VMware & the Folding@Home project in the fight against COVID-19

I won’t give a long written speech about the crisis we all face today.

However I do encourage you to spend your spare CPU cycles from your devices, whether thats personal devices or home lab servers, or anything else you can run the software, to fight the virus.

You can do this anonymously, or join a team, The main thing is you join up to help!!!;

  • VMware – 52737
  • EUC Community – 239018

The setup is really simple,

  1. Download the folding@home software
  2. Install the software
  3. Setup your folding@home client
  4. Select “Setup an Identity”
  5. Choose your username, and set your team as “52737″ to join VMware.

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Link-O-Rama – VMware Announcements – Tanzu, vSphere 7, Cloud Foundation 4.0 and More

Today VMware ran their announcement event “App Modernization in a multi-cloud world” event, which leads with their vSphere 7 flagship product and the native integration of Kubernetes (Project Pacific).

Below I’ve summarised the available information as of today;

Launch Event

Cloud Foundation Blog

vSphere Blog

Virtual Blocks

Cloud Management Blog

Network Virtualisation

And finally here is the official press release for all of today’s announcements.

Introducing VMware TAM Lab YouTube Channel

The VMware Technical Account Management team have been producing some internal videos for a while now, to show off what we see in the field or tackle common issues, or discuss new technology.

Thanks to my earlier work creating a GUI with PowerShell, I was asked to present this internally.

Since then, we’ve taken TAMLAB public, thanks to the hard work of Steve Tilkens, so give our channel a follow, and you can see my recording below;

The purpose of TAM Lab is to provide in-depth technology workshop sessions led by VMware Technical Account Managers (TAMs) to enable a culture of learning and partnership across the VMware organization and our customers. TAM Lab provides a platform for all to be hands-on with VMware and non-VMware technologies that will enable a stronger customer delivery through product knowledge and a greater technical resource network. All TAM Lab sessions are recorded for the purpose of creating a reference library for on-demand learning and enablement.

 

Regards

Dean

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Building a Veeam Lab – Testing Scenarios

In my previous post, I looked at the architecture you may want to implement to test the various features of Veeam Backup and Replication, including features from v10.

I thought it would be a good idea to break down the architecture into sections, and provide some ideas of what features/configurations can be tested in each section. This of course is not an exhaustive list.

I’ve broken down the original diagram into 5 Sections.

Veeam Lab Architecture in Sections

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