William Lam

On-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore Barcelona 2023

11.12.2023 by William Lam // 1 Comment

Hard to believe VMware Explore Barcelona just concluded a couple of days ago! Hats off to the VMware Explore production team who have already published a large majority of the breakout session recordings including the presentation PDF! On Friday, I had shared an update and out of the 269 sessions, only 58 had not been published.

As of writing this blog post, 249 are now available with only 20 sessions that have not been published and may not due to the type of content. As you can see in the screenshot below, I have also aggregated the current Top 10 sessions by views, congrats to all the folks in #NSCB2084BCN who is currently holding the #1 spot for now 🙂

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New detailed GuestOS data in vSphere 8.0 Update 2

11.02.2023 by William Lam // 5 Comments

Your workloads are constantly changing both from an application standpoint but also the underlying guest operating system (GuestOS) including patches and upgrades. While many organizations have a change management database (CMDB), it can still be a challenge to true up that information from when the workload was first deployed to what it is currently running.

Back in 2019, VMware enhanced VMware Tools to make it easier to identify applications and processes that was running within a VM and this also provided a programmatic way for retrieving this inventory information which could then be fed back into their CMDB.

Applications are not the only things that change inside of a VM, the GuestOS probably receives the most updates (patches/upgrades) and being able to accurately inventory this information without relying on an in-guest agent is still a challenge for many.

In vSphere 8.0 Update 2, we have enhanced the available GuestOS data using VMware Tools and we have also made it easier to inventory and collect this information even when the VM has been powered off.

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