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Support for read-only VMDK in vSphere 8.0 Update 2

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vSphere 8.0 Update 2 was just announced last week at VMware Explore and it brings a lot of exciting new capabilities, check out this What's New in vSphere 8.0 Update 2 and What's New in vSAN 8.0 Update 2 blog posts for a nice summary of all the new features.

While doing some testing in my vSphere 8.0 Update 2 lab, I came to learn about a really cool feature that has been requested by customers over the years, which is the ability to configure a read-only virtual disk (VMDK). The most common use case for this feature is being able to share a single VMDK across multiple Virtual Machines and prevent any changes to the original data, a common scenario for VMware App Volumes or VMware Horizon environments.

I could also see this capability get leveraged by users as a way to distribute and install software where traditional application management systems are unavailable but still ensuring that workloads can not manipulate or modify the original files, definitely opens the door for some interesting capabilities.

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First look at Project Keswick

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VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (VECO) was announced at VMware Explore US last week and one of the components that it is built on is using something called Project Keswick.

In fact, at VMware Explore, Project Keswick was officially launched and is now available for customers to try out! I was fortunate enough to attend the Project Keswick technical deep dive session in person, but if you were not able to make the session or you were not at VMware Explore, the session recording is already available online for free to watch #VIB2169LV Scaling and Deploying ESXi at the Edge with Desired State Management and GitOps.

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On-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore US 2023

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VMware Explore 2023 has officially concluded! Thank you to all the customers, partners and colleagues that I had a chance to connect with during the conference. While I was not able to attend as many breakout sessions as I had planned, all sessions are recorded and are available in VMware Explore Video Library for 2023.

Just like in past years, I have put together a small Github page that simply summarize all VMware Explore US 2023 breakout sessions by their Category, Session Code, Session Name, On-demand URL, Presentation, Views and Session Speakers. This should make it very easier to search for a specific session, topic or speaker and jump straight to the VMware Explore on-demand link, which will require a VMware Explore account to view the session. There are no offline viewing options, you must login to view the content from the VMware Explore site.

UPDATE (11/09/23) - The initial sessions for Explore Barcelona have just been published, as more sessions are added, I will update the repo.


You can access the repo by visiting: https://github.com/lamw/vmware-explore-2023-session-urls (short URL: https://vmwa.re/vmware-explore-2023)