VMware vSphere 8 is the enterprise workload platform that brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads. It supercharges performance with DPU and GPU based acceleration, enhances operational efficiency through the VMware Cloud Console, seamlessly integrates with add-on hybrid cloud services, and accelerates innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime that runs … Continued here.
Month: August 2022
We are thrilled to announce vSAN 8 with vSAN Express Storage Architecture, the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure software from VMware! A revolutionary release that will deliver performance and efficiency enhancements to meet customers’ business needs of today and tomorrow! vSAN 8 introduces vSAN Express Storage Architecture, TM (vSAN ESA) a new optional storage architecture … Continued here.
Representational State Transfer (REST) is a is a software architectural style that describes a uniform interface for numerous software packages and hardware systems in IT environments. The most common protocol for these requests and responses is HTTP, which provides operations (HTTP methods) such as OPTIONS, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE.
The OpenAPI Specification (OAS), previously known as the Swagger Specification, is a specification for machine-readable interface files for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services.
Applications implemented based on OpenAPI interface files can automatically generate documentation of methods, parameters and models. This helps keep the documentation, client libraries, and source code in sync.
Examples of VMware products providing Swagger Specifications are vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Operations (vROps).
To call REST operations from within vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), we can use the HTTP-REST plugin, which allows us to manage REST Web services by providing interaction between vRO and REST hosts. We can define REST services and their operations as inventory objects by running configuration workflows, and perform REST operations on the defined objects. The plug-in contains a set of standard workflows related to managing REST hosts and invoking REST operations.
Compared to a manually created REST Host, a Swagger REST Host comes with configured operations which reduces the risk of misconfiguration when manually adding every operation.
In this article, we’ll cover the creation of a vROps REST host from a Swagger endpoint inside the vRA embedded vRO.
To match corporate branding standards and to create a fully custom cloud experience, we can customize the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal and the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal of each organization. In addition, we can modify and add custom links to the two upper right menus in the VMware Cloud Director portals.
As part of the installation, VMware Cloud Director contains two themes – default and dark. We can create, manage, and apply custom themes. In addition, we can change the portal name, the logo, and the browser icon. In addition, the browser title adopts the portal name that we set.
In my past blog article on setting up NSX-T, I’ve covered using BGP as the dynamic routing protocol for north-south traffic.
A customer wanted to use OSPF to interconnect their physical networking fabric with NSX-T. Time to play with this setup in the lab 🙂
The logical routing topology which is used in my setup is depicted below:
