Author: Michael Schroeder

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Top vBlog 2018 Elections

vCommunity votes for most important Blogs 2018

This year, like many years before, Eric Siebert from vSphere-Land.com holds elections to Top vBlog 2018. You can vote for your favourite blogs in virtualization.

How can everybody vote?

Rules are simple. Everybody can vote for ones personal top 12 blogs. In a second step you can rank your 12 selected sites. First rank 12 points, 12th rank 1 point. There are special categories too. Best scripting blog, best female blogger, best non-english blog, best newcomer etc.

There are roughly 300 blogs nominated and I’m happy to be one of them.

Don’t hesitate and vote for your Top vBlog 2018.

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vSphere Integrated Containers

VMware VIC (vSphere Integrated Containers) is an elegant way to run container workloads alongside with regular VMs in your datacenter. You’ll get best of both worlds. Developers can use container tools as usual but with added high availability and flexibility of a vSphere cluster.

I’m going to give a little primer on VMware Integrated Containers (VIC) and how to use them.

Getting started

  • Create distributed portgroups on a vDS that we will use for containers. We need a public dPG and a bridge dPG.
  • Create a VIC user to interact with vCenter. For example a standard domain user who gets permissions on vCenter to deploy and delete VMs. This user will be granted permissions to vCenter later during setup.

Login to VMware.com and download vSphere Integrated Containers appliance.

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