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VMware Cloud Foundation: vRealize Suite Cloud Operations Model

This lab introduces the consumption of a VMware Cloud Foundation-based VMware Cloud using vRealize Cloud Assembly. Participants will gain experience with using Vrealize Automation Cloud Assembly to deploy application workloads onto preconfigured NSX Segments and firewall policies.

Foundation Lab

2 launches

Article ATC

vSAN, Benchmarking, 10Gb, 25Gb, RoCEv2, and One More Thing…

Performance testing of VMware vSAN on Dell PowerEdge servers and Arista switches done for a large financial customer.

Oct 10, 2022

5 min read

Case Study VMware Tanzu

Energy Providers Saves Millions with Data Center Modernization

Learn how a large utilities provider partnered with WWT on their IT transformation toward Multi Cloud & deployed Dell VxRail with VMware Tanzu as a solution to achieve the objective

Jul 19, 2022

3 min read

Case Study VMware Cloud Foundation

Modernizing IT for West Coast Utility Provider

Learn how WWT helped a large utility provider with its aging infrastructure and multicloud journey.

Jun 29, 2022

4 min read

Article VMware Cloud Universal

Key Takeaways From VMware EMPOWER 2022

VMware held their annual EMPOWER for the Americas in May of 2022. The three day virtual partner conference consisted of general/breakout sessions, "ask the expert" sessions, hands-on labs and technical training. All the sessions were available to VMware partners online, but there are often themes and details that get lost along the way. So, we asked WWT's VMware technical experts what they found most interesting from EMPOWER. Here is what they had to say.

Jun 20, 2022

12 min read

Lab Kubernetes Software

VMware Cloud Foundation: Developer Ready Infrastructure Essentials Lab

This lab provides an introduction to the Kubernetes features and capabilities available with VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu.

Foundation Lab

74 launches

Lab Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

VMware Cloud Foundation: Software-Defined Networking Essentials Lab

This lab provides an introduction to the software-defined networking capabilities of VMware NSX-T that are enabled with every VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. This lab will show the simplicity of creating networks in software, attaching workloads to these networks (segments) in vSphere, securing the workloads using NSX Distributed Firewall and creating a Load Balancer using NSX.

Foundation Lab

45 launches

Article Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

VMware vSAN Closes a Major Resiliency Gap

VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 is officially released, and with it comes a feature that closes an observed resiliency gap during unplanned outages.

Apr 8, 2021

4 min read

Article Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

3 VCF POCs in the ATC, What We Learned...

We have had many customers in WWT's Advanced Technology Center utilize our Proof of Concept (POC) testing to evaluate different Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions that would fit their production environment needs. In this ATC Insight, we expose information from three different POCs that we executed on with our customers. All three of the POC's mentioned in this ATC Insight demonstrate the flexibility of VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) and show how it offers a variety of ways for organizations to run the infrastructure on-premise and in the cloud.

Jan 3, 2021

12 min read

Briefing VMware vSAN

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Briefing

Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) offers organizations software-centric data center infrastructure that seamlessly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization technologies. This briefing explores the HCI market, who the top players are, what are the appropriate use cases, what differentiates the different vendors and commonly asked questions when evaluating or integrating HCI. As part of the briefing, we will also include a live demonstration of our on-demand HCI labs and explain how to access them.

Aug 18, 2020

2 min read

Article Dell/EMC Storage

Primer Series: What Is Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)?

What is hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)? Learn about the benefits of hyper-convergence and key considerations when choosing an HCI solution.

Jun 9, 2020

4 min read

Article Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

Resiliency Testing VxRail

One of our customers wanted to look at testing resiliency on a vSAN cluster. More specifically, they wanted to test the resiliency of a VxRail solution. For these tests we used an 8 node VxRail that was available inside the Advanced Technology Center (ATC). Below is a high-level design of the environment. The goal of this testing was to see how VxRail and vSAN would react to disruptive and non-disruptive tests.

Apr 1, 2020

13 min read

Article Intel Cloud

WWT Builds Lab for Google Cloud's Anthos Featuring Intel Select Solutions

Google Cloud's Anthos is a hugely beneficial infrastructure solution for hybrid cloud and multicloud deployments. Now, WWT is building on that advantage by becoming one of the first to offer Anthos running on the Cisco Hyperflex™ platform powered by Intel® Select Solutions --which is now available to see in action in our Advanced Technology Center and on our Digital Platform.

Mar 17, 2020

7 min read

Article Intel, Dell, VMware, and WWT Solutions

Primer Series: VMware vSAN

This article is part of the WWT Primer Series, a collection of content focused on the fundamental understanding of complex technologies and solutions.

Feb 26, 2020

5 min read

Article Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

Are You Just Moving a Bottleneck in Your VSAN Solution?

One of our customers asked us to do a Proof of Concept (or POC) around some very customized performance based testing around vSAN technology. That being said, this ATC Insight gets into the weeds of benchmarking, so prepare yourself for a fun ride!

Feb 14, 2020

8 min read

Article Intel Select Solutions

Meet the HCI Lab

Our HCI Lab is a multi-vendor setup that encompasses all the major HCI players and considerations.

Feb 2, 2020

6 min read

Article VMware vSAN

Gartner's HCI "Vague" Quadrant

Gartner's annual HCI Magic Quadrant has been released, and we've reviewed it.

Jan 5, 2020

7 min read

Article Intel Select Solutions

Evaluating HCI: An Infinite Approach

A different way to look at decision making and where to start when evaluating hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). Ignore the noise, analyze the problem and design the right solution, not only for the problem itself but the company's vision and future.

Nov 5, 2019

5 min read

Workshop Dell/EMC Storage

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Workshop

Our Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Workshop is a strategic and interactive session focused on helping customers understand the differences between HCI vendors. The workshop exercises allow customers to build custom evaluations that reflect different vendor's abilities to meet requirements.

Sep 5, 2019

2 min read