Name: Essential Cloud Capabilities: 3 Skills to Master when Migrating to the Cloud
Start: 2023-09-19T15:30:00Z
End: 2023-09-19T15:30:55.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

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VMware NSX® SD-WAN by VeloCloud™ can streamline your WAN infrastructure, realize significant cost-savings over the traditional WAN deployment, deploy resources in a matter of minutes, and enjoy superior performance visibility. NSX SD-WAN is a key component of Virtual Cloud Network. Discuss the NSX SD-WAN architecture and platform deployment model options. Join us to learn about the future of SD-WAN!

About the Presenter:
Neeraj Sharma is a Technology enthusiast with 25+ years of qualitative experience in the areas of IT Infrastructure, VMware, Microsoft, Networking, and cloud computing (Private and Public). He holds certifications VCIX-DCV, VCIX-NV, VCAP-Cloud and instructor qualifications for not only VMware technologies, but also Microsoft and Cisco.

The Future of VMware SD-WAN Architecture

In this special VMware Skyline webinar, we’ll be joined by a special guest who will share with us how their organization has leveraged Skyline Advisor Pro in their environment to avoid unplanned downtime, automate VMware product updates and configurations with confidence, and automate additional tasks with Skyline Insights API. Take this opportunity to learn something new and ask our experts anything -- we're here to help!

About our Special Guest
Richard is an experienced Storage and Virtualization Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the IT industry. Skilled in customer and vendor relationships, Storage Area Network (SAN), VMware vSphere, various server platforms, and datacenter deployments. He has a strong information technology skillset with a Master of Education (M.Ed.) focused in Educational Computing from State University of New York College at Buffalo. Leader of local area technology community VMware User Group (VMUG), VMUG US East Regional Champion (2021-2023), and a 6x VMware vExpert 2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023.

Social Media Links:
Twitter: @RichardKenyan
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardkenyan

VMware Skyline Customer Spotlight with Richard Kenyan from CUBRC

VMware Workspace ONE is a digital platform that delivers and manages any app on any device by integrating access control, application management, and unified endpoint management. The platform allows IT to deliver a digital workspace that includes the devices and apps of the business's choice, without sacrificing the security and control that IT professionals need. In this session you will learn how workspace one can help improve and streamline your EUC environment. We will discuss some key features and product architecture.

About the Presenter:
Tavman Singh has 18 years extensive Industry experience and carries rich exposure on VMware technologies - from Data Centre Virtualization to Cloud to EUC and Workspace. As an Instructor with VMware since 2016, he helps customers strategize, plan and execute changes to IT Infrastructure, streamlining operations and modernizing their overall IT ecosystem.

How to Improve Your EUC Environment with Workspace ONE

SaltStack Config is a powerful automation and configuration management platform designed to simplify and streamline complex IT environments. This presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of SaltStack Config, offering insights into its key features, benefits, architecture and look at troubleshooting common issues.

About the Presenter: 
Gokul Kumar is a Senior Technical Support Engineer within VMware, where his primary area of expertise revolves around empowering customers to maximize the value of their Aria Automation and Saltstack Config solutions. With over eight years of dedicated service at VMware, Gokul has played a pivotal role in addressing high-priority, escalated challenges within the Cloud Automation and SaltStack Config.

VMware Aria Automation Config - Overview and Troubleshooting

Skyline Advisor Pro is the next level of proactive intelligence. One of the advanced features of Skyline Advisor Pro is Skyline Insights API which allows you to use the command line to pull Findings and Recommendations and limit your search to Findings only. Skyline Automation Toolkit, our first-ever VMware Fling, allows you to use PowerShell/PowerCLI to perform fixes within Findings, deploy and configure infrastructure, and send Findings data from Insights API to any tool of your choice: Jira, Pager Duty, Slack, ServiceNow, etc. Join this session to find out how to access Skyline Insights API and run Automation Toolkit in your development environment.

Automating Workflows with Skyline Insights API and Automation Toolkit

Join us for real-world strategies for optimizing performance with VMware Aria Operations.

Optimize Datacenter Performance with VMware Aria Operations

What is VMware Cloud Foundation+ (VCF+)? How can it be used? What software is being delivered in VMware Cloud Foundation? Join this live webinar for answers to all these questions and more!

About the Presenter:
Dhruti Thaker is a veteran in Technology and Infrastructure services specialized in VMware
and cloud computing with over 16 years’ experience. She holds certifications qualifications for not only VMware technologies, but also AWS and HP. Dhruti carry over 15 years of rich experience in information technology industry, including wide exposure on VMware products & solutions. As VCI over 12 years, she hold VCP & VCAP certification in multiple VMware offerings. Prior to joining VMware , Dhruti has worked with Hewlett-Packard , SPI Mysore/Atlanta ,Edgeverve as well as had an Entrepreneur with a primary focus on VMware Virtualization Technologies.

VMware Cloud Foundation at a Glance

Learn about VMware's vision for Endpoint Security and how we are innovating with VMware Carbon Black to address current cyber security risks.  Join us for a better understanding of opportunities to transform security using VMware Carbon Black Portfolio.  We will also discuss Carbon Black training and certification.

Endpoint Security Solution with VMware Carbon Black

Join us to learn what's new in VCF 5.0 with overview of Bill of Materials.

About the Presenter:
Raghav is a veteran in Technology and Infrastructure services specialized in VMware, Citrix, Red Hat Microsoft and cloud computing with over 10 year’s experience. He holds certifications and instructor qualifications for not only VMware technologies, but also Microsoft, AWS Kubernetes, Testing (ISTQB) and HPE Product lining. Prior to joining VMware in 2022, Raghav spent 3 years in Hewlett-Packard Student University (HPSU), Koenig Solutions (5 years) with a primary focus on Virtualization Technologies and managing the datacenter and multiple vendor product trainings.

Road to Hyperconverged Infra in Hours with VCF 5.0

The key to getting the most out of the cloud is choosing the right migration strategy. During this interactive webinar session, learn about common approaches, roadblocks and how to navigate complexities many companies face when migrating to the cloud. In addition, we will discuss areas to consider when making critical decisions in migration, such as assessing the current environment and examining security and compliance.

After attending this webinar, you will be able to:
     - Identify roadblocks to accelerating cloud adoption
     - Provide strategies for addressing weaknesses while migrating to hybrid cloud environments
     - Understand cloud-based platforms and software as a service for better migration
     - Identify security and compliance issues that may come up
     - Understand key migration skills needed for a successful deployment

Critical Cloud Migration Planning for Organizations

The Async Patch Tool is a handy utility that lets you apply important patches to VMware Cloud Foundation outside the regular update process. It's also great at managing patches and upgrading instances with async patches. In this session, we'll highlight why it's essential to use the async patch tool before and after patching VCF components. We'll also discuss how the async patch tool eases patching on VCF instances as a whole.

About the Presenter:
Supporting APJ clients for VMware Cloud Foundation, Jasmeet Kaur is a seasoned Technical Support Engineer with over 4 years at VMware. Holding the prestigious Cloud Foundation Specialist certification (2023), she has also made significant contributions to VMC on AWS and Tanzu observability by Wavefront in her previous role.

Patching VCF – The Power of Async Patch Tool

In this special VMware Skyline webinar, we’ll be joined by a special guest who will share with us how their organization has leveraged Skyline Advisor Pro in their environment to avoid unplanned downtime, automate VMware product updates and configurations with confidence, and automate additional tasks with Skyline Insights API. Take this opportunity to learn something new and ask our experts anything -- we're here to help!

About Our Special Guest:
Lukasz Koziol is a Technical Architect in Redcentric's Cloud Services Group. In his role, he uses his technical expertise and passion for VMware products to help customers deliver their vision by designing, implementing and supporting agile, available and assured solutions.

VMware Skyline Customer Spotlight

In this special VMware Skyline webinar, we have invited Richard Harris from Rackspace to join us for a live interview. Listen in as he shares with us how their organization has leveraged Skyline Advisor Pro in their environment to avoid unplanned downtime, automate VMware product updates and configurations with confidence, and automate additional tasks with Skyline Insights API. Take this opportunity to learn something new and ask our experts anything -- we’re here to help!

VMware Skyline Customer Spotlight Rackspace with Richard Harris

In this webinar we will discuss and demonstrate VMware Cloud offerings with Operations and Automation from Aria Cloud Management.

Explore VMware Aria Cloud Management

Aria Orchestrator is a powerful tool where your imagination becomes the limit to orchestrate day-to-day tasks. Join this session to learn more about how Aria Orchestrator works and how it can be used. Gain valuable insights, tips and tricks, and troubleshooting techniques.

Intermediate (L300)

About the Presenter:
John Shalom is a Senior Premier Services Technical Support Engineer at VMware. He has been with VMware for 4+ years. His key responsibilities include resolving critical issues for customers, working on production down scenarios and providing recommendations on Aria Suite products such as Aria Automation, Aria Orchestrator, Aria Lifecycle Manager, and Aria Operations for Logs. He also collaborates with development teams to fix product bugs and provide feature enhancements.

Aria Orchestrator - Overview and Troubleshooting

NSX includes a distributed firewall and gateway firewall to protect both east-west and north-south traffic. Join this webinar to gain full understanding of the architecture and configuration of the NSX firewalls to ensure that your workloads are protected.

NSX-Security Firewall and Policy Building

VMware’s Horizon Cloud radically transforms desktop and application virtualization empowering organizations to thrive in this brave new world. Horizon Cloud integrates with on-premises VMware Horizon, or allows your organization to migrate to a 100% cloud deployment. Join this webinar to gain understanding of Next Gen VMware Horizon Cloud.

Access User Desktops From Anywhere with Next Gen VMware Horizon Cloud

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Unified Management Solution for Cloud Native Apps and Multi-Cloud

This webinar will describe the purpose of vSphere with Tanzu, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integration and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio. You will learn what your organization could achieve by implementing it.

Tanzu Portfolio with Differences B/W TKG, TKGI, vSphere with Tanzu

Join us as we dive into the latest features and enhancements in VMware Aria Operations 8.x. We will discuss new features such as Cloud Proxy conversion to Remote collector, vCF operations, Launchpad overview and other newly added metrics. Learn how to leverage these insights to troubleshoot some of the most common issues as seen first-hand by the Global Services team in various customer environments. We will also provide a quick cheat-sheet of practical commands along with log file locations for troubleshooting real world scenarios.

VMware Aria Operations Enhancements: New Features and Troubleshooting

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle is a comprehensive application lifecycle and content management solution that helps you accelerate time to value, minimize ongoing management, improve end user productivity, and enable best practices for your VMware Aria Suite products. In this webinar, you will learn how to:

Install VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle using the Easy Installer
Manage configurations, certificates, licenses, passwords, and users for your Aria Suite products
Perform one-click upgrades with environment snapshot function for easy rollback
Integrate with VMware Marketplace to access and consume out-of-the-box content curated by VMware and ecosystem partners
Enforce alignment with VMware recommended reference architectures and validated designs

Managing your VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Effectively and Efficiently

Are you new to Skyline and want to learn more? Or perhaps you are knowledgeable about Skyline Advisor Pro and want to know more about our product family:
- Skyline Advisor Pro: proactive analytics and insights across product portfolio delivered as Saas.
- Skyline Health: Proactive analytics for vSphere and vSAN in the vSphere Client.  Offline and online capabilities.
- Skyline Health Diagnostics: Self-service troubleshooting for vSphere and vSAN support issues. Offline and online capabilities.

VMware Skyline Product Family Overview

In this special VMware Skyline webinar, we have invited one of our customers to join us for a live interview. Listen in as Richard shares with us how their organization has leveraged Skyline Advisor Pro in their environment to avoid unplanned downtime, automate VMware product updates and configurations with confidence, and automate additional tasks with Skyline Insights API. Take this opportunity to learn something new and ask our experts anything -- we’re here to help!

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Are you new to Skyline, or have you been using Skyline since day one and have questions about how VMware handles customer data? Join us for this 45-min  “Security & Data Privacy” overview session to learn about our best practices. We will also share data collection examples, our latest security certifications, and set aside some time for Q&A. Be sure to bring your questions – our Skyline experts will provide answers.

VMware Skyline Security & Privacy Overview

NSX-T is a software defined network platform when deployed touches every aspect of enterprise connectivity and thus understanding, leverage and best troubleshooting practices can define a difference between a successful and a failed environment.  In this webinar we will take a deep dive on common troubleshooting tips and tricks that you can follow to troubleshoot any problem when something does not work with NSX-T Data Center.

NSX-T Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks

In this presentation, we will cover an introduction to vCF+ & vSphere+ as well a discussion of requirements and overall deployment.

Introduction to vSphere+ & vCF+

Skyline – Automating Workflows with Skyline Insights API and Automation Toolkit

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. Join this session to learn how to simplify day-to-day activities in your environment, discuss new features & deprecated/unsupported components and take a look at some improvements  existing components.

vSphere 8 - What's New and What's Trending

Join this webinar to learn about the storage features and enhancements available in vSphere 8:
- NVMeoF
- NVMeoF vVols
- Container Storage CNS/CSI 
- NFS Enhancements

vSphere 8.0 Core Storage - Enhancements and Features

In this webinar, we’ll show you how to perform Day 2 functions in an easy-to-follow, essential workflows demo. You’ll learn how to perform bulk product operations, restore Skyline Collector health, export active Findings data, and speed up Support Request resolution times with Log Assist. Join this webinar to help your organization proactively avoid potential issues, increase productivity, and save money. Our experts will answer your questions live in this webinar.

Day 2 Essential Workflows with VMware Skyline Advisor Pro

Join us to learn how to optimize NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi).

Achieve Application Requirements with NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi)

Join us in this webinar where we will discuss VMware vRealize Network Insight, VMware’s solution for end-to-end network visibility, troubleshooting and analytics across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

You will learn about:

Context (main vRNI use-cases)
Install/Upgrade (sizing + scales + how to prepare a smooth upgrade)
Platform (general services health + UI)
Datasources (NSX-T+ NSX-T Flows)

Troubleshooting the Top 3 Modules - vRealize Network Insight

In this updated overview demo, we discuss how to use VMware Skyline in common use cases in your IT environment, including how to use Findings and Recommendations, Log Assist, download Insights Reports, and more. For the more advanced users, we’ll go over the latest features such as Skyline Insights API and Automation. Our experts are ready to answer your questions in this live webinar so bring your questions. We love to hear from you!

VMware Skyline Overview

VMware Tanzu is a modular, cloud-native application platform that enables vital DevSecOps outcomes in a multi-cloud world. VMware Tanzu enables automated software delivery across apps and teams while amping up your security posture with built-in security and compliance guardrails starting at source code.

Tanzu Portfolio Overview

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) supports both traditional enterprise and modern apps and provides a complete set of highly secure software-defined services for compute, storage, network, security, Kubernetes and cloud management. In this webinar, we will discuss how VMware Cloud Foundation enables customers to increase enterprise agility and flexibility with consistent infrastructure and operations across private and public clouds, by automating the deployment of a software-defined data center in your on-premises infrastructure.

Accelerate Your Cloud Journey with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

Cloud native is an approach to building and running applications that exploits the advantages of the cloud computing delivery model. When companies build and operate applications using a cloud native architecture, they bring new ideas to market faster and respond sooner to customer demands. In this webinar, you will learn:

1. What is cloud native?
2. What are cloud native applications and why do they matter?
3. How to transition from a traditional approach to the cloud?
4. What is microservices?
5. Why Kubernetes?
6. Platforms provided by VMware

Cloud-Native Applications with VMware and Kubernetes

We will discuss the infrastructure challenges in the post-pandemic world where end users require support across more devices, new vendors have entered the arena, and the need for security is constant.  We will demonstrate how to build an ecosystem around the technology and applications with Workspace ONE.

In this webinar, we will take you through various methods to upgrade vCenter server successfully. We will discuss the upgrade workflow and best practices to help you have a seamless upgrade experience.

Make Your vCenter Upgrades Hassle-free Now

Troubleshooting vSphere login issues are always tricky as there are multiple components involved such as SSO, webclient service, Active Directory, etc. In this webinar we will take you through the login workflow, talk about token allotments and inventory loading workflows.

Understanding and Troubleshooting vCenter Login

Hear about the VMware Skyline implementation at Moffitt Cancer Center, featuring our customer Don Horrox, Senior Systems Administrator.

VMware Skyline Customer Spotlight Moffitt Cancer Center with Don Horrox

Whether you’ve admired Skyline from afar or are a power user you won’t want to miss this how-to session to learn the latest tips and tricks for getting the most from the next level of proactive intelligence: Skyline Advisor Pro. Join us as our VMware Skyline experts chat with special guest and Skyline customer, Mark Curry from Brightcloud.

Avoid Downtime with VMware Skyline, Guest Mark Curry from BrightCloud

vSphere with Tanzu enables a vSphere cluster to run Kubernetes workloads - vSphere Pods, VMs and Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters. This webinar aims to dig deep into the vSphere with Tanzu Architecture enabling you to easily troubleshoot issues when things go wrong.

Troubleshooting vSphere with Tanzu

Whether you’ve admired Skyline from afar or are a power user you won’t want to miss this how-to session to learn the latest tips and tricks for getting the most from the next level of proactive intelligence: Skyline Advisor Pro. Join us as our VMware Skyline experts chat with special guest and Skyline customer, David Frankfort from University of Houston. You’ll learn how Skyline Advisor Pro is reducing IT downtime and disruptions by avoiding configuration and security issues before they occur. You’ll also hear best practices for reviewing and prioritizing proactive Findings, using Log Assist for automated support log bundle upload, and more. Listen, bring your questions, and we’ll provide the answers.

Skyline Advisor Pro_ Tips & Tricks with Guest David Frankfort, Univ of Houston

New to Skyline, and want to learn more? Or maybe you have installed Skyline, and are asking yourself, "Now what?" Join special guest and Skyline customer, Elizabeth Cristina de Souza from Senac Minas and our VMware Skyline experts for this how-to session to learn tips and tricks for getting the most from Skyline proactive intelligence. You will hear best practices for reviewing and prioritizing proactive Findings, using Log Assist for automated support log bundle upload, integrating vRealize Operations, and more. Bring your questions – we will provide answers.

Skyline Proactive Intelligence Tips & Tricks, Elizabeth Cristina de Souza, Senac

This webinar provides an in-depth understanding of snapshots and common snapshot issues. We will cover snapshot workflows, common snapshot issues, ways to triage the problem and identifying cause.

Untangling VM Snapshots

vVOL is the next step in the traditional storage space. In this webinar, we will take a deep dive into the vVOL architecture, discuss best practices and look at troubleshooting common issues.

vVOL Deep Dive

vSphere Cluster Services provide a distributed control plane for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA. With vSphere clustering services, vSphere DRS and HA can continue to function independent of the vCenter Server. In this session we will look at an overview of vCLS, discuss best practices and conclude with some common issues.

vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) Overview and Troubleshooting

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You will learn how three skills can help your team migrate to the cloud successfully in this interactive session. After attending this webinar, you will be able to:
     - Discuss the benefits of moving from on-premises to the cloud
     - Explain how your organization will benefit from these new skills
     - Typical challenges when extending on-premises to the cloud
     - Analyze the root causes of many migration mishaps
     - Determine the root causes of delays in the delivery of cloud-based initiatives

Essential Cloud Capabilities: 3 Skills to Master when Migrating to the Cloud

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