Tag: VMware Engine

VMware Engine Oct. 28, 2024

Automating Google Cloud VMware Engine Deployments - Automating Google Cloud VMware Engine Deployments aims to streamline the configuration and deployment of GCVE using Cloud Build as a CI/CD platform and Terraform as an IaC tool. It addresses the challenge of long deployment times by configuring resources to support extended deployments. The article covers setting up the environment, creating a Cloud Build pipeline, and configuring Terraform for proper timeout values.

Infrastructure VMware Engine Oct. 21, 2024

Best Practices for deploying Google Cloud VMware Engine Protected Part 2 - The article discusses best practices for deploying Google Cloud VMware Engine Protected Part 2. It covers setting up the GCBDR management console, creating storage pools, and configuring backup templates. The author also introduces Backup Vaults, a new Google Cloud service that supports immutable and retention enforced backups for GCBDR and GCVE.

Infrastructure VMware Engine Aug. 19, 2024

For VMware Admins: Why Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Should Be on Your Radar - Reduce Risk by Migrating Your VMware Workloads to Google Cloud with Ease.

Official Blog VMware Engine July 22, 2024

VMware Cloud Foundation on Google Cloud VMware Engine: 20% lower price and up to 40% in migration incentives - Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) now offers lower pricing and migration incentives. New GCVE node types provide cost-effective options for different workload requirements. Commercial incentives of up to 40% of GCVE first-year spend are available, along with no-fee proof of concepts and trials.

Infrastructure Official Blog SRE VMware Engine May 27, 2024

Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers - Google Cloud experienced an incident that impacted one customer's use of Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) in a single cloud region. The incident was caused by an inadvertent misconfiguration during deployment using an internal tool, leading to the automatic deletion of the customer's GCVE Private Cloud after a system-assigned 1-year period. Google Cloud has since taken steps to prevent such incidents from happening again, including deprecating the internal tool and reviewing all GCVE deployments. The customer's data backups stored in Google Cloud Storage were not affected and assisted in the rapid restoration of services.

NetApp Official Blog VMware Engine March 25, 2024

Google Cloud VMware Engine supercharged with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes - By combining the simplicity, performance, and advanced data management capabilities of NetApp Volumes with the reliability and operational efficiency of Google Cloud VMware Engine, organizations can achieve agility and cost savings.

Official Blog VMware Engine March 18, 2024

How to set up Google Cloud VMware Engine regional disaster recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager - In this blog post, we present a guide to setting up SRM within GCVE, enabling failover and failback of your VMs between Google Cloud regions for DR purposes.

VMware Engine VPC Dec. 11, 2023

GCVE networking: understanding Google Cloud VPC to Google Cloud VMware Engine connectivity - Exploring how the Google Cloud VPC communicates with the VMware Engine private cloud network.

Backup and DR Service Official Blog VMware Engine Oct. 16, 2023

Safeguard your VM workloads with new GCVM Protected - The new GCVE Protected offers bundled pricing for both Google Cloud VMware Engine and Google Cloud’s Backup & DR Service.

Official Blog VMware Engine Oct. 2, 2023

What’s new with Google Cloud VMware Engine: New node type, networking, automation and more

Event VMware Engine July 24, 2023

Ten Sessions Not to Miss about Google Cloud at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas - A list of sessions involving Google Cloud VMware Engine on VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas, August 21-24.

Official Blog VMware Engine April 17, 2023

What’s new with VMware Engine: New regions and more capabilities for storage, availability, data protection and more

Official Blog VMware Engine March 13, 2023

What Google Cloud VMware Engine can do for you: Three customers talk TCO - ADT, LIQ, and Viant discuss why they migrated their VMware-based applications to Google Cloud VMware Engine.

VMware Engine Feb. 27, 2023

Create VMware NSX Networks with PowerCLI on Google Cloud VMware Engine - By using PowerCLI, VMware administrators can get a new private cloud up and running with one or more network segments without ever signing in to the NSX admin web interface.

Terraform VMware Engine Feb. 13, 2023

Configure your private clouds using the Google Cloud VMware Engine IaC Foundations repository - Terraform modules for Google Cloud VMware engine.

NetApp Official Blog VMware Engine Feb. 13, 2023

How to use NetApp CVS as datastores for Google Cloud VMware Engine - Learn about how you can use NetApp CVS for datastore expansion for Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Official Blog VMware Engine Oct. 3, 2022

Google Cloud VMware Engine - What’s New: Increased commercial flexibility, ease of use and more - Learn about what’s new with Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Cloud Load Balancing Official Blog Traffic Director VMware Engine June 27, 2022

Load balancing Google Cloud VMware Engine with Traffic Director - Using a high-performance front-end for web services hosted in Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Official Blog VMware Engine June 6, 2022

Understanding Google Cloud’s VMware Engine Migration Process and Performance - Understand the complexities and performance of Google Cloud VMware Engine when migrating from on-prem location to your Google Cloud.

Official Blog VMware Engine May 23, 2022

Google Cloud VMware Engine: Optimize application licensing costs with custom core counts - Learn about Custom Core Counts and how you can use this to manage your application licensing costs effectively on Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Official Blog VMware Engine May 2, 2022

Running VMware in the cloud: How Google Cloud VMware Engine stacks up - Learn how Google Cloud VMware Engine provides unique capabilities to migrate and run VMware workloads natively in Google Cloud.

Infrastructure Official Blog VMware Engine March 21, 2022

Google Cloud VMware Engine now a part of VMware Cloud Universal program - Google Cloud and VMware expand partnership to accelerate customers' cloud migration journey.

Official Blog VMware Engine Jan. 31, 2022

Optimize the cost of your Google Cloud VMware Engine deployments - Learn how to optimize the cost of your Google Cloud VMware Engine deployments.

Infrastructure Official Blog VMware Engine Jan. 24, 2022

New in Google Cloud VMware Engine: Single nodes, certifications and more - The latest version of Google Cloud VMware Engine now supports single node clouds, compliance certs and Toronto availability.

BigQuery Official Blog VMware Engine Dec. 6, 2021

Using BigQuery with data sources in Google Cloud VMware Engine - How to visualize your data with Big Query and Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Official Blog VMware Engine Oct. 4, 2021

VMware and Google Cloud: The next chapter - VMware and Google Cloud summarize the past year of of our partnership success with Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Official Blog VMware Engine Sept. 20, 2021

Making VMware migrations to Google Cloud simpler than ever - The Google Cloud Catalyst Program provides Google Cloud VMware Engine users financial flexibility when migrating to Google Cloud.

Official Blog VMware Engine Sept. 20, 2021

Google Cloud disaster recovery using Actifio, VMware Engine and Zerto - There are subtle differences between the ways you protect applications on-premises and in the cloud.

Official Blog VMware Engine Sept. 4, 2021

Monitoring made simple for Google Cloud VMware Engine and Google Cloud operations suite - Learn how we simplified monitoring for Google Cloud VMware Engine and Google Cloud operations suite.

BigQuery Billing Official Blog VMware Engine Sept. 4, 2021

Google Cloud VMware Engine, PowerCLI and BigQuery Analytics - Exporting data from Google Cloud billing data into a BigQuery dataset is relatively straight-forward. However, exporting data from GCVE into BigQuery requires PowerShell scripting. The following blog details steps to extract data from GCVE and load it into BigQuery for reporting and analysis.

Official Blog VMware Engine Aug. 9, 2021

8 ways Google Cloud elevates agility and security for financial services - A new white paper by IDG highlights an alternative to replatforming your financial services apps, and how to do it with Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Official Blog VMware Engine July 5, 2021

New in Google Cloud VMware Engine: autoscaling, Mumbai expansion, etc. - A review of the latest updates to Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Official Blog VMware Engine June 14, 2021

Google Cloud VMware Engine now HIPAA compliant - VMware customers looking to move to the cloud can now build a HIPAA-compliant architecture with Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Networking Official Blog VMware Engine May 31, 2021

How to leverage global address resolution using Cloud DNS in Google Cloud VMware Engine - Google Cloud VMware Engine now supports global name resolution VMware management components including vCenter, NSX Manager and HCX Manager.

Official Blog VMware Engine May 10, 2021

Retire your tech debt: Move vSphere 5.5+ to Google Cloud VMware Engine - Migrating your legacy VMware vSphere environment to Google Cloud VMware Engine can be a quick and easy way to get your systems back into compliance.

Networking Official Blog VMware Engine May 3, 2021

How to use multi-VPC networking in Google Cloud VMware Engine - Learn how and why to connect the same VMware Private Cloud to multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) with Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Official Blog VMware Engine March 29, 2021

A Google Cloud VMware Engine cheat sheet - A walk through VMware Engine, highlighting its benefits, features, and use cases.

Networking VMware Engine March 22, 2021

Intro to Google Cloud VMware Engine – Network and Connectivity Overview - An overview of the networking configuration and capabilities in Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Official Blog VMware Engine March 15, 2021

Zero-footprint DR solution with Google Cloud VMware Engine and Actifio - Learn how to use Actifio data management software plus Google Cloud VMware Engine to create a dynamic, low-cost DR site in the cloud.

Official Blog VMware Engine Feb. 22, 2021

New in Google Cloud VMware Engine: improved reach, networking and scale - The latest version of Google Cloud VMware Engine is chock full of new features and integrations, including enhanced networking capabilities.

Official Blog VMware Engine Sept. 14, 2020

Spanning the globe with Google Cloud VMware Engine - With the addition of London, Frankfurt and Tokyo regions, Google Cloud VMware Engine is now available around the globe.

Official Blog VMware Engine Aug. 24, 2020

Google Cloud VMware Engine explained: Integrated networking and connectivity - Learn about the networking features in Google Cloud VMware Engine to let you easily and deploy workloads across on-prem and cloud environments.

Official Blog VMware Engine July 3, 2020

Google Cloud VMware Engine is now generally available - Google Cloud VMware Engine is a first-party, fully managed VMware service that lets you modernize and enhance existing applications.

Official Blog VMware Engine May 18, 2020

Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine: Accelerating your cloud journey - VMware Engine is a fully managed offering that lets enterprises run existing virtual machines on Google Cloud infrastructure.