vToolbelt – April 2023
Welcome to April! 
Upcoming Events
VMware Explore 2023
Las Vegas, Nevada
August 21-24 2023
Registration opens April 25th!
You can use PSO credits to purchase a conference pass (full pricing information)
Product Support Watch
The following products are nearing the End of General Support. You can find the full list on the VMware Lifecycle Product Matrix.
vSphere – vCenter and ESXi
- General support for versions 6.5 and 6.7 has ended. You can still upgrade to Version 7
Skyline– Free to upgrade – learn how. This tool is free, easy, and useful. If you are not using Skyline yet, check it out !
- Skyline Collector 3.2 – 8/25/23
NSX
- NSX-V (all versions) – General Support ended January 16, 2022 – Customers should migrate to NSX-T
- NSX Advanced Load Balancer 20.1.x – 7/31/23
- NSX Advanced Load Balancer 21.1.x – 8/31/23
Disaster Recovery
- Site Recovery Manager 8.5 – 10/01/23
- vSphere Replication 8.3, 8.4 – 4/1/23
- vSphere Replication 8.5 – 10/01/23
Horizon View / Workspace ONE
- Horizon 7.13 – 4/30/23
- Dynamic Environment Manager 10/2106 – 7/15/23
- Identity Manager 3.3.6 – 7/18/23
- Workspace ONE UEM Console 2109 – 6/22/23
- Workspace ONE UEM Console 2111 – 7/13/23
- Workspace ONE Access 21.08 – 9/06/23
- ThinApp 5.x – 7/13/23
vRealize Suite
- Automation
- 8.8 – 4/28/23
- 8.8.1 – 6/9/23
- 8.8.2 – 7/12/23
- 8.9 – 8/9/23
- 8.9.1 – 9/6/23
- Orchestrator –
- 8.8 – 4/28/23
- 8.8.1 – 6/9/23
- 8.8.2 – 7/12/23
- 8.9 – 8/9/23
- 8.9.1 – 9/6/23
- Lifecycle Manager
- 8.8 – 4/28/23
- Identity Manager – 3.3.6 – 7/18/23
Notes from the Field
One of the new features in vSphere 8 is a change to how ESX hosts are patched and upgraded. vSphere Configuration Profiles are a large part of this. Join the vSphere Breakroom Chat video series and learn how you can Improve Host Lifecycle Management with vSphere Configuration Profiles.
vSphere 8 Update 1 introduces a variety of new features for Tanzu/CNS.
The Security Configuration Guide for vSphere 8 has been released. You can catch up it and many other security documents in the Cloud Infrastructure Security Configuration Center.
Learn how you can save time building and managing the Desktop O/S images for VDI using the Horizon Golden Image Deployment Tool.
Do you know about the VMware Patch Portal? Read up on how it can help you find a specific patch as well as get a better understanding of how ESXi releases make it into an ISO image (or remain a patch).
Learn how you can Document vSphere as Code with Terrastruct’s D2 language.
Did you know that vSphere can run on the Data Processing Unit of Smart NICs? This is called the vSphere Distributed Services Engine and has many benefits an cases. Join VMware at the light board to learn how you can use the Distributed Services Engine.
You may have needed to create a custom ESXi ISO image to include certain drivers when installing vSphere. Did you know you can use Powershell to do this?
Two tech deep dives for you:
- Get familiar with the Virtual TPM built into vSphere.
- Learn how the Native Key Provider works