Project Supernova is to build a common machine learning inference service framework by enabling machine learning inference accelerators across edge endpoint devices, edge systems and cloud, with or without hardware accelerators.
Changelog
Version 1.2 Update
Support Xilinx Cloud FPGA
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App Volumes Packaging Utility
The App Volumes Packaging Utility helps to package applications. With this fling, packagers can add the necessary metadata to MSIX app attach VHDs so they can be used alongside existing AV format packages. The MSIX format VHDs will require App Volumes 4, version 2006 or later and Windows 10, version 2004 or later.
In November only one new fling was released while seven other received update. One that received an update was the Horizon Session Recording fling that I blogged about at the time of release. Also it looks like the VSAN team is letting all its tools loose on the community because yet another tool for VSAN has been released (Storage Simulator Using Cellular Automata). The OS Optimization tool received some nice command-line features to improve your automated Golden images builds.
Storage Simulator Using Cellular Automata is loosely based on the principles of cellular automata (CA) to model the performance characteristics of data path in a vSAN cluster. In general, CA can used to model and study any complex system with number of elements operating in parallel having short range relationships that as whole exhibit emergent behavior. When simulating a storage stack, we are modelling transmission of data blocks across a network of hardware resources communicating with each other through various interconnects. These includes processors, caches, DRAM, SSDs HDDs, PCIe links, ethernet links etc.
When modelling an IO request such as read/write, vSAN software stack applies various functions as the data block moves through this network. These functions include, data replication, parity calculation, checksum, encryption, compression etc. Some of these can lead to IO amplification.
This Fling implements a standalone vSAN simulation utility to aid developers in getting ideal speed-of-light (SOL) performance of a given cluster. This can be used as a starting point to rapidly iterate various ideas/features by making small changes to simulator and quantifying its potential performance impact. It can also be used by customers/partners to identify potential bottlenecks of their deployment under various type of workloads.
Updates
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VMware OS Optimization Tool
Always good to see the OSOT getting some new features, bug fixes but laso some nice new command line features and also very important extra knobs to use for Office.
Changelog
November, 2020, b2000
Bug Fixes
Resolved the issue that stopped automatic logon in Server and WVD edition after Sysprep process.
Resolved a reboot prompt problem which displayed in process of generalizing on Win10 1607 LTSB.
Resolved the issue of failing to disable anti-virus feature on Windows 10 2004.
Fixed issue where re-enabling Windows Update would pull down feature updates by default.
Common Options
Common options selections are now remembered between different runs of the OSOT.
For all tabs, user now can apply different Common Options settings multiple times on optimized system.
Under Update tab, introduce a new option to switch on/off update feature of Office 365, 2016, 2019
Under Store Apps tab, disable checkbox for removed built-in apps
Update
New option to defer or directly trigger feature updates
New option to defer or directly trigger quality updates
New option to skip Office Click-to-Run updates
Added commands to stop and disable the App Volumes services when re-enabling Windows Update. These are then set back to automatic when Windows Update is disabled again.
Optimizations
Added the ability to export and import selected optimization items on the Optimize page (Export Selections and Import Selections).
Changes:
Default for “Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service” is now unselected by default to resolve missed language bar issue.
Default for “Connected Devices Platform Service” is now unselected by default.
New:
Turn off account privacy notifications in Office 365 and Office 2019
Project Supernova is to build a common machine learning inference service framework by enabling machine learning inference accelerators across edge endpoint devices, edge systems and cloud, with or without hardware accelerators.
Changelog
Version 1.1 Update
Support Bitfusion
K8S and docker-compose deployment
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vRealize Build Tools
vRealize Build Tools provides tools to development and release teams implementing solutions based on vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO). The solution targets Virtual Infrastructure Administrators and Solution Developers working in parallel on multiple vRealize-based projects who want to use standard DevOps practices.
Changelog
Version 2.10.0 Update
[MVN] Improvements in package installer
[vROps] Regex support in YAML definitions for vROps content
[vRLI] Regex support in YAML definitions for vRLI content
[POL] Added Polyglot and ABX support:
NodeJS, Python and PowerShell code support
new archetype: com.vmware.pscoe.polyglot.archetypes:package-polyglot-archetype
two new project types: com.vmware.pscoe.polyglot:polyglot-project; com.vmware.pscoe.serverless:serverless-project
tooling for compiling, bundling and packaging: polyglotpkg
[TS] Added support for description field for workflow inputs and outputs in the Workflow decorator
[vRA-NG] Fixed NPE error during custom resources import
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Horizon Session Recording
No need to explain the Horizon Session Recording anymore, just hit the link that I have posted at the beginning of this post.
Changelog
Version 2.2.0
Server Changes:
Added the ability to import server settings easily from another running server.
Added the ability to filter searches based on farm / pool.
Added the ability to lock and unlock sessions from the session view page.
Agent Changes:
1: Misc bugfixes.
2: PowerShell API to interact with the Recording agent, to perform such tasks as:
Start a session recording.
Stop a session recording.
Troubleshoot connectivity issues.
View machine configuration
Add a trusted certificate.
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Sample Data Platform on VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Provisioning
With this Fling, you will leverage your VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 deployment and stand a sample data platform on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid guest cluster in less than 20-minutes comprising of Kafka, Spark, Solr, and ELK.
Changelog
Version Update 1.1
Bug fix for storage class for bitnami kafka
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VMware Appliance for Folding@Home
This Fling is a vSphere Appliance that contains the Folding@Home client software. Upon deploying the VMware Appliance for Folding@Home, the user will be prompted to enter information to configure the Folding@Home software. Once the appliance is deployed, the Folding@Home client is running and ready for Working Units. The Fling is also pre-configured to allow remote management of the Folding@Home client. For more information on the Folding@Home Project and how we can be a Force for Good against diseases like the Coronavirus, visit the website www.foldingathome.org.
Over the past several years, you’ve seen us demonstrate our virtualization technology on the Arm platform across several use cases, everything from running mission critical workloads on a windmill, to running on the SmartNIC, to running on AWS Graviton in the cloud. We realized that the resilient platform created for the datacenter can be equally valuable in non-traditional environments. We’ve learned a lot from exploratory discussions with customers and Arm Silicon Partners.
Changelog
November 30, 2020 – v1.2
Note: Upgrade is NOT possible, only fresh installation is supported. If you select “Preserve VMFS” option, you can re-register your existing Virtual Machines.
UI: Disable datastore browsing when no datastores are present
PSCI: Fix missing context_id argument for CPU_ON calls
GICv2: Always enable SGIs, as GIC-500
arm64: Support for big-endian guests
Remove requirements/restrictions on initrd for UEFI-less VMs
The VMware Workspace ONE Provisioning Tool helps you test and validate your applications (exported as a .ppkg file) and the special-purpose unattend.xml configuration file as part of the Dell Provisioning for Workspace ONE offer. This tool simplifies the testing and validation of this process in your own environment before these files are sent and applied in the Dell factory.
Highlights
Simple UI to easily enable the IT admin to validate their ppkg and unattend.xml files in their own environment, mimicking what Dell is doing in the factory.
Supports PPKGs and unattend.xmls generated with Workspace ONE UEM Console 1811 or newer.
Highly flexible. Allows IT admins to specify the configurations for tool in a text based config file in order to change things like tool timeout and report location, to name a few.
Generates a detailed final summary report with client details and app installation results. This file is saved in C:\ProgramData\Airwatch\UnifiedAgent\Logs\PPKGFinalSummary.log after the “Full Process” button is clicked.
Halts the process if any steps fails for the given operation, giving the ability to IT admins to view & debug the state of the machine and the apps.
Supported Operations
Apply Apps Only – Given a ppkg, this tool deploys the applications on a test windows machine
Apply Full process – Given a ppkg and xml file, this tool deploys the applications on a test windows machine followed by Workspace ONE enrollment and Sysprep.
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Dispatch-Solo
The Dispatch-Solo fling actually is a prepackaged VM to get you started with dispatch as easily as possible.
Dispatch-Solo is lean version of Dispatch which has been packaged as VM appliance. The goals of Dispatch-Solo are simple:
Lower the barrier to entry – get started with Dispatch in a matter of minutes
Support nearly the full Dispatch feature set – API compatibility
Explore use-cases – get user feedback and iterate
Because Dispatch and serverless is still in its infancy, understanding use cases is the highest priority. It therefore makes sense to continue to focus on getting Dispatch in as many hands as possible and making it as easy as possible to get started exploring its usage. By packaging Dispatch-Solo as a VM appliance, getting started is quick and predictable.
This Android Device Pre-Verification Suite Fling reduces the time to perform a preliminary test on any Android device from any OEM. Pre-verification result decides whether the device is eligible for a full device verification program or not. This eliminates the TAT (turnaround time) for basic test failures during the initial phase of verification from VMware. Customers/Partners can run this tool at their premise and check whether the device passes the device verification program entry criteria.
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PowerCLI for VMware Cloud on AWS
If you are using VMware Cloud on AWS the PowerCLI for VMware Cloud on AWS fling will give you an preview on what to expect from PowerCLI to automate VMC.
This Fling provides a community preview of the upcoming PowerCLI commands for managing VMware Cloud on AWS. It comes in the form of a single PowerCLI module and integrates with existing PowerCLI modules.
All commands have been automatically generated. They are still in development, contain known issues, and will change in the future.
Updated
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PowerCLI Extensions
The PowerCLI extensions fling gives you a preview on what to expect in the official PowerCLI releases.
Changelog
Version 3.0.0.11173018
Updated PowerCLI.Extensions Module to be compatible with VMware PowerCLI 11.0.0
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HCIBench
This one should be known by now, the HCIBench is made for benchmarking your hyperconverged infrastucture. Ideal for things like vSAN but please be aware that it could also possibly be tuned for that.
Changelog
Version 1.6.8.7
Enhanced easy-run, put original 4k,70% read as the first test case, then 4k, 100% read and 256k, 100% write
Enhanced tvm deployment validation
Added Checksum into easy-run consideration
Updated guest VM template with increased ring_pages and disk scheduler
Added DNS configuration guidance into welcome message
Version 1.6.8.5
Added 2 more test cases into easy-run, 4k 100% random read and 256k 100% sequential write
Batch deployment will be involved if deploying more than 8 VMs to speed up deployment process
Allow user to choose IP prefix when using static IP
Optimized UI to allow user to review the results by single click
Fixed regression issue when placing Datacenter/Cluster in the folder
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