SRE´s, PRE´s) and provide a environment to them, that is on the one hand organization compliant and on the other hand offers sufficient flexibility and appropriate tools to these developers and engineers. Organizations today will perhaps reach a point, where it will be necessary to employ external developers and engineers (e.g. Building the OVA takes time.Īnd another very important aspect of having a “Developer-friendly” environment quickly available comes into play! Let´s consider the rise of Kubernetes for example.

I recently had to repeatedly create new versions of an OVA for testing purposes as changes were made to the code.

Deploying an OVA (Open virtualization Appliance) which is located locally on your workstation into your remote Datacenter via VPN isn´t really a good idea.

Having a suitable Jumphost, Remotehost, Development-workstation or however you like to call the system that you connect to, to have access to the appropriate tools and applications available, comes in very handy when you reach the limits or get stuck with your local machine. The documentation suggests that you should convert to Instant Clone pools before upgrading to 8, however we have the standard license, so we do not have access to instant clones until we upgrade to 8.Big thanks to Gerrit Lehr, Hilko Lantinga and Alex Lopez for your valuable input and feedback.

If this is true then what is the point of 1.?ģ. The documentation states that when you upgrade to 8 you must first removed Composer and linked clone pools. The documentation states that in the current version of 8, Composer and linked clones are deprecated, but the components are still there.Ģ. After reading the VMware documentation I could use some clarification on the possible co-existence of linked clone and instant clone pools during the upgrade and for testing. We already have UAG and FSLogix, so the biggest challenge will be moving from linked clones to instant clones. We are currently on 7.11 Standard License.

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