DFWVMUG User Conference: VMworld

VMworld Summary:

• Need to prioritize delivery of applications to the users
• Break down the rigidity of infrastructure to become adaptable
• Success comes through being thoughtful, decisive, and bold

Today’s Silos:

• Traditional vs cloud
• IT vs Dev
• On-premise vs Off-premise
• Safe/secure/compliant vs instant/elastic/self-service
• Own assets vs leverage others’ assets (example: Uber)

Strategy:

• SDDC
  • Virtualize everything you can
  • Compute: vSphere
  • Network: NSX
  • Storage: VSAN & vVol
  • Mgmt: vRealize
• Hybrid-cloud
• EUC

Software-Defined Data Center:

• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
  • Build-Your-Own –> Converged –> Hyper-Converged
  • Blessed configuration that isn’t all out-board components
  • Solution: EVO:RAIL
    • 2U/4-node from qualified partners
    • Scales to 4 HCIAs for gen-purpose (100 VMs) and VDI (250 VMs)
    • Compute + Network + Storage
    • Linear scale-out — add another box
  • Larger deployments: EVO:RACK (RAIL expounded into a full rack w/ TOR switch)
• OpenStack Integration
  • VMware distribution of OpenStack
  • Unified, single-vendor support
• Containers without Compromise
  • Not new, just under different names: Solaris Zones, FreeBSD Jails, OpenVZ
  • Benefits: Process isolation, reproducible environment, management at scale
  • Solution: Docker
• vCloud Suite 5.8
• vSphere Essentials –> vSphere Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
  • Changed licensing from CPU to VM
  • No vCenter included
• vSphere 6 (Beta)
  • 4-CPU SMP Fault Tolerance
  • Applications Mobility
  • Cross vCenter vMotion
  • Long Distance vMotion
• Software-Defined Storage
  • Extending VSAN to vVOL
  • Policy-based storage
  • Communication happens between vCenter and SAN
• vCloud Suite –> vRealize Suite
  • ITBM Standard
  • vCloud Automation Center Adv/Ent
  • vCenter Ops Adv/Ent
  • …
• NSX
  • Micro-segmentation
    • Allows what before was prohibitively expensive (firewalling workloads)
    • Policy-based

vCloud Air (formerly vCloud Hybrid Service)

• Virtual Private Cloud On Demand (Beta)
  • Sign-up: vmware.com/go/ondemand
  • Dedicated Cloud
  • Virtual Private Cloud
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Upcoming Services: DBaas (MySQL, MSSQL), Object Storage (based on EMC ViPR), Mobility (Airwatch), Cloud Mgmt (vCAC)

End-User Computing (EUC)

• Airwatch: mobility
• CloudVolumes acquisition: managed application containers
• Horizon Workspace Suite: Horizon, Airwatch, Virtual Portal
• Partnership with VMware, Google, and nVIDIA