VMworld 2015 Recap

Another summer is past and another VMworld US is behind us.  Thankfully this year we didn’t experience any shaking or broken bricks like during VMworld 2014! Here is a copy of my annual VMworld summary that I share directly with my clients.

Playback of the VMworld 2015 General Sessions from Monday and Tuesday are already available on the VMworld site (Thursday general session is for attendees only).  Recordings of the 2015 Sessions will be hitting the VMworld site within the next week and be available to all registered attendees.  The archive of break out sessions from the past 5 VMworlds is also available to the general public.

What has to be the hottest set of topics from VMworld 2015 is everything and anything DevOps and Cloud-Native Application related.  The CNA Team has a great summary of all their announcements.

General Trivia

• Registered Attendees: 23,700
• Attendees to DevOps Sessions: 12,470
  • How are you planning on treating developers as first class citizens in your data center?
• Breakout Sessions: 450+
• Ecosystem Companies Represented: 240
• Hands-on Labs Completed: 9,000+
• VMworld Social Media Impressions: 276+ Million

VMworld Product Announcements

• Introducing EVO SDDC and the EVO SDDC Manager
  • VCE Announces VxRack System based on VMware EVO SDDC
• Virtual SAN 6.1 – Already GA! Details in release notes and available for download
• vSphere Storage API’s for I/O Filtering
• vCloud Air Advanced Networking & Security
• Hybrid Cloud Manager
• vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Services: Disaster Recovery on Demand and Site Recover Manager Air
• vCloud Air Object Storage
• vCloud Air SQL
• Project Skyscraper (tech preview) – new set of hybrid cloud capabilities for VMware vSphere (aka Cross-Cloud vMotion)
• vRealize Operations 6.1 – Already GA! Details in release notes and available for download
• vRealize Log Insight 3.0 – Already GA! Details in release notes and available for download
• Introducing vRealize Air Compliance free Beta
• Site Recovery Manager 6.1 – Already GA! Details in release notes and available for download
  • SRM Certified storage replication adapters
  • VMware vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for Site Recovery Manager 6.1 – Already GA! Details in release notes and available for download
• VMware Integrated OpenStack 2.0

• vSphere Integrated Containers (tech preview)
  • vSphere 6 Instant Clone
  • Project Bonneville – provisioning containers directly to the hypervisor
  • Photon OS
• VMware Photon Platform (tech preview)
  • VMware and Pivotal to Introduce Cloud-Native Application Offering

• Project A² – new mobile-centric approach to delivering and managing applications and devices for Windows 10
• VMware Identity Manager – Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS)
• Horizon 6.2
• VMware Project Enzo

• NSX 6.2
  • NSX Platform Ecosystem continues to grow
  • NSX 6.2: Enterprise Automation, Security and Application Continuity

Recent VMware Releases

• VMware Sphere 6.0 Update 1 – download
• VMware Identity Manager v2.4 – download
• vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.3 – download
• vRealize Business Standard 6.2.3 – download
• vRealize Business Adv/Ent 8.2.3 – download
• vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.3 – download
• vRealize Automation 6.2.3 – download
• vRealize Code Stream 1.2 – download
• Fusion 8.0 – Buy 8 or Buy 8 Pro
• Workstation 12 Pro – Buy
• Workstation 12 Player – Buy

And now are we Ready For Vegas?