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VMworld 2015 Recap

September 11, 2015 1 Comment

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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

1VMworld2015Run

  • 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

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  • 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

3VMworld2015Deliver

  • 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

Secure

  • 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?

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Filed Under: Tech Industry, VMware, VMworld Tagged With: VMware, VMworld, VMworld 2015

Air & vRealize: Rebranding Explained

October 3, 2014 Leave a Comment

One of the VMworld 2014 related announcements that is still working it’s way thru everyone’s lexicon and thinking are the rebranding related announcements. Everyone that I know (self included) is tripping over using the correct term and name when talking VMware.  After numerous requests from clients and having scrubbed by acronyms list here is my quick and dirty rebranding explained.

Net-Net Two Changes

  1. vCloud Hybrid Services is now known as vCloud Air (pretty straight forward)
    • Many VMware products are now becoming avaialable via SaaS, if you see Air in the name, it denotes the SaaS varient
  2. vRealize is the new family name to designate VMware management technologies
    • many product names that used to start with vCenter now start with vRealize

Which Cascade across Suites and Offerings

vCloud Air – VMware’s public cloud platform built on vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center. Available as a Virtual Private Cloud (shared hardware) or Dedicate Cloud (dedicated hardware) instance across seven (as of this posting) world wide data centers.

  • vCloud Government Services – hybrid cloud service for US Federal Government agencies adherent to FedRAMP security standards
  • vCloud Air Disaster Recover – Recovery as a Service for your on-premise workloads
  • vCloud Air Data Protection – Backup and recovery feature for Dedicated Cloud or Virtual Private Cloud instances.

vRealize Family – Since this is a standardizing of product names under one family, see the product rebranding map:

From

To

VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite

  • VMware vCenter Operations Manager
  • VMware vCenter Operations Foundation
  • VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
  • VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
  • VMware vCenter Hyperic

VMware vCenter  Operations Manager for Horizon

VMware vRealize™ Operations™ Standard/Advanced/Enterprise

  • VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™
  • No Change for v5.8.x
  • VMware vRealize™ Configuration Manager™
  • VMware vRealize™ Infrastructure Navigator™
  • VMware vRealize™ Hyperic®

VMware vRealize™ Operations for Horizon®

VMware vCenter Operations Management Pack for XYZ VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for XYZ (in Q1, 2015)
VMware vCloud Automation Center Standard/Advanced/Enterprise

  • VMware vCloud Application Services

VMware vCloud Automation Center Desktop

VMware vCloud Automation Center Development Kit

VMware vRealize™ Automation™ Standard/Advanced/Enterprise

  • VMware™ vRealize Application Services™

VMware vRealize™ Automation Desktop™

VMware vRealize™ Automation Development Kit™

VMware IT Business Management Suite Standard/Advanced/Enterprise VMware vRealize™ Business™ Standard/Advanced/Enterprise
VMware IT Benchmarking

VMware IT Benchmarking Starter Kit

VMware vRealize™ IT Benchmarking™ (in Q1, 2015)

VMware vRealize™ IT Benchmark Starter Kit™ (in Q1, 2015)

VMware vCenter Log Insight

VMware vCenter Log Insight Content Pack for XYZ

VMware vRealize™ Log Insight™

VMware vRealize™ Log Insight™ Content Pack for XYZ (in Q1, 2015)

VMware vCenter Orchestrator VMware vRealize™ Orchestrator™
VMware vFabric Data Director No change

And while the official stance from VMware Product Management is that there are no acronyms for the vRealize suite….they automatically started appearing, you can reference my VMware Acronym List for the latest acronyms.

Filed Under: Tech Industry, Virtualization, VMware, VMworld

VMworld 2014 Recap

September 5, 2014 3 Comments

I’m a bit delayed in posting my VMworld recap of VMware announcements…a week in the tech industry seems like a lifetime but real life items like kid’s birthdays, overseeing a landscaping project, and maintaining a thumb rehab schedule (I was the one walking around VMworld in the orange cast, and I’m finally back to two handed productivity on the keyboard!) sometimes get priority.

001_7924_VMWorld_DW211(Image via vmworld)

In retrospect, the imagery around VMworld 2014 struck a little to close to home considering the 6.0 earthquake that struck the Bay Area on the Sunday before…  Anyhoo, here is my list of the most important stuff from VMworld last week:

  • General Trivia
    • Over 22,000 attendees this year
    • over 13,400 Hands On Labs were taken! The VMworld labs will be rolling out onto the public HOL in phases over September and early October, reference the VMworld 2014 HOL Guide ico-pdf as you see them appear.
    • For a second year in a row, the NSX Introduction HOL was by far the most popular…
    • There were over 440 Days (more than a Year) worth of time spent in HOL at VMworld 2014!  Just dwell on that number for a second…
    • VMware Foundation and over 2,500 VMworld attendees raised $248,460 as part of Destination Giveback
  • VMworld Top Items
    • Keynote Sessions (replays)
    • Top 10 Breakout Sessions (replays)
    • Video Highlights
  • Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
    • VMware Integrated OpenStack –
    • vRealize Suite – capabilities of VMware’s existing cloud automation, cloud operations and cloud business management solutions in a single offering
    • vCloud Automation Center 6.1
    • vRealize Air Automation – first in a family of new as a service (aaS) cloud management offerings
    • vCloud Suite 5.8 – enhanced policy-based provisioning capabilities
      • vSphere Data Protection 5.8 and vSphere Replication 5.8
      • Site Recovery Manager 5.8 (videos from Jason Boche)
    • vSphere Public Beta, next release will feature:
      • Fault Tolerance up to 4 vCPUs
      • Cross vCenter vMotion
      • Enhanced Long Distance vMotion
      • NSX network properties will be vMotioned
    • New vCloud Air Mobile and Hybrid Cloud Services
    • Tech Preview: vCloud Air Object Storage
  • Software Defined Networking (SDN)
    • VMware NSX 6.1 – includes advanced network micro-segmentation capabilities, improved hybrid cloud connectivity, equal cost multi-path (ECMP) routing and VCAC 6.1 integration
    • Arista Networks and VMware Enter Strategic Relationship to Advance Adoption of Network Virtualization
    • F5 Big-IQ and NSX Integration to automate the delivery of application services
  • EVO – 3 simple Evolutionary letters
    • the curtain drops…Project Marvin, Project Mystic, Project Starburst were all EVO (hmm, paranoid?)
    • Introducing the Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance: EVO:RAIL, single appliance supporting either 100 general purpose server VM’s or  up to 250 Horizon View virtual desktops.
    • Initial set of Qualified EVO:RAIL Partners.  This is much more than a simple OEM of the VMware SDDC solution stack, these partners adhere to strict VMware hardware, packaging, and support specifications.
    • EVO is a family…Tech Preview of EVO:RACK
  • End User Computing (EUC)
    • VMware Unifies Mobile, Desktop and Content Management With VMware Workspace Suite
    • VMware acquired CloudVolumes and introduced Project Meteor, technology preview showcasing next generation desktops and applications as a service
    • VMware, NVIDIA and Google Collaborate To Deliver Graphics Rich Apps To Enterprise Cloud Desktops
    • VMware announces New Horizon DaaS Services and Expansion to Europe
  • Dev-Ops
    • VMware Teams With Docker, Google and Pivotal to Simplify Enterprise Adoption of Containers  
    • Docker & VMware: 1 + 1 = 3 
    • Tech Preview of Project Fargo, super fast, scalable, differential cloning of a running VM

And while technically this happened pre-VMworld, it’s important to note that vCloud Hybrid Services was rebranded to vCloud Air.

Filed Under: Tech Industry, Virtualization, VMware, VMworld

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With over 25 years of partnering leadership and direct GTM experience, Greg A. Lato provides consulting services to companies in all stages of their partnering journey to Ecosystem Led Growth.