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Written by Christopher Lewis on November 1, 2019 .
Make Your Mark - Cloud Management Edition
What Sessions Should I Go To
So you’re interested in Cloud Management content at VMworld 2019? Well look no further… here is @thecloudxpert guide to the sessions you should be aiming to get into! They range from Level 100 - Level 400 to give you a well rounded experience.
Roadmap Session
Deep Dive into VMware Cloud Management: Current State and Roadmap [HBO3088BE] with Purnima Padmanabhan (VMWare) and Pontus Pettersson (VMware).
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Written by Christopher Lewis on March 8, 2018 .
Today was a big day for VMware and VMware Cloud Services with their global Cloud Briefing. The briefing concentrated around their two mantra’s: Any Application, Any Cloud, Any Device and Consistent Infrastructure, Consistent Operations. Both of which resonate with what I am seeing customers are looking for.
The Highlights
During the briefing there were multiple announcements were made and demo’s given, including:
VMware Cloud on AWS
- General Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in **EU West (London) **- Frankfurt coming soon!
- Introducing High Availability using VMware Stretched Clusters across AWS Availability Zones (Tech Preview) #MindBlown
- VMConAWS now supports native **vSAN Deduplication and Compression (DD&C) **for space efficiency.
- Support for AWS Cloud Formation on VMConAWS.
VMware Cloud Management Services
- Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCE) - Now enhanced to work OOTB with VMConAWS so workloads from an on-premises vSphere can be moved directly into the vSphere based-cloud.
- HCE Enterprise for moving on-premises workloads to/from cloud or to other on-premises vSphere Cloud.
- HCE Cloud for moving VMs between VMConAWS, IBM Cloud and OVH.
- VMware Cost Insight - Enhancements to support VMConAWS to allow companies to understand the relative cost of migrating to the cloud.
- VMware Cost Insight now integrates with VMware Network Insight to enable accurate identification of Network Ingress costs.
- VMware Log Intelligence a new VMware Cloud Service
- Use Machine Learning to analyse cloud based logs.
- Wavefront enhanced with 45+ OOTB integrations to Cloud Native Apps (including Cassandra, MongoDB, etc).
- Introducing Wavefront for vROPs so you can get a full Application view across the hybrid cloud.
Partner Program Enhancements
- Solution Provider and Cloud Provider MSP models will be expanded to include VMConAWS.
- Introducing the VMware Cloud on AWS Competency for VMware Partners
Other noteworthy mentions
- Fujitsu have become a Global Systems Integration provider.
- The ability to use Site Recovery Manager 8 to 1-click recover from On Premises into VMConAWS.
Final Thoughts
If you have 50 minutes then I can think of worse ways to spend that time, check it out at https://cloud.vmware.com/cloudbriefing .
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- Operating a Private Cloud - Part 3: Creating a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Automation
- Operating a Private Cloud - Part 2: Creating a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Operations
- Operating a Private Cloud - Part 1: Understanding Pricing Cards in VMware Aria
- Zero2Hero - Using Aria Automation to Deploy Multiple Machines with Multiple Disks - Part 5
- Zero2Hero - Using Aria Automation to Deploy Multiple Machines with Multiple Disks - Part 4