VMworld 2019 US Two Days Summary

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If you have been following what VMware has been up to by acquiring several companies and mainly related to Cloud Native Applications solutions especially days before VMworld such as Pivotal, you will know what will likely be announced.

So let's go through some of the big announcements and the respective article that was released at the same time.

Day 1
VMware Tanzu. Check out the two articles here: 1, 2.
What VMware Tanzu encompass are three areas: Build, Run and Manage.

Build bring together Pivotal and Bitnami to orchestrate and package blueprints. So customers who are already on Pivotal will enjoy what they are doing today with no change. This include Heptio services which bring together Contour, Velero, and Sonobuoy.

Run brings your Project Pacific, where vSphere is re-architect with Kubernetes baked in. This together with NSX and vSAN to complete the whole platform for Kubernetes. Check out the video by Kit Cobet. A technical overview of it can be found here.

Manage brings Mission Control together Wavefront and CloudHealth to manage your clusters and have the policies and configuration in one place whether its in public cloud or on premies. Check out the video.

With all this new stuff, where would one learn all this knowledge? VMware at the same time introduces Kubernetes Academy to help everyone to pick up from somewhere depending on your experience. What good about this is this is free! Head on over and sign up an account.


Day 2
We saw Cloud Automation Service which includes Cloud Assembly with Service Broker and Code Stream offered as a service. Today, vRealize Automation 8, is announced. This brings the Cloud Assembly to on premies.

vRealize Operations 8.0 with the new feature to support Intent-Driven onto VMC on AWS and integration back to vRealize Automation 8.0. Check out the article to get to know most of the feature introduced.

vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.0 is released to help update all vRealize solutions. It is needed to install vRealize Automation 8.0 to simplify deployment.

Next in the line up was NSX-T 2.5. The biggest feature in this release is NSX Intelligence. Also together with NSX Cloud, this release allows one singular policy-driven across hybrid cloud deployment both with agent-based and agentless.

Lastly, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is now available! For customers with edge locations with no IT staff, this provides a single contact point to deploy an infrastructure without the need of mobile staff and remote management of edge locations.


Update 29th Aug 2019
Now you can catch both days general session here.

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