VMworld 2021 Day 1 in a Summary

A great day 1 for VMworld 2021. If you have not manage to listen and attend to all the sessions, there were several project been announced. Here are a summary for those who missed it.

A quick summary of some of the topics can be found here.


Project Cascade (Tech Preview)

A unified kubernetes interface across VMware Cloud for IaaS (infra) and CaaS (container). This in turn provide open CLI, API and GUI. This address the problem that developers have to learn a different interface for every cloud running kubenetes. With Project Cascade, developer only need to know one and run in any Cloud. With initial milestone for VM service on VMware Cloud. The good thing is this is build on open foundation. Read more about it here.


Project Arctic (Tech Preview)

This allows vSphere to have cloud connectivity giving it Cloud-aware. This is extremely useful for customer who are still running on prem workloads and leveraging the cloud for use case such as DR. This allows customers to consume VMware Cloud Services on VMware Cloud.

Read both Project Cascade and Project Artic announcement here.


Project Capitola (Tech Preview)

This allow the abstraction of different type of memory such as DRAM, PMEM, NVMe, etc. and deliver as a uniform consumption model. This will help customers save the necessary cost for memory intensive workload. 

Read the announcement here.


Project Ensemble (Tech Preview)

This project brings across vRealize Cloud Services to address Day 2 operations management consumption such as automation, application discovery, monitoring, troubleshooting, capacity analysis, configuration changes, cost visibility, and more. This give a holistic view of all your VMware Cloud environment starting with VMware Cloud on AWS.

Read announcement here.


Project Radium

This extend vSphere Bitfusion to not just able to use Nvidia for virtualizing GPU for ML/AL usage but at the same time include support for other GPU such as Intel and AMD, etc.


Project Santa Cruz

This allows customers to run modern apps at the edge. It will be a single device that run SD-WAN together with modern apps. 

Read more about it Project Radium and Project Santa Cruz here.




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