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During the first day of VMworld 2016, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) was announced.  Some of us who are following what VMware has in its portfolio might be really confused.  I am just one of the few. So what is VMware Cloud Foundation?  Basically remember we used to have a platform known as EVO?  EVO Rail and EVO Rack.  EVO Rail has been deprecated and was only leaving the EVO Rack which was later rebrand as EVO SDDC.  VMware Cloud Foundation is the replacement for EVO SDDC. As of 1st Sept today, EVO SDDC is no longer available as stated here .  You can read more of VMware Cloud Foundation here .  The FAQ that clearly describe here . In a simple summary, EVO SDDC is been replaced by VMware Cloud Foundation and VCF is no longer limited to the few (actual 4) vendors exclusively, in fact customer can choose to use even a VSAN Ready Nodes with VCF and use the supported switches from Cisco or Arista making sure TOR and Spine are from the same vend...

With VMworld 2015 starting today, there will always be new announcement.  Here I am going to summarize what are the new stuff that will be release in a nutshell and detail some of them in later post. vSphere 6.0 U1 - Tech preview of vSphere Web Client Update Manager - able to migration embedded PSC to external PSC - added vCloud Air web client to plugin Virtual SAN (VSAN) 6.1 - stretch cluster in All-Flash VSAN - 2 nodes ROBO office with witness in main site - vSphere Replication to support 5 minutes RPO   vSphere with Operations Manager 6.1 (vSOM), vRealize Operations 6.1 (vR Ops), vRealize Operations Insight 6.1 (vROI) vR Ops Standard Edition now comes with SDDC management packs which include VSAN, vCloud Ai, NSX Update 17th Sept 2015: Apparently vR Ops 6.1 Advanced and above will have these management packs. - New OS & Applications monitoring starting with 5 supported apps.  More to come. - Tech preview: Workload Placement Engine (WLP) working with ...