Today is day two of VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, and to kick off the day is another keynote. Today should be a bit more technical in nature, if they follow the patterns from past years.
First up today is Ben Fathi, office of the CTO of VMware
- Starts off by recapping all of the announcements made in yesterday’s keynote
- Today’s reality is that IT is stuck in silos.
- The power of “&” – Traditional apps and cloud aware apps (run on-prem or in the cloud)
- The software defined datacenter is a blueprint, and the vCloud suite is a manifestation of SDDC
- Private cloud, plus hybrid cloud, plus public cloud – The power of “&”
Sanjay Poonen, from the EUC division comes on stage
- World of end-users and IT is changing
- Users, Apps, Data
- End-user computing vision in a mobile-cloud era
- Secure virtual desktops at the speed of life
- Three towers: Desktop, mobile, content
- Leading the desktop industry: Horizon has unified desktops and app delivery; Desktop-as-a-service with Desktone; CloudVolumes for real-time app delivery; Rich user experience with 3D graphics delivered in the mobile cloud area (NVidia partner)
- Shows a video with lots of 3D graphics and animations
- Talks about a new Chromebook with an NVidia GPU
- Leading the industry with enterprise mobility management via the AirWatch acquisition
Kevin Ichhpuran from SAP comes on stage
- SAP and VMware partner for a mobile environment
- Pre-integrated solutions lowers TCO and faster integration time
Sanjay comes back on stage
- Industry leading innovation in content-collaboration
- Anywhere, anytime access
- Hybrid development
Kit Colbert, EUC CTO comes on stage
- Mobile cloud architecture
- Device are essentially stateless
- Starts to talk about healthcare industry. Talks about a scenario of the day in the life of a doctor.
- Shows off Horizon View with healthcare apps from his Mac. The Dr. then transitions to an iPAD and opens up his apps in the same state, with no separate login.
- In the patient room he badges in and via Horizon he opens high resolution data from a thin client
- Kit then shows off Airwatch, and how it can enforce device compliance and sharing patient data
- Talks about “content locker” and shows how doctors from different hospitals can secure share data an collaborate
- Talks about the simplify of AirWatch to provision apps to mobile devices
- Kit shows off a demo of CloudVolumes and instantly delivers apps to desktops, like PowerPoint
- Virtual desktop setup process is time consuming. Project Fargo enables 30x faster desktop provisioning
- Shows project Fargo to clone a desktop in a second, and uses CloudVolumes to provision apps instantly
- Just-in-time desktops
- Unified experience, any device anywhere
- Customers driving industry change
Raghu Raghuram, EVP software defined datacenter
- You are team SDDC
- Software-defined datacenter momentum
- NSX is now GA – 150+ customers
- Management: vRealize Suite #1 in cloud management
- Delivering the power of “&” to the datacenter
- One destination, three approaches: Build your own, Converged Infrastructure, Hyper-converged infrastructure
- Hyperconverged systems dramatically simplifies the datacenter deployment model
- EVO enables deployments in 15 minutes
- Faster-time-to-value. Up to 15,000 exchange mailboxes in one 2U appliance
- EVO uses VSAN so no external storage is needed
- Grows up to four EVO rail units, for 16 node cluster
- Web-based UI
- You can still use vCenter, but EVO has its own simplified UI
- Pre-configured with log insight
- EVO rack is the second offering: vCloud Suite, Virtual SAN, and NSX with switches
- EVO rack deployment is less than 2 hours for a complete rack
- VMware integrated OpenStack is now in beta
- “The best way to run OpenStack is on top of VMware”
- vCenter integrated OpenStack
- OpenStack on VMware will be fully supported by VMware
- Traditional applications for the majority of the datacenter
- vSphere innovations in vSphere 6.0 beta: Fault Tolerance is expanded to 4 vCPUs; cross-vCenter vMotion;
- The power of Docker is the ability to move apps from the desktop, to servers to the cloud
- VMware stated Docker will not replace virtualization. Docker runs best on VMware
- “Containers without compromise” when using VMware
- SDDC is one platform for any application – Use VMware or OpenStack APIs or CloudFoundry or OpenContainer API
- vRealize Suite – Cloud automation, cloud operations, cloud business
- Cloud Automation as a service beta on vCloud air
- Significantly increased the performance of the Sphere web client in v6.0
- NSX enables micro-segmentation in the datacenter
- Controlled communications paths with 3rd party context – L4 to L7 for AV and IDS/IPS
