Today is the second full day of VMworld 2013, and the second keynote of the week. To start off the 0900 keynote Carl Eschenbach took the stage. A few minutes into the presentation they bring out Kit Colbert, a VMware engineer.
Background
Business relies on IT
Focus on innovation
Increasing velocity in IT
Deliver IT-as-a-Service – Bringing to life at VMworld 2013
Three Imperatives
Must virtualize all of IT
IT management gives way to automation
Compatible hybrid cloud will be ubiquitous
Architectural Foundation – Software defined Datacenter (SDDC)
vCloud Automation Center
IT-as-a-Service
Service Catalog for multiple types of services
Hybrid cloud support
Breaks down costs for an app into OS licensing cost, labor, etc.
Shows the ability to configure autoscale for an application
Rolls up application health into the portal
Application owner can self-service and provision applications either on-prem or in the cloud
vCloud Application Director
Creates an execution plan that understand dependencies of VMs
Integrates with existing automation tools like Puppet
Provisions a multi-tier application
This is no a vApp – it’s a full application deployment solution
Takes care of infrastructure configuration
Decouples the application from the infrastructure configuration
Networking with NSX
L2 switching, L3 routing, firewall, load balancing is built-in
When provisioning an app, it deploys L2-L7 services along with it
Moving the switching intelligence to the hypervisor
Routes on exiting physical network without changes
Moves routing into the hypervisor – no more hair pinning for VMs talking to each other on different subnets
Router is no longer a choke point on the network
Up to 70% of traffic in a datacenter is between VMs
Moves firewall intelligence into the hypervisor – Can enforce security at the VM layer
Ability provision networking config in minutes
Showed off vMotioning a VM to a NSX switch with zero downtime
NSX Delivers
Speed and efficiency
Same operating model as compute virtualization
Extends value of existing network infrastructure
VMware VSAN
Allows you to attach a storage performance policy to a VM and it follows the VM across datastores
Enables you to dynamically extend VSAN datastore space without downtime
Ability to define a policy that requires 2 copies of VM data, for example
Auto re-builds any failed disks, seamlessly, and without the VM aware a failure occurred
IT Management
Introducing policy based automation
Shows off vCloud Director with auto-scaling out configured and automated
Proactive response
Intelligent analytics
Visibility into application heath for the app owner
vCOPS can pull in data from partners (HP, NetApp, EMC, etc.) and make intelligent recommendations for performance remediation
Big Data Analytics
VMware is shipping Log Insight for IT analytics
Log Insight can sift through millions and millions of data points
Hybrid Cloud
vSphere Web Client 5.5 has a button for the VMware Public Cloud
Seamless view into vCloud Hybrid Service (e.g. looking at VM templates)
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