Wednesday, November 5. 2014
Hands-on-Lab: Running OpenStack on VMware vSphere and NSX
Are you interested in learning more about how to deploy, consume and operate OpenStack on Vmware vSphere and NSX? This Hand-on-Lab session provides you with step-by-step guidance on every aspect of running OpenStack on VMware
Wednesday, September 10. 2014
VMware OpenStack SDDC Demo
vSphere has a long history of being a stable and resilient platform that offers many benefits to host cloud infrastructures. As an enterprise-class hypervisor with production-level features and support, vSphere is an excellent solution for enhancing OpenStack.
Many vSphere features facilitate the implementation of OpenStack by simplifying configuration and reducing the number of steps required to provide resources.
Many vSphere features facilitate the implementation of OpenStack by simplifying configuration and reducing the number of steps required to provide resources.
vSphere platform capabilities are exposed to OpenStack using drivers that map OpenStack requests into equivalents that VMware solutions can interpret. VMware provides these drivers to the OpenStack community free of charge.
Monday, August 25. 2014
VMware Introduces vRealize Suite, a Cloud Management Platform – Purpose-Built to Manage Heterogeneous Data Centers and Hybrid Clouds
At VMworld 2014, VMware, Inc. announced VMware vRealize™ Suite, a comprehensive platform for managing the hybrid cloud. The platform combines the capabilities of VMware’s existing cloud automation, cloud operations and cloud business management solutions into a single offering to deliver:
- Agility and speed that the business needs to deliver applications and infrastructure quickly
- Cost transparency and control that IT requires to ensure application uptime, performance, economics, security and compliance.
VMware vRealize Suite represents the next step in the evolution of VMware’s market leading cloud management family of products – shifting from a product to a platform strategy. By bringing all management products under a single product family, VMware is focused on delivering a platform with a common services model and an integrated interface to help businesses achieve a high level of automation and orchestration.
Read the full paper here
VMware EVO: RAIL Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance
With EVO: RAIL, customers experience a radically new, end-to-end user experience that drives simplicity. EVO: RAIL Deployment, Configuration, and Management streamline initial setup and ongoing operations.
Deployment - EVO: RAIL deployment is simple, with just four steps:
- Configure your network (VLANs and top-of-rack switch). Instructions are provided in the EVO: RAIL User Guide.
- Rack and cable.
- Power on EVO: RAIL.
- Connect a laptop to the TOR switch, point your browser to EVO: RAIL, and answer configuration questions.
Within minutes EVO: RAIL is configured and ready to create VMs!
Configuration - EVO: RAIL Configuration has three options: Just Go! or Customize Me! or Upload Configuration File.
With Just Go!, EVO: RAIL automatically configures a default set of IP addresses and hostnames for extremely fast deployment in a green-field scenario. Configure your TOR switch and click the Just Go! button. All you have to create are two passwords.
With Customize Me!, customers can specify the following configuration parameters:
- Hostnames for vCenter Server and ESXiTM hosts naming scheme • Networking (IP ranges and/or VLAN ID): ESXi, Virtual SAN, vSphere vMotion®, vCenter Server, VM Networks
- Passwords: ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, optional Active Directory authentication
- Globals: Time zone; your existing NTP, DNS, and Proxy servers; logging: vCenter Log Insight or third-party syslog server
With Upload Configuration File, an existing json configuration file can be selected and uploaded.
EVO: RAIL implements data services, creates the new ESXi hosts, and configures vCenter Server. The final screen contains the link to EVO: RAIL Management.
Management EVO: RAIL Management provides a dashboard to view all virtual machines and arrange them with sorting and filtering. Users create virtual machines with only a few clicks to select the guest OS, VM size, VLAN, and security options. EVO: RAIL simplifies virtual machine sizing by offering single-click small, medium, and large configurations, as well as single-click security policies.
EVO: RAIL Management revolutionizes live compute management with health monitors for CPU, memory, storage, and VM usage for entire EVO: RAIL clusters, individual appliances, and individual nodes. EVO: RAIL Management streamlines log collection, licensing, and offers language choice for globalization. It also provides notifications and tracks tasks.
EVO: RAIL Management radically simplifies scale-out. Increasing compute, networking, and storage resources is as easy as powering up a new appliance to join an existing EVO: RAIL cluster. EVO: RAIL automatically distributes the configuration to seamlessly add new appliances with zero additional configuration.
EVO: RAIL Management allows users to check for vCenter, ESXi, and EVO: RAIL software upgrades. EVO: RAIL downloads and installs any patches for these VMware products. With a minimum of four independent ESXi hosts in an EVO: RAIL cluster, updates are non-disruptive and require zero downtime.
EVO: RAIL Software
The EVO: RAIL software bundle is fully loaded onto the EVO: RAIL qualified partner’s hardware. This software bundle is comprised of:
- EVO: RAIL Deployment, Configuration, and Management • vSphere Enterprise Plus, including ESXi for compute
- VMware Virtual SAN for storage
- vCenter Server
- vCenter Log InsightTM
EVO: RAIL is optimized for the new VMware user as well as for experienced administrators. Minimal IT experience is required to deploy, configure, and manage EVO: RAIL, allowing it to be used where there is limited or no IT staff on-site. As EVO: RAIL utilizes VMware’s core products, administrators can apply existing VMware knowledge, best practices, and processes.
Wednesday, June 18. 2014
vCloud Hybrid Service: Data Protection Overview Demo
Data Protection is an optional data backup and recovery feature for VMware vCloud Hybrid Service that enables self-service, policy-based protection of business-critical data by backing up vApps and their associated virtual machines within Dedicated or Virtual Private Cloud service types.
Compared to traditional file-based backup and recovery solutions, image-level backups are used in Data Protection to ensure all operating system, file system and application data encapsulated within a virtual machine are captured as a snapshot image before being committed to backup media.
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Compared to traditional file-based backup and recovery solutions, image-level backups are used in Data Protection to ensure all operating system, file system and application data encapsulated within a virtual machine are captured as a snapshot image before being committed to backup media.
Thursday, April 24. 2014
vCloud Hybrid Service Demo: Overview & Integration w/ vCloud Connector & vCloud Automation Center
Get an overview of the vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) UI and how to configure, monitor, edit and provision a Virtual Data Center. Includes how vCHS is integrated with other VMware tools including vCloud Connector and vCloud Automation Center.