VMworld 2018 - Day 1
VMworld 2018 – Day 1
OK, here we go. Let the Deep Learning® begin…
(NB: As there was so much information shared each day, I may use short sentences rather than long descriptive paragraphs full of context. This way, I can get the information out to those who were unable to attend VMworld in person as quickly as possible. Also, I focused on cloud and NSX this year with some security, operations and EUC thrown in.)
General Session – Technology Superpowers
History Lesson on VMware
Question from Pat: Is running a business about people or profit? Can a company do well and do good? If you have been following Pat lately, you will have noticed the global outreach that he has been personally involved in.
VMware defines the four current “Tech Superpowers” as Cloud, Mobile, AI, IOT
- Cloud: Cloud has amazing reach but 5% of the world has no access
- Mobile: Donated and low-cost phones are bringing information to remote populations
- AI/ML: Pat was in charge of engineering for the 486 chip in 1986. he proposed that Intel must make 486 a great AI chip. That idea was scrapped. Today AI is driving discovery.
- Edge Computing/IOT: Example: Modern hard hat with VR/AR access to building plans that lets workers “see through walls”.
VMware Vision: Any Device, Any Application, Any cloud
Today, we are seeing a need for multi-cloud as hybrid cloud is driven by IT Operations and public cloud is being driven by developers and lines of business. VMware Cloud Foundation is the easy path to multi-cloud and HCI is the easiest method to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation. VSAN is at the heart of VMware-based HCI and there are currently 15,000 VSAN customers.
Mercy Ships
Andy Jassy, CEO AWS
A few customer examples:
- MIT migrated 3,000 VMs over three months to VMC-AWS
- Brinks moved 600 VMs to VMC-AWS for D/R
Announced VMC-AWS M5. Some highlights:
- Storage is very cost effective.
- VSAN backed by on Elastic Block Storage
- Bulk live migration
- PKS coming (Chad Sakac cheered 😀)
- The huge announcement was Amazon Relational Database Service on VMware on-premises. That was a surprise and targeted directly at Oracle.
Project Dimension manages cloud plus on-premises plus IoT
VMware Cloud Operations for the Management of Multi-Cloud
Pat announced the intention of VMware to acquire CloudHealth out of Boston to analyze and manage multi-cloud cost, usage, security, and performance in one place
Kubernetes
vRealize and Machine Learning
Workspace One simplifies all the end user complication
AI to solve end-user compute issues.
ESXi Fault Tolerant on ARM!!
This completely surprised me. A demo showed an application running in fault-tolerant mode on ESXi. Then it was revealed that the ESXi servers were ARM IoT devices. Wow.
A new version of vSphere with AppDefense built in. Great idea. Reducing the attack surface of applications is becoming more effective than protecting the perimeter.
Session: Hybrid Cloud Architecture Design and Best Practices for VMware Cloud on AWS
Aarthi Raju, Wen Yu, AWS
NSX-T
NSX-T makes some improvements over NSX-V in terms of architectural design.
NSX-T Allows all traffic to be over AWS Direct Connect.
NSX-T adds BGP routing. NSX-V is static routing.
NSX-T supports micro-segmentation
Some use cases:
Oracle AWS
Oracle RAC Multi-cast not supported in AWS VPC, but adding VMC-AWS NSX adds support for multicast.
RAC requires shared storage. VSAN adds shared storage through VMC-AWS.
Oracle RAC, RMAN, DataGuard all work on VMC-AWS
Can restore an on-premises RMAN backup to S3 into the VMC-AWS cluster.
DataGuard can be used to keep two clusters in sync multi-cloud
Once databases are synced through DataGuard, one can initiate a switchover to make AWS the primary copy if you want or if you need to for DR
Veeam
S3 can be a backup destination
Can use AWS Storage Gateway (ESXi VM) on-premises to present iSCSI storage to Veeam which then moves data to S3.
One can have an AWS Storage Gateway running in VMC-AWS and use that to restore from the Veeam S3 bucket to VMC-AWS VMs
Commvault
Can backup to S3 over public internet or use VPCe
VPCe = VPC Endpoint via Elastic Network Interface (ENI).
ENI is like a vNIC but in AWS.
Commvault Gateway VM makes this happen
Dell EMC Appliances
Dell EMC backup appliances can backup to S3 using the Dell EMC Cloud D/R Add-On (CDRA) virtual appliance. Avamar & Data Domain is read from the CDRA and sent to S3. VMs can be restored to VMC-AWS.
Session: VMware NSX – Network, Security, and Operations – Design Studio (NDA)
What I can share is that all the NDA Design Studios were held in the Wedding Chapel which made my day. 🙂
Session: Beyond Horizon 7: Moving to a Digital Workspace with Workspace ONE
Different deployment models for Horizon
On-premises through cloud to managed cloud. (In a later post, I will detail Horizon on Azure which was also interesting.)
Bringing desktop apps and SaaS apps together
Workspace ONE supports Windows 10, macOS, Chrome OS, iOS, Android, and Rugged/Connected things
Identity Manager for SSO
On-premises with Horizon 7, cloud option with Workspace One
One management block plus multiple resource blocks make up a pod.
IDEXX Customer Case Study
Session: A Practitioners Guide to Migrating Workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS
Basic VMC-AWS Architecture
Important Features of VMC-AWS
Some recommendations when planning for VM migration to VMC-AWS
Group your VMs by the downtime they can support. Move the VMs that can handle prolonged downtime first.
VMware’s Suggested AWS Migration Assessment
VMware Cost Insight is a free SaaS tool to get an estimate of the cost of running VMs in VMC-AWS. Can be found at: vmcsizer.vmware.com
vRealize Network Insight analyzes network for application flow and application dependency mapping. Network Insight is not free but there is a free 30-day trial.
WWT/Dell EMC Customer Reception at Skyfall Lounge
