VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 21

Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation 4 featuring vSphere 7 with Kubernetes

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Kubernetes is changing Infrastructure needs. In this session we introduce VMware vSphere 7 with Kubernetes as part of VMware Cloud Foundation 4. Originally previewed in August 2019 as Project Pacific, and foundational component of the new VMware Tanzu portfolio, VMware vSphere 7 with Kubernetes supports all applications including modern and traditional applications using any combination of virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes. This session highlights Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, which is embedded into vSphere 7 with Kubernetes. Developers can now manage consistent, compliant and conformant Kubernetes clusters running on vSphere through Kubernetes tools and restful APIs.

This release introduces VMware Cloud Foundation Services, an integrated Kubernetes and RESTful API surface to enable organizations to drive API access to all core services. VMware Cloud Foundation Services include:

• Tanzu Runtime Services: These services will deliver core Kubernetes development services including an up-to- date distribution of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
• Hybrid Infrastructure Services:
  • vSphere Pod Service extends Kubernetes with the ability to run pods directly on the hypervisor. When developers deploy containers using the vSphere Pod service, they get the same level of security isolation, performance guarantees and management capabilities that VMs enjoy
  • Registry Service allows developers to store, manage and secure Docker and OCI images using Harbor
  • Network Service allows developers to manage Virtual Routers, Load Balancers and Firewall Rules
  • Storage Service allows developers to manage persistent disks for use with container, Kubernetes and virtual machines

Personnel: Bo Fu

VMware Cloud Foundation 4: Integrated Cloud Native Storage with vSAN 7

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In this presentation we introduce Cloud-Native Storage and Native File Services in vSAN 7. We are introducing vSAN 7 to modernize hyperconverged infrastructure through integrated file services, simpler lifecycle management and enhanced cloud-native storage capabilities. With vSAN 7, organizations can unify block and file storage with vSAN, reducing or eliminating the need for third party solutions or a DIY approach for certain use cases, which in turn reduces costs and simplifies storage management with a single control plane. vSAN 7 also includes new capabilities supporting cloud-native applications, including file-services, VMware Cloud Foundation Services support.

Personnel: Gopala Suryanarayana

VMware Cloud Foundation 4: Accelerate Kubernetes Infrastructure Deployment

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This session will introduce the new VMware Cloud Foundation 4, which provides hybrid cloud infrastructure with consistent management for both VM-based and container-based applications. VMware Cloud Foundation 4 includes the newly re-architected VMware vSphere 7 with Kubernetes, which is optimized to run both modern container-based and traditional virtual machine-based workloads. This release introduces VMware Cloud Foundation Services, an integrated Kubernetes and RESTful API surface to enable organizations to drive API access to all core services.

VMware Cloud Foundation Services include the following:

• Tanzu Runtime Services: These services will deliver core Kubernetes development services including an up-to- date distribution of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
• Hybrid Infrastructure Services: Powered by the new VMware vSphere 7, these enhanced services will provide full Kubernetes API access as well as the infrastructure-as-code automation APIs delivered by vRealize Automation to span the world of VM-based applications and cloud-native applications deployed with containers

Personnel: Ranjit Sawant

VMware NSX: Networking for vSphere with Kubernetes

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This presentation will cover how VMware NSX provides a rich set of networking and security capabilities for the new vSphere 7 with Kubernetes. Focused on rearchitecting vSphere into an open platform using Kubernetes APIs to provide a cloud-like experience for developers and operators.

VMware NSX provides full-stack networking and security including switching, routing, load balancing, firewalling, service mesh and analytics to simplify operations and maximize efficiency for vSphere with Kubernetes environments.

VMware NSX has been designed-in as the default pod networking solution for VMware vSphere with Kubernetes, and integration with Kubernetes enables context-aware security policies with namespace isolation. Native integration with Cluster API helps to create load balancers making it easier to publish applications outside of the cluster. With NSX, enterprises can extend consistent policies across app environments, simplify Day 0 to Day 2 operations, and deliver the agility and performance required to run modern applications. VMware vSphere 7 with Kubernetes was originally previewed in August 2019 as Project Pacific.

Personnel: Geoff Wilmington, Vinay Reddy

VMware Demo and Preview: Introduction NSX Federation

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In this presentation we introduce and demonstrate NSX Federation, a capability that will provide multi-site support for large scale NSX deployments. NSX Federation enables a user to centrally configure and manage networking and security, on-premise and in the cloud.

NSX Federation will help enterprises simplify disaster avoidance and recovery, manage multiple sites from a single pane of glass, and achieve consistent networking and security policy deployment and enforcement across administration domains. While also ensuring high availability and improved application response. For additional information please see this presentation from the recent Networking Field Day 22: VMware NSX Intelligence: Network & Security Analytics for NSX.

Personnel: Dimitri Desmidt

VMware vRealize Network Insight Introduction & Innovations

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This session will review VMware vRealize Network Insight’s customer value proposition. We will look at how vRealize Network Insight delivers the following:

• Intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security
• Helps customers build an optimized, highly available, and secure network infrastructure across multicloud environments
• Accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment
• Enables visibility across virtual and physical networks
• Provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments

Personnel: Shiv Agarwal

VMware vRealize Network Insight: Network, Security Analytics for NSX & SD WAN

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VMware vRealize Network Insight provides visibility for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, as well as SD-WAN. VMware vRealize Network Insight supports VMware NSX, VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud, VMware Cloud on AWS, public cloud environments in AWS and Azure, Kubernetes, and Virtual Desktops. This session will focus on demonstrating how vRealize Network Insight provides monitoring and flow analysis for applications and business services used by the Edge sites:

• End-to-End Visibility of SD-WAN / VeloCloud Edge connectivity to the cloud and Data Center
• Site/Branch level visibility and troubleshooting of connectivity to Apps and Data Center

Personnel: Matt Just

VMware vRealize Network Insight: How to Improve Visibility & Security

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This session will demonstrate how vRealize Network Insight and vRealize Network Insight Cloud supports visibility for on-premises and multicloud. Highlights will include the new vRealize Network Insight dashboards for VMware NSX-T metrics, Dell streaming telemetry, and Cisco ACI integration for better visibility.

Personnel: Matt Just

Veriflow: Network Verification and What if Analysis from VMware

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This session covers the Veriflow capabilities for network verification, troubleshooting, modeling, analyzing, and verifying multicloud networks. Veriflow increases VMware’s overall network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities and adds new dimensions of network verification and What-If analysis directly to the platform. VMware acquired Veriflow in 2019.

Personnel: Sajid Awan