As organizations move to multicloud environments, they find that their workloads are spread across their entire infrastructure, not least because each workload has its own set of requirements, which define its optimal deployment location. . As a result, most enterprises have workloads running in multiple cloud environments, as well as on on-premiseseither in a traditional CPD, as in private clouds or hosted by third parties.
These loads on-premises they offer companies a number of benefits, such as localization, low latency, performance, predictable cost, and much more. However, you may miss out on the innovations available in the cloud. But what if on-premises workloads could take advantage of public clouds without having to migrate them to the cloud? What if new capabilities could be accessed through SaaS, with less maintenance cost and more agility? This is the vision with which VMware has designed and launches VMware vSphere+, a complete IT management solution that offers interesting advantages over previous vSphere versions, both for IT administrators and developers.
vSphere+ provides access to a wide selection of cloud services and centralizes management through the VMware Cloud Console. At the same time, workloads remain on-premises, running on ESXi hosts orchestrated by vCenters, just like traditional vSphere today.
Advantages for system administrators
Through the cloud console, various management services can be used to simplify and streamline management of the entire vSphere+ environment. These services are delivered through the cloud, so they are easy to use without having to download or install anything.
- vCenter Lifecycle Management Service: this service makes on-premises vCenter upgrades much easier and faster. When an update is available, just click the “Update Now” button and the service takes care of the rest. The maintenance window is only a few minutes, and if there are any problems you can go back to the previous version.
- Global Inventory Service: With this service you can view the resources available throughout the vSphere+ environment. Check all your clusters, hosts, and virtual machines at a glance, and quickly assess the CPU, memory, storage, and other resources available to you.
- Event viewing service: View all events and alerts for your entire vSphere+ environment. This makes it easy to quickly triage issues that require immediate attention without having to manually check individual vCenters.
- Security Health Check Service: Monitor your security posture across the entire vSphere+ environment. Highlight security exposures across the entire vSphere+ infrastructure, such as dead SSH sessions or outdated SSL protocols, and initiate corrective actions.
- Provision VM service: Quickly create virtual machines from the cloud console without first having to connect to a vCenter instance. If you need to create many virtual machines in different places, this can save you a lot of time.
- Configuration Management Service: sometimes vCenter configurations can diverge from each other. With this service, you can quickly detect configuration drift so you can keep vCenter configurations in line with your global standard.
Advantages for developers
Every company is now a software company. Digital transformation has placed apps at the center of every goal, mission, project, and campaign. How well an organization runs will increasingly depend on those applications and how quickly they can be developed and deployed. vSphere+ goes beyond virtual machines and puts containers within the reach of your developers, allowing them to bypass ticketing systems and get the infrastructure resources they need to build applications, through a Kubernetes API surface. With vSphere+, users they can transform their existing vSphere-based infrastructure into an enterprise Kubernetes environment, unifying virtual machines and containers on a single platform.
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service: Run your containerized applications on a Kubernetes-certified distribution, integrated with vSphere, using your existing tools and workflows to give developers on-demand access to on-premises compliant Kubernetes clusters.
- Virtual Machine Service: Create virtual machines using Kubernetes APIs and commands, which is useful when building applications that include a mix of virtual machines and containers.
- network service: allows developers to manage virtual routers, load balancers, and firewall rules. Configure, monitor, and manage switch access for virtual machines and Kubernetes workloads.
- Storage service: allows developers to manage persistent disks for use with containers, Kubernetes, and virtual machines. Deploy existing block and file storage infrastructure for containerized workloads.
- Tanzu integrated services: streamlines the deployment and management of local and clustered platform services, such as logging, monitoring, and ingress, to easily set up and maintain a production-ready Kubernetes environment.
- Tanzu Mission Control Essentials: It enables developers and DevOps teams to centralize platform operations and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters with observability, troubleshooting, and resiliency.
Free Download: “VMware vSphere+: Power Your On-Premises Workloads to the Finish Line”
If you’re interested in what you’ve read so far, then we’re sure you’ll be interested in downloading “VMware vSphere+: Power Your On-Premises Workloads to the Finish Line,” a free whitepaper that:
- You will understand what VMware vSphere+ is and what its main benefits are.
- You will understand how loads in the cloud are combined with critical loads on premises, in a unified experience.
- You’ll discover how with VMware vSphere+ your business can maximize productivity and accelerate innovation.
- You will understand how you can transform your on-premises infrastructure by integrating it into the cloud.
- You will access free resources to test the new solution.
