{"id":25764,"date":"2021-03-14T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T11:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=25764"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:51:18","slug":"vmware-enhances-its-portfolio-to-help-customers-digitalize-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/vmware-enhances-its-portfolio-to-help-customers-digitalize-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware enhances its portfolio to help customers digitalize businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>VMware, Inc. has\u00a0announced\u00a0portfolio updates to help customers modernize their applications and infrastructure. The new releases of vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 will help IT teams support new and existing applications with infrastructure that is developer and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/ai\/\">AI-ready<\/a>;\u00a0scales without compromise; boosts infrastructure and data security;\u00a0and simplifies operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:22% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"715\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lee-Caswell_VMware-715x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Lee-Caswell_VMware - techxmediaLee-Caswell_VMware - techxmedia\" class=\"wp-image-25768 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lee-Caswell_VMware-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lee-Caswell_VMware-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lee-Caswell_VMware-768x1100.jpg 768w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lee-Caswell_VMware.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>\u201cInfrastructure owners are racing to support exciting new containerized applications, such as advanced AI workloads, without compromising security,\u201d said Lee Caswell, vice president, marketing, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/cloud\/\">Cloud <\/a>Platform Business Unit, VMware. \u201cVMware is helping vSphere admins expand their influence beyond traditional virtualized applications to new enterprise <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/ai\/\">AI environments<\/a> through our partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/nvidia\/\">NVIDIA<\/a>, to high-capacity HCI use cases with HCI Mesh from vSAN, and to security-sensitive containerized workloads that can benefit from the SEV-ES\u00a0security feature in AMD EPYC processors. These new capabilities allow infrastructure to seamlessly meet the rapid pace of application change.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Delivering Developer- and AI-Ready Infrastructure to Advance Digital Business\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>VMware is announcing the next step in the collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/nvidia\/\">NVIDIA <\/a>to deliver an AI-Ready Enterprise platform\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/company\/news\/releases\/vmw-newsfeed.VMware-and-NVIDIA-to-Enable-Next-Gen-Hybrid-Cloud-Architecture-and-Bring-AI-to-Every-Enterprise.801b9b92-97a9-4a75-9074-116733900cb5.html\">read partnership announcement from VMworld 2020<\/a>) that combines the compute virtualization software of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/vsphere.html\">VMware vSphere<\/a> and the innovation of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/nvidia\/\">NVIDIA <\/a>AI Enterprise suite. Updates to the AI-Ready Enterprise platform include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/nvidia\/\">NVIDIA <\/a>has exclusively certified the new VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 release for\u00a0NVIDIA AI Enterprise suite, a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/cloud\/\">cloud<\/a>-native collection of optimized <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/ai\/\">AI applications<\/a> and frameworks,\u00a0for an end-to-end AI solution;<\/li><li>vSphere 7 Update 2\u00a0introduces\u00a0support for the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-in\/data-center\/products\/certified-systems\/\">NVIDIA-Certified Systems<sup>TM<\/sup><\/a>. This, with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/nvidia\/\">NVIDIA<\/a> AI Enterprise, enables customers to fold-in an end-to-end <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/ai\/\">AI solution<\/a> with confidence on their existing enterprise virtualization platform, instead of running AI projects in separate unmanageable IT silos; and,<\/li><li>Customers are also able to incorporate the latest generation of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/nvidia\/\">NVIDIA <\/a>GPUs into their virtual environment and take advantage of features like Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) allowing GPU cycles to be shared across multiple users;\u00a0vSphere vMotion\u00a0to provide\u00a0live migration for non-disruptive operations;\u00a0and vSphere\u00a0Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)\u00a0for automatic initial workload placement to avoid performance bottlenecks.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/nvidia\/\">NVIDIA <\/a>AI Enterprise is a software suite optimized, certified and supported on VMware vSphere that enables customers to rapidly deploy, manage and scale <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/ai\/\">AI <\/a>in production with confidence,\u201d said Justin Boitano, vice president and general manager of Enterprise and Edge Computing, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/nvidia\/\">NVIDIA<\/a>. \u201cThrough NVIDIA\u2019s collaboration with VMware, IT professionals can now support business teams with the industry\u2019s most trusted AI tools across their <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/cloud\/\">hybrid cloud<\/a> infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2020, VMware introduced vSphere with Tanzu to deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/kubernetes\/\">Kubernetes <\/a>to the fingertips of millions of IT admins across the globe.\u00a0Today\u2019s update delivers a faster, more scalable\u00a0and\u00a0secure application experience by including VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer\u00a0Essentials as part of vSphere with Tanzu. This\u00a0provides customers with VMware supported\u00a0L4 load balancing for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/kubernetes\/\">Kubernetes <\/a>clusters with Kubernetes native automation and seamless upgrade path to the full capabilities of the NSX Advanced Load Balancer Enterprise Edition. To help customers stay current with Kubernetes, vSphere with Tanzu\u00a0includes a refreshed Supervisor with the Kubernetes 1.19 release\u00a0featuring critical\u00a0enhancements to\u00a0simplify upgrades and leads to more predictability and stability overall.\u00a0Customers can purchase any of the <a href=\"https:\/\/tanzu.vmware.com\/tanzu\">VMware Tanzu editions<\/a>\u00a0as an add-on to vSphere entitling\u00a0them to run Kubernetes as part of their vSphere environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 2021, VMware announced <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/virtualblocks\/2021\/02\/04\/introduction-vsan-data-persistence-platform\/\">the general availability of\u00a0Cloudian HyperStore and MinIO Object Storage on the vSAN Data Persistence platform<\/a>. This allows customers to efficiently deploy and consume S3-compatible object stores for their <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/ai\/\">AI<\/a>\/ML and cloud native applications right from the ubiquitous <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/cloud\/\">hybrid cloud <\/a>platform of VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Scale with Greater Efficiency with Enhanced HCI Mesh<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With more than 30,000 customers, VMware vSAN\u00a0reduces the cost and complexity of traditional storage and provides the simplest path to the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/cloud\/\">hybrid cloud<\/a>. Today, vSAN 7 Update 2 delivers enhanced HCI Mesh, which builds upon the unique software-based approach for disaggregation of compute and storage resources initially <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/virtualblocks\/2020\/09\/16\/introducing-vmware-vsan-hci-mesh\/\">released <\/a>in vSAN 7 Update 1. This new release addresses a broader set of customer use cases, particularly for customers looking to increase resource efficiency beyond their existing vSAN environment. It enables compute clusters, or non-HCI clusters, to remotely use storage from a vSAN cluster within the data center, allowing customers to scale compute and storage independently to meet dynamic application needs while still benefiting from the operational simplicity of VMware HCI. The initial release of HCI Mesh enabled multiple independent vSAN clusters to share capacity within the data center, which enables utilization of excess resources, provides HCI management simplicity at scale, and allows flexible scaling of vSAN storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vSAN 7 Update 2 also introduces new capabilities to better support various physical topologies. This includes integrated DRS awareness of stretched cluster configurations for more consistent performance in failback as well as vSAN file services support for stretched clusters and 2-node clusters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSufficient data capacity and performance scaling are critical to ensuring smooth aircraft operation during the production process,\u201d said Pavel Struh\u00e1r, CIO of Aircraft Industries. \u201cVMware vSphere and vSAN offer efficient data storage for all key production systems and provide us with the data security we require. In addition, HCI Mesh allows us to scale across VMware environments with greater flexibility of operation and to respond flexibly and quickly to growing performance requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, VMware continues to deliver capabilities that drive better performance of vSAN, including vSAN over Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and enhancement to RAID 5\/6 erasure coding that improve CPU utilization and app performance for certain workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAmway uses vSAN 7 to provide storage in diverse and demanding environments including our VDI and Oracle RAC clusters,\u201d said Jason Montgomery, Sr. Systems Engineer, Amway Corp. \u201cvSAN and vSphere underly this entire HCI environment. We anticipate that this Amway Private <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/cloud\/\">Cloud <\/a>2.0 platform will update to vSAN 7 Update 2 in the March\/April timeframe and we look forward to exploring how vSAN over RDMA and other new capabilities can be used to enhance performance and resource utilization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Boosting Infrastructure and Data Security<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To help improve the overall security posture for container-based applications, vSphere 7 Update 2 introduces Confidential Containers for vSphere Pods on AMD EPYC\u2122 processor based servers using Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES). For traditional VM environments, vSphere 7 Update 2 now includes vSphere Native Key Provider, which delivers basic key management server (KMS) capabilities making it much easier for customers to enable encryption and advanced security features out of the box. Additionally, vSphere 7 Update 2 includes FIPS validation of VMware vCenter Server services&nbsp;as well as updated vSphere Product Audit Guides to make it easier for customers to meet regulatory requirements and complete audits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe use vSphere 7 to provide compute infrastructure to a group of users in a Manchester [UK] city center office and the install experience on our new hardware was seamless,\u201d said Steve Lester, Senior Technical Engineer at Co-op, one of the world\u2019s largest consumer co-operatives. \u201cIn previous versions, I&#8217;ve had to run some pretty large VMs and it gave us sufficient capacity for all our operational needs in our insurance business. It&#8217;s comforting to know the scale you can go to, should you need to. Beyond scale, we\u2019re intrigued by the out of the box encryption and advanced security features in the latest vSphere release.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, vSAN 7 Update 2 includes FIPS 140-2 validation of&nbsp;the cryptographic module for data-in-transit encryption to meet strict government requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Simplified Customer Operations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>New VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 and VMware vSAN 7 Update 2 features and enhancements enable customers to simplify their operations. The latest vSphere Lifecycle Manager now supports desired image seeding as well as lifecycle management of vSphere with Tanzu clusters. This includes updating\u00a0vSphere with Tanzu (including\u00a0the NSX-T networking and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/kubernetes\/\">Kubernetes <\/a>layers) in a non-disruptive fashion.\u00a0The lifecycle manager also introduces support\u00a0for select Hitachi Vantara UCP servers. This latest vSphere release also introduces ESXi\u00a0suspend to memory, to reduce upgrade times and maintenance windows.\u00a0Moreover, vSphere High Availability is now persistent memory (PMEM)-aware\u2014further improving availability for PMEM-based workloads such as SAP HANA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, vSAN 7 Update 2 now supports vSphere Proactive High Availability, where the application state and any potential data stored can be proactively migrated to another host,\u00a0helping to avoid data loss on degraded hardware\u00a0and offering better availability for workloads.\u00a0The new release now includes enhanced data durability that results in less downtime and data loss for unplanned outages\u00a0such as multiple disk failures. vSAN 7 Update 2 also provides customers with more powerful tools to rapidly identify root causes of issues and ways to remediate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new releases of vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 will help IT teams support new and existing applications with infrastructure that is developer and AI-ready; scales without compromise; boosts infrastructure and data security; and simplifies operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9619],"tags":[71,1072,2893,1282,1923,585],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-25764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ai","tag-cloud","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-kubernetes","tag-nvidia","tag-vmware"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vmware.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rabab","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25764"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=25764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}