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What’s new in VMware vSphere 7?
Hybrid cloud is the new model for IT and DevOps, but it comes with unique challenges. VMware vSphere 7 lets you deliver application-focused IT, with an innovative platform for managing VMs and containers in a single infrastructure stack.
Things to consider
Independent research firm, Management Insight Technologies, surveyed global companies on strategies for managing applications and environments and discovered:
- The hybrid cloud is winning
70% of organizations are engaged in public cloud migration.
- Silos are out
Respondents wish to extend data center tools and processes to the public cloud by a 2-to-1 margin.
- Cloud-ready is the new normal
IT wants to add cloud-like capabilities to their on-premises environments to handle modern applications and hybrid operations.
- Kubernetes is in-demand
Seven in 10 organizations want IT operations to provide developer-ready Kubernetes.
The power of vSphere 7
Remove barriers between IT and modern app development, increase business agility and create a native developer experience for all app types.
- Secure and control.
Leverage vSphere Trust Authority for attestable hardware trust and security —and lock down your enterprise with multifactor authentication using Identity Federation.
- Simplify lifecycles.
The updated Lifecycle Manager™ manages, discovers and easily upgrades software and firmware using RESTful Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and JavaScript Object Notation.
- Accelerate innovation.
Elastic infrastructure for machine learning applications lets you create shared graphics processing units for higher device use, greater flexibility and substantial cost savings.
- Future-proof HCI.
Reduce cost with VMware vSAN storage for traditional and cloud-native applications
- Optimize performance.
Reimagined vSphere 7 Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) logic works with containers and achieves better consolidation, workload placement and balancing.
- Fast-track modern apps.
vSphere 7 with Kubernetes + VMware Cloud Foundation powers cloud infrastructure for modern applications.
True hybrid cloud
When you use vSphere 7 with Kubernetes, you gain even more agility and flexibility — and the framework for a successful hybrid cloud. To get there, you need VMware Cloud Foundation.
VMware Cloud Foundation
- Automation & operations
o Compute
o Storage
o Network
- Intrinsic security & lifecycle automation
- Data center
- Edge
- Service provider
- Public cloud
What does it offer?
- Provides a comprehensive developer environment to bridge the gap between app developers and IT administrators
- Delivers unified visibility and management of VMs, containers and Kubernetes clusters
- Includes self-service APIs to boost developer productivity and keep continuous development pipelines running at peak performance
- Can be deployed on premises or consumed as a service through a public cloud provider
Upgrade with expertise.
With more than 100 VMware certifications, Insight is the single partner to fulfill your vSphere 7 transformation. Jump-start your upgrade with an assessment from our team to avoid hardware challenges and identify at-risk workloads.
Sources:
Management Insight Technologies. (February 2020). The State of Application Modernization and Hybrid Cloud Computing. VMware. Matuson, L. & Sinclair, S. (March 2020). VMware Cloud Foundation Integrates vSphere with Kubernetes. Enterprise Strategy Group.