VMware Simplifies Modern Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Environments through Updates to vRealize Cloud Management Platform
March 29 2018 - 8:00AM
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) today announced new releases across its
integrated VMware vRealize® cloud management platform (CMP) that
will make it easier for customers to implement, use, and manage
hybrid cloud environments. Guided by customer feedback, the new
updates to the vRealize platform will combine to simplify how
customers innovate and enable IT governance through new
‘self-driving’ operations capabilities that optimize workload
performance and capacity across their hybrid clouds as well as
through new and enhanced IT automation and productivity
capabilities.
The new product releases -- vRealize Operations 6.7, vRealize
Automation 7.4, vRealize Business for Cloud 7.4, vRealize
Orchestrator 7.4, vRealize Log Insight 4.6 and vRealize Suite
Lifecycle Manager 1.2 -- will come together in the VMware vRealize
Suite to enable customers to manage and provision compute, network,
storage and application services across hybrid cloud environments
at scale. The new operations, automation and lifecycle management
features and enhancements across the integrated platform are
designed to provide customers with faster overall time to value,
improved ease of use, and increased control of VMware’s
software-defined data center (SDDC) stack.
“VMware is focused on delivering innovation across our cloud
management platform to help customers accelerate their digital
transformation journey,” said Ajay Singh, senior vice president and
general manager, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware. “Cloud
transformation is difficult and can quickly derail without a
capable, integrated and easy-to-operate CMP. Our investments in IT
operations management and automation will further simplify and
speed our customers’ use of the hybrid cloud to transform their
businesses.”
Self-Driving Operations to Assure Performance and
Optimize Capacity Based on IntentVMware vRealize
Operations 6.7 will introduce several new and enhanced performance
and capacity optimization capabilities to help customers address
operational challenges. This new release will enable customers to
adopt a ‘self-driving’ approach to monitoring and managing their
data centers and cloud environments. VMware vRealize Operations 6.7
will also feature enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting
capabilities to better predict, prevent, and remediate problems via
integrations across VMware’s SDDC stack. New features will
include:
- New Capacity Analytics
Engine: VMware vRealize Operations 6.7 will introduce a
new capacity analytics engine to provide customers with real-time
visibility into capacity usage and demand to predict and improve
capacity utilization. The new capacity analytics engine will
feature ARIMA techniques and layer on periodicity, trend, and spike
detection, along with a simplified user experience to help manage
capacity as well as plan and forecast more accurately and faster
than before. The new capacity management capabilities, which
include cost analytics, will enable customers to more efficiently
identify savings via automated reclamation of idle resources as
well as right-sizing of environments; run “what-if” scenarios to
plan for future projects; and plan capacity based on demand across
clouds including VMware vSphere-based private clouds, Amazon Web
Services (AWS) and VMware Cloud on AWS and their associated costs.
The new capacity analytics engine will set the stage for the
introduction of machine learning capabilities over time.
- New Performance Automation based on
Business and Operational Intent: This new release is
designed to provide customers with continuous performance
optimization of vSphere-based private clouds today, and VMware
Cloud on AWS in the future, to meet application performance needs
based on business intent (e.g., workload balancing to reduce
software license costs by enabling license enforcement and
separation or to meet performance SLAs) or operational intent
(e.g., leaving headroom for business critical apps or to densify
clusters). The software uses predictive analytics and enhanced
automated workload balancing to drive the continuous optimization.
Deep integration between vRealize Operations 6.7 and vRealize
Automation 7.4 will deliver enhanced initial workload placement
capabilities based on intent to provide customers with a closed
loop operations experience. Customers will be able to turn on
self-driving operations to continuously and automatically optimize
workloads.
- New Wavefront by VMware
Integration: vRealize Operations 6.7 will feature a new
out-of-the-box integration with Wavefront by VMware to empower IT
and application owners to triage and resolve issues faster. This
integration will help to rapidly on-board Wavefront through the
automatic discovery of applications and the installation and
management of the required agents. Additionally, this will enable
IT to provide app monitoring capabilities to their DevOps teams for
apps such as Cassandra, Kafka, and Redis, along with traditional
apps.
- New User Interface: This new
release will be even simpler to use featuring a persona-based
‘Quick Start’ dashboard to help customers quickly perform
operational tasks. It will also include updated workflows for
enterprise-wide troubleshooting with metrics and logs.
vRealize Automation 7.4 Delivers Increased Productivity
and Faster Time to ValueVMware vRealize Automation 7.4
will introduce key innovations and improvements to help customers
achieve consistent operations, greater productivity and faster time
to value. This latest release will feature new modern consumption
and service delivery capabilities, enhanced multi-tenancy and
increased product integration including:
- New and Enhanced Curated Blueprints
and OVF Files: This release will dramatically speed up
application blueprinting by offering 120-plus free, curated
blueprints and OVF (Open Virtualization Format) files
out-of-the-box. VMware has teamed with Bitnami to add 20 new
blueprints and 100-plus new OVFs of popular applications and
databases such as GitLab, Hadoop, Jenkins and MongoDB to speed
application development and deployment.
- New Custom Form Designer:
This will enable IT teams to easily build rich service request
forms for vRealize Automation 7.4 catalog items and reduce
blueprint sprawl.
- Enhanced Multi-Tenancy
Capabilities: The new release will introduce filter-based
networking services visibility and filter-based infrastructure
elements visibility per tenant as well as support the latest
release of vRealize Orchestrator, which is now multi-tenant.
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Now Extends to IT
Content Management Last September, VMware introduced
vRealize Suite 2017 which took a leap forward in simplifying daily
administration and operations of the suite with new built-in,
automated lifecycle management of Day 0 through Day 2 tasks. The
lifecycle management capabilities help customers speed time to
value by automating the deployment, configuration and upgrading of
products in the suite. The new VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle
Manager 1.2 will extend lifecycle management to integrated IT
content management across infrastructure and cloud environments.
New features include:
- New In-Product Marketplace:
This release will introduce a new and integrated “app store”-like
experience for customers to consume out-of-the-box solutions from
VMware and ecosystem partners. These solutions will span vRealize
Operations management packs, vRealize Log Insight content packs,
and vRealize Automation blueprints and plug-ins. Within the
Lifecycle Manager, customers will be able to access, download,
deploy and delete relevant packaged applications and content.
- New IT Content Lifecycle
Management: This release will also enable IT content
lifecycle management including automated release pipeline for
content capturing, testing and deployment; storing and versioning
of content via integration with GitLab; and, support for
multi-developer use cases. The content management capabilities will
allow customers to treat infrastructure content as applications and
apply DevOps principles to manage vRealize content with speed,
quality and consistency across multiple environments.
Today’s news bookends the recent VMware Cloud Services updates
including the introduction of VMware Log Intelligence and
enhancements to Wavefront by VMware and VMware Cost Insight. VMware
is innovating across its cloud management portfolio while providing
customers with choice of how to consume its offerings – as a
service via a subscription model or on-premises via a license
model.
Supporting Quotes“The new capacity analytics in
vRealize Operations 6.7 will help us optimize capacity and provide
better reporting for some of our larger customers,” said John
Davis, Product Architect, Rackspace. “By identifying clusters that
are running low in resources, we will be able to help manage
operations more proactively, and predict and avoid storage
shortages and compute issues for our customers.”
“Today, we rely on VMware vRealize Operations’ predictive
analytics to anticipate and prevent performance problems as well as
manage capacity for our private cloud,” said Johannes Weidacher, IT
Specialist Storage & Data Center, Rohde & Schwarz. “We look
forward to the new capacity engine in the upcoming release as it
will deliver more insights with better transparency into capacity
and costs to increase efficiencies for our business.”
“Enterprise IT executives and their teams are under
significant pressure to increase their execution speed,”
said Stephen Elliot, program vice president at IDC. “Automated
workload placement and capacity management play a critical role in
helping IT operations teams concurrently optimize performance and
costs, while making sure that workloads get the resources they
need, based on specified intent. Pipeline management of IT
artifacts can further accelerate team adoption of Agile and DevOps
practices that deliver rapid innovation, and an improved customer
experience.”
Product Availability VMware vRealize Automation
7.4, VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7.4, VMware vRealize Log
Insight 4.6, VMware vRealize Operations 6.7, vRealize Orchestrator
7.4, VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.2 are all expected
to become available by the end of VMware’s Q1 FY19 (May 4,
2018).
Additional Resources
- Read the What’s New in VMware vRealize Operations 6.7 blog
post
- Read the What’s New in VMware vRealize Automation 7.4 blog
post
- Read the What’s New in VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager
1.2 blog post
- Learn more about the VMware vRealize Suite
- Keep up with VMware vRealize via the Cloud Management Blog
- Connect with VMware on Twitter and Facebook
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