VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN Comprise Building
Blocks of Digital Foundation that Enable Common Operating
Environment On-Premises to the Public Cloud
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) today unveiled new releases of VMware
vSphere and VMware vSAN--which power the industry’s leading
hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions—to help enterprises
securely run their business-critical and modern applications in the
data center, at the edge, in the public cloud, or in hybrid cloud
environments. VMware vSphere 6.7 and VMware vSAN 6.7 will both
enhance user experience, security, application support, and hybrid
cloud management features.
Enterprises are faced with increasingly complex technology
environments made up of a growing landscape of public cloud
services as well as data center and edge resources. To cope with
this complexity and the growing rate of technological changes,
enterprises need to build on a digital foundation that provides
consistent infrastructure and operations and is secure by default.
VMware’s software forms an integrated digital foundation that
powers the apps and services transforming businesses and
industries. For customers, this provides the broadest investment
protection by enabling a flexible and secure common operating
environment from the cloud to the data center to the edge.
“The continued innovation in our award-winning compute and HCI
portfolio makes the hybrid cloud a reality for our customers,” said
Rajiv Ramaswami, chief operating officer, Products and Cloud
Services, VMware. “The rapid adoption of vSAN, coupled with
longstanding vSphere leadership is a testament to the importance of
a digital foundation that extends from on-premises to the public
cloud.”
VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN—building blocks of this digital
foundation—both have leading positions in their relative industries
according to IDC. (1,2)
VMware vSphere 6.7: Efficient and Secure Platform for
the Hybrid CloudVMware vSphere 6.7 will introduce new
capabilities and enhancements to help deliver an efficient and more
secure platform for hybrid cloud environments. The latest release
will feature simple and efficient management at scale,
comprehensive built-in security, increased support for more
workloads, and further enable a seamless hybrid cloud experience.
VMware vSphere 6.7 will continue to offer customers a universal
application platform that supports workloads spanning artificial
intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Big Data,
business-critical, cloud-native, in-memory, and 3D graphics, among
others.
New and enhanced features in VMware vSphere 6.7 will
include:
- New vCenter Hybrid Linked
Mode: Will enable unified visibility and management across
different versions of vSphere running on-premises and in the public
cloud such as VMware Cloud on AWS, IBM Cloud and other VMware Cloud
Provider Program partner clouds. This will allow customers to
maintain their current version of vSphere on-premises as needed
while enjoying the benefits of new capabilities in vSphere-based
public clouds.
- New ESXi Single Reboot and vSphere
Quick Boot: Will significantly reduce patch and upgrade
times by halving the number of reboots required to one, while
vSphere Quick Boot will skip hardware initialization steps to gain
further re-start efficiencies.
- New vSphere Persistent
Memory: Will leverage the latest innovation around
non-volatile memory and significantly enhance performance for both
existing and new apps.
- Enhanced NVIDIA GRID vGPUs Support for
Modern Workloads: Will improve host lifecycle management
and reduce end-user disruption via new suspend and resume
capabilities for VMs for GPU-accelerated environments. vSphere 6.7
will enhance support for NVIDIA GRID Virtual PC/Virtual Apps (for
knowledge workers) and NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Data Center
Workstation (for design and engineering professionals) to enable
optimal management of VDI workloads as well as enable
administrators (admins) to run other NVIDIA GPU-enabled workloads,
including AI and ML.
- New Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0
Support and Virtual TPM 2.0: This combination will
significantly enhance protection and integrity for both the
hypervisor and the guest operating system (OS). Virtual TPM 2.0
will help prevent VMs and hosts from being tampered or compromised,
thwarting the loading of unauthorized components and enable guest
OS security features.
- Enhanced VMware vSphere
Client: This latest release of the HTML-5-based vSphere
Client will introduce new functionality to manage VMware NSX, vSAN
and vSphere Update Manager along with an increased support for
third-party products.
The enhanced vCenter Server Appliance will deliver an improved
user experience made possible through more efficient management
capabilities and significant performance improvements. It will
deliver a faster experience for vSphere admins (compared to vSphere
6.5), while delivering considerable time and cost savings.
Performance improvements will include:
- 200 percent faster performance in vCenter operations per second
(3)
- 300 percent reduction in memory usage (3)
- 300 percent faster DRS-related operations (e.g. Power-on,
Placement of VM) (3)
VMware vSphere customers can deploy VMware AppDefense to further
secure applications running in the data center or cloud. AppDefense
leverages its unique position in vSphere to understand what
applications are intended to do, monitor against that intended
state, and automate response if anyone or anything attempts to
manipulate them.
VMware vSAN 6.7: Elevates the HCI
Experience On-Premises and in the CloudPowering the
largest hybrid cloud ecosystem of any HCI vendor, vSAN enables
customers to evolve their vSphere environment on-premises or in the
cloud with hyper-converged infrastructure that lowers total cost of
ownership (TCO) with efficient operations and that easily scales to
future demands. VMware vSAN 6.7 reduces time-to-expertise with a
new intuitive interface and accelerates decision-making through
advanced monitoring and analytics.
New and enhanced features in VMware vSAN 6.7 include:
- New VMware vSphere HTML5 Client
Support: Will provide vSAN admins with a unified,
intuitive management experience using the HTML5-based vSphere
Client that introduces new functionality and optimized workflows
for vSAN operations.
- New Integrated vRealize Operations
Healthchecks in vCenter Server: Will offer a single pane
of glass to monitor and control multiple HCI environments. vRealize
Operations 6.7 will provide a global operations view of vSAN 6.7
environments with six new dashboards embedded within vCenter Server
6.7 enabling customers to monitor capacity, performance, KPIs and
alerts, and more. This capability does not require a separate
vRealize Operations license and is available to anyone with a vSAN
Advanced or vSAN Enterprise license.
- New Host-Pinning and iSCSI failover
support: Will extend the suitability of HCI to
applications such as Cassandra, Hadoop and MongoDB as well as to
clustered Windows Server environments. New application support
requires customers to contact VMware for additional details.
- New Intelligent Self-Healing
Capabilities: Will mitigate the effects of disruptive
events such as hardware failures with smart resource
allocation.
- Enhanced vSAN Encryption:
Will meet strict U.S. Federal government security requirements with
FIPS 140-2 validation to protect data from disruptive events.
As part of today’s announcement, VMware is also introducing vSAN
ReadyCare to improve the support experience for HCI environments.
VMware will help customers maintain performance by avoiding or
quickly resolving issues and minimize downtime through a
combination of proactive telemetry capabilities from vSAN Support
Insight advanced analytics, and a broad investment in VMware
support staff.
VMware
is widely recognized as the leading HCI software provider, and now
delivers vSphere and vSAN-powered HCI in two of the top four public
cloud providers, including AWS and IBM. Through an expansive
partner ecosystem, VMware supports the broadest set of consumption
options for its HCI software from turnkey HCI integrated systems
such as Dell EMC VxRail and VxRack SDDC solutions to certified vSAN
ReadyNode hardware reference architectures to as-a-service
consumption models in public clouds.
Supporting Quote“CenturyLink has multiple cloud
products providing world-class solutions to our customers built on
the power of VMware VSAN, a fundamental piece of the complete
software-defined data center (SDDC),” said Steve Nolen, senior lead
product manager – Private Cloud, CenturyLink. “vSAN has scaled
flawlessly to over 11 petabytes of production data on
high-performance all-flash devices that provides a consistent
application experience for the most demanding workloads, from
business-critical applications to cloud-native applications. The
rapid innovation in vSAN, as demonstrated by the most recent
release, will further help us deliver a robust platform with
enterprise-class resiliency and intelligent, self-healing
capabilities to enable our customers to rely on a high performance
hyper converged infrastructure.”
Product Availability VMware vSphere 6.7 and
VMware vSAN 6.7 are both expected to become available by the end of
VMware’s Q1 FY19 (May 4, 2018).
Additional Resources
- Read “Introducing VMware vSphere 6.7!” in the vSphere blog
- Read “Extending Hybrid Cloud Leadership with vSAN 6.7” in the
Virtual Blocks blog
- Learn more about VMware vSphere
- Learn more about VMware vSAN
- Connect with VMware on Twitter and Facebook
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Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions.
- (1) IDC, “Worldwide Virtual Machine Software Market Shares,
2016: Enterprise Virtualization Remains a Datacenter Mainstay,” doc
# US42136517, Dec. 2017
- (2) Total spending on hyperconverged systems running VMware
vSAN software represented 32.4% of total 4Q2017 vendor revenue,
which was the largest market share. Source: IDC’s Worldwide
Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, 4Q2017. IDC, Quarterly
Converged Systems Tracker, 4Q2017, April 2018
- (3) VMware Research based on internal analysis and testing,
April 2018
Media ContactsStefanie CannonVMware Global
Communications1.650.427.1828scannon@vmware.com
Eloy OntiverosVMware Global
Communications1.650.427.6145eontiveros@vmware.com
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