VMworld
2019 US General Session 2
Presented
by Ray O’Farrell
Ray
in this session focused on Digital Transformation, and how the infrastructure
and apps work together to give an excellent user experience.
The
session also focused on how IT is no longer just about IT companies, but how
different industries need to leverage the technologies available to become more
efficient and productive in order to not be left behind their competitors.
The
Problems of Modern Apps
Problem
1 - How to build modern applications that is repeatable, secure, and allows
developers to be productive.
Problem
2 – How do we take advantage of all the new multi-cloud infrastructures.
With
the above four questions should be asked.
1.
How
do I build and run the applications?
2.
How
do we connect to and secure those applications?
3.
How
do we manage those applications?
4.
How
do we give the best application experience?
The
above should be a cyclic journey and ever evolving.
VMware
have technologies to help in all of the above.
Build
and Run
VMware Tanzu gives the following functionality
It
can be used to build modern apps using Existing, Open Source, or Cloud native
technologies.
It
can run those apps via Enterprise Kubernetes, in any of the following
locations, those being On-prem, Public Cloud or on Edge devices.
The
apps can then be managed via Kubernetes for Developers and IT across
Multi-cloud, Multi-Cluster, and Multi-Team
From
the build point of view, Pivotal can be used to build theses apps, and we can
package the apps via Bitnami.
To
run we now have VMC on Dell EMC,
and this allows the customer to order the kit via the cloud interface and then
build the kit, Dell build the kit and install the kit.
To
allow running of Kubernetes natively with VMware vSphere, VMware have announced
Project
Pacific. This technology makes the Application a unit of control, very similar
to a running VM, the app can be limited, and those flows down to all components
of the apps.
Project
Pacific allows developers to deliver applications in an automated fashion, but
still within the guard-rails defined by IT Operations.
From
an enterprise point of view, customers maybe running a multi-cloud,
hybrid-cloud environment application, customers need to manage these applications
centrally and efficiently, the product to use is Tanzu
Mission Control which uses an application centric control model. This allows
for complete management of the app without having to use multiple consoles on
multiple clouds.
Connect
and Protect
How
do we manage complex service level agreements in a multi-cloud world?
We can leverage the built in capabilities of
NSX-T,
by creating Service Level Objective policies. This can define acceptable levels
of latency, and error rate for our applications.
The app can then leverage NSX Service Mesh
to return back to an acceptable level of performance.
How
can we successfully implement micro-segmentation in an ever-changing dynamic environment?
We can leverage a new capability of NSX
called NSX
Intelligence which allows granular planning and troubleshooting of the
underlying infrastructure. The product can create automated policies and allow
simulation before publishing policies.
How
can we classify and mitigate vulnerability and critical security events for
infrastructure and apps?
VMware can leverage the AppDefense plugin within
vSphere, which can then leverage Carbon
Black to identify vulnerabilities within applications, the vulnerabilities
can then be patched.
Manage
Across
multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud we need consistent management. VMware have a product
called WaveFront, which provides
enterprise observability as a service for all teams and at scale.
The
product collects millions of metrics to a data lake and then pinpoints the
offending metric to identify issues.
Wavefront
can also switch into vRealize
Operations to identify and fix the issues with the infrastructure, Project
Magna can also be leveraged to provide AI driven adaptive optimisation and
self-tuning for vSAN
How
do we proactively optimise cost overruns on Cloud before they happen?
CloudHealth
by VMware allows customers to manage the sometimes unexpected cost of the
cloud across multi-cloud environments.
User
Experience
We
need to onboard employees as quickly as possible, so that they have a great
employee experience.
This
can be achieved by using Horizon Desktop as a
Service, Horizon can be provisioned on-prem, or VMC on AWS, or within Microsoft
Azure, and all this can be provisioned from the VMware Horizon management
console. This is also a GUI driven wizard.
For
application support VMware have Workspace ONE
that allows management of any device, with any operating system, with any app, in
any location.
Emerging
Technologies
ESXi
or ARM, low cost virtualisation hosts.
Cross
Cloud vMotion, run apps and multi-cloud services without boundaries.
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