Session INF5060
VMware’s architecture for IT: Any device, any application, one cloud
EVO SDDC is about deploying a new datacenter in less than two hours
Compute strategic imperatives: Cloud native infrastructure, hybrid cloud, virtualization leadership
vSphere 6.0 – Largest vSphere release ever
- Shipped March 2015
- 2x to 4x scale increase across the platform
- Enhanced 2D/3D support with NVIDIA Grid
- Rapid provisioning with 10x faster instance clone
- Content library
- More responsive web client
- 64 hosts in a cluster
- Long distance vMotion and cross-vCenter vMotion, SMP-FT
- VMware integrated OpenStack
- Extended containers support – CoreOS
Key stats:
- 30% of customers are running 6.0
- 100K downloads since GA
vSphere 6.0 U1
- vCSA – easier to install and upgrade
- Web client – VUM support
- Faster maintenance mode -4x to 7x improvement
- Certificate authority – CLI to UI
- Live refresh in web client
- VCSA performance increased by 20%
- vSphere APIs for IO Filtering – 3rd party plug-ins
How does VMware enable containers?
- Photon OS
- Instant Clone
- APIs for orchestration
VMware photon platform – future
- Photon machine
- Photon OS
- Support for 100K containers or more
- Available in 2016
Unified hybrid cloud allows best of both worlds
Cross-cloud vMotion and content sync with vCloud Air
