Today at VMware Explore 2022,
VMware, Inc. unveiled cloud and edge infrastructure
solutions featuring breakthrough innovations to help organizations
better run, scale and secure the broadest range of enterprise workloads
across private and public clouds and at the edge.
VMware
research shows 580 million modern workloads are expected to run on
diverse, distributed environments spanning public cloud, on-premises,
edge, telco clouds and hosted clouds by 2024. Businesses
are aiming to match their diverse enterprise application portfolios to
the most optimal environments based on technical, business or strategic
needs and low total cost of ownership (TCO). This is driving businesses
to embrace multiple public clouds while continuing to invest in their
on-premises environments and deploy services at the edge.
"In
highly distributed environments, customers need cloud and edge
infrastructure that enables them to scale their operations with
consistency, availability, and security-wherever their workloads are
running-and at the lowest possible TCO," said Mark Lohmeyer, senior vice
president and general manager, Cloud Infrastructure Business Group,
VMware. "With our multi-cloud and edge portfolio, VMware serves as the
trusted foundation for customers seeking flexibility and choice to run
their workloads where they're best suited to run."
Significant Advancements Across Core Platform for Private and Public Clouds
VMware today introduced VMware vSphere 8 and VMware vSAN 8-major
new releases of VMware's compute and storage solutions-helping
customers run the broadest set of workloads in the environments of their
choice. The innovations across these common building blocks for the
private and public clouds and edge will help customers dramatically
improve how they run, manage and secure their enterprise applications.
The continued advancement of VMware Cloud further provides customers
with consistent infrastructure with value-added capabilities.
- VMware vSphere 8: Ushers
in a new era of heterogeneous computing by bringing DPUs (Data
Processing Units) into the fold along with CPUs and GPUs-making the
future of modern infrastructure accessible to all enterprises. vSphere 8
will deliver key innovations to help customers supercharge workload
performance while lowering TCO, accelerate innovation for DevOps teams,
improve operational efficiency and IT productivity, and bring the
benefits of the cloud to their on-premises infrastructure.
vSphere
8 will introduce vSphere on DPUs, previously known as Project Monterey.
In close collaboration with technology partners AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
as well as OEM system partners Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard
Enterprise and Lenovo, vSphere on DPUs will unlock hardware innovation
helping customers meet the throughput and latency needs of modern
distributed workloads. vSphere will enable this by offloading and
accelerating network and security infrastructure functions onto DPUs
from CPUs. Customer applications that need high network bandwidth and
fast cache access such as in-memory databases can expect:- Up
to 20% CPU cores saved while achieving similar or better
performance-resulting in higher workload consolidation and lower TCO by
using saved cores;
- Up to 36% higher transaction rate at 27% lower latency by
leveraging freed CPU cores and better cache locality to drive more
workload traffic, while benefitting from vSphere DRS and vMotion.
By
running infrastructure services on DPUs and isolating them from the
workload domain, vSphere on DPUs will boost infrastructure security.
Additionally, now in beta, NSX Distributed Firewall will offload to DPUs
to scale customers' security operations by securing East-West traffic
at line rate without the need for software agents.
vSphere
8 will dramatically accelerate AI and machine learning applications by
doubling the virtual GPU devices per VM, delivering a 4x increase of
passthrough devices, and supporting vendor device groups which enable
binding of high-speed networking devices and the GPU. For DevOps teams,
vSphere 8 will include VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0-expanding
Kubernetes capabilities to include multi-availability zones for
improved resilience as well as simplified cluster lifecycle and package
management. The new Cloud Consumption Interface service in
vSphere 8 will provide developers and DevOps engineers a
Kubernetes-based common API endpoint and UI that offers fast, easy
access to IaaS services across VMware Cloud. Learn more in the vSphere 8 announcement blog.
Ecosystem Support:
- VMware vSAN 8: Through
a next-generation storage platform optimized for modern hardware with
hyperconverged infrastructure, vSAN 8 introduces breakthrough
performance and hyper-efficiency. Built from the ground up, the new vSAN
Express Storage ArchitectureTM will enhance the performance, storage
efficiency, data protection and management of vSAN running on the latest
generation storage devices. vSAN 8 will provide customers with a future
ready infrastructure that supports modern TLC storage devices and
delivers up to a 4x performance boost. Additionally, customers will experience up to 40% lower TCO through highly performant and efficient data protection and enhanced data compression with up to 4x greater efficiency. Customers
will also see increased availability due to a new storage pool
construct that provides smaller fault domains, faster resync times, and
native snapshots delivering up to 100x faster operations.
- VMware Cloud Foundation+:
Introduces a new cloud-connected architecture for managing and
operating full stack HCI in data centers. Built on vSphere+ and vSAN+, VMware Cloud Foundation+ will
enable customers to gain greater operational efficiencies through easy
management of VM and container-based enterprise workloads across hybrid
and multi-cloud deployments. Customers will be able to streamline
maintenance windows and gain immediate access to new features and cloud
services. VMware Cloud Foundation+ follows the recent introductions of vSphere+ and vSAN+.
- VMware Cloud for Hyperscalers:
VMware and its public cloud partners continue to innovate in support of
customers migrating and running enterprise workloads in the public
cloud of their choice. VMware and AWS are showcasing the continued
innovation and customer value the companies are delivering together. New
capabilities in the jointly engineered VMware Cloud on AWS help
customers accelerate enterprise cloud transformation.
VMware also announced that customers will now be able to purchase Azure
VMware Solution as part of VMware Cloud Universal program. Google Cloud VMware Engine will offer the option for running both VMs
and containers on the same infrastructure with VMware Tanzu Standard
Edition, provide new enterprise capabilities, continue to expand
regionally, and more. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution features new capabilities will include the
newly validated and supported VMware Tanzu Standard Edition and
introduce single host SDDCs.
Deploying and Operating Edge-Native Apps Across Multiple Clouds
Edge
computing is the next evolution of the distributed digital enterprise
with the fastest growing segment of workloads, with worldwide spending
expected to be $176 billion in 2022 according to IDC. VMware
enables organizations to run, manage and better secure edge-native apps
across multiple clouds at both near edge and far edge locations. At
VMware Explore 2022, VMware is introducing new and enhanced edge
solutions purpose-built for edge-native apps and their unique
performance, autonomy and latency requirements, including:
- VMware Edge Compute Stack 2: A fully integrated edge platform to operate modern, existing, and future edge-native applications, VMware Edge Compute Stack 2
will help customers address the needs of simplicity and scale at the
edge. New capabilities will include support for smaller cluster sizes-1
control node and 1 worker node-to run containers efficiently on smaller
COTS (commercial, off the shelf) hardware. Additionally, the release
will also offer higher performance with GPU passthrough support to
enable AI/ML use cases. Both of these features will be enabled by new
functionality in VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0-helping bring
simplicity and scale to the enterprise edge. Today, VMware Edge Compute
Stack supports x86 hardware only. In a future release, VMware, for the
first time, will introduce initial support for non-x86 processor-based
specialized small form factor edge platforms to simultaneously run IT/OT
workloads and workflows on a single stack.
Customer quote:
"Audi is revolutionizing factory automation with its rollout of Edge
Cloud 4 Production," said Henning Löser, head of Audi's Production Lab.
"Based on hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), Edge Cloud 4 Production
servers in combination with virtual clients will replace countless
expensive industrial PCs helping us save time and effort, particularly
where software rollouts, operating system changes, and IT-related
expenses are concerned. VMware Edge Compute Stack is helping us
transform our shop floor environment with a scalable edge infrastructure
that provides the foundation for Audi to continue transforming and
consolidating shop floor applications."
- Managed Edge Solution with NTT:
VMware and NTT are announcing an expanded partnership that will define,
create, and bring to market a fully-managed edge compute solution with
private 5G connectivity, delivered by NTT across its global footprint
and powered by VMware Edge Compute Stack. The joint offering will give
enterprises the ability to deploy, manage and monitor applications
closer to the edge than ever before.
- VMware Private Mobile Network (Beta): Delivered by service providers, this new managed service offering provides
enterprises with private 4G/5G mobile connectivity in support of
edge-native applications. VMware will empower partners with a single PMN
orchestrator to operate multi-tenant private 4G/5G networks with an
enterprise-grade solution. Building on VMware Edge Compute Stack, the
service is seamlessly integrated with existing IT management platforms
and incorporates VMware's industry leading compute, network, security
and edge intelligence solutions.
Availability
VMware
Cloud Foundation+, VMware vSphere 8, VMware vSAN 8 and VMware Edge
Compute Stack 2 are all expected to be available by October 28, 2022
(the close of VMware's Q3 FY23). VMware Private Mobile Network is
expected to be available in beta in VMware's Q3 FY23.