So today was the day of big announcements. Some things people already knew about and had been waiting for General Availability (GA) and some things that might have been a shock or surprise to some.
- VMConAWS – yes that means that organizations will be able to consume AWS services/API stacks running on VMware vSphere. Sewn together with NSX and some other magic sauce. I will have to dig into this further to see how this is provisioned, consumed, managed and what caveats there are. What will be the pros and cons with this.
- VMware announced the release of AppDefense a new model to protect your apps running on virtualized and cloud environments. This will leverage virtualized infrastructure to monitor running applications and report deviations and correlations from known good states. This was previewed last year at VMworld 2016 as Project Goldilocks.
- Products also getting a new version were vRealize Network Insights, VMware Integrated Openstack, a new vSAN offering and a new product called: vSphere Scale-Out which will enhance BigData and HPC environments.
I will be digging into these new items further down the line.
For me today was a pretty big day in that I took and passed my VCP-NV exam for VMware NSX. This was a big step in getting back to the basics. I hadn’t taken a vendor Professional level exam in almost 2 years. In fact the last exam I took was my VCAP-DCA5 exam at VMworld 2015. I have already started on plans for the VCIX-NV.
This evening I was able to have some time to celebrate and see some vendors at various parties. Thanks to BigSwitchNetworks, Zerto, and Nutanix for their parties that I was able to attend and also a thanks to Tintri for the invitation but also apologies in that I wasn’t able to make it to your event. See everyone online tomorrow with more breaking VMworld 2017 news.
