VMware today previewed a forthcoming initiative under which it plans to enable a small number of partners to deliver a software-defined data center (SDDC) service through which they will be able to manage VMware environments from the network edge to the cloud.
Based primarily of version 9.7 of VMware vCloud Director, a total of 35 partners participating in the VMware Cloud Provider Program partners that have achieved Cloud Verified status will be eligible to deliver this end-to-end managed service in collaboration with VMware, says Ajay Patel, senior vice president and general manager for the cloud provider software business unit for VMware.
The latest version VMware vCloud Director, which VMware only makes available to cloud partners, adds support for version 3.0 of VMware Cloud Availability, which unifies onboarding, migration and disaster recovery services between multi-tenant clouds. Those capabilities are critical elements of a VMware hybrid cloud computing strategy that envisions VMware and its partners managing a much greater percentage of the overall IT environment on behalf of customers, says Patel.
“The heavy undifferentiated lifting will be left to VMware and its partners,” says Patel.
VMware today also revealed there are now more than 60 partners building or delivering managed service offerings for VMware Cloud on AWS, and more than 280 partners have achieved a VMware Cloud on AWS Solution Competency. Patel also revealed the number of organizations running instances of VMware on public clouds now exceeds 1,000 in the wake of the launch of VMware Cloud on AWS last year. VMware Cloud on AWS is now being made available in data centers in Canada, Paris, and Singapore operated by Amazon Web Services.
Meanwhile, the latest version of VMware Cloud Foundation has been optimized to deploy VMware Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software. VMware also revealed VMware Cloud Foundation, which automatically updates all the VMware compute, storage and networking software required to build a cloud, will be made available on Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure next month.
Most of those organizations initially start their cloud journey by embracing disaster recovery first before beginning to view a cloud service as a natural extension of their data center that enables on-premises applications to invoke additional computing capacity on demand, says Patel. In the next phase after that, they begin to refactor applications for deployment on a public cloud, says Patel.
VMware also today announced updates to the CloudHealth by VMware platform to include New capabilities being added to CloudHealth by VMware include enhanced multi-cloud reporting, multidimensional reporting, and workspaces reporting. Additionally, the CloudHealth platform now integrates with the Wavefront by VMware cloud analytics and monitoring platform to more accurately rightsize and optimize applications running on multiple cloud applications.
It remains to be seen how loyal IT organizations will remain to VMware as they continue to embrace public clouds. But at the very least, VMware is now significantly expanding the scope of the platforms it is providing partners to make sure both they and it remain relevant.
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