CTO Daily Dose - VMware Cloud Foundation
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how's it going chief Townsend from the CTO of Pfizer calm with today's CTO daily dose September 6 about a week removed from VMworld 2017 and a very great theme came out or at least a consistent strengths theme came out from or at least a consistent stream theme came out from vmworld 2017 then we're acknowledged that there a infrastructure company now infrastructure company doesn't mean that you're not cloud or cloud native or you there's not a relationship for cloud the infrastructure is just starting to be redefined
this is not anything new in computer science before in the early days of computer science we would address memory directly we'd address hard disk sectors directly there was a bunch of abstractions that had to happen before we had the PC and then we built upon the PC and we've gotten virtualization so we've moved up the stack as to what is infrastructure VMware starting to make that pivot when it comes to infrastructure indication of that is this consistent theme of VMware cloud foundation that we heard in
van world 2017 so what is VM VMware cloud foundation it is the building block of VMware's multi cloud strategy now again this is a multi cloud strategy from the perspective of the infrastructure company what's the foundation of vfc first off is vSphere I said over on the cube that Pat Gayle senior CEO of VMware when he first came in double down on vSphere he ejected the pivotal business unit so it off to EMC focus on vSphere vSphere is still the foundation of that then once we
go out to the network the next is VMware's billion-dollar business run rebuilt business intersects when it comes to storage and data services we have V sin and then when it comes to management stack we have vmware view realize and that is the foundation of VMware vCloud foundation so how is this relevant to multi-cloud well vmware came up with a validated design for VCF which means that if you buy the right BOM basically you can run this fact with all of these resources and anywhere you have
bare-metal access to the x86 infrastructure so just taking a bunch of servers no external storage array no special networking you can create a VMware a cloud why is this important well first off you can build that you can start in your own data center you can start by building what VMware calls a cloud in your data center then as you or as you start to expand out you can go to what we've always seen is the familiar VMware cloud the cloud network so we can we
can providers can also build your VCF using the same tools that VMware provided in your data center same infrastructure same design run on someone else's hardware so why would you want to run this and someone else's hardware basically for the very same reasons we look towards other cloud native solutions in a Colo such as Equinox expedient Rackspace the list goes on and on for environments that provide this type of connectivity but we can use the we can network whose the V can network to connect out
to the public cloud and that public cloud includes services such as AWS GCP Google compute as or as well as office SAS services like office 365 salesforce.com the again that list goes on and on and on you get low latency high access speed to these providers built on this V cloud foundation stack so that means that my operating model that I have in my data center still exist in my data center I can take that operating model from a people process and technology perspective so my
backup tools my service management layer everything that I've built around vSphere will work in this private Coulomb model that the infrastructure the physical infrastructure is outsourced to that cloud provider and all I have to do is consume the infrastructure basically as a software as a service offering then I have the extended ability to connect out to a public cloud using this high-speed connectivity then I can go one layer further let's say that there's the need to I've I'm fully in bed with AWS I love AWS
I'm consuming lambda I'm consuming the CDN RDMs databases etc but I have a heavy traditional application such as s AP or some Oracle based workload that needs to run on traditional vSphere environment well AWS now has a VCF option in VMware cloud on AWS so this VCF that I randomized probably datacenter this VCF that I ran in the weekend network there's VCF that I can now run at BW s now rasen AWS and that capability that Rackspace equal NICs Telstra who IBM provided and managing that
hardware set that hardware stack is now managed by VMware primary advantage 1 I have a VMware provided solution and then two I have super high-speed connectivity to my lambda to our DMS to the CDN all the services that exist in AWS I have high-speed connectivity to it what's the catch well the catch is this is pretty immature at this point and in this is that this is basically GCF if strength is also its weakness VCF in AWS this is an integration of AWS and VMware from
a service level so I'm not going into vCenter and saying hey this lambda instance should have access to this set of VM or this our DMS if I give a developer access to our DMS database then that automatically creates a relationship with VMs and my VMware infrastructure that plumbing still needs to be done manually but I'm pretty convinced especially with nd jassie appearing on stage at vmworld 2017 that vmware in AWS will work that out and we'll see a seamless relationship eventually between VCF and AWS
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