Microsoft announces vSphere in Azure
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[Music] hey how's it going it's cute Towson from the CTO advisor you know what I hope you've rested up if you're in the US and you enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday Happy Thanksgiving however it's time to get back on it and next week is AWS reinvent the other hyper scalars are not sitting back and waiting on AWS to take up all of the energy of course I'll be hosting the cube and having an incredible sets of interviews with companies ranging from straddle scale to VMware to the
whole ecosystem at reinvent however before we get in to reinvent there's a couple of big announcements within the industry that I wanted to get it first Microsoft the hyper scaler that we mentioned earlier when I hinted to the hyper scalars are not sitting back waiting on AWS to take up all the announcements Microsoft has announced that they will now support vmware vsphere bare metal in azure is this another VMware on AWS but VMware on Azure not exactly Microsoft is taking a book out of a smaller
competitors playbook Nutanix Nutanix if you remember announced that they would be supporting HPE servers cisco servers without the blessing of HPE is cisco directly so what does that mean it means that you have to support or you have to trust Microsoft and in Nutanix is case Nutanix fully and supporting a what's a Sicily essentially an x86 based workload you know vSphere should work on just about any approved x86 platform so if the industry is right and sewers running a bunch of HP ProLiant servers in their
data center there shouldn't be a whole lot of difference in supporting V spear inside of as sewers data center or Microsoft data center then what rec space does inside of rec spaces the data center the big difference however is integration VMware an AWS did an awful lot of work to get vmware vsphere to run inside of an AWS data center and this is not easy feat VMware uses completely different networking a completely different network stack then AWS and both Azure so Microsoft had to kind of
go at shoehorning this alone I expect big announcements from VMware and AWS is partnership next week and the type of innovation and integration that really doesn't happen when you go edit alone and don't partner with the other vendor so what does this mean I think essentially when you looked at the blog post from Microsoft this was about migration this definitely wasn't about taking your V spear infrastructure and run long term inside of azure this was a step towards migrating your workloads from V spear to Azure
you're sitting your workloads close to yours or infrastructure and you could easily move from one platform to another via high-speed network this isn't a long term play therefore if you're looking for AWS and vSphere type integration in Azure I would look that far I haven't got enough details to find out where one wins and where one loses but basically this isn't a long term play now back to the Nutanix team should you trust HPE cisco hardware with a relationship with unit annex that isn't a proper
OEM support model you know it depends on the workload and your your tolerance for risk a lot of organization one heavy-duty non-stop support they want these relationships that they have either one choke to throat is the term or they have a tight partnership that if they call either vendor they get equal levels of support no matter which vendor they call if you're that type of organization you should probably stay away from these types of deals but if you're an organization that you're like you know what
I we have skill we have differentiating infrastructure team support that can go in and really troubleshoot x86 down to you know what there's not enough thermal paste on the x86 code on the x86 processor and we need support that you know what maybe you're a little bit safer and go on with one of these unsupported hybrid molds that's it for this CTO visor daily dose I am looking forward to AWS reinvent if there's something you want to see special from the coverage will be having sponsored
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