VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vSphere 7 to Accelerate Application Modernization
02 April 2020 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Rearchitected VMware vSphere 7 Features Native
Kubernetes, Powers VMware Cloud Foundation 4
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the general
availability of VMware vSphere 7, the biggest
evolution of vSphere in over a decade. VMware vSphere 7 has been
rearchitected into an open platform using Kubernetes APIs to
provide a cloud-like experience for developers and operators.
Today’s enterprise customers’ needs are constantly evolving and
IT needs to provide infrastructure agility as well as security,
efficiency and resiliency. To fully benefit from their application
modernization efforts, enterprises also need to simultaneously
modernize their infrastructure. A responsive infrastructure that is
easily accessible by development teams further enables enterprises
to successfully adapt to their customers' changing needs. VMware
vSphere 7 delivers essential services for the modern hybrid cloud,
powering the compute environments for AI and machine learning,
business critical and modern applications.
“Increasingly we see our customers encounter a number of
roadblocks and silos when it comes to running their modern and
traditional applications,” said Krish Prasad, senior vice president
and general manager, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware. “VMware
vSphere 7, our most significant vSphere release in a decade, will
help enterprises run all their applications on a common platform
using a combination of virtual machines, containers, and
Kubernetes. This further helps enterprises increase developer and
operator productivity, enabling faster time-to-innovation combined
with the necessary enhanced security, stability, and
governance.”
Watch the VMware vSphere 7 online launch event on
Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 8:00am PDT.
VMware vSphere 7: Essential Services for Modern Hybrid
Cloud
With VMware vSphere 7, IT operations teams can expect to benefit
from simplified lifecycle management capabilities, new and enhanced
security capabilities, new application-focused management, and a
unified platform for consistent operations across clouds, data
centers, and edge environments. VMware vSphere 7 was tested
extensively with approximately 1,000 customers in the beta program.
New capabilities and features include:
- Simplified Lifecycle Management: Using a desired state
model, vSphere administrators can create configurations once, apply
them, and continue to easily monitor them, protecting against
configuration drift. This simplifies lifecycle management, vSphere
software patching and firmware upgrades. Customers that prefer
restful APIs can also use JSON to automate lifecycle management
using VMware vSphere 7.
- Intrinsic Security: Enterprises can further
intrinsically secure infrastructure, data, and access with a
comprehensive, built-in architecture and a simple, policy-driven
model delivered in VMware vSphere 7. This new release introduces
remote attestation for sensitive workloads using vSphere Trust
Authority. Additionally, it helps secure access and account
management using identity federation with Active Directory
Federation Services (ADFS).
- Application Acceleration: All applications benefit from
a host of VMware vSphere 7 enhancements including major
improvements to DRS, enhanced vMotion, and augmented support for
persistent memory (PMEM) capabilities. Additionally, AI/ML and
other applications can leverage GPU hardware, improving utilization
using elastic pools of GPU resources. Further, customers can now
support latency-sensitive applications using newly implemented
precision time protocol capabilities.
- Support for All Applications: Newly rearchitected using
Kubernetes, vSphere is now optimized to run both modern
container-based and existing virtual machine-based workloads.
Initially, vSphere 7 with Kubernetes, which powers VMware Cloud
Foundation Services to increase developer productivity, will be
available solely through VMware Cloud Foundation
4.
- Application-Focused Management: Available only in
vSphere 7 with Kubernetes (through VMware Cloud Foundation 4),
application-focused management enables VI admins to organize
multiple objects into a logical group and then apply policies to
the entire group. For example, an administrator applies security
policies and storage limits to a group of Kubernetes clusters that
represent an application versus to all clusters individually.
VMware vSphere 7 comes in two major configurations. VMware
vSphere 7 is now available for VM-based applications in a number of
editions including VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus Edition. VMware
vSphere with Kubernetes will be available with VMware Cloud
Foundation 4 with Tanzu to power container- and VM-based
applications. VMware Cloud Foundation 4 is expected to become
available by May 1, 2020 (the end of VMware’s Q1 Fiscal Year
2021).
Supporting Quotes
“BYU Idaho has seen an amazing amount of growth in the past few
years,” said Stephen Parker, Systems Engineer, Brigham Young
University Idaho. “Embracing the online learning community has been
one our biggest expansions. It requires more back-end support and
greater performance. The continual improvements in VMware vSphere
help us deliver the reliability and performance that we need from
our platform.”
“VMware vSphere with Kubernetes can help our IT team to achieve
consistent operations of our existing system and rapid scale-up for
new applications,” said Yang Shen, CIO, Digital China. “And the new
architecture offers flexibility between private cloud and multiple
public clouds.”
“VMware vSphere 7 introduces several new enhancements across
lifecycle management, security and application acceleration that
will make a difference to customers,” said Bob Laliberte, Sr.
Analyst & Practice Director, Enterprise Strategy Group. “By
integrating vSphere 7 with Kubernetes into VMware Cloud Foundation
4, customers get full stack, hybrid cloud infrastructure tightly
integrated with the new Tanzu runtime, Hybrid Infrastructure
Services and APIs. This integration provides rapid deployment of
infrastructure to support modern app development, while also
delivering automation and orchestration to reduce the operational
overhead of these complex systems.”
Additional Resources
- Watch the VMware vSphere 7 online launch event on
Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 8:00am PDT
- View the VMware vSphere 7 video playlist
- Learn more about VMware vSphere 7
- Read the March 10, 2020 press release “VMware Announces
Expanded Portfolio of Products and Services to Help Customers
Modernize Applications and Infrastructure”
- Connect with VMware on Twitter and
Facebook
About VMware
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