March 18, 2021-VMware (NYSE: VMW), the world's leading enterprise software innovator, recently released a number of innovative cloud management product portfolios, including CloudHealth by VMware and VMware vRealize Cloud Management on-premises and software as a service (SaaS) products . The newly released enhancements will further help customers monitor, better protect, optimize their VMware Cloud and native public cloud services, and automate these services.
Purnima Padmanabhan, VMware’s senior vice president and general manager of the cloud management business unit, said: “More and more enterprises are choosing multi-cloud strategies to achieve flexibility and choice diversity, but they still face many difficulties, including deployment, management, and better protection. Its applications on different clouds. VMware makes cloud management complex problems easy to solve, and helps customers improve application and business agility by providing consistent costing, security, governance, operation and maintenance, and service automation solutions on multiple clouds."
Improve IT agility and accelerate value realization through self-service multi-cloud services
The innovative features provided by VMware vRealize Automation 8.4 will satisfy customers' needs for modern self-service multi-cloud infrastructure, intelligent network automation, and event-driven configuration automation. This new version will achieve tighter integration with Salt Project's open source innovations and provide leading multi-cloud configuration and governance capabilities on Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and VMware Cloud. The main features of the new version include:
Public cloud configuration support upgrade: Provide customers with upgraded Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud public cloud configuration support. On Microsoft Azure, this version will support existing availability sets, custom images from the Azure image library, and Azure disk encryption sets. On Google Cloud, this version will support single-tenant configuration.
vRealize Automation SaltStackConfig integration upgrade: With the technical support of the Salt Project, through closer integration with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, vRealize Automation SaltStack Config will provide customers with more simplified installation, setup and deployment.
Support NSX-T migration network automation expansion: through the upgraded vRealize Automation Migration Assistant tool, to further help NSX customers simplify and accelerate the migration from NSX for vSphere (NSX-V) to NSX-T environment.
VMware Cloud on AWS self-service automated upgrade: VMware vRealize Automation Cloud integrates with VMware Cloud on AWS to help VMware Cloud on AWS customers activate vRealize Automation Cloud with one click and automate necessary cloud resource settings. Customers can also use vRealize Automation to automate the VMware Cloud on AWS security portfolio.
Enhance cloud and application support to improve multi-cloud operation and maintenance
With built-in AI and predictive analysis, VMware vRealize Operations 8.4 will realize autonomous operation and maintenance from applications to infrastructure, so as to better optimize, plan, and expand private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. New features and upgrades include:
More complete AWS service support: vRealize Operations will greatly expand the coverage of the most important native AWS services, and will support a total of 57 services in the future to help customers further automate and simplify service operations.
VMware Cloud on AWS cost accounting upgrade: Enable customers to use VMware Cloud on AWS bills to calculate the cost of their VMware Cloud on AWS virtual machines and clusters, including operating reports, tracking the potential for recoverable costs, from shut down virtual machines to idle virtual machines Snapshots of machines and virtual machines, to isolated disks and very large virtual machines. In addition, customers will be able to generate a simple dashboard that covers VMware Cloud on AWS and local VMware vSphere costs.
Cost flow optimization and upgrade: This major update will provide customers with cost flow guidance and help customers improve cost-effectiveness. Customers can optimize and visualize costs through 10 new dashboards, including return on investment, total cost of ownership, and cost savings potential.
The new VMware Cloud on AWS "What-if Planning": Enable customers to predict demand, plan future capacity requirements, and gain insights through the new capacity planning capabilities of VMware Cloud on AWS. The new features will include the following capabilities: assess capacity usage trends, understand capacity surplus, and assess the cost impact of adding or removing virtual machines in an existing VMware Cloud on AWS environment.
New support for open source Telegraf agents: Enable customers to use any open source Telegraf agent plug-ins, or by developing their own plug-ins, to extract components from any application, thereby expanding the way customers monitor their applications. In addition, customers will be able to monitor these applications anywhere, regardless of whether they are running in a VMware environment or on bare metal servers.
VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.4 and vRealize Log Insight Cloud have efficient storage partitions and extended multi-cloud observation capabilities. As a rule function, the new log partition function isolates data into specific partitions: keep regular high-performance data storage in an "active" state, and keep low-cost data storage in an "archive" state. In addition to the support of more than 50 AWS services in the previous version, the new version will also have multi-cloud observability across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform logs.
Use machine learning to optimize applications and achieve efficient migration
VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.2 and VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud provide an end-to-end network view by learning multiple data sources of virtual and physical infrastructure. vRealize Network Insight uses machine learning (ML) to implement application development, assurance, and verification functions, making it easier for customers to plan, build, and manage complex networks. The new version features include:
VMware Cloud on AWS network visualization upgrade: Realize the network visualization of the traffic in the SDDC group and AWS Transit Connect to help customers better measure and optimize network performance.
VMware Cloud: The new network visualization functions of Google Cloud VMware Engine and Azure VMware Solution will improve users' ability to correlate application performance in more multi-cloud environments.
Application development based on machine learning flow: Dynamically group cloud and local virtual machines into application groups to identify application boundaries, thereby helping IT staff to efficiently plan for migration. This upgrade feature is a new feature for vRealize Network Insight (local) customers and an improved feature for vRealize Network Insight Cloud (SaaS) customers.
Assurance and verification function upgrade: to achieve the availability of business intent verification, increase the scale, and help realize the proactive network.
Extend the rich cost reporting experience to Microsoft Azure
CloudHealth is a leading multi-cloud management platform that can simplify financial management, operations, and strengthen security and compliance. CloudHealth FlexReports now supports Microsoft Azure Enterprise Agreements (EA), customers can choose Azure EA and AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) at the same time, using various dimensions and filter criteria to evaluate costs. By adding the automatic recommendation feature, CloudHealth has further deepened its support for AWS Savings Plans. After the customer establishes the savings plan quotation, he can use the CloudHealth Platform to automatically purchase the savings plan. In addition to Compute Savings Plan recommendations, customers can also explore different Compute Savings Plan commitment-level solutions to understand their performance in their respective environments.
Proactive problem avoidance function extension, applicable to VMware NSX-T, vSAN, etc.
To further help customers prevent problems before they happen, VMware Skyline will provide new active Findings and Recommendations, Log Assist upgrades, and in-product email notification functions.
Active Findings and Recommendations: VMware vSAN, vSphere Virtual Volumes and NSX-T add Findings and Recommendations functions
Log Assist upgrade: The user interface is upgraded to help realize the automatic transmission of log packages to the VMware technical support department, and to track the number of selected hosts and objects in a specific log transmission in segments.
Email notification function: Enter the organization ID and organization name in the long-term non-login notification email to remind customers of the Skyline organization that has not logged in recently.
Product listing situation
CloudHealth by VMware, VMware vRealize Automation Cloud, VMware vRealize Operations Cloud, VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud and VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud are now available. VMware vRealize Automation 8.4, VMware vRealize Operations 8.4, VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.4, VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4, VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.2 and VMware Skyline are expected to be available in April 2021.