VMworld 2019 Keynote: A Roundup of Announcements

VMware’s Pat Gelsinger kicked off the VMworld keynote session with a series of announcements covering areas including cloud, data center, and Kubernetes. This article will provide an overview of the major announcements made during the keynote address.

1. Project Dimension: This is a new initiative that will enable customers to deploy and consume infrastructure as a managed service. It will be available on VxRail hardware and come with SD-WAN integration.

2. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM): This product has evolved into the go-to deployment tool that can deploy vRealize Suite of products in an automated way, saving many hours in deployment time and resulting in faster time to value of vRealize Suite of products.

3. vRealize Operations Self-Driving Operations: This version of vRealize Operations is now available as a SaaS service that can be used to monitor multi-cloud workloads in a pay-as-you-go model.

4. Azure VMware Solutions: This offering makes enterprise-class SDDC solutions available on native Azure cloud. It was announced that the Azure VMware Solutions will go GA on some of the Azure regions and customers can leverage this to migrate their existing vSphere workloads into Azure-hosted VMware environments.

5. vRealize Automation (vRA): This is a new SaaS offering that provides automated deployment, configuration, and scaling of vRealize Suite of products. It also supports multi-cluster management and application-centric workflows.

6. vRealize Operations (vRO): This product now supports intent-driven performance optimization for VMware Cloud on AWS with cross-cluster workload balancing and rightsizing.

7. Project Dimension: This is a new initiative that will enable customers to deploy and consume infrastructure as a managed service. It will be available on VxRail hardware and come with SD-WAN integration.

8. vRealize Network Insight (vRNI): This provides traffic flows and visibility across products in the VCN and other portfolios. NSX intelligence provides an in-depth analysis of network layer and suggestions on how to improve performance and design of your network infrastructure.

9. AVI Network: This will now be part of the NSX and VCN portfolio, bridging a crucial gap that the portfolio has in the space of advanced firewall and Application Load Balancing.

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the major announcements made during the VMworld 2019 keynote address. It covers a range of products and services related to cloud, data center, and Kubernetes, among others. Please let me know if there are any other announcements that I may have missed, and I will add them to this list. This is my personal blog; the opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer.

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