VMworld 2018 Day 3 Recap

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1. Cloud Health: VMware’s Cloud Health product provides real-time monitoring and analysis of cloud infrastructure to help customers optimize their cloud usage and reduce costs.

2. Kubernetes and Cloud Native Apps: VMware is focusing on Kubernetes and cloud native apps to make it easier for developers to deploy and manage applications in the cloud.

3. VMware PKS: VMware’s PKS (Project Pacific) is a new offering that provides a managed Kubernetes service for enterprises.

4. Network I/O Control: Niels is one of the authors of the book “VMware vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deepdive” and he presented a session on network I/O control, which allows administrators to limit network bandwidth contention by type of traffic.

5. DRS with Network Awareness: The new Network Aware DRS feature in VMware ESXi 6.5 takes into account network constraints when balancing workloads, ensuring that the placement of virtual machines does not cause network congestion.

6. Central CLI: The Central CLI is a command-line interface for managing VMware’s Cloud Assembly product, which allows customers to deploy multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure, vCenter, AWS, NSX-T, NSX-V, VMware Cloud on AWS) using infra-as-code.

7. CDO Mode: The CDO mode (Controller Disconnected Operation) is a new feature in VMware’s Cloud Assembly product that allows customers to continue operating their infrastructure even if the controller goes down.

8. Multi-Cloud Strategies: VMware announced three SaaS services on its VMware Cloud Services portfolio: Cloud Assembly, vRealize Automation, and vRealize Operations. These services allow customers to deploy multi-cloud infrastructure and manage it using infra-as-code.

9. Extensibility: Cloud Builders is a blog that covers virtualization, cloud computing, VMware, Kubernetes, and infra-as-code.