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The vmworld 2014 Conference further clarified the meaning of the software-defined data center and provided a Rapid Deployment Solution-VMware hyper-converged architecture, allowing you to deploy a software-defined data center in minutes.

On July 6, August 25, vmworld 2014 opened at the Moscone conference center in San Francisco, USA. This year's annual event in the virtualization field exceeded the previous year. More than 30 thousand people registered for the event came from 85 countries around the world, and more than 200 sponsors and partners attended the event. This also shows that industry users are increasingly concerned about and accept new technologies and concepts such as virtualization, cloud computing, and software-defined data centers.

As of this year, vmworld has held 10 consecutive sessions. In the previous sessions attended by reporters, the two sessions last year and this year impressed reporters most. In the context of the gradual implementation of cloud applications and the wave of "Software Definition" sweeping the world, VMWare is also facing a new choice: it is the old man lying on the server virtualization exercise book, or through unremitting innovation, can the company achieve sustainable development and further enhance its core competitiveness? At last year's conference, VMWare gave a clear answer: in the future, software-defined data centers (SDDC) will serve as the strategic core of the entire business. The proposal of the SDDC strategy also shows that VMWare has transformed from a server virtualization software vendor to an integrated architecture solution provider for the cloud data center. The significance of vmworld 2014 is that it provides methods and solutions to help users quickly deploy SDDC on the basis of further clarifying the meaning of SDDC.

　　Brave but not rashly

"Everyone here is a leader in it practice. You are brave and decisive in the face of all the difficulties and challenges in IT projects ." Pat Gelsinger, Chief Executive Officer of VMware, noted in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony that "from unpredictable loads to unpredictable loads and application demands today, IT applications are constantly changing. Although we know that there will be risks in the process of innovation and transformation, we must be brave enough to move forward. Many of humanity's "First Time" are very difficult, but as long as they are brave enough to accept the challenges, the difficulties will always be overcome. For example, Tesla, which was criticized when it was launched, is now a favorite in the automotive market. For another example, because of the individual genetic testing company 23andme's efforts, it costs only $100 to complete a genetic testing that costs millions of dollars. There is a solid technical foundation behind many successful enterprises and applications ."

Pat Kissinger, why did he raise the question of "being brave? Looking back at the history of IT development, we are now standing at an important turning point. cloud computing, big data, social networking, and mobile bring unprecedented pressure and challenges to enterprises. When new technologies and applications challenge old ideas and habits, enterprises will inevitably struggle and even feel helpless. The more in this situation, the more brave a company needs to be, the more difficult or even frustrated it may encounter when trying to apply new technologies, however, as long as you find the other method and the appropriate solution, you will be able to overcome the transformation difficulties.

Pat Kissinger's "brave" should have three meanings: first, in the face of the challenges posed by new technologies and applications, enterprises should be brave. Second, being brave does not mean taking the lead, enterprises should work harder to find their own technologies and solutions and make steady strides forward. Third, VMWare itself dared to start from server virtualization, now, we have expanded to the storage virtualization and network virtualization fields, and gradually established our own advantages in the broader SDDC market. "The past three years have been a brave innovation of VMware. The company currently has over 60 thousand employees and 6000 R & D personnel. We are reshaping software with SDDC as our goal ." Pat Kissinger said.

VMware itself is a model of brave practices. Currently, all VMware financial systems have been migrated to the VMware vcloud platform. VMware NSX network virtualization technology has become the core of VMware's IT infrastructure. In the future, VMWare will implement it as a service by 100%. With the help of VMware, many industry customers have bravely taken the first step of transformation. For example, Medtronic is a world-leading medical technology company that builds SDDC with the help of VMware, improving the efficiency, agility, and automation of data centers. For example, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a typical heterogeneous IT environment. 90% of its virtualization applications run on the VMware platform. Relying on the private cloud built based on Vmware vsphere, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has actively embraced open-source systems and adopted the openstack cloud operating system. This step-by-step it construction idea deserves the reference of users in various industries.

　Breaking the limit

The vmworld 2014 topic "no limits" is very concise and powerful. However, in order to find a matching Chinese translation for this topic, the VMware marketing department has been painstaking, in the end, "wide and unlimited" was unanimously recognized by everyone. Vmworld 2014 only talks about three things: SDDC, hybrid cloud, and ubiquitous terminal computing. These seem to have little to do with "Infinite aspect. However, after several days of meetings, the reporter still summed up the meanings of "vertical and horizontal infinity". First, VMWare entered the SDDC field as a large market full of infinite opportunities, it provides unlimited possibilities for the future development of VMware. Second, from vsphere to NSX to vsan, VMWare has launched several major technical pillars necessary for SDDC step by step, next, VMWare's technological innovations in the SDDC field are endless. Third, the implementation of SDDC also requires breakthroughs in many aspects, such as simplified deployment and rich management functions, breaking through the limitations of traditional data centers is an important mission of SDDC.

On vmworld 2014, VMWare released many new products and reorganized and named some of the original products. In addition to some basic product upgrades, such as vsphere 6.1 and vsan 2.0 Beta, VMWare has two major updates: first, more software suites have been released, including VMWare vrealize suite and VMWare vcloud suite 5.8, with greater emphasis on overall solutions. Second, great efforts have been made to strengthen the management of data centers and cloud systems. The above products are just the right remedy to solve the difficulties of SDDC deployment and management, and are also the innovation for VMware to break through the limits of SDDC.

Pat Kissinger's explanation of "unlimited" is: in the face of the pressure brought by technological changes, enterprises must build confidence to break through the original limits and obstacles; "Unlimited aspect" requires enterprises to break internal and external boundaries and eliminate the gap between IT maintenance personnel and developers, even if it applications are already running on virtual machines, there are still boundaries between different levels of IT architecture and various departments of the enterprise. In the larger scope of openstack, it is easier to break the original boundaries. "In the process of transforming the data center, enterprises must always grasp the 'Software define' core ." Pat Kissinger said.

　Accelerate SDDC deployment

There are three paths to SDDC: First, you can build your own Cloud, second, you can use integrated architecture and solutions, and third, you can use hyper-converged architecture and solutions. At the vmworld 2014 Conference, hyper-converged architecture and solutions were the most talked about, as VMware provided its hyper-converged architecture solution Evo.

VMware Evo has two types of solutions: Evo: Rail and evo: rack. Specifically, VMWare Evo: Rail provides integrated software for computing, networking, storage and management, allowing customers to quickly and repeatedly use software-defined infrastructure services while scaling them. VMware Evo: Rail works with a pre-test and pre-integration 100% VMware software stack optimized for 2u and 4-node hardware platforms. VMware Evo: Rail includes VMware vsphere, VMWare virtual San, VMWare vcenter log insight, and the new Evo: rail engine. This software solution can be integrated with verified hardware. While launching the VMware Evo: rail solution, VMWare also announced a list of the First hardware vendors supporting Evo: Rail, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, inspur, netone, and supermicro. These vendors can integrate their products with Evo: rail to provide users with an integrated SDDC solution.

It is particularly worth mentioning that inspur is the only hardware vendor from China that supports Evo: rail. In recent years, there have been more and more Chinese elements on vmwolrd. At the earliest time, the reporter saw a storage vendor uit (Innovation Division) from China at vmwolrd ). At the vmworld 2014 conference, the reporter saw Chinese manufacturers such as Huawei, inspur, and Lenovo in the exhibition area. Huawei presented an overall data center solution including servers, storage, and switches. Inspur's name is prominent in the VMware Evo: rail solutions exhibition area.

VMware Evo: Rail simplifies device deployment and configuration, as well as online management, software batch processing, and upgrades. VMware Evo: Rail has a new intuitive user interface that greatly simplifies the process of manually creating and managing virtual machines. If you use VMware Evo: Rail, you can complete virtual machine configuration within minutes to automatically scale the VMware Evo: rail device, implements zero downtime batch processing and upgrade for all VMware software to simplify Virtual Machine lifecycle management.

VMware Evo: rail targets medium-end and enterprise market segments with specific needs, such as applications for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote offices/branches, and other applications. In terms of scalability, VMWare Evo: rail can be expanded from 4 nodes to 16 nodes, and the system can automatically identify and add new devices to the original VMware Evo: Rail cluster. A single device can support about 100 general-purpose virtual machines or 250 desktop virtual machines with a storage capacity of about 13 TB. VMware Evo: rail can coexist with the customer's original VMware vsphere environment and serve as an entry ramp for VMware vcloud air (formerly known as VMware vcloud hybrid service, vchs.

For larger data centers and cloud computing users that require better scalability, VMWare can provide the Evo: rack solution. However, VMWare Evo: rack is still under planning, and VMWare has not disclosed more technical details. The reporter only saw the prototype of VMware Evo: rack in the exhibition area.

With the emergence of the VMware Evo solution, it is no longer an empty talk about SDDC implementation. You can deploy an SDDC in just 10 minutes. Will you try?

Another positive change made by VMware in data centers is embracing open source. VMware's Integrated openstack solution aims to help it departments quickly and economically provide open cloud APIs for developers to access VMWare Infrastructure. VMware integrated openstack will take full advantage of VMware's mature SDDC Technology in computing, networking, storage and management to provide an enterprise-level infrastructure, reducing the overall cost of ownership for production-level openstack deployment.

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　　Create a brand new hybrid cloud brand

At this conference, VMWare renamed many classic products, such as VMware vcloud hybrid Service (vchs) to VMware vcloud air, this is also a hybrid cloud brand that VMware will focus on in the future. At last year's vmworld, VMWare officially launched the vchs hybrid cloud service. In just one year, the service has been deployed in more than 100 countries around the world, and VMWare has more than 3900 partners in this field. Not long ago, the cooperation between China Telecom and VMWare on hybrid cloud was also a result of the global promotion of vchs.

VMware organically integrates existing cloud automation, cloud operation and cloud business management solutions into a product suite named after VMware vrealize. This comprehensive management platform is designed to manage different environments and hybrid clouds and provide control required by the IT department. VMware vrealize kit has three main features: Delivery of applications and infrastructure on demand through service portals/directories or APIs according to policies; Cloud analysis and advanced management, optimizes the performance, capacity, and security of existing and next-generation applications, and implements cost accounting, metering, and analysis for infrastructure services. VMware also launched VMware vrealize air automation, the first service-oriented cloud management product. This new subscription service can help customers achieve automated delivery, continuous application and infrastructure service lifecycle management, and maintain it compliance.

VMware also announced further cooperation with docker, Google, and pivotal at the Conference to help enterprises run and manage containers on large-scale universal platforms of private, public, and hybrid clouds). This partnership helps enterprises upgrade their existing VMWare Infrastructure to a unified, scalable, and secure platform to run and manage enterprise-level applications. For example, docker and VMWare will cooperate on open-source projects related to docker, including libswarm, libcontainer, and libchan. In addition, both parties will work together to promote interoperability between products.

Based on the VMware vcloud air platform, VMWare has launched many extended services. The most important one is the hybrid cloud service that integrates third-party mobile applications, the purpose is to allow enterprises and application developers to better meet the needs of mobile businesses. According to the IDC survey, from 2009 to 2014, the market share of public cloud increased from 2% to 6%. Hybrid cloud will become the mainstream market in the future. VMware has begun to focus on the hybrid cloud market.

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