VMworld 2014 – Summary, Notes and Links

VMworld 2014 is in full swing. After an amazing Day 1 and many announcements made in the General Session, Day 2’s keynote had even more technical details and demos about the announcements.

Day 1 Keynote:

Day 2 Keynote:

I just want to put my personal summary, notes and links out here. I’ll continue to work on this as well.

So, what was announced and why is VMworld so exciting so far?

First of all: The VMware EVO product family. It’s VMware’s entrance in the Hyper-Converged Infrastructure market. You can read more about EVO:RAIL (the 4 node/16 hosts, 15-minute-setup solution with many partners) and EVO:RACK (in tech preview) at:

• VMware Tribal Knowledge on EVO:RAIL
• Duncan Epping on EVO:RAIL
• VMware CTO Blog on EVO:RACK

Announcement of vRealize Suite as a comprehensive Cloud Management Platform (CMP) for Hybrid Cloud Environments. It also includes the renaming of multiple products:

• vCloud Automation Center to be renamed to vRealize Automation
• vCenter Operations Management Suite to be renamed vRealize Operations
• IT Business Management to be renamed vRealize Business

If you want to learn more, check out:

• Announcement of vRealize Suite managing Hybrid Cloud
• Beta for vRealize Air 

Interviews with VMware Executives during VMworld:

• Pat Gelsinger
• Ben Fathi
• Carl Eschenbach

Containers: there has been a lot of interest and discussion around Docker and Containers in general. As part of the general sessions, VMware involvement in this space has been explained in more detail:

• Better Together: Docker’s CEO on the collaboration announcements with VMware
• Google Cloud Platform Blog on VMware’s engagement with Kubernetes to manage Containers
• VMware CTO Blogposts on Containers
  • VMware & Docker: Better Together
  • Better Together: Containers are a natural part of the Software-Defined Datacenter
  • VMware + Containers = Containers without Compromise

Announcement of VMware Workspace Suite

• Kit Colbert’s Blogpost on the CTO Blog regarding “Inspired by Mobility”
• VMware Unifies Mobile, Desktop and Content Management With VMware Workspace Suite
• Sanjay Poonen on VMware Workspace Suite
• VMware Delivers Workspace Suite on VMware’s End-User Computing Blog
• VMware Horizon and EVO:RAIL – Value Add For Customers

VMware joins Open Compute Project as Gold Member.

• Open Compute Project Blogpost about the announcement
• VMware Tribal Knowledge about the announcement

VMware Integrated OpenStack. There were some exciting news around VMware’s Integrated OpenStack product. The overall goal is to provide OpenStack APIs to developers, have a reliable and production-grade OpenStack, simplify OpenStack deployment and operation as well as a single support contact. You can find out more at:

• VMware product page on OpenStack
• VMware Blog on OpenStack
• Chris Wahl on OpenStack
• Some comments on Twitter:

“VMware will stand behind this will a single support call to troubleshoot VMware enabled OpenStack”. boom pic.twitter.com/ZMMDgdgypU— Nick Weaver (@lynxbat) August 25, 2014

Wow. Direct performance comparison vs RH w/ VMW enabled OpenStack. pic.twitter.com/oVA0RSNPgE— Nick Weaver (@lynxbat) August 25, 2014

 

Edit Aug 27: added Horizon Workspace Suite announcements
Edit Aug 28: added Keynote videos