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VMware revolutionizes its cloud management platform with vRealize Suite 2017

By VARINDIA - 2017-09-18

At VMworld 2017 Europe, VMware has enhanced its cloud management platform to help customers deploy, operate and manage IT infrastructure and application services across a multi-cloud landscape.

According to the company, the introduction of VMware vRealize Suite 2017will integrate the latest releases of vRealize Operations, vRealize Automation, vRealize Business for Cloud, and vRealize Log Insight and feature new lifecycle management capabilities to support customers’ data center modernization and cloud integration efforts.

“As IT organizations strive to become more agile and innovative, VMware is helping them achieve these outcomes by modernizing their data centers and integrating public clouds with their private clouds,” said Ajay Singh, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware. “VMwarevRealize Suite 2017 introduces new lifecycle management capabilities to enable IT to accelerate time to value for their cloud management platform, and deliver and manage application and infrastructure services faster and more efficiently than ever before.”

As per the company, VMware vRealize Suite 2017 will deliver a comprehensive cloud management platform that can manage hybrid environments across private and public clouds. It will speed up the delivery of IT services through automation and pre-defined policies, providing a high level of agility and flexibility for developers and lines of business while maintaining governance and control. The suite will also support heterogeneous environments that are a mix of both traditional and cloud-native applications across VMs and containers, running in a software-defined data center (SDDC) environment or multiple clouds.

The suite will help customers address three common use-cases – intelligent operations, automated IT and developer cloud. VMware vRealize Suite 2017 will provide enterprises with advanced intelligent operations and automated IT capabilities to more easily stand up and operate a VMware-based cloud. Additionally, the suite will feature increased support for public clouds as well as containers and configuration management solutions to ease moving applications from dev-test into production. Updated capabilities in the suite include:

• (NEW) Streamlined Day 0 through Day 2 Tasks: VMware vRealize Suite 2017 will take a leap forward with simplifying daily administration and operations of the suite with new built-in, automated lifecycle management of Day 0 through Day 2 tasks. The lifecycle management capabilities will help customers speed time-to-value by automating the deployment, configuration and upgrading of the products in the suite.

• vRealize Operations 6.6: vRealize Operations 6.6 offers substantial new intelligence to workload placement decisions to fully automate workload balancing across clusters and data stores based on business requirements. It also features predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler (pDRS) and native VMware vSAN management and monitoring capabilities for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions powered by vSAN.

• vRealize Automation 7.3: vRealize Automation 7.3 features support for Admiral 1.1, the highly scalable and lightweight container management portal, Virtual Container Host instances generated by VMware vSphere Integrated Containers,Docker hosts, and for Docker volumes enabling users to create and attach volumes to containers. It also delivers increased support for VMware NSX through advanced, fine-grained control for Day 2 operations across key network and security functionality such as load balancing, network address translation and security groups.

• vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3: vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3 is now included as a tab in vRealize Operations 6.6 for new insights that show how capacity utilization drives cost efficiencies by combining operational and cost metrics. Additionally, vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3 delivers improved insight into the complete costs of AWS and Microsoft Azure instances alongside VMware-based private cloud costs.

• vRealize Log Insight 4.5: vRealize Log Insight 4.5 offers complete 360-degree log integration with vRealize Operations to deliver last-mile root-cause analysis with metrics and logs provided side-by-side and in context.

VMware vRealize Suite 2017 is expected to become available within VMware’s fiscal Q3 2018 (ending November 3, 2017). The suite is available in three editions – Standard, Advanced and Enterprise – with pricing beginning at $3,745 for the Standard edition.

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