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  • The Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to VMware vSphere 7

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    Discover All the Reasons to Upgrade to VMware vSphere 7Customers today demand rapid delivery of innovative applications. To meet those demands, businesses must modernize the way they develop and manage applications and the infrastructure on which they run. Developer and IT teams need quick self-service access to infrastructure, simplified lifecycle management, built-in security, high performance, and tremendous scalability.

    VMware vSphere® 7 delivers on all these requirements, and when used as part of VMware Cloud Foundation™, vSphere 7 also includes native support for Kubernetes. That means you can manage your virtual machines and your Kubernetes containers from the same familiar vSphere platform.

    Read on to discover why vSphere is the foundational platform for VMware and why vSphere 7 is one of the most important releases in over a decade.

    “ The releases of vSphere keep getting better and better, which simplifies administration so we can spend more time focusing on the needs of our development teams.”

    Stephen Parker Systems Engineer Brigham Young University Idaho

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

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    1. Take the fastest path to modern apps

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Tighten physical infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workload demands in real time

    5. Simplify software patching and hardware upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Get proactive support technology and services

    9. Realize flexibility to run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI for modern applications

    The Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to VMware vSphere 7

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

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    Run and manage modern applications on premises with VMware Cloud Foundation™ all the way through to the VMware Cloud™. VMware vSphere 7 with Kubernetes, available through VMware Cloud Foundation, delivers VMware Cloud Foundation Services and application-focused management for streamlined development, agile operations, and accelerated innovation. It provides a unified platform for managing both virtual machines and containers in a single infrastructure stack, so applications can be deployed using any combination of virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes.

    By building Kubernetes into vSphere natively, organizations can consolidate their modern and traditional application environments into a single stack and immediately leverage existing technology and processes. Developers and IT administrators can come together to build, run, and manage modern applications on a unified, enterprise-class platform.

    “ vSphere with Kubernetes can help our IT team to achieve consistent operations of our existing system and rapid scale-up for new applications. And the new architecture offers flexibility between private cloud and multiple public clouds.”

    Yang Shen Chief Information Officer Digital China

    1 Take the fastest path to modern apps

    Learn More vSphere 7 – Announcing General Availability

    of the New Generation of vSphere

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

    https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/04/vsphere-7-new-generation-vsphere.htmlhttps://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/04/vsphere-7-new-generation-vsphere.html

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    VMware has leveraged Kubernetes to rearchitect vSphere and extend its capabilities to all modern and traditional applications.

    Administer and manage your virtual machines and Kubernetes containers using familiar VMware vSphere tools.

    NSXvRealize vSANvSphere

    VMware Cloud Foundation Services

    Namespaces

    Tanzu Runtime ServicesTanzu Kubernetes Grid Service

    Hybrid Infastructure ServicesStorage ServiceRegistry Service

    vSphere Pod ServiceNetwork ServiceHybrid Mobility Service

    DB & Analytics AI/ML Business-Critical Time-Critical

    vCen

    ter

    Ser

    ver

    vSphereAdministrator

    DevOps

    Unite vSphere and KubernetesWith support for a Kubernetes control plane embedded into vSphere, control of compute, network, and storage resources is unified.

    Deliver application-focused managementNamespaces in vSphere let IT administrators deliver role-based access and allocate quotas to developer teams. They also let them attach policies for an entire group of virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes clusters. IT administrators can do this all from the familiar VMware vCenter interface while providing the security and resource isolation that modern applications need.

    Drive developer and IT operation collaborationKubernetes APIs provide the abstraction layer necessary to run modern applications. Developers use declarative statements rather than platform-specific commands to create applications, provide storage, and configure networking.

    VMware vSphere administrators use familiar vSphere tools to deliver Kubernetes clusters to developers. They can also adopt the declarative method of deployment in their own environments to provide services to their customers.

    1 Take the fastest path to modern apps (Cont’d.)

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

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    Improve your organization’s security posture with multi-factor authentication. A strong password policy is one of the most effective ways to improve security, and one of the easiest ways to do so is by implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA). But complexity arises because there are so many ways to implement MFA, and extending VMware vCenter Server® can mean duplicating what organizations have in place via their corporate identity management systems.

    With vSphere 7 Identity Federation support, vCenter Server can integrate with an enterprise identity provider to avoid duplication. This saves vSphere administrators time and reduces the scope of compliance audits.

    And because vSphere administrators already know how to plug into standards-based enterprise solutions like Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Identity Federation support also opens the door to many different MFA methods.

    ModernizedFederated authentication via enterprise identity providers.

    SimplifiedReduced audit scope and vSphere Admin workload.

    FlexibleOptions for multi-factor authentication methods.

    Learn More vSphere 7 — Identity Federation

    2 Secure audits and account management

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

    https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/03/vsphere-7-identity-federation.html

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    Attaching vCenter Server to identity solutions like ADFS with Identity Federation enables seamless delivery of enterprise and multi-factor authentication. That’s because vCenter Server participates in the same centralized corporate processes, such as onboarding and termination. It also means that users can use the same methods to log into vCenter Server as they do to their desktops and the cloud.

    vCenter Server

    Active DirectoryFederation Services

    MFA

    Active Directory

    OAUTH2 and OIDCOnce authenticated,user is redirected back

    to vSphere Client

    Login redirectedfrom vSphere Client

    to IdP

    “ The introduction of Identity Federation in vSphere 7 will greatly simplify things for us, especially because we have 75 vCenter Servers globally, versus consolidated large vCenter Server instances. We would like to have a regional approach with a global view. Identity Federation will support that approach.”

    Director of Virtualization Engineering Global Pharmaceutical Company

    2 Secure audits and account management (Cont’d.)

    Apply strong, centralized multi-factor authentication with Identity Federation.

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

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    Leverage building blocks for attestable hardware-based trust and security with vSphere Trust Authority. VMware vSphere Trust Authority protects against malicious attacks by extending the trustworthiness of a computing base to your organization’s entire computing infrastructure. The hosts in that computing base take over the task of attestation and verify that other clusters meet the requirements for trust. VMware vSphere Trust Authority uses remote attestation and controlled access to advanced cryptographic capabilities.

    Learn More vSphere 7 — vSphere Trust Authority

    3 Tighten physical infrastructure

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

    https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/04/vsphere-7-vsphere-trust-authority.html

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    Protect your environment with vSphere Trust Authority.

    The trusted computing base—the hardware root of trust—uses a small, separately managed cluster of ESXi hosts. This enables you to build trust in your hardware and software configurations at deeper levels.

    Top 10 reasons to upgrade to VMware vSphere 7 #3: Tighten physical infrastructure security

    Trusted Hosts(Running attestation service)

    vCenter Server Key Manager

    Workload ESXi Hosts

    3 Tighten physical infrastructure (Cont’d.)SimplifiedTrusted hosts take over distribution of encryption keys from Key Management Servers.

    ScalableTrusted clusters can help attest many other clusters of hosts.

    Root of TrustTrusted computing base handles attestation.

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

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    Learn More Announcing vSphere Bitfusion — Elastic Infrastructure

    for AI/ML Workloads

    4 Run Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) workload demands in real time

    “ What we’re seeing among data science departments is that many of their artificial intelligence applications are already running in containers. There’s a great opportunity for us to serve them better by combining vSphere Bitfusion and the native scaling abilities of vSphere with Kubernetes to accelerate their research.”

    Johan Van Amersfoort Technologist EUC, AI, & IoT ITQ

    Create a shared pool of GPUs for higher device utilization, greater flexibility, and larger cost savings. Increasingly, businesses are applying AI technologies to differentiate and advance their processes and offerings. VMware vSphere 7 is able to leverage powerful accelerators for AI/ML workloads in virtual machines or containers. You can easily identify isolated and expensive resources that are underutilized, and hardware accelerators can be shared remotely (fully or partially), regardless of location. VMware vSphere Bitfusion does this by decoupling physical GPU resources from servers within your environment and placing them in a pool of network-accessible resources that may be shared with your virtualized infrastructure.

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

    https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/06/vsphere-bitfusion-elastic-infrastructure-ai-ml.htmlhttps://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/06/vsphere-bitfusion-elastic-infrastructure-ai-ml.html

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    VMware vSphere Bitfusion also works with both virtual machines and containers. As a transparent layer, it also can be run with many different Linux operating systems, networks, and AI/ML applications that leverage common software libraries like PyTorch or platforms like TensorFlow. This enables you to drive up utilization of new and existing resources through sharing and by managing everything in vSphere. Just like vSphere allows for the sharing of CPUs, vSphere Bitfusion allows for the sharing of GPUs.

    Hardware Accelerators

    Top 10 reasons to upgrade to VMware vSphere 7#4: Take on AI/ML workload demands in real-time

    AI/ML Workloads

    GPUs FPGAs ASICs

    OptimizedVMware vSphere 7 for AI/ML workloads.

    EfficientBetter utilization of high-cost servers and computational resources.

    ScalableSupport virtual machines, containers, AI/ML infrastructure software, and GPUs.

    4 Run Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) workload demands in real time (Cont’d.)

    Meet processing demands for AI/ML workloads by optimizing the use of GPU-based hardware accelerator resources.

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

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    Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to discover, manage, and upgrade VMware software and firmware from the vSphere GUI or a REST API.VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager enforces consistency across your ESXi hosts in a cluster using an ESXi base image along with the desired state for firmware and driver versions. This supports more efficient upgrades, improved reliability and performance, and easier maintenance of your hosts.Top 10 reasons to upgrade to VMware vSphere 7 #5: Simplify software patching and hardware upgrades

    vSphere Lifecycle Manager (UI/API)

    ESXi vSAN

    Desired State Model

    Hardware Stack

    HCI Cluster Non-HCI Cluster HCI Cluster

    5 Simplify software patching and hardware upgrades

    Learn More Introducing vSphere 7: Features & Technology for the Hybrid Cloud

    Enforce consistency across your ESXi servers with VMware Lifecycle Manager.

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

    https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/03/vsphere-7-features.html

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    Lifecycle Manager also simplifies and consolidates updates of the full hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) stack. It removes inconsistencies between ESXi hosts by setting up the desired state and enabling Lifecycle Manager and cluster image management. If a host drifts from the desired state, Lifecycle Manager remediates it to bring it back into compliance.

    VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager delivers:

    5 Simplify software patching and hardware upgrades (Cont’d.)

    “ The Lifecycle Manager, Update Manager, and automation tools in vSphere make life easier for our architecture and engineering teams that need to focus more on development than administration. The streamlined process simplifies management of our 1,500 globally distributed hosts.”

    Director of Virtualization Engineering Global Pharmaceutical Company

    ConsistencyCluster management of firmware, drivers, and components.

    Desired StateDefine and apply desired cluster image (software and firmware).

    IntegrationUnified software and firmware lifecycle management.

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

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    Learn More What’s New in vCenter Server 7

    6 Reduce complexity and increase scale

    “ The new vCenter Server Profiles features introduced in vSphere 7 save me hours of work when deploying new hardware by automatically applying a set of predefined attributes such as passwords, drivers, WWNs, and vMotion settings. This allows us to add a server in 5–10 minutes versus the 4 hours this could take when we had to do the setup manually.”

    Stephen Parker Systems Engineer Brigham Young University Idaho

    Increase consolidation, flexibility, and automation for easy configuration access and maintenance with new tools and REST APIs. VMware vCenter Server Profiles is a brand new feature in vSphere 7 that enables exporting existing vCenter Server configurations from one node and importing them into another vCenter Server node. Additional benefits include:

    Simplified set up and change management

    Easy detection of noncompliant configurations

    Automated remediation

    Configuration data provided in user readable format

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

    https://youtu.be/XKgrJXN6Q0U

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    6 Reduce complexity and increase scale (Cont’d.)VMware vCenter Server Profiles consist of four REST APIs: List, Export, Validate, and Import. You can modify and validate configurations exported from one vCenter Server before importing and applying them to another vCenter Server node. They can be consumed with any automation tool like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.

    Top 10 reasons to upgrade to VMware vSphere 7#6: Reduce complexity and increase scale

    Management

    Network

    Auth

    Etc.

    List Export Validate

    ExportConfiguration

    Profiles

    Import Profile tovCenter Server

    ValidateConfiguration

    Import

    REST APIs

    json

    json

    json

    Export vCenter Server configurations for import to another vCenter Server node with REST APIs.

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

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    Achieve better consolidation, workload placement, and balancing with improved vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler logic. VMware vSphere 7 includes the new VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ with improved logic that is more workload-centric than cluster-centric. It has been completely rewritten to have a more fine-grained level of resource scheduling with a focus on workloads.

    Benefits of the vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler include:

    7 Maximize performance and efficiency

    EfficiencyThe VM DRS Score quickly informs administrators of virtual machine “happiness.”

    PrioritizationScalable Shares enables dynamic relative resource entitlement when using Resource Pools.

    Workload-centricResource scheduling, focusing on workloads and applications.

    Learn More vSphere 7 — Improved DRS

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

    https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/03/vsphere-7-improved-drs.html

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    The new Assignable Hardware framework introduces capabilities for vSphere DRS and vSphere High Availability (HA). The framework enables vSphere DRS to perform initial placement of virtual machines equipped with a passthrough PCIe device or an Nvidia vGPU and it enables those same virtual machines to benefit from vSphere HA automated restarts. You can also expose PCIe devices directly to a virtual machine using the Dynamic DirectPath I/O, a new way of configuring passthrough that exposes it to the virtual machine as a PCIe device capability.

    7 Maximize performance and efficiency (Cont’d.)

    VMware ESXi

    PCle Capability Mapping

    Guest

    Application

    Virtual Machine

    VMware ESXi

    GPU

    vGPU Profile

    Guest

    Application

    Virtual Machine

    Assignable Hardware

    i.e. device GPUmodel Tesla v100

    HW address0000:64:00:0

    optionalhardware label

    i.e. NVIDIA GRIDT4-16C

    DynamicDirectPath I/O

    NVIDIAvGPU

    With the new Assignable Hardware framework, you can extend support for vSphere features if you are using hardware accelerators.

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

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    Resolve potential issues before they impact operations with comprehensive analytics and support from Skyline Health for vSphere. VMware Skyline is an innovative, proactive support service aligned with VMware Global Support Services. It automatically and securely collects, aggregates, and analyzes product usage data that helps VMware technical support engineers improve time-to-resolution and proactively resolve potential problems.

    These capabilities transform support operations from a reactive, break/fix mode to a proactive, predictive, and prescriptive experience that produces even greater returns on your VMware support investment.

    Learn More Take the Pressure Off IT

    8 Get proactive support technology and services

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

    https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/learn/en/amer/fy21/pdf/480361-427601aq-wp-skyline-customer-success-uslet-web.pdf

  • 18

    With just a few clicks, you can increase team productivity and the overall reliability of your VMware environments. A self-service portal lets you access your VMware inventory, proactive findings, recommendations, and risks if no action is taken.

    8 Get proactive support technology and services (Cont’d.)Top 10 reasons to upgrade to VMware vSphere 7

    SIMPLIFY AND AUTOMATE

    #8: Proactive support technology and services

    Proactively identifyand prevent problems

    Solve problems,not just symptoms

    Increase security,reliability, andproductivity

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

  • 19

    From the data center to the cloud to the edge, track workload migration and federate corporate identities in a single view. VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 provides hybrid cloud infrastructure with consistent management for both virtual machine-based and container-based applications.

    With VMware Cloud Foundation, you have a more agile, service-oriented infrastructure that integrates with public clouds to modernize your data center.

    VMware Cloud Foundation delivers:

    9 Realize flexibility to run any app on any cloud

    ResiliencyEfficient and secure for virtual machine and container workloads.

    HybridityCloud operating model across private and public cloud.

    UnificationContainers, Kubernetes, and virtual machines in unison.

    Learn More VMware Cloud Foundation

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

    https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-foundation.html

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    With VMware Cloud Foundation, you get a complete software-defined infrastructure, ubiquitous and flexible hybrid cloud services, consistent and efficient hybrid cloud operations, and an optimal environment for modern apps.

    Top 10 reasons to upgrade to VMware vSphere 7 9. Flexibility to run any app on any cloud

    Compute

    Automation & Operations

    NetworkStorage

    Intrinsic Secutiy & Lifecycle Automation

    VMware Cloud Foundation

    Public CloudData Center Edge Service Provider

    9 Realize flexibility to run any app on any cloud (Cont’d.)

    VMware Cloud Foundation gives you the flexibility to run your apps on any cloud.

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

  • 21

    Future-proof infrastructure and reduce costs with high-performance and cost-efficient VMware vSAN 7™ storage. VMware vSAN 7 is a software-defined storage solution that abstracts and aggregates locally attached disks in a vSphere cluster to create a storage solution that can be provisioned and managed from vCenter Server and the vSphere Client. It integrates with the entire VMware stack, including features like vSphere vMotion®, HA, DRS, and more.

    VMware vSAN 7 modernizes HCI by providing administrators a unified storage control plane for both block and file protocols. Significant enhancements of vSAN 7 make it an ideal storage solution for traditional virtual machines as well cloud-native applications.

    IntegratedEnterprise storage combined with hypervisor.

    Policy DrivenManage storage SLAs via virtual machine-level policies.

    ScalableEasily scale up and out to accommodate growth.

    10 Build a solid HCI for modern applications

    Learn More Announcing vSAN 7

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

    https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2020/03/10/announcing-vsan-7/

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    Use vSAN 7 to simplify infrastructure management by reducing the number of tools you need to manage the server lifecycle. Unify block and file storage with vSAN, reducing reliance on third party solutions and accelerating file share provisioning. Benefit from new capabilities that enhance cloud-native applications and enable support for file-services and for the vSphere add-on for Kubernetes through VMware Cloud Foundation.

    10 Build a solid HCI for modern applications (Cont’d.)Top 10 reasons to upgrade to VMware vSphere 7#10: Build a solid HCI for modern applications

    Traditional

    vSphere

    vSAN Datastore

    vSAN

    File Shares Cloud Native

    Get enterprise-class features, scale, and performance for virtual machine and cloud-native workloads.

    2. Secure audits and account management

    3. Infrastructure security

    4. Run AI/ML workloads

    5. Simplified patching and upgrades

    6. Reduce complexity and increase scale

    7. Maximize performance and efficiency

    8. Support technology and services

    9. Run any app on any cloud

    10. Build a solid HCI

    Next steps on the path to upgrade

    Related resources

    Top 10 Reasons

    1. Fastest path to modern apps

    Introduction

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    Next steps on the path to upgradeJumpstart your upgrade with the vSphere Assessment Tool. Just download the desktop client, scan your vSphere environment, then review your results in the easy-to-access portal.

    Download Our Client

    Download the vSphere Assessment Tool desktop component for your

    selected operating system.

    Scan Your Environment

    Add the credentials of thevCenters you would like to run

    a collection against.

    Review Your Risk

    1. DOWNLOAD 2. COLLECT 3. CHECK

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