VMworld 2014 Announcements

VMworld 2014 Announcements

Motivated people build the best relationships• Best Workplace 7 years running • 60+ hours of training per Sales Rep per year• 87% of employees proud to work at Softchoice

Consistent record of growth and stability• 25 years in business (est. 1989)• US$1 billion in revenues: 10 year CAGR of 15+%• 1,200+ employees

Superior customer experience• 40+ locations across North America• Industry leading Net Promoter Score (NPS)• Top Microsoft LAR, Gold Partner• Cisco Gold, Masters UC&C / Security, Cloud Builder

Industry acclaimed expertise• Top Solutions Provider in Canada (2007 - 2011)• CRN Channel Elite 250 (2012)• Multi-year Microsoft IMPACT Award winner + Top LAR

Softchoice & VMware = Better Together

“We combine the scale of a national IT supplier with the touch and technical

expertiseof a local solutions provider.”

VMware Corporate Reseller:

• Lighthouse partner for vCloud Hybrid Service• Partner Technical Advisory Board• Infrastructure Virtualization Specialty• Desktop Virtualization Specialty• Business Continuity Specialty• Virtualization Management Specialty• Virtualize Bus. Critical Apps Specialty• Cloud IaaS Specialty• Authorized Consultant• Marketing Advisory Board

Certifications

• 350 Reps VSP Certified• 185 Technical/Solution Architects in North America• 40 VMware VCP Certified

Agenda

vCloud Suite and NSX

vRealize Suite

EVO:Rail

EVO:Rack Tech Preview

vCloud Air

OpenStack support

VVOLS

Retail Office and Branch Office licensing

VMworld Day 1CloudVolumes

Google + Nvidia + VMware

SAP Partnership

vSphere 6.0 Beta Features

Containers without limits

Project Fargo

VMware Workspace Suite

vSphere Web Client Improvements

CloudVolumes

VMworld Day 2

vCloud Suite 5.8

What’s New?• vCloud Automation Center 6.1• SRM integrated with vCAC• SRM more scalable• vCAC and NSX integration

Why is it important?• DR and Networking brought into the automation layer,

true realization of the Software Defined Datacenter.

vRealize Suite

vRealize CloudManagement Platform

Adv/Ent

ITBM Std

vCAC Adv/Ent

vCOPS Adv/Ent

Log Insight

vRealize Operations Insight

Log Insight

vCOPS Advanced

What is it?• Integrated solution for performance management,

capacity optimization, and real-time log analytics• 360 degree view of all IT data, with intelligent

operations management, enabling faster problem resolution.

• Predictive analytics enabling better performance and optimization.

Why is it important?• Delivers full capability for heterogeneous

environments and hybrid cloud

Key Capabilities• Capacity and resource optimization • Unified monitoring and performance management. • Service costing and metering

EVO:RAIL

Hyper Converged Infrastructure available now

EVO:RAIL is NOT a reference architecture it is the building block of the Software Define Datacenter

EVO:RAIL is a Hyper Converged server node powered by VMware software delivering compute, networking, storage, management and simplicity by leveraging vSphere, vCenter Server and Virtual SAN.

Hardware, Software and Support delivered through qualified EVO:RAIL partners.

EVO:RAIL Setup time to VM creation = 15Min

EVO: Rail North American partners include

EVO:RACK

Enterprise Level Hyper Converged Infrastructure

EVO:RACK is currently in tech preview

EVO: Rack is a Hyper Converged server Rack powered by VMware software delivering compute, networking, storage, management and simplicity by leveraging vSphere, vCenter Server, VSAN, vCloud Suite and vRealize Suite.

VMware’s all in one node based model for the Software Define Datacenter.

Hardware, Software and Support delivered through qualified EVO:RACK partners.

EVO:RACK Setup time to VM creation = 2 Hours

vCloud Air

What’s New?• vCloud Hybrid Service rebranded to vCloud Air• New Products:

• DevOps as a Service• Database as a Service (My SQL and SQL)• Object Based Storage as a Service• Mobility Management as a Service• Cloud Management as a Service• RDSH hosted applications as a Service

Why is it important?• Cloud Dev/Test• Cloud based applications• Increase Cloud use cases• Mobility Management via cloud• Infrastructure monitoring via cloud

VMware Integrated OpenStack (Beta)

What’s New?• VMware OpenStack distribution optimized for the

Software Defined Datacenter.

Why is it important?• Developers without borders• IT simplification and control• VMware adds additional value to OpenStack

VVOLS (Beta)

What’s New?• Simplify the way we carve storage• VM are aware of the storage layer

Why is it important?• No more LUNs• Greater Control• Increased SA’s• Leveraging existing storage investments

Connections = LUNs x Hosts Connections = Host Count

Protocol Endpoint

Virtual Volumes

ROBO Licensing Changes

CloudVolumes

What’s New?• VMware acquired CloudVolumes • Supports existing infrastructure• Shared volumes• Transparent Applications• Highly saleable• Modular

Why is it important?• Deliver or Update applications FAST

Google + Nvidia + VMware

What’s New?• VMware leverages Nvidia Grid technology

Why is it important?• 3D Applications via Virtual Desktops• Closing the performance gap• Access to all critical applications, including most 3D-

intensive applications from anywhere on any device.• Run applications like CAD on any device, including

Google Chrome books• Google Chrome books have the view client

preinstalled.

SAP Partnership

What’s New?• SAP HANA supported on vSphere 5.5 for Production

Environments.

Why is it important?• Having the ability to migrate HANA workloads for SAP

means you can get 99.9% uptime for financial data within vSphere infrastructure.

• This partnership signifies a move forward in supportable architecture for both SAP and VMware.

vSphere 6.0 (Public Beta) Features

What’s New?• vSphere 6.0 Public Beta• vSphere Web Client improvements.• New Features and Improvements

• 4 vCPU support for Fault Tolerance (FT)• Cross vCenter vMotion• Long Distance vMotion

Why is it important?• Increasing the SMP support for FT allows FT to be

leveraged across more workloads.• Cross vCenter vMotion and Long Distance vMotion

allow for easy load balancing of entire clusters and even datacenters.

Containers without Limits

What’s New?• VMware Partners with Docker, Pivotal and Google to

bring container support to vSphere.

Why is it important?• Developers without borders• Flexibility of Containers, benefits of vSphere.• vCloud air support

Project Fargo

What’s New?• Fast, scalable, differential cloning of a live running VM.

Why is it important?• Create a clone VM and keep track of change log data• Reduce the start-up of child VMs <1s• Allows for just-in-time creation of VM’s

VMware Workspace Suite

What’s New?• Workspace Suite is the ultimate platform combining

some of VMware’s best end-user computing solutions• Horizon 6• AirWatch Mobility Management Suite• AirWatch Secure Content Locker• VMware Workspace Portal

Why is it important?• All-in-one solution for delivering services and

applications to any device, with integrated mobile device management, secure content sharing with the same user experience across all devices.

• Easily supports BYOD or CYOD initiatives.• Reduce the cost and complexity of managing mobile

users using multiple devices.

IBR Assessment

Recap

EVO:RAIL and EVO:RACK

OpenStack and Container Support

Virtual Volumes

Nvidia Grid support for VMware VIEW

vMotion inprovements

FT improvements

Workspace Suite

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Q & A

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