Article VMware news September 2019
By Insight Editor / 4 Oct 2019 / Topics: Cloud Virtualization
VCPP – VSAN Price 50% Price Reduction for all eligible Cloud Providers enabling a low entry to adopt HCI in mid market segment.
Effective September 2019 (August Usage) VSAN is an enterprise grade storage for hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) that is native to VMware vSphere, ideal for business critical applications, DRaaS, Cluster Management and much more ….. VSAN is a huge opportunity and also key to attaining Vmware Cloud Verified status
vSAN Edition |
Existing Price |
New Price |
Standard |
0.04 points / GB |
0.02 points / GB |
Advanced |
0.06 points / GB |
0.03 points / GB |
Standard + Enterprise Add-On |
0.06 points / GB |
0.03 points / GB |
Advanced + Enterprise Add-On |
0.08 points / GB |
0.04 points / GB |
5pt standard bundle to 7 pt flex bundle value propositions
5 pt standard bundle -> transition to 7 pt Flex Core Bundle for VCPP Partners
What are the major “service” value propositions that a partner can achieve by moving from the 5 pt bundle to the new 7 pt core flex bundle?
1) For zero cost uplift to the VCPP Partner:
- VCPP Partner can consider to offer Monitoring as-a-service inside vCloud Director via vRealize Operations Chargeback module.
- N.B. vRealize Operations Tenant App (Version 2.2) is now included so VCPP Partners can now implement:
- Dashboard per tenant
- Monitoring per tenant
- Troubleshooting per tenant
- Billing and pricing policy control per tenant
2) VCPP Tenant Log Management Services
VCPP Partner can now offer vRealize Log Insight services to their tenants.
- VCPP Partner can consider to offer Log Monitoring as-a-service inside vCenter (not vCloud Director integrated)
Extend the value of vCloud Director with Container Services Extension for vCloud Director
a. What is Container Services for vCloud Director?
- A service that allows VCPP partners to offer Kubernetes-as-a-service on vCloud Director
- VCPP Partner tenants (customers) can manage dev ops K8s by assigning IAAS capacity to developers.
- VCPP Partner tenants developers can use native K8s tools to develop against.
- Remote access to IaaS and K8S networks
b. Allows VCPP vCD enabled partners to offer multi-tenant IAAS for non devops and also devops tenants on the SAME vCloud Director instance.
Addresses two market segments
- Standard IAAS tenant (VM/Operating system)
- Container workloads (Devops) development
Cloud Provider Business Unit Product Releases
vCloud Director 10.0 is now GA. vCloud Director 10.0 is now GA
What's New?
Modernizing Cloud Operations and Improving Core Efficiency
- VCD as Central Point of Management: added Admin and Tenant UI, listing of vCenter inventory
- Events API
- VCD Appliance: Enhancements in migration, HA, certificate mgmt.
- VRO Plugin: Enable Multi-tenancy in VRO plugin and VRO cluster support
- Enhanced support for VM storage placement with SDRS: added support for intra-SPOD placement; improved support for:
- Inter-SPOD placement, datastore + SPOD hybrid placement, named disks and linked clones' placement
- Upgrading the appliance using the default VMware repository
- Template based deployments, New Template Repository
- Unpublished appliance failover/status APIs to support IBM use case
Improving User Experience and Service Delivery
- HTML5 Transition: Complete Tenant and Admin Portal Transition. Deprecate Flex UI
- Separate Login URL for Provider, Tenant
- Compute Policy UI (admin and tenant): VM Sizing and VM Placement policies for flexible VM-level compute management in a PVDC and VDC
- UI for Named Disks: added ability to attach/detach named disks via the H5 UI; improved UI for create/edit/view of named disks
Improving Developer-Readiness and Laying the Foundation for Multi-Cloud
- CSE Kubernetes: Enable Essential PKS
- Python SDK & vCD-CLI: Add VM and vApp management workflows
- NSX-T Integration: Basic Tenant Edge Services in VCD
- IPSec VPN for NSX-T: API completed
- Multi-tenancy on VMC: Networking Support of VMC and Operator Locked Sys Admin Accounts
Documentation and Links
vCD 10.0 Download Link
vCD 10.0 Release Notes
vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for vCD 10.0 Release Notes
GA Blog
vCloud Director Blog
What’s New with VMware vCloud Director 10
Usage Meter 4.1 is now GA
What's New?
- Adding NSX-v usage collector
- Adding vROps usage collector
- FLEX bundles support
- Extensibility SDK
- In-place upgrade ready
- Offline reporting ready
VMworld 2019 US Announcements
Announcements were made at the VMworld 219 US meeting relating to modern (aka cloud) applications platform and management.
1. Project Tanzu – Container workloads
management for vCenter and vSphere and multi cloud end point
2. Project Pacific - Native Kubernetes platform management in vSphere
