VMworld 2019 Conference Coverage

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VMworld 2019
Conference Coverage
Read 75+ pages of full coverage leading up to and during the event,
including news from the show floor.
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VMware’s partnerships and acquisitions have taken center
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stage over the past couple years and although new initiatives
and updates to established products are announced all the
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time, the biggest news is usually reserved for VMware’s annual
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user conference – VMworld.
End-user computing news
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2019 Best of VMworld Awards • Read news and updates about VMware's SDDC and
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virtualization offerings
Further reading • Explore VMware’s cloud computing and container
strategy
• Learn more about the latest advancements in VMware
desktop and end-user computing
• Delve into the Best of VMworld 2019 award winners
across 9 categories
Whether you made it to VMworld 2019 or missed it, here at

SearchServerVirtualization, we have you covered!
Section One: SDDC and virtualization
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Defeat app killers and monster VM
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 performance issues with ease
Container and cloud news Ryann Burnett, Senior Site Editor, SearchServerVirtualization
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SAN FRANCISCO -- There are several ways to troubleshoot and prevent
End-user computing news performance problems in a virtual environment, including understanding the
. p. 59 user experience, looking at the application stack and rightsizing your hosts
2019 Best of VMworld Awards and VMs from the get-go, but the approach you should take depends on the
. p. 71 specific issue you're dealing with.
Further reading In a session at VMworld 2019 called "VM Performance Demystified and Best
Practices to Optimize," speakers Akshay Kalia and Vikram Nag, both staff
technical support engineers at VMware, shared their strategies for
investigating the scope and cause of performance issues, and offered
recommendations for avoiding future problems.
Track down the performance killer

First, decide whether to approach the problem from the top down or from
the bottom up. The top-down approach starts with the application stack, and
then the OS stack, VM stack, ESXi stack and finally the infrastructure.
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The bottom-up approach starts with the infrastructure, and then the ESXi
In this e-guide stack, VM stack, OS stack and finally the application stack. In most
instances, it makes sense to start from the top down, because it's a smaller
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 scope, but this isn't always the case.
Container and cloud news "vSphere admins don't always have insight and access to the VM's OS, so
. p. 28 it's good to cut it in half and first try to decide if [the problem] is in the top
half -- the VM -- or in the bottom half -- the hypervisor," said Rob
Bastiaansen, an independent trainer and consultant based in the
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Netherlands.
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take advantage of useful tools, such as the ESXi command line and vRealize
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Operations (vROps). You should also generate a metric tree with CPU,
memory, storage and network stats.
Get insight on the user's experience

Getting a clear picture of what the user sees on his or her end goes hand in
hand with the approach you take in investigating the stack.
"Finding the killer app has to start with the customer experience rather than
the technology," said Brian Kirsch, an IT architect and instructor at
Milwaukee Area Technical College. "While metrics help and provide data,
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with the disturbed application design … you can't simply depend on the
In this e-guide metrics of a slice of the environment."
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Ask the basic questions -- including who, what, where, when and how -- and
view the user's data to cover your bases. Also, collect the data for all layers
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"It's a lot easier when it's happening … versus having to go back in time to try
End-user computing news to figure out what was happening, because then the pieces are harder [to
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It can also be helpful to reach out to the application team, guest OS team,
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infrastructure team and/or the rest of the virtualization team to collect data.
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Take advantage of troubleshooting tools

Several tools can help troubleshoot the issue, but which one(s) you should
use depends on a number of factors, including the infrastructure platforms
you use, the types of applications you run and the budget you have for third-
party management products.
A good place to start is the ESXi command line. Some useful commands
include netstats, vsish, vscsi stats and esxtop. Top is a task manager
program included in many Linux distributions.
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A couple other options include iPerf, which is a network testing software

In this e-guide tool that simulates application I/O to the network, and Iometer, a storage
testing software that simulates application I/O to the main storage.
You can also take advantage of the Windows Performance Monitor utility, if
Container and cloud news it makes sense to do so.
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VMware vROps provides intelligent operations management with
End-user computing news application-to-storage visibility across physical, virtual and cloud
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"Feedback from the app owners would be the biggest thing [for optimizing
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VM performance], which isn't very productive compared to what you can get
Further reading with vRealize … but we're adapting," said a system administrator at the show.
"We're monitoring and looking at the rightsizing picture."
Manage monster VMs effectively

Monster VMs are a common cause of performance problems in virtual
environments. Monster VMs are useful for applications that need high CPU
and memory resources, and they have low operational and capital
expenditure. But they also have higher virtualization overheads and are more
prone to resource scheduling issues.
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"One of greatest pitfalls with large VMs is that they can stretch to the
In this e-guide borders of what your hardware supports, or can even go beyond that,"
Bastiaansen said. "Therefore, as an administrator, you need to know what's
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 under the hood. How many CPUs do you have and how many cores per
socket?"
. p. 28 When deploying monster VMs, refer to vROps, CPU and memory demand
metrics to rightsize the VM. To rightsize the host, make sure you'll have free
cores when the monster VM is using all the resources assigned to it.
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2019 Best of VMworld Awards "Properly document what size VMs admins can choose from when creating
. p. 71 new ones," Bastiaansen said. "Or create templates with those sizes as a sort
of menu that they can choose from."
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Instead of using slot-based High Availability admission control when running

monster VMs with reservations, configure specific resources. Have a
conversation with the application teams to determine needs and set
expectations. Also, base you monster VM configuration as if hyper-threading
doesn't exist.
"With hyper-threading, the number of logical CPUs doubles, but not your real
compute power," Bastiaansen said.
And finally, when it comes to preventing future VM performance issues,

remember the basics:
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"Follow the industry standards and the guidelines they give you, and you
In this e-guide can't go wrong," said Joe Dutro, system administrator at Casper College, a
community college in Casper, Wyoming.

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VMware vSAN HCI users share cloud
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 strategies, battle scars
Container and cloud news Dave Raffo, Editorial News Director, SearchServerVirtualization
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Now that they've converged IT tiers and staffs, vSAN
End-user computing news customers are figuring out how much of the public cloud they want to
. p. 59 connect to their hyper-converged infrastructure.
VMworld 2019 included no significant updates to vSAN, although it did add
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container support through Cloud Native Storage. But vSAN is a key piece of
Further reading VMware's hybrid cloud push as a building block of VMware Cloud
Foundation (VCF), which connects on-premises HCI to AWS, Microsoft
Azure, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud.
Having converged traditional IT tiers and, in some cases, teams, VMware

vSAN HCI users at the conference said they are looking at their cloud
strategies.
Dan Scotti said his title of engineering software developer at MathWorks

changed three weeks ago to senior cloud engineer. It's now his job to
implement his vSAN-heavy shop's cloud strategy.
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"My role now is to build an internal cloud for MathWorks and then figure out
In this e-guide how to connect it to AWS and Azure and Google Cloud," Scotti said during a
VMworld panel on vSAN. "VSAN is part of our cloud strategy, and it's a work
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 in progress."
Container and cloud news The engineering software developer based in Natick, Mass., has moved off
. p. 28 traditional storage to vSAN over the past three years and now runs it on
Lenovo ThinkAgile VX HCI appliances in its data centers and 18 remote
offices. Scotti said MathWorks is looking at using VCF and its vRealize Suite
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for cloud management.
. p. 71 "As my group evolves into a true service-based organization, I'm going to
want vRealize Automation," he said. "We already had licenses, and it didn't
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make sense not to use it. I'm using vSAN resource pools and non-vSAN
resource pools, and I can connect the two. We're in our infancy there."
Scotti said one big challenge is figuring out what his company already has in
the public cloud, due to "rogue" users who have already moved data there.
"Because anyone who has a credit card can go out and move corporate
data," he said, "I don't even know how much is on the cloud now."
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VMware vSAN HCI users ponder public, private or
hybrid cloud
Thomas Fukuyama, senior director of IT operations for Travelers Insurance,
Container and cloud news said his company will likely keep its applications where they are but wants to
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use the cloud for disaster recovery.
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He said Travelers runs vSAN Ready Nodes on a variety of server hardware
in its data centers and field offices.
. p. 71 "We have applications in the cloud, and they stay in the cloud," Fukuyama
said. "We have applications in the data center, and they stay in the data
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center. When the cloud was first pitched, the plan was: When we have an
app that needs to burst, we can burst to the cloud. We can burst now. The
thing for us is making sure we're prepared for disaster recovery. We have
multiple data centers. That's where VCF makes sense. We can use it
whether it's AWS or Azure. So, those are the next steps for us."
Lester Shisler, senior IT systems engineer for Harmony Healthcare IT, said
his company is exploring several cloud options. Shisler said Harmony, which
is based in South Bend, Ind., has about 1.3 petabytes of data running on 20
vSAN hosts. He said that capacity total has quadrupled over four months.
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"It's still in the air if we're going to continue only on premises, if we're going
In this e-guide to migrate completely to the cloud or merge the two," he said. "There is a
future for our company in the cloud and being able to scale to a certain level.
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 We don't know what that is yet, but it will be fun figuring it out."
Container and cloud news Haridas Vhadade, expert systems engineer for Allscripts, said public cloud is
. p. 28 not an option for much of the IT healthcare provider's data because of
regulation issues. He said he uses vSAN as a private cloud with a little bit of
data on AWS.
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2019 Best of VMworld Awards "We don't have plans to connect vSAN to the public cloud because our
. p. 71 private cloud is huge, about a petabyte of size," Vhadade said. "Whenever
we need storage dedicated for our offices, we use vSAN."
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Shifting IT dynamics
Along with cloud strategies, administrators running vSAN said HCI has also
changed their companies' staffing dynamics. Cutting across traditional silos,
HCI has forced members from different IT teams to work together.
"We still have a bunch of teams in silos, but for projects, we come together,"
Travelers' Fukuyama said. "With hyper-convergence, our lead virtual
infrastructure resource has worked with other folks to make sure we have a
successful implementation. We've had some network folks who have worked
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with them, and even some folks who were working on VBlocks [converged
In this e-guide infrastructure] came over to make sure it was a combined effort."
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Shisler said, in Harmony's seven-person IT shop, there are no silos for
deploying infrastructure. "It's me," he said.
But he said using VMware vSAN HCI has helped IT work closer with
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Harmony's developers than was possible when using a traditional three-tier
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"We've become much closer with the development team," he said. "Having
vSAN on-site gives them the chance to test and spin applications.
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Development has moved more towards a DevOps structure. And we've
Further reading become more involved in that. So, where development used to be this far-off
thing and they used to be a pain in our butts because they would want things
that were unrealistic, now it's evolving into a working relationship with them.
And they say, 'We need this,' and it's 'Oh yeah, we can get you that.'"
Staffing changes sometimes result in pains before gains become evident.

Matthew Douglas, chief enterprise architect at Sentara Healthcare, said he
has the "wounds and scars" of an early HCI adopter. He deployed hyper-
convergence and cloud in a previous job, but when he joined Sentara in
2018, the move to HCI got off to a rocky start. Eventually, most of the staff
united into one strong team.
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"The first month was horrible; they hated me," he said. "They were like, 'This
In this e-guide guy, all this stuff's going to change.' I was surprised it was so quick, though.
Six months in and things were changing. People are starting to break down
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 the silos, storage is starting to work with guys in compute and system
administrators are starting to work with developers."
. p. 28 "All those guys are sitting in a room talking about how we're now one digital
transformation team. We're not the storage team; we're not the compute
team. Now, we're all one team. Some people like it. Some people are quitting.
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Some of the older guys want to retire; they want their old jobs back. But our
2019 Best of VMworld Awards teams have energy. They're embracing a digital transformation."
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Scotti knows how that change can feel. He was a virtual server engineer
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three weeks ago, and now, he's MathWorks' senior cloud engineer.
"Change is hard," he said. "We've taken your cheese and moved it."
He said members of his company who had a homegrown storage system

weren't keen to move to vSAN until they couldn't get into their home
directory because "the storage had a hiccup, and it's not there. By moving
that into vSAN, we improved the user experience."
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VMware acquisition of Avi fills NSX gaps
Antone Gonsalves, Director of News, SearchServerVirtualization.com
Container and cloud news VMware plans to acquire Avi Networks to offer load balancing and other
. p. 28 application services that are missing in NSX, VMware's virtual networking
End-user computing news software for the data center and multi-cloud environments.
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VMware announced the acquisition on Thursday, saying it expects to close
2019 Best of VMworld Awards the deal in the second fiscal quarter, which ends Aug. 2. Financial details of
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VMware has always promoted NSX as a Layer 2-7 software-defined
networking fabric, despite the absence of an application delivery controller
(ADC) like Avi's, said Brad Casemore, an analyst at IDC. An ADC primarily
functions as a load balancer, while also performing application acceleration,
caching, content switching and other services.
"Their distributed load balancing was modest, and it wasn't gaining much
traction in customer accounts," Casemore said. "Software-defined ADC
technology was the missing piece, and Avi, which is purely a software-based
offering, fills the gap."
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VMware acquisition of AVI will help NSX Service
Mesh
In general, NSX is a network-virtualization overlay for Layer 2 and Layer 3
Container and cloud news that also offers some security through distributed firewalls and
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microsegmentation. Architecturally, Avi fits well into NSX and will
End-user computing news complement the NSX Service Mesh, Casemore said. Service Mesh is
. p. 59 VMware's version of the open source Istio platform for connecting,
managing, monitoring and securing networks of containerized microservices
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on cloud platforms.
Further reading The acquisition tosses VMware into competition with other ADC vendors,
such as A10, Citrix and F5 Networks. In May, F5 completed the $670 million
acquisition of ADC developer Nginx. F5 expects Nginx to strengthen its
offerings for companies with applications running in multiple clouds.
Cisco, which is VMware's most significant rival, killed development of its load
balancer, called Application Control Engine, or ACE, in 2012. Today, Cisco
partners with F5 for Layer 4-7 application services.
Cisco competes with VMware in selling networking software for the data
center, branch and multi-cloud environments. Cisco's software-defined
networking architecture is called Application Centric Infrastructure, or ACI.
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"The two of them are really in a race to see who can provide the best end-
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head of the hybrid data center practice at IT provider PCM, based in El
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Segundo, Calif. PCM sells Cisco and VMware products.
Container and cloud news "I suspect you will see continued acquisitions on both sides," Mogavero said.
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HCI market: Dell and VMware gain, as
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Nutanix stumbles
Container and cloud news Dave Raffo, Editorial News Director, SearchServerVirtualization.com
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Team Dell was a big winner in hyper-converged infrastructure last quarter,
End-user computing news with Dell EMC VxRail appliances and VMware vSAN software far outgrowing
. p. 59 sales from their main HCI rival, Nutanix.
No matter how you slice it, Dell Technologies gained HCI market share over
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Nutanix last quarter, according to the vendors' earnings reports last week.
Further reading Dell reported Dell EMC VxRail more than doubled in year-over-year revenue,
and VMware said vSAN license bookings grew more than 50%, while
Nutanix revenue decreased nearly 1%.
Dell owns all the pieces of an HCI stack. VxRail appliances consist of Dell
EMC PowerEdge servers, along with virtualization and vSAN HCI software
from Dell-owned VMware. VMware also sells vSAN though other server
partners.
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Nutanix has the full HCI software stack, but relies on partners' hardware.
In this e-guide Three months ago, Nutanix warned its revenue growth would slip because of
a shrinking sales pipeline, but the slide was greater than expected. Nutanix
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 reported revenue of $288 million -- $2 million below the low end of its
guidance. It was the first time Nutanix failed to increase its year-over-year
Container and cloud news revenue.
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Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey blamed the low revenue on the vendor's
transition to a subscription model from an appliance model. Nutanix
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executives said the subscription model has a shorter license length than
2019 Best of VMworld Awards appliances, costing them about 5% to 10% of revenue during the transition.
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Nutanix averaged 23% year-over-year growth in the four previous quarters.
It has never posted a profit, and its losses widened to $210 million last
quarter. Nutanix still has $941 million in cash, but large losses and a decline
in revenue are a dangerous combination.
"The growth we had before was based on hardware and software, all based
on the life of the device," Pandey said. "In the last six months, we've gone
through a subscription transformation, so you can't compare the oranges of
last year to the apples of this year. We also last quarter talked about how it
would take a quarter to build our sales pipeline, and we've done that. We
should see the results over the next couple of quarters."
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Nutanix will go through this transition without its chief product officer, Sunil
In this e-guide Potti, who has resigned to join Google. Pandey said COO David Sangster
and Rajiv Mirani, CTO of cloud platforms, will help fill Potti's role.
Container and cloud news HCI market still growing

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Even if Nutanix sales increase dramatically in a few quarters, a lot of HCI
adoption will take place before that. Several vendors reported solid HCI
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growth last quarter. Besides Dell EMC and VMware, Hewlett Packard
2019 Best of VMworld Awards Enterprise (HPE) reported HCI revenue grew 25% last quarter.
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The most recent HCI market share numbers from IDC cover the fourth
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quarter of 2018. IDC placed Dell No. 1 in branded revenue, with 28.6% of the
$1.9 billion total market. Nutanix placed second, at 14.8%, and HPE was a
distant third, at 5.4% Measuring the HCI market by software, IDC listed
VMware first, with 38.1%, and Nutanix second, with 29.8%.
IDC competitor Gartner put Nutanix ahead of VMware in HCI software for
the fourth quarter, however. Gartner credited Nutanix with 47.8% of the HCI
software share, compared with VMware's 44.1%. But VMware had a better
start to 2019 than Nutanix and claimed it now has more than 20,000 HCI
customers.
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Nutanix claims 13,190 customers, but its 780 new customers last quarter fell
In this e-guide below the 820 customers it added in the same quarter a year ago. Pandey
said Nutanix deals are generally larger than in the past, with eight deals
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 worth more than $3 million apiece and more than 50 deals of at least $1
million.
. p. 28 With its new software subscription model, Nutanix is following VMware's
strategy of partnering with as many server vendors as possible. Nutanix still
partners with Dell, which packages Nutanix software on PowerEdge servers.
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But revenue from that partnership appears to be waning, as Dell pushes its
2019 Best of VMworld Awards own branded VxRail.
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"There is no question about what we lead with," Jeff Clarke, Dell's vice
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chairman of products and operations, said last month during Dell
Technologies World. "It's our own IP [intellectual property]. If customers
want choice, we have choice. We will provide servers [for Nutanix software],
but we will lead with VMware."
"It's us and VMware more than anyone else," Pandey said of the HCI
software market. "That's where the operating system wars are, that's where
the software stack is, [and] that's where people are talking about hybrid
cloud. They're thinking about what it means to build a private cloud that
gives them a hybrid experience."
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Nutanix does have a new partnership with HPE, which will go into effect over
In this e-guide the coming months. HPE also partners with Lenovo, IBM and Fujitsu.

Customer perspective
. p. 28 Paul Green, CIO of Angel MedFlight, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., said he
picked vSAN over Nutanix and HPE SimpliVity last year when the air
ambulance service hyper-converged its IT infrastructure. Green said
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VMware reps had the best understanding of his business needs, and the
2019 Best of VMworld Awards technology helped him future-proof his setup.
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"VMware was interested in what we were trying to do as a business," he
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said. "Our goal is to build this for five years, so we wouldn't have to touch our
hardware again during that time. Last year, when we were going to redesign
this, I really wanted something that was converged, something simple and
something that took advantage of all new the features VMware would allow."
One positive for Nutanix is continued adoption growth of its AHV hypervisor.
Nutanix claimed 42% of its shipped nodes over the past year run AHV, which
competes with VMware's ESXi hypervisor.
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Jose Bellas, CIO of Miami-based University Health Care, said AHV was a "big
In this e-guide selling point for us" when the healthcare managed service organization
implemented Nutanix in 2016. Unlike VMware, Nutanix does not charge a
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 license for its hypervisor.
Container and cloud news "We said, 'Why are we paying a premium on each node?'" for the hypervisor,
. p. 28 Bellas said. "All the advanced features Nutanix had were rolling out
exclusively for AHV or adopted on AHV first, so it made more sense to use
AHV. There was nothing extra that VMware's hypervisor brought to the
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table."
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VMware firewall strategy to focus on
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 'known good' behavior
Container and cloud news Rob Wright, Associate Editorial Director, SearchServerVirtualization
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SAN FRANCISCO -- VMware wants to reduce enterprises' attack surface,
End-user computing news and the vendor is taking a different approach with firewalls to accomplish
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The virtualization software maker introduced VMware Service-defined
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Firewall during the RSA Conference 2019 to reduce attack surfaces within
Further reading enterprise environments. The VMware firewall service focuses on "known
good" behavior of the applications and cloud services that communicate
across a distributed network.
Part of VMware's new security strategy is to rethink how firewalls work.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said everyone knows and understands firewalls,
which sit at the edge of networks and monitor an organization's
incoming/outgoing, or "north and south," traffic. "But in today's multi-cloud,
microservices world, there ain't no edge," Gelsinger said during his keynote
address Thursday.
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VMware also wanted to move away from the industry's hyperfocus on

In this e-guide threats, which he believes is actually a massive detriment to enterprise
security.
"We're rushing rapidly into a domain of diminishing returns," Gelsinger said
Container and cloud news "and by comparison we believe we need to fundamentally be reducing the
. p. 28 attack surface instead of chasing after the latest threat."
End-user computing news Rather than try to block all unknown activity or potential threats, Gelsinger
. p. 59 said, the VMware firewall identifies and permits approved behavior for
2019 Best of VMworld Awards applications and services that run across both cloud and on-premises
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Further reading "What are the core things that are supposed to be happening rather than the
50 million that aren't supposed to be happening?" Gelsinger asked RSA
attendees. "And when we understand those good behaviors, [we can]
enforce known good and do it at the networking level -- how they're
communicating with each other -- and at the application level."
At an RSA Conference media event, Tom Gillis, senior vice president and
general manager of VMware's networking and security business unit, and
Tom Corn, senior vice president and general manager of VMware security
products, also shared their views on how the Service-defined Firewall can
reduce the attack surface for enterprises.
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Gillis likened conventional firewalls to Transportation Security

In this e-guide Administration agents on Thanksgiving, the busiest travel day of the year,
flooded with thousands of unknown passengers and looking for any and all
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 signs of suspicious behavior. The VMware firewall, he said, doesn't try to
identify and block unknown threats but instead only allows the known good
Container and cloud news of approved applications and services.
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Monitoring east-west traffic within an enterprise network is crucial because
it can help reduce threat actors' ability to move laterally, Gillis said. He used
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the example of the Equifax breach; after the initial intrusion, the threat
2019 Best of VMworld Awards actors were able to obtain credentials and move freely throughout the
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Further reading have been able to block the unauthorized east-west traffic within the
Equifax network.
A product like the Service-defined Firewall can't work without understanding

how applications and microservices work at a granular level, according to
Corn. And because of VMware's wide installed base, the company has
visibility into millions of workloads, Corn said, which gives VMware the ability
to identify the known good behaviors.
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The VMware Service-defined Firewall isn't intended to replace traditional

In this e-guide network firewalls, Gillis said, but those products aren't suited to police the
east-west traffic within large enterprise environments.
"We're not predicting the death of the firewall. Firewalls are good," he said.
Container and cloud news "We just think people need the right solution for the right task."
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Conversely, VMware competitor Microsoft said during its own RSA session
End-user computing news that firewall technology is outmoded and it touts zero-trust security as the
. p. 59 path forward. Other software vendors also hold the view that firewalls aren't
2019 Best of VMworld Awards appropriate for today's dispersed, device-driven computing practices.
. p. 71 VMware said in a blog post this week that adopting a zero-trust network
security model in an enterprise environment remains incredibly hard to
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achieve. Their Service-defined Firewall is the alternative.
The success of VMware's reimagined firewall will likely depend on how well
the company can identify known good behaviors, according to Eric
Hanselman, chief analyst at 451 Research.
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"VMware's approach leverages expanded context to put more power behind

In this e-guide a 'known good allow' approach," he said. "Allow lists aren't new, but the
challenge has historically been that there were limits to the depth of
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 information available to characterize the known good. The greater
perspectives that are available to them make this approach a lot more
Container and cloud news powerful and scalable."
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Druva backup user highlights importance
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 of data searchability
Container and cloud news Johnny Yu, News Writer, SearchServerVirtualization
. p. 28
SAN FRANCISCO -- Druva backup wasn't just about data protection for
End-user computing news Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Instead of separated silos for pharmaceutical
. p. 59 research data, the biotech company was able to create a consolidated,
2019 Best of VMworld Awards searchable data lake off of the backups.
. p. 71
At a panel at VMworld 2019, Curt Hayes, senior manager of data protection
Further reading and recovery at Regeneron, said his problem was as much a data protection
issue as it was a data management issue. Regeneron, with headquarters in
Tarrytown, N.Y., had different backup products for virtual machines, physical
servers and storage devices. This led to multiple silos where backup copies
of research data lived, and was compounded by a lack of discipline among
researchers on where they stored their primary data.
"We have these scientists who generate a ton of data day in and day out and
they're just going to put it anywhere they want," Hayes said. "It's all over the
place."
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After purchasing Druva backup, Hayes said he was able to point all the
In this e-guide organization's different production environments to Druva's cloud as the
backup target, enabling him to create what he described as a consolidated
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 data lake. He is currently in the process of refining a tagging mechanism to
make this pool of data easier to search, which would help Regeneron's
Container and cloud news overall drug discovery business.
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"Scientists can now take this data and search it," Hayes said. "It's getting the
data to the scientists so they can use it to discover more drugs and help
. p. 59
more patients."
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Further reading
Making the move to cloud-based backup
Regeneron was previously using Veritas NetBackup software and Dell EMC
Data Domain hardware, with a little bit of Quest Software vRanger. When the
company's Ireland office was due for a hardware refresh, Hayes used it as
an opportunity to explore cloud-based backup and switching to a
subscription pricing model. Going off-premises was important to Hayes
because he didn't want to continually buy more hardware, and pay-as-you-
go was interesting because it allowed him to avoid overprovisioning storage
space for backup.
"We don't want to build data centers," Hayes said. "Our business is science
and data, and its lab space is for the mice and for the people."
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Someone in Regeneron's small London office brought Druva to Hayes'

In this e-guide attention, which started his plan of deploying Druva backup to all of the
company's locations. Hayes said he didn't seriously consider any other
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 backup vendors, as his company already had an established relationship
with Druva. He also mentioned there weren't too many vendors offering
Container and cloud news backup as a service at the time. Now, many vendors like NetApp, Acronis
. p. 28 and Actifio offer subscription service versions of their core backup products.
In order to sell the idea to his superiors, though, Hayes needed hard
. p. 59
numbers to show that Druva backup was a worthwhile investment. He found
2019 Best of VMworld Awards that simply switching to cloud-based backup and removing any further
. p. 71 investment in hardware and software for his previous backup products
Further reading would reduce his total costs by 14%. Adding Druva's disaster recovery
capabilities boosted those savings to 42%. After adjusting cloud tiering
costs using Druva's recently introduced intelligent cloud tiering capability,
Hayes said that he would potentially be looking at 70% savings in the near
future.
Hayes said saving money wasn't his primary goal, and he was much more
interested in a vendor that could simplify his infrastructure. Switching to
cloud-based backup as a service gave him more predictable costs, shrank
his data center, consolidated his organization's data and made it searchable.
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He said the only drawback he noticed was performing backup processes --

In this e-guide such as creating and uploading copies and recovering them from the cloud -
- took a couple of minutes longer than with a local, on-premises setup.
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 However, he is still hitting his recovery time objectives and recovery point
objectives without trouble.
. p. 28 Regeneron is still in the middle of standardizing all of its backup across all of
its offices to Druva. The Ireland office is done but the Tarrytown office -- the
company's research hub and the source of most of its research data -- is in
. p. 59
the middle of transitioning from legacy on-premises backup to Druva, and
2019 Best of VMworld Awards some of the other offices are still using tape. Hayes said when he gets Druva
. p. 71 working at those locations, he'll simply stop writing to tape. He has no plans
Further reading of converting the data from the existing tapes to the Druva cloud, as the
amount of work that takes isn't worth it.
"We'll probably just let it die on the vine," Hayes said. "We'll keep it around
until we are told by legal to get rid of it."
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Project Pacific outshines vSphere 6.7 U3,
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Platinum updates
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Updates to vSphere 6.7 U3 include multiple virtual GPU
End-user computing news and dynamic domain name system support, but the real buzz is around the
. p. 59 Project Pacific technical preview.
VMware announced it's in the process of reengineering vSphere to include
. p. 71
native Kubernetes, an initiative it's calling Project Pacific. The aim with this
Further reading initiative is to bring application development and IT operations together,
which VMware hopes will establish vSphere as the platform for modern
applications.
Project Pacific technical preview

By embedding Kubernetes directly into vSphere, VMware allows both
developers and IT administrators to deploy and manage containers and VMs
using the interfaces and terms with which they are familiar. Project Pacific
uses Kubernetes' namespaces for container creation and enables vSphere
admins to manage the container like they would a VM.
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VMware said Project Pacific runs 30% faster than Linux VMs and 8% faster
In this e-guide than bare metal.
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 "They've got to work with the APIs and directly with the hardware, which I
think VMware can do," said Dave Utter, system administrator at NBT
Container and cloud news Bancorp Inc., a financial services holding company headquartered in
. p. 28 Norwich, N.Y.
End-user computing news Not everyone is on the Kubernetes bandwagon yet, but attendees seem
. p. 59 intrigued by the news.
"We don't have very many developers. ... But I think if somebody could help
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us integrate for some more custom applications we have, as well as some of
Further reading our existing ones, [that would be] great," said Joe Dutro, system
administrator at Casper College, a community college in Casper, Wyo.
VMware plans to bring Project Pacific to vSphere beta testing later this year,
but there's no official word on the timeline for general availability yet.
Looking ahead, vSphere 6.0 end of life is March 12, 2020, and the end of life
for vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 is November 15, 2021, so admins can reasonably
expect it within that window.
VMware is also putting its acquisition of Bitfusion to use by announcing

plans to integrate the startup's GPU virtualization technology into a future
version of vSphere.
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Bitfusion's software decouples GPUs from the physical host, enabling VMs
In this e-guide on separate physical hosts to access those pooled GPU resources. The
technology is aimed at helping customers make more efficient use of GPUs
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 for AI and machine learning workloads that may have inconsistent demand.

. p. 28 VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 updates
VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 was released on Aug. 20.. It includes support for up
. p. 59
to four virtual GPUs per VM, Advanced Micro Devices EPYC Generation 2
2019 Best of VMworld Awards processor support, Primary Network Identifier change capability, dynamic
. p. 71 domain name system support, driver enhancements and vSAN performance
Further reading enhancements.
Because vSphere is an established platform at this point, admins are looking

more for improvements to basic functionality over new features.
"I'm hoping that they're going to streamline some of the application side as
far as Update Manager and accessing the hardware and making it more
efficient," Utter said.
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SDDC and virtualization p. 2 VMware's vSphere Platinum Edition, which combines vSphere with
AppDefense, also includes several updates and new features.
. p. 28 In terms of workload visibility, the Platinum Edition provides improved
process execution and network connection per VM. And for workload
assurance, it offers improved reputation analysis and new behavior analysis
. p. 59
functionality with machine learning. OS and kernel assurance round out the
2019 Best of VMworld Awards new workload control features.
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VMware also improved intrinsic security lifecycle management in the
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Platinum Edition of vSphere, with new application health dashboards that
include a list of the validation checks that have been performed.
"I'm excited about how they're expanding this product to make it even better
than it was. My first experience with VMware vSphere was 5.0, and with
every iteration, they make huge improvements ... and make it easier to
manage," Dutro said.
Nick Martin also contributed to this report.
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Cohesity backup users share cloud data
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 protection stories
Container and cloud news Johnny Yu, News Writer, SearchServerVirtualization
. p. 28
SAN FRANCISCO -- The journey to the cloud can be a rocky experience for
End-user computing news some.
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Cohesity backup customers at a VMworld 2019 panel presented the
challenges they faced and some of the missteps they took when
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modernizing to a hybrid IT environment.
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Don Murawski, manager of server and storage/messaging at The Wendy's
Company; Mike Graff, senior manager of IT architecture at audio technology
company Dolby Laboratories, Inc.; and Bill Schlough, senior vice president
and CIO of the San Francisco Giants baseball team; spoke about switching
backup vendors and moving their workloads to the cloud. They also offered
advice and tips for businesses thinking of making a similar transition.
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All three customers shared similar reasons for moving their backups to the
In this e-guide cloud, which centered on lowering costs and simplifying their infrastructure.
They all wanted to shrink their data center footprints by moving as many of
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 their workloads as they could to the cloud and keeping only mission-critical
ones on-premises.
. p. 28 "It's inevitable. I think we'll ultimately migrate most things to the cloud,"
Schlough said.
. p. 59 Backup was the easiest candidate for cloud migration -- it's non-critical,
2019 Best of VMworld Awards infrequently accessed and takes up a lot of storage space. For Schlough
. p. 71 and Graff, the choice was even easier because they were using tape for
backup. Graff saw Dolby's tape backup as an inefficient, aging system that
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led to extra work; the data had to be manually sorted through and reset
every weekend.
"I worked really hard to get rid of [tape]," Graff said. "Don't underestimate
the value of getting off of tape."
Schlough swore off tape after a close call that nearly cost him all his tape
backups. He and a co-worker would take turns taking the tapes home as a
way to keep the backups off-site. During one of these exchanges, Schlough
accidentally left the tapes on public transportation, though he was luckily
able to retrieve them. Combined with the cost to maintain the Giants' Dell
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EMC Data Domain system compared to cloud-based backup, Schlough was

In this e-guide adamant about moving the team's roughly 7 TB of backup data off of tape.

Don't rush cloud migration
. p. 28 Having each gone through the transition to the cloud, the three Cohesity
backup customers offered advice on how to make that go as smoothly as
possible.
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2019 Best of VMworld Awards All three stressed the importance of not rushing the proof-of-concept or
. p. 71 deployment processes, especially with smaller vendors. Schlough did
comparison shopping with Rubrik and Cohesity and started with single-site
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deployments before committing. Graff, who was similarly on Dell EMC
Avamar and Data Domain for backup, chose Barracuda before Cohesity, and
ran the systems in parallel during the transition. Murawski tested extensively
and worked closely with Cohesity to make sure his backups were
recoverable.
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Further reading "Pick a partner that treats you like you're their only customer," Murawski
advised.
Graff added that when transitioning off of a backup vendor, ensure you are
given access to its cloud for as long as necessary to move your data off of it.
He ran into a problem with Barracuda not providing the tools for pulling his
data out as he was cutting ties with them. Graff also advised holding on to
the previous backup system for at least as long as the retention period of
the data.
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The Cohesity backup customers also recommended understanding the

In this e-guide limits of native backup capabilities in SaaS applications. They unanimously
agreed that Office 365, the most popular SaaS application, lacks sufficient
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 backup. It is difficult or impossible to recover accidentally deleted emails or
folders or restore them to a previous state.
. p. 28 Graff said SaaS providers are often only responsible for providing uptime
and functionality of their core service product, but not for individual files of
their users. He urged customers using Office 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow,
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Box or any other SaaS applications to know what their service contracts
2019 Best of VMworld Awards protect and find ways to fill in any gaps.
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"The native protection provided by Office 365 is pretty much inadequate,"
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Graff said. "If you don't have backup in place, you're going to be out of luck."
Between human error and malicious attacks like ransomware, data loss is
probable. Good backup is important because it is often the only means for
an organization to recover from a data loss event. Schlough said the Giants
are vulnerable to data loss because their stadium is a physical target and,
citing the infamous incident when the St. Louis Cardinals hacked the internal
database of the Houston Astros, their data is a juicy virtual target for rival
baseball franchises. Graff said he's more worried about his employees
getting their machines infected and bringing that to the business's network.
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When shopping for backup, Schlough said there's only one question an
In this e-guide organization needs to focus on: "If the worst-case scenario happened, how
quickly can I recover?"

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What's new with VMware Cloud on AWS
Allyson Larcom, Associate Site Editor, SearchServerVirtualization
Container and cloud news This week, at VMworld 2019, new updates to VMware Cloud on AWS
. p. 28 including migration and scale enhancements, as well as improved
End-user computing news management and ecosystem access, were announced. It will also support
. p. 59 and be compatible with Tanzu and Project Pacific.
2019 Best of VMworld Awards In one session, VMware Director of Product Management Matt Dreyer and
. p. 71 Group Manager of Product Marketing Sai Gopalan instructed attendees on
Further reading how best to implement VMware Cloud on AWS in the data center and what
this cloud service has to offer, including new features.
VMware partnered with AWS in 2016 to create the hybrid cloud service that
runs VMware's software-defined data center (SDDC) stack on the AWS
public cloud. This enables IT administrators to combine a variety of VMware
tools with AWS' cloud service. It can extend the capabilities of a data center
while maintaining private clouds and on-premises infrastructure, and many
organizations use it for data center extension, disaster recovery, cloud
migration and next-generation applications.
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A VMware Cloud on AWS overview
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Modern applications require flexibility, which a hybrid cloud system can help
enable. VMware Cloud on AWS gives its customers consistency and easy
Container and cloud news workload portability, with vSphere on both sides of the cloud and native
. p. 28 AWS services.
The cloud service is available in 16 global regions, including six in North
. p. 59
America, four in Europe and five in Asia-Pacific. It supports two different
2019 Best of VMworld Awards bare-metal instance types: I3, for general-purpose clusters, and R5, for
. p. 71 storage-bound clusters.
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An organization can create two separate SDDCs, which VMware Cloud on
AWS can launch in roughly 90 minutes to two hours. Each SDDC can hold
up to 20 vSphere clusters, and each cluster contains anywhere from three
to 16 hosts.
"I think VMware Cloud on AWS is going to be a major player. I mean, when
you can stand up a complete data center within a couple hours, it's a no-
brainer," said Kelly Ryan, a principal architect at World Wide Technology
based out of Maryland Heights, Mo.
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Administrators can log into VMware Cloud on AWS via a web interface and
In this e-guide see the SDDCs they have deployed, with information on those SDDCs'
locations. They can deploy new SDDCs via a Create SDDC wizard with four
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 sections -- region, shape, host size and name.
Container and cloud news "After a deployment is finished, you have a ready and running environment.
. p. 28 Everything is already installed," Dreyer said.
End-user computing news Admins can then shrink or grow their environments based on workload
. p. 59 needs, and they can optimize for either performance or cost. They can
2019 Best of VMworld Awards manage and modify networking configurations, add-ons and maintenance
. p. 71 scheduling from a single pane of glass.
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What's new
Updates to the cloud platform enhance migration, scale and manageability.
Customers most look forward to increased resiliency.
"[VMware Cloud on AWS is] going to get an enterprise to the cloud, on-
prem, back and forth. The flexibility and dexterity of a company with a HCX
or VMC on AWS is perfect," Ryan said.
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VMware has enhanced the migration workflow experience for data center
In this e-guide migration. It has also enhanced HCX, including region-to-region and inter-
cloud migrations, and introduced an elastic vSAN feature that enables
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 admins to scale Elastic Block Store capacity up and down post-deployment,
rather than deploying an entire additional host for more storage.
. p. 28 In terms of management and ecosystem access changes, VMware has
improved support for VMware Cloud Marketplace, which enables discovery
and deployment of validated third-party products. It has added further Log
. p. 59
Intelligence capabilities as well as network insight support for scaling and
2019 Best of VMworld Awards managing network policies, path tracing and security planning. VMware
. p. 71 Cloud on AWS also now supports vRealize Operations for workload
Further reading balancing across clusters, configuring compliance and billing analysis.
The cloud and VMware's mission

As VMware pivots towards the hybrid cloud market, VMware Cloud on AWS
has become important to the vendor's mission.
"A lot of customers, ... they're going to have these hybrid environments.
They're going to have some on-premises, [and] they're going to have some
VMware stack running in these clouds," said Jason Needham, former chief
marketing officer of CloudCoreo (acquired by VMware) and current head of
product cross-cloud services for VMware.
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VMware Cloud on AWS seeks to cater to the growing number of customers

In this e-guide with hybrid cloud environments. The vendor hopes this service will guide
more businesses towards the hybrid cloud.

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VMware plans to overhaul vSphere for
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Kubernetes
Container and cloud news Nick Martin, Editorial Director, SearchServerVirtualization
. p. 28
SAN FRANCISCO -- As Kubernetes eats the container orchestration world,
End-user computing news VMware is hoping it can get a bite.
. p. 59
In recent months, VMware has gobbled up Bitnami and Heptio and
announced plans to buy its sister company, Pivotal. Those acquisitions set
. p. 71
the stage for VMware Tanzu, a new portfolio of products and services
Further reading designed to help companies build, manage and run applications on
Kubernetes.
VMware's container strategy redux also includes Project Pacific, a

technology preview of the next version of vSphere that embeds Kubernetes
natively in the company's flagship virtualization software.
"[Project Pacific] is the most significant rearchitecting of vSphere and

vCenter, certainly in the last decade," VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said.
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VMware is just the latest on a long list of companies that have hitched their
In this e-guide future fortunes to the Kubernetes bandwagon. However, it could be one of
the best positioned to turn today's red-hot interest in Kubernetes into
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 market share.
Container and cloud news "Depending on how they take this to market, it could be a huge game
. p. 28 changer," IDC analyst Gary Chen said. "This could undercut a lot of their
competitors if all of their vSphere customers get it for free or even a minimal
cost."
. p. 59
2019 Best of VMworld Awards VMware's vSphere is by far the most popular on-premises virtualization
. p. 71 management software, and it's used by nearly all Fortune 500 companies.
Meanwhile, Kubernetes has emerged as the industry darling and now
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dominates the open source container orchestration conversation, though
enterprise adoption for production environments remains low as the
platform matures.
Stiff competition
Even with a broad customer install base, VMware will still face fierce
competition from a long list of other companies that were early to market
with Kubernetes management tools, 451 Research analyst Eric Hanselman
said.
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"Those customers who are fully cloud-native are probably too far down the
In this e-guide road, but in terms of VMware's core customer base, the timing looks good.
The question is: How soon will they actually deliver this? This is a work in
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 progress," Hanselman said.
Container and cloud news VMware plans to bring Project Pacific to customers participating in vSphere
. p. 28 beta testing by later this year, Gelsinger said. Native Kubernetes integration
will not be ported to previous vSphere versions, meaning customers will
have to upgrade to the latest version. The company also said that vSphere
. p. 59
6.5 and 6.7 would reach end of support by 2021, which could encourage
2019 Best of VMworld Awards more customers to upgrade when the next version drops.
. p. 71
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Rounding out the Tanzu portfolio
The new VMware Tanzu portfolio will eventually include a variety of
Kubernetes-focused products and services, including one product available
now, called Tanzu Mission Control.
Mission Control is a SaaS-based tool that gives IT operations staff a single

dashboard to view and manage Kubernetes clusters across on-premises
and cloud environments. The software can provide cluster health stats and
enable operators to define security policies and enforce them across
clusters. Gelsinger and other VMware executives also hinted at future
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announcements, saying there were more products that would round out the
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SDDC and virtualization p. 2 VMware has previously rolled out container-focused products and features -
- including vSphere Integrated Containers, Project Photon and VMware
Container and cloud news Pivotal Container Service -- with varying levels of success.
. p. 28
"This is the year that VMware has finally made a big shift to adopt containers
End-user computing news as a core application construct," said Mike Matchett, founder and analyst at
. p. 59 Small World Big Data consultancy. "It's clear that VMware understands that,
2019 Best of VMworld Awards to be successful in a cloud world, they will have to transition their formerly
. p. 71 data center-focused functionality into horizontally applicable services that
can cut across both hybrid and multi-cloud while extending consistently
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from edge to core."
Much of the interest in Kubernetes today is driven by developers who want

to use containers to deploy cloud-native applications at scale. This can put
pressure on IT operations staff to support and deliver the underlying
infrastructure, a challenge familiar to many VMware customers here at
VMworld.
"We don't use [Kubernetes] right now, but we have a development group
that talks a lot about containers. So, it's something we're going to look into
more," said Dave Utter, system administrator at NBT Bancorp, a financial
service holding company based in Norwich, N.Y.
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VMware is also talking up its new relationship with developers -- citing the
In this e-guide addition of Heptio and Pivotal customers -- as well as its growing
contribution to open source projects, specifically Kubernetes.
"We think Kubernetes is a game changer," Gelsinger said. "We think it is one
Container and cloud news of these transformative technologies that only come around every decade
. p. 28 or two. It's that big. And so, we're not going to miss that opportunity to leap
onto, to participate in and to accelerate building embodiments of that for our
enterprise customers."
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Section Three: End-user computing news
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New Workspace One features impress IT
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 admins
Container and cloud news Jesse Scardina, News Writer, SearchServerVirtualization.com
. p. 28
SAN FRANCISCO -- VMware is adding new Workspace One features that
End-user computing news focus on improving the employee experience, while relieving some stress on
. p. 59 IT with virtual assistant capabilities.
The features, unveiled here at VMworld, are enticing because they address
. p. 71
common end-user problems, including onboarding, application management
Further reading and security, according to IT admins in attendance.
"The demonstration of user experience and IT process improvements are

focused on showing what's possible to the VMworld audience and get them
thinking beyond just application and device management," said Mark
Bowker, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass.
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New Workspace One features pique interest
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 The new Workspace One features include an Intelligent Hub Virtual
Assistant, which allows employees to complete IT- and HR-related tasks and
Container and cloud news have the outcomes automated, saving time for both end users and IT.
. p. 28
Some common tasks admins can do through the virtual assistant include
procuring and registering a new device, onboarding a new employee,
. p. 59
troubleshooting Wi-Fi profiles, opening and managing service desk tickets,
2019 Best of VMworld Awards and enrolling in company benefits. Employees can also access company
. p. 71 resources, such as office locations, seating maps and company policies. IBM
Further reading Watson AI powers the Hub Virtual Assistant, according to Jeff McGrath,
senior director of product marketing at VMware.
Another new Workspace One feature focuses more on IT and the capability
to proactively detect and remediate potential issues that could affect end
users. Called Digital Employee Experience Management, the new capability
combines Workspace One Unified Endpoint Management, Workspace One
Intelligence and Apteligent, a mobile application intelligence vendor VMware
acquired.
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"As someone who's an existing VMware customer, [Workspace One] can

In this e-guide pose a significant value proposition with all the integrations we already have
with VMware," said Josh Wolfe, a senior systems administrator for a
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 financial services company. "Workspace One could potentially replace a few
third-party solutions we use now."
. p. 28 His organization isn't currently a Workspace One customer, but can see the
gain the new Workspace One features could bring an IT department, Wolfe
said. But the transition won't be seamless for most organizations.
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2019 Best of VMworld Awards "The potential advantage is also the challenge in terms of migration," Wolfe
. p. 71 said. "Because things like onboarding, device management and security
have existed in silos for so long, we tend to have these different contracts
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and process already existing. Something like onboarding with Workspace
One may be a more staggered and lengthy rollout than just turning a switch."
Easing the strain on IT and HR resonated with other attendees, as well.
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Adam Main, an enterprise architect at Legacy Reserves, an energy company

In this e-guide in Midland, Texas, said the organization could benefit from new Workspace
One features that automate simple, monotonous tasks from HR and IT.
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 That's particularly the case at Legacy Reserves, because the IT and HR
departments are integrated; the CTO is also the head of HR, Main said.
. p. 28 "We've made an effort to streamline things as it is, and onboarding has been
a priority for us," he said. "What we saw [at VMworld] was phenomenal."
. p. 59
2019 Best of VMworld Awards VMware homes in on security

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VMware also unveiled two substantial acquisitions, buying security vendor
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Carbon Black for $2.1 billion and platform-as-a-service vendor Pivotal for
$2.7 billion.
The acquisitions, combined with the new Workspace One features, show a
significant reinvestment in digital workspace and the important role security
plays in it, Bowker said.
"The VMware Workspace One strategy is a platform geared to deliver a

secure and consistent experience to end users across any device," Bowker
said. "Prior to the Carbon Black acquisition, VMware customers had to
explore strategies that encompassed a built-in or bolted-on security
strategy. The acquisition greatly simplifies this decision."
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The new Digital Employee Experience Management feature, for example,

In this e-guide aims to solve hardware, OS and application issues that could affect an end
user's device and tie up IT in the process. If an end user opens an email and
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 downloads an update for some of their applications that ends up being a
malware attack, for instance, Workspace One will notify IT, and admins can
Container and cloud news lock that user's access. IT will be able to remotely diagnose and fix user
. p. 28 issues across both mobile devices and PCs.
"A lot of the features with Workspace One around security and analytics
. p. 59
were great to see," Main said. "The risk factors dashboard that IT has,
2019 Best of VMworld Awards combined with the emphasis on providing a consistent experience, is neat."
. p. 71
A more well-rounded digital workspace environment like the one VMware is
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creating could lead to more adoption, Bowker said.
"The focus on the user and IT are valuable to show as the VMworld audience
begins to rotate plans to adopt a [Workspace One] strategy," he said.
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How to use two-factor authentication in
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Horizon View
Container and cloud news Stuart Burns, Virtualization and Linux expert, MMC
. p. 28
IT pros can use two-factor authentication for VDI to provide an additional
End-user computing news security layer that can identify end users -- but they need to use it correctly.
. p. 59
VDI allows IT to tightly control potentially sensitive data and enables end
users to log in and consume that data from virtually anywhere. Depending on
. p. 71
the configuration, however, administrators could expose more data than
Further reading they should.
Two-factor authentication (2FA) in VMware Horizon View is an easy-to-use

feature that can help prevent security breaches. A 2FA authentication
system can deny bad logons due to lost passwords. The attacker may have
one factor -- the password -- but not have the second factor -- a time-
sensitive code.
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How to set up 2FA
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Horizon View supports a variety of 2FA systems out of the box, including
RSA SecurID, Smart Cards and RADIUS.
. p. 28 Depending on how IT configures the authentication system, two-factor
authentication in Horizon View can support any major RSA-supported
authentication device, such as Google Authenticator. This allows an
. p. 59
organization to retain control of their infrastructure without having to
2019 Best of VMworld Awards distribute hard tokens and the issues that come with it.
. p. 71
IT can also provide end users a portal to obtain 2FA authentication. This
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may sound insecure, but the authentication system only allows end users to
log in if they fall within certain IP ranges -- for example, those inside the VPN
or with trusted IP addresses.
IT does not have to require all end users to use 2FA. Instead, IT can group
end users together and use tagging to restrict and manage users' access to
the environment.
This can provide a lot of flexibility with trusted versus non-trusted or less
trusted individuals and reduce the costs of licenses and 2FA consumption. It
also reduces the complexity of managing a distributed 2FA system and the
tokens.
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End users that are required to authenticate with 2FA, however, will have to
In this e-guide log in to the 2FA website and obtain the second factor to use their VDI
instance.
Container and cloud news Configure two-factor authentication in Horizon

. p. 28 View
. p. 59
IT admins must turn on 2FA in Horizon View to use it. Within Horizon View,
the setup and configuration is extremely straightforward.
. p. 71 IT pros should deploy 2FA carefully into their VDI. First, IT should ensure
that the RSA tokens are working correctly on Windows before attempting to
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implement them.
Other issues can occur. For example, there is often insufficient time for end
users to apply codes before they time out. In these cases, IT can increase
the time out sessions.
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VMware Workstation 15's built-in REST
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 API eases VM automation
Container and cloud news Stuart Burns, Virtualization and Linux expert, MMC
. p. 28
VMware Workstation's REST API integration could potentially make a big
End-user computing news difference in how you work. For example, instead of manually powering on
. p. 59 machines, you can now program multiple machines to power on
2019 Best of VMworld Awards automatically while you make coffee.
. p. 71
VMware Workstation has integrated with programming languages such as
Further reading Perl and C in the past, but the integration was clunky. Because these
languages were difficult to use, most IT administrators never fully utilized
them. The REST API in Workstation 15 provides a language-agnostic way to
take advantage of the power of the Workstation API. Along with powering
VMs on and off automatically, this feature enables you to automate VM
configuration, cloning and removal. You can also suspend, pause, and
resume VM operations as needed.
Incorporating automation into your management strategies is relatively easy.

To get started, simply follow these steps to enable the GUI, interrogate
information and modify scripts.
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Enable the GUI
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 The GUI sorts and groups tasks by request type, which provides the
flexibility to implement just about anything you could need in terms of local
Container and cloud news VM management.
. p. 28
To enable the GUI, you don't have to configure the Secure Sockets Layer
portion to experiment locally, but you should if you want remote access.
. p. 59

. p. 71
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To access the web console and see these commands from your Windows
In this e-guide desktop, navigate to the correct URL -- usually localhost:8697 -- and use the
credentials you just created. Once authorized, you can expand the webpage
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 and experiment with various operations to familiarize yourself with the
capabilities of the API in Workstation 15.
. p. 28

. p. 59

. p. 71
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Use PowerShell with Workstation 15
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 The next step is to chain these commands together into some form of
automation. One of the best methods is with the built-in PowerShell scripting
Container and cloud news language. You can use the API to automate VM tasks in several ways.
. p. 28
First, sort authentication with the following script:
. p. 59 $Username = "stuart"
2019 Best of VMworld Awards $apiURL = "http://localhost:8697/api"
. p. 71 $Password = "MyPassw0rd!"
Further reading $authInfo = ("{0}:{1}" -f $Username,$Password)

$authInfo =
[System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($authInfo)
$authInfo = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($authInfo)
$headers = @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $authInfo)}
$contentStyle = "application/vnd.vmware.vmw.rest-v1+json"
$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $apiURL/vms -Method Get

-Headers $headers
$uuid = $response.id
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Set and include the $apiURL variable, rather than typing out the full path
In this e-guide every time, because it's more efficient.
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 By default, this code returns two properties with the variable "$response":
the VM id and the configuration file. It also lists every VM in use.
. p. 28

. p. 59

. p. 71
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The "id" field is a unique VM identifier; there's one for each VM, and every
operation requires a unique ID. $uuid grabs the unique identifier from the
response data.
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Get vs. put method
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 The "get" method interrogates a VM, but you can also use the "put" method.
Think of "get" as the way to simply interrogate information and "put" as the
Container and cloud news way to make changes.
. p. 28
At this point, you can modify the script to power on the VM. You can use
Invoke-RestMethod, but with "put" instead of "get." To power on the VM,
. p. 59
pass "on" in the body. To power it off, pass "off:"
. p. 71 Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$apiURL/vms/$uuid/power" -Method
PUT -Headers $headers -Body on -ContentType $contentStyle
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Figure E below shows the parameters for the method and the id -- the $uuid
variable, in this case -- as a string. It also shows the operation type, located
in the body, with an example of allowed values.
Workstation 15's REST API comes with a GUI, which enables you to
experiment with API calls.
Once you know how to use the API, you can combine that with a text file, a
"for" loop and the get-content command to automatically set up or power
down various VMs without human intervention. You can also clone VMs or
configure hardware as needed.
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. p. 28

. p. 59

. p. 71
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How VDI admins can earn VMware and
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Citrix certifications
Container and cloud news John Powers, Assistant Site Editor, SearchServerVirtualization
. p. 28
Not all vendor certifications provide the same value for IT professionals, but
End-user computing news it's hard to go wrong with VMware or Citrix certifications for desktop and
. p. 59 application virtualization.
IT pros can expand their knowledge of Citrix and VMware virtual desktop
. p. 71
and application deployments to boost their own value to their organizations.
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Attaining these certifications is time-consuming and can cost hundreds of
dollars, however. So, IT pros should find the best application and desktop
virtualization certifications for their current roles.
What types of certifications are there?

Citrix certifications and VMware certifications differ slightly. The two
vendors' app and desktop virtualization certifications include a range of
expertise levels. Both organizations start at an Associate level, followed by
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Professional and then Expert. But VMware includes an Advanced

In this e-guide Professional level between Professional and Expert.
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 VMware offers a Desktop and Mobility certification that covers the latest
version of its Horizon and vSphere platforms. Once an IT pro achieves a
Container and cloud news Professional-level certification for Desktop and Mobility, he can choose a
. p. 28 specialty -- either deployment or design -- for his Advanced Professional
certification. The deployment option focuses more on optimizing virtual
desktop and app delivery, whereas the design option targets the
. p. 59
architecture of the deployment.
. p. 71 Citrix certifications for desktop and application virtualization involve learning
the ins and outs of XenDesktop and XenApp. The process begins with the
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Associate-level certification that covers basic tools, such as Citrix Director.
IT pros can take on more advanced tools, such as Citrix App Layering, with
the subsequent Professional certification. The Expert level certifies that IT
pros have the necessary skills to design an entire Citrix-based deployment
on their own.
Citrix and VMware offer certifications for cloud-based deployments of their

virtual application and desktop platforms, as well. The Citrix Virtual Apps and
Desktops Service on Citrix Cloud certification covers XenApp and
XenDesktop use specifically with Citrix Cloud. IT pros who use Microsoft
Azure deployments can get their Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service
on Microsoft Azure certification.
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Both of these Citrix certifications only have one level. IT pros can prepare
In this e-guide for both of these certifications with Citrix's course, titled CXD-252: Moving
to the XenApp and XenDesktop Service on Citrix Cloud and Microsoft
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Azure.
Container and cloud news VMware offers a Cloud Management and Automation certification with the
. p. 28 same tiers and specializations as its other certifications.

. p. 59
How can IT pros earn and maintain certifications?
. p. 71 To achieve the highest level of certification, both VMware and Citrix require
IT pros to begin with an Associate-level certification. Citrix and VMware
Further reading
recommend IT pros familiarize themselves with the technology they want a
certification for in advance, so they have a functional base of knowledge
from which to work.
VMware requires anyone attempting to earn a virtualization certification to

pass a foundation exam and attend a training course before taking the
certification exam itself. Citrix's approach is more hands-off, offering an
abbreviated training course for more experienced IT pros and requiring only
the certification exam. For each certification, both Citrix and VMware
provide comprehensive study guides that mirror the sections on the actual
exam. The real exam is a timed online test that typically costs several
hundred dollars.
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The cost of certification exams and courses can prohibit some IT pros from
In this e-guide staying up-to-date. Some organizations may sponsor the total cost of the
certification process, but IT pros who don't have support from their
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 organizations to pursue these VMware and Citrix certifications will need
significant capital to achieve one or several high-level certifications.
. p. 28 Further, organizations will probably only sponsor VMware and Citrix
certifications that directly benefit their deployment. IT pros looking for
certifications from both VMware and Citrix should only expect financial
. p. 59
support for fees associated with the virtual app and desktop software with
2019 Best of VMworld Awards which they work.
. p. 71
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How the Best of VMworld 2019 U.S.
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Awards work
. p. 28
The Best of VMworld 2019 U.S. Awards recognize the most innovative new
End-user computing news products in the server virtualization, cloud and end-user computing markets.
. p. 59 A panel of expert judges evaluated 70 nominated products on display at
2019 Best of VMworld Awards VMworld 2019 U.S. and named winners in six categories. Judges also chose
. p. 71 one product among those winners to stand above the rest as the Best of
Show.
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Ahead, find out the winners of 2019 Best of VMworld Awards in the following
categories:
• Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Platform

• Agile Operations, Automation and DevOps
• Networking
• Data Protection
• Security
• Digital Workspace
• Judges’ Choice: Startup Spotlight
• Judges’ Choice: Disruptive Technology
• Best of Show
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Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Platform
2019 winner
The Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Platform category recognizes
Container and cloud news hardware products designed to enable organizations to build virtual
. p. 28
infrastructures, including compute and storage hardware, as well as
End-user computing news software products designed to manage or virtualize hardware.
. p. 59
Winner: Nvidia Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation (QvDWS) version
2019 Best of VMworld Awards 9.0
. p. 71
What the judges said: "This product brings high-end graphics to the
Further reading
masses, to the remote office, which is huge."
Finalist: Runecast Solutions, Runecast Analyzer
Finalist: Panzura Freedom 8
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Agile Operations, Automation and DevOps 2019
winner
The Agile Operations, Automation and DevOps category recognizes
Container and cloud news products that help operations teams deploy and support apps in VMs and
. p. 28
containers on premises and in the cloud, as well as products that monitor,
End-user computing news track and manage on-premises or cloud-based workloads or that enable
. p. 59 workload migration across cloud platforms.
2019 Best of VMworld Awards Winner: Datadog Synthetics

. p. 71
What the judges said: "They correlate infrastructure and application data
Further reading
from different sources, and they have in-depth analytics and self-healing
tests anytime your developers push code out."
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Networking 2019 winner
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 The Networking category recognizes hardware and software technologies
that enhance networking in virtual or cloud infrastructures and/or enable
Container and cloud news and optimize virtualized networks.
. p. 28
Winner: Big Switch Networks, Big Cloud Fabric
. p. 59 What the judges said: "The fact that you can get visibility across all your
2019 Best of VMworld Awards clouds and on-site is a huge deal for your network operations."
. p. 71
Finalist: Men & Mice Suite 9.2
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Data Protection 2019 winner

The Data Protection category recognizes software products or cloud
services -- such as disaster recovery as a service -- that are designed to
back up, restore and replicate data and/or achieve fault tolerance in a virtual
server or cloud infrastructure.
Winner: Clumio Inc., Clumio
What the judges said: "They take security in backup seriously."
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Security 2019 winner
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 The Security category recognizes products that monitor and protect
hypervisors, cloud workloads, guest OSes and virtual networks and enforce
Container and cloud news security best practices.
. p. 28
Winner: ExtraHop Reveal(x)
. p. 59 What the judges said: "They provide a security operations center based on
2019 Best of VMworld Awards packet data."
. p. 71
Further reading
Digital Workspace 2019 winner
The Digital Workspace category recognizes products that secure mobile
devices, applications and content, while enabling mobile productivity, or
software and hardware platforms that deliver or enhance the delivery of
desktops and applications to various endpoints.
Winner: Liquidware FlexApp 6.8
What the judges said: "This product delivers Windows app layers from any
object-based cloud storage and can layer them into a running image at any
time."
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Finalist: ControlUp 7.4

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Finalist: Lakeside Software SysTrack 9.0

Judges' choice: Startup Spotlight 2019 winner
. p. 28
Judges didn't accept nominations for the Startup Spotlight category but had
End-user computing news the option to recognize a newer company coming to market with an
. p. 59 innovative product or approach. Judges considered all nominated products,
2019 Best of VMworld Awards as well as products on display at VMworld 2019 that weren't nominated for
. p. 71 the awards -- including products that haven't been released yet.
Further reading Winner: CloudKnox
What the judges said: "They provide a least privilege analysis platform for
the hybrid cloud."
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Judges' choice: Disruptive Technology 2019 winner
SDDC and virtualization p. 2 Judges didn't accept nominations for the Disruptive Technology category
but had the option to recognize an innovative product that has the potential
Container and cloud news to create a new market or disrupt an existing market with a new technology.
. p. 28 Judges considered all nominated products, as well as products on display at
VMworld 2019 that weren't nominated for the awards -- including products
. p. 59 that haven't been released yet.
2019 Best of VMworld Awards Winner: VMware NSX Intelligence

. p. 71
What the judges said: "It provides the framework to build an overall security
Further reading
policy that takes advantage of your on-site resources."
Best of VMworld 2019 U.S.: Best of Show winner

The Best of Show winner represents the best of the best and was chosen
among the winners of the previous categories.
Winner: Clumio Inc., Clumio
What the judges said: "From the very beginning, they baked security into
everything they did. And they give you a cost model built for the cloud."
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About SearchServerVirtualization
SearchServerVirtualization.com covers the latest trends and technologies
surrounding server virtualization, featuring objective, valuable articles and
Container and cloud news guides from our team of independent editors and expert contributors,
. p. 28 including 25-year IT veteran Jason Helmick.
End-user computing news While server virtualization has become mainstream across the IT industry in
. p. 59 recent years, with most organizations utilizing it in some capacity or another,
new, advanced virtualization technologies and techniques continue to
emerge and evolve, forcing IT pros to continually adapt and expand their
. p. 71
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Whether you made it to VMworld 2019 or missed it, here at

Section One: SDDC and virtualization

Track down the performance killer

Get insight on the user's experience

Take advantage of troubleshooting tools

A couple other options include iPerf, which is a network testing software

Manage monster VMs effectively

Instead of using slot-based High Availability admission control when running

And finally, when it comes to preventing future VM performance issues,

Container and cloud news

End-user computing news

2019 Best of VMworld Awards

Having converged traditional IT tiers and, in some cases, teams, VMware

Dan Scotti said his title of engineering software developer at MathWorks

Staffing changes sometimes result in pains before gains become evident.

He said members of his company who had a homegrown storage system

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Container and cloud news HCI market still growing

SDDC and virtualization p. 2

Part of VMware's new security strategy is to rethink how firewalls work.

VMware also wanted to move away from the industry's hyperfocus on

Gillis likened conventional firewalls to Transportation Security

A product like the Service-defined Firewall can't work without understanding

The VMware Service-defined Firewall isn't intended to replace traditional

"VMware's approach leverages expanded context to put more power behind

End-user computing news

2019 Best of VMworld Awards

Someone in Regeneron's small London office brought Druva to Hayes'

He said the only drawback he noticed was performing backup processes --

Project Pacific technical preview

VMware is also putting its acquisition of Bitfusion to use by announcing

Container and cloud news

Because vSphere is an established platform at this point, admins are looking

Nick Martin also contributed to this report.

EMC Data Domain system compared to cloud-based backup, Schlough was

SDDC and virtualization p. 2

SDDC and virtualization p. 2

Container and cloud news

End-user computing news

2019 Best of VMworld Awards

The Cohesity backup customers also recommended understanding the

Container and cloud news

End-user computing news

2019 Best of VMworld Awards

The cloud and VMware's mission

VMware Cloud on AWS seeks to cater to the growing number of customers

Container and cloud news

End-user computing news

2019 Best of VMworld Awards

VMware's container strategy redux also includes Project Pacific, a

"[Project Pacific] is the most significant rearchitecting of vSphere and

Mission Control is a SaaS-based tool that gives IT operations staff a single

Much of the interest in Kubernetes today is driven by developers who want

"The demonstration of user experience and IT process improvements are

"As someone who's an existing VMware customer, [Workspace One] can

Easing the strain on IT and HR resonated with other attendees, as well.

Adam Main, an enterprise architect at Legacy Reserves, an energy company

2019 Best of VMworld Awards VMware homes in on security

"The VMware Workspace One strategy is a platform geared to deliver a

The new Digital Employee Experience Management feature, for example,

Two-factor authentication (2FA) in VMware Horizon View is an easy-to-use