Modern software defined compute, also known as virtualization, is the first step toward the VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud™ creates portable workloads and place workloads on premises, off premises or both. You choose where your applications live and you retain full management control. Extends your data center, you can use the same management tools and both on site and offsite cloud environments. You can also set your networks to mimic your existing data center settings. High availability and load balancing are included at no extra cost. VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud™ also offers total edge gateway control. VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud™ is ideal for smaller workloads and tight budgets. It’s also an excellent option for workloads that don’t need dedicated hardware and can be deployed in a multi tenant environment. Gain robust hybrid capabilities with workload portability, seamless networking, and common management make it easy to extend to the cloud from on premises environments. CIOs and IT executives can demonstrate and compare the costs of complex initiatives and investments, including private and public clouds.

Introduced by VMware™ more than a decade ago, x86 server virtualization has become a standard technology used by a vast majority of data centers worldwide. Servers deployed the conventional way operate at less than 15 percent of capacity. Virtualization rewrites the entire equation. CPU and memory are decoupled from physical hardware, creating pools of resources for use wherever needed. Each virtualized application and its operating system are encapsulated in a separate, isolated software container called a virtual machine (VM). Many VMs can be run simultaneously on each server, putting the majority of hardware capacity to productive use. The results have transformed server efficiency by offering superior performance, higher availability, and significant savings. The result is IT achieves significantly more at dramatically lower cost through virtualization. VMware™ software defined architecture can be deployed in your data center as a private cloud or off site using secure infrastructure—as—a—service (IaaS) operated by VMware™ or a certified partner. Most companies choose a hybrid combination of on premises and IaaS platforms.

VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud

Creates portable workloads and place workloads on premises, off premises or both. You choose where your applications live and you retain full management control. Extends your data center, you can use the same management tools and both on site and offsite cloud environments. You can also set your networks to mimic your existing data center settings. High availability and load balancing are included at no extra cost. VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud™ also offers total edge gateway control. VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud™ is ideal for smaller workloads and tight budgets. It’s also an excellent option for workloads that don’t need dedicated hardware and can be deployed in a multi tenant environment. Gain robust hybrid capabilities with workload portability, seamless networking, and common management make it easy to extend to the cloud from on premises environments. VMware vSphere™ with Operations Management is the starting point for building your Software—Defined Datacenter.

VMware Software Defined Storage

VMware’s software defined storage™ (VMware SDS™) strategy is to evolve storage architectures through the pervasive hypervisor, bringing to storage the simplicity, efficiency, and cost savings that server virtualization brought to compute. Software Defined Storage abstracts the underlying storage through a virtual data plane, making the VM, and thus the application, the fundamental unit of storage provisioning and management across heterogeneous storage systems. By creating a flexible separation between applications and available resources, the hypervisor can balance all IT resources—compute, memory, storage and networking—needed by an application. The fully virtualized data center is automated and managed by intelligent, policy based data center management software, vastly simplifying governance and operations. A single, unified management platform lets you centrally monitor and administer all applications across physical geographies, heterogeneous infrastructure and hybrid clouds. You can deploy and manage workloads in physical, virtual and cloud environments with a unified management experience. IT becomes agile, elastic and responsive to a degree never before possible.

VMware Network Virtualization

What is network virtualization, and how does it differ from software defined networking (SDN)? In contrast to SDN, in which hardware remains the driving force, VMware™ network virtualization technology truly decouples network resources from underlying hardware. Virtualization principles are applied to physical network infrastructure, abstracting network services to create a flexible pool of transport capacity that can be allocated, utilized and repurposed on demand. In a close analogy to the virtual machine, a virtualized network is a software container that presents logical network components—logical switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs and more—to connected workloads. These virtualized networks are programmatically created, provisioned and managed, with the underlying physical network serving as a simple packet forwarding back plane. Network and security services are allocated to each VM according to its needs, and stay attached to it as the VM moves among hosts in the dynamic virtualized environment. VMware’s™ network virtualization platform, VMware NSX™, deploys on top of existing physical network hardware and supports the newest fabrics and geometries from all vendors.

Features And Benefits

Built on VMware software defined data center™ technology, VMware vCloud Air™ is infrastructure—as—a—service (IaaS) operated by VMware™. It lets you quickly, seamlessly and securely extend your data center into the cloud using the tools and processes you already have. You can run your hybrid environment with a common, unified model for management, orchestration, networking and security. Cloud services from VMware™—certified VMware™ partners offer an array of globally consistent, flexible and custom tailored cloud services. These too are built on VMware software defined technology, for compatibility with your internal data center, guaranteed service levels, auditable security and assured compliance. Infrastructure and applications services are requested via a self—service portal where authorized administrators, developers or business users can select services that comply with pre defined business policies. Service delivery is highly automated. Logical infrastructure and application blueprints model services that can be deployed in any approved cloud environment.