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Key Takeaways From VMware EMPOWER 2022
VMware held their annual EMPOWER for the Americas in May of 2022. The three day virtual partner conference consisted of general/breakout sessions, "ask the expert" sessions, hands-on labs and technical training.
All the sessions were available to VMware partners online, but there are often themes and details that get lost along the way. So, we asked WWT's VMware technical experts what they found most interesting from EMPOWER. Here is what they had to say.
VMware Cloud Foundation: Developer Ready Infrastructure Essentials Lab
This lab provides an introduction to the Kubernetes features and capabilities available with VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu.
VMware Cloud Foundation: Software-Defined Networking Essentials Lab
This lab provides an introduction to the software-defined networking capabilities of VMware NSX-T that are enabled with every VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. This lab will show the simplicity of creating networks in software, attaching workloads to these networks (segments) in vSphere, securing the workloads using NSX Distributed Firewall and creating a Load Balancer using NSX.
VMware vSAN Closes a Major Resiliency Gap
VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 is officially released, and with it comes a feature that closes an observed resiliency gap during unplanned outages.
3 VCF POCs in the ATC, What We Learned...
We have had many customers in WWT's Advanced Technology Center utilize our Proof of Concept (POC) testing to evaluate different Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions that would fit their production environment needs. In this ATC Insight, we expose information from three different POCs that we executed on with our customers. All three of the POC's mentioned in this ATC Insight demonstrate the flexibility of VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) and show how it offers a variety of ways for organizations to run the infrastructure on-premise and in the cloud.
NetApp ONTAP Select SDS Lab
Deploy NetApp ONTAP Your Way
Build a software-defined storage infrastructure using flexible storage configurations ONTAP Select converts a server's internal disk drives, SSD or HDD, as well as HCI and external array storage into an agile, flexible storage platform with many of the same benefits that dedicated storage systems based on NetApp ONTAP offer. You can deploy ONTAP Select on new servers or on your existing server infrastructure for added flexibility. ONTAP Select is simple to manage and leverages the same management software of ONTAP based solutions, so you can reduce operational overhead and training requirements.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Briefing
Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) offers organizations software-centric data center infrastructure that seamlessly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization technologies. This briefing explores the HCI market, who the top players are, what are the appropriate use cases, what differentiates the different vendors and commonly asked questions when evaluating or integrating HCI. As part of the briefing, we will also include a live demonstration of our on-demand HCI labs and explain how to access them.
Primer Series: What Is Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)?
What is hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)? Learn about the benefits of hyper-convergence and key considerations when choosing an HCI solution.
Resiliency Testing VxRail
One of our customers wanted to look at testing resiliency on a vSAN cluster. More specifically, they wanted to test the resiliency of a VxRail solution. For these tests we used an 8 node VxRail that was available inside the Advanced Technology Center (ATC). Below is a high-level design of the environment. The goal of this testing was to see how VxRail and vSAN would react to disruptive and non-disruptive tests.
WWT Builds Lab for Google Cloud's Anthos Featuring Intel Select Solutions
Google Cloud's Anthos is a hugely beneficial infrastructure solution for hybrid cloud and multicloud deployments. Now, WWT is building on that advantage by becoming one of the first to offer Anthos running on the Cisco Hyperflex™ platform powered by Intel® Select Solutions --which is now available to see in action in our Advanced Technology Center and on our Digital Platform.
Primer Series: VMware vSAN
This article is part of the WWT Primer Series, a collection of content focused on the fundamental understanding of complex technologies and solutions.
Are you just moving a bottleneck in your VSAN Solution?
One of our customers asked us to do a Proof of Concept (or POC) around some very customized performance based testing around vSAN technology. That being said, this ATC Insight gets into the weeds of benchmarking, so prepare yourself for a fun ride!
Meet the HCI Lab
Our HCI Lab is a multi-vendor setup that encompasses all the major HCI players and considerations.
Gartner's HCI "Vague" Quadrant
Gartner's annual HCI Magic Quadrant has been released, and we've reviewed it.
Evaluating HCI: An Infinite Approach
A different way to look at decision making and where to start when evaluating hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). Ignore the noise, analyze the problem and design the right solution, not only for the problem itself but the company's vision and future.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Workshop
Our Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Workshop is a strategic and interactive session focused on helping customers understand the differences between HCI vendors. The workshop exercises allow customers to build custom evaluations that reflect different vendor's abilities to meet requirements.