VMware announced updates to VMware vRealize cloud to improve software-defined data center (SDDC) and cloud operations and accelerate application and infrastructure service delivery across hybrid clouds.
New releases include VMware vRealize Operations 6.6, VMware vRealize Automation 7.3, vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3, vRealize Log Insight 4.5 and vRealize Network Insight 3.4 — offering advanced intelligent operations and automated IT capabilities.
VMware will offer more support for containers and configuration management solutions to ease moving applications from dev-test to production.
VMware is selling vRealize Network Insight 3.4 in two editions — Advanced and Enterprise – for a starting price of $1,245 per CPU.
VMware vRealize Suite enables customers to manage and provision at scale — compute, network, storage and application services across hybrid cloud environments. The platform’s management capabilities for the SDDC and across clouds help customers to address three common use cases — intelligent operations, automated IT and DevOps-ready IT.
“These latest updates to our vRealize platform will help customers get more out of hybrid cloud investments, and put them on a path for cross-cloud management of applications and infrastructure regardless of where the workload is running,” said Ajay Singh, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware.
New vRealize features
vRealize Operations 6.6 adds new intelligence to workload placement decisions to automate workload balancing across clusters and datastores based on business imperatives, including ability to schedule rebalancing in a convenient maintenance window.
This release will also feature predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler (pDRS) combining analytics from vRealize Operations with VMware vSphere DRS to predict anomalies and act before contention occurs.
vRealize Operations 6.6 will deliver native vSAN management and monitoring. Capabilities include capacity and time remaining, dedupe and compression savings, and reclamation opportunities for hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions powered by vSAN.
Additionally, the new release will also enable centralized management of multi-site and stretched cluster vSAN environments with advanced troubleshooting, proactive alerting and visibility from VM to disk.
vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3 will come as a tab in vRealize Operations 6.6 for new insights that show how capacity utilization drives cost efficiencies by combining operational and cost metrics. New vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3 will improve insight into the complete costs of AWS and Microsoft Azure instances alongside VMware-based private cloud costs.
vRealize Network Insight 3.4 will introduce support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) networking and security to enable users to plan security by AWS Virtual Private Cloud and AWS tags.
“Adopting agile development practices and vRealize Automation was a strategic business decision to enable us to gain a competitive edge in the manufacturing ERP market,” said Chris Smallwood, vice president of IT, IQMS.
“We have accelerated our product development cycles, and look forward to the new DevOps-related and hybrid cloud features of vRealize Automation 7.3 to help our IT efficiently meet the needs of our development team, and ultimately our customers,” Chris Smallwood said.
