VMworld 2019 Link-O-Rama: learn more about all the VMworld announcements

Latest update to the Link-O-Rama was on Thursday August 29

With VMworld 2019 happening right now in San Francisco, a lot of news & announcements are broadcasted straight from the Moscone Center. To give you an overview of the most important news I’ve created a VMworld 2019 Link-O-Rama. Read and learn more about Project Pacific, VMware Tanzu, the latests updates on the vRealize portfolio and more.

This document will be updated throughout the week. I hope you will find it useful!

General Recap – Watch the General Sessions on Monday and Tuesday presented by VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, COO Sanjay Poonen, CTO Ray O’Farrell and others.

NSX – NSX is VMware’s Software Defined Networking solution and an essential component of the SDDC. Read more about NSX announcements in the following blogposts:

Avi Networks — Same Team, Same Mission, New Home (Amit Pandey)
NSX-T 2.5 – A New Marker on the Innovation Timeline (Umesh Mahajan)

Project Pacific – Project Pacific is VMware’s initiative to deeply integrate and embed Kubernetes into vSphere. It’s strongly linked to VMware Tanzu, a portfolio of products and services that transform how the enterprise builds software on Kubernetes. Project Pacific evolves vSphere to be a native Kubernetes platform! Learn more about Project Pacific in the following blog posts:

Introducing Project Pacific (Kit Colbert)
Project Pacific – Technical Overview (Jared Rosoff)
Project Pacific: Kubernetes to the Core (Joe Beda)

Pulse IoT – VMware Pulse IoT Center is a secure, enterprise grade, edge infrastructure and IoT device management solution for both IT and OT organizations and any IoT use case. Learn more about Pulse IoT announcements in the following blogpost:

VMware Pulse IoT Center 2.0 On-Premise Release (Lakshmi Mandyam)

vRealize Updates – vRealize is VMware’s Cloud Management Platform, and is now available as both an on-premises platform as well as a SaaS-based platform: vRealize Automation Cloud (formerly known as Cloud Automation Services ) and vRealize Operations Cloud. At VMworld vRealize Automation 8.0 was announced! vRealize Automation 8.0 is based on a brand new architecture, that is also used in the on-line Cloud Automation Services/vRealize Automation Cloud platform. Learn more about the next generation vRealize (Cloud) solutions in these blog posts:

Announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.0 (Maya Shiran)
Announcing VMware vRealize Operations Cloud: AI/ML Based Monitoring as a Service (John Dias)
Announcing VMware vRealize Operations 8.0 (Taruna Ghandi)
vRealize Automation 8 – What’s New Overview (Karl Fultz)
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0 – What’s New (Hicham Mourad)
Where is Operations Management at VMworld 2019 US? (Ellie Ruano)

VMware Cloud Foundation – VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is VMware’s foundation for the private and public cloud. VCF includes the software defined infrastructure based and vSphere, vSAN and NSX; but also includes a cloud management layer based on vRealize solutions. VCF integrates with a lot of different private and public cloud platforms/solutions. Learn more about VCF announcements in the following blog posts:

Accelerating Kubernetes Adoption with VMware PKS on Cloud Foundation (Rick Walsworth)
Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation and HPE Synergy with HPE GreenLake
Extending Composable Hybrid Cloud for Workload Mobility Use Cases (Robert Campbell)
Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation for Cloud Providers (Luis Ayuso)
Private Cloud powered by VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell/EMC PowerEdge MX (Girish Manmadkar)

VMware Cloud General – General VMware Cloud announcements:

Announcing VMware Cloud Marketplace Initial Availability (Arun Goel)
Hybrid Cloud Platform Powers The New VMware Cloud (Narayan Bharadwaj)

VMware Cloud on AWS – VMware Cloud on AWS (VMConAWS) is VMware’s co-engineered public cloud platform running on top of the AWS infrastructure. A new version of VMConAWS is available, providing great new capabilities. Learn more about it in Sai’s blogpost:

Extending ‘Partner Ready for VMware Cloud on AWS’ program to include other VMware Cloud solutions (Sonali Desai)
VMware Cloud on AWS – New capabilities to migrate, manage and modernize enterprise workloads (Sai Gopalan)

VMware Cloud on Dell-EMC – VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is Dell Technologies infrastructure installed in your local data center and consumed just like a cloud service. VMware Cloud on DELL EMC is available now, learn more in het blogpost by Kit Colbert:

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Now Available! (Kit Colbert)

VMware Tanzu – VMware Tanzu is a a portfolio of products and services to transform the way enterprises build software on Kubernetes. A tech preview of Tanzu Mission Control as part of that portfolio was announced. Learn more about Tanzu here:

Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control to Bring Order to Cluster Chaos (Graig McLuckie)
VMware Tanzu Completes the Modern Applications Picture (Paul Fazzone)

VMware vSAN – vSAN is at the heart of HCI offerings from VMware. With Project Magna, what VMware will be showing at how VMware is using an ML technique known as “Reinforcement Learning” to optimize the performance your applications experience from vSAN. Learn more about Project Magna in the next blogpost:

Tech Preview Announcement: vSAN Performance Optimization Using AI/ML (Project Magna)

VMware Workspace ONE – Learn more about the latest VMware Workspace ONE announcements in the following blogpost. Workspace ONE is VMware’s digital workspace platform.