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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: VMs, Containers, and Mega-Clouds: Connecting the Dots - MGT10599-S

By Julian Wood
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Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:

VMs, Containers, and Mega-Clouds: Connecting the Dots [MGT10599-S]

I’ve been getting more involved in containers recently and so am wanting to hear more about how to navigate the choices of where to run containers.

VMware’s Cloud Management BU Boss Ajay Singh was joined by customers Marshall Holloway from SAIC and Campbell McClean from Bharti Airtel to share some of their cloud journey decisions.

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Ajay had a picture (photoshopped obviously) showing him as a developer!

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Campbell was  particularly good customer presenter who mentioned they were in the middle of transitioning all their customer facing to apps to containers.

Marshall said SAIC train dolphins for the military! He also had a nice way to explain what they need from a container management perspective. “We need a conveyer belt that disciplines containers”. This was the message echoing what VMware is trying to be seen as, the grown up enterprise infrastructure on which you should run containers. I would have liked to see a bit more explanation as to what VMware products SAIC was using for its containers management other than NSX. NSX may be the glue but is the choice of VMware technology based on a networking decision rather than a container management decision?

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Project Admiral

We then had a tech preview of a new container management solution called Project Admiral which is a container management extension for vRealize Automation where you can automate the deployment of container hosts as well as containers. These can then be fed into blueprints to deploy any number of solutions and obviously tie into NSX etc.

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Then we also had a demo of what looks like a great visualisation tool for NSX, we saw how you can trace flows trough the virtual as well as physical networks and look at network utilisation pretty pictures!

I’ve said numerous times the term hybrid cloud is limiting when we are really talking about multi-clouds so I was happy to hear Campbell and Marshall talk about the multi-cloud, hybrid application future.

VMworld2016 has made the recording of many sessions publicly available but not this one it seems.