Introducing NSX Hybrid Connect - VMware Certifications

I still remember the days where vCenter/ESXi became popular with great features and now it’s the time for VMware NSX (Network stack) which is now widely deployed in most of the VMware based Customer Infrastructures. Dream of the cloud is now moved to deployments phase but also brings additional challenges to maintain the Application Mobility from one Data Center to Cloud and vice versa. VMware NSX Hybrid Connect delivers secure infrastructure hybridity between vSphere platforms and enables seamless bi-directional application mobility. NSX Hybrid Connect does not require NSX to be present in the source environment. However, if NSX is present, additional features such as distributed firewall rules are possible

NSX Hybrid Connect enables bi-directional application landscape mobility by creating a layer of hybridity between the source and destination environments. NSX Hybrid Connect can stretch Layer-2 networks via high throughput L2C appliances while encrypting and optimizing traffic that passes over the interconnect. NSX Hybrid Connect migration options include vMotion and bulk migration methods, when combined with stretched networks allows workloads to retain their IP regardless of the environment they are running on. The proxy architecture of NSX Hybrid Connect enables hybridity and migrations without retrofitting applications. As part of the migration process, NSX Hybrid Connect optionally migrates traditional/legacy networking to NSX-based logical networks and logical routing, automating the process of physical to logical network conversion.

NSX Hybrid Connect provides a hybrid cloud environment for workload mobility across enterprise sites:

Infrastructure Abstraction:

NSX Hybrid Connect abstracts infrastructure and allows you to interoperate across different versions of vSphere software-defined data centers (SDDC) and across different network types.

Infrastructure Hybridity:

NSX Hybrid Connect provides high performance, multi-site datacenter-to-datacenter interconnectivity capabilities. With NSX Hybrid Connect, customers can set up WAN optimized multi-site IPsec VPN mesh for secure site-to-site connectivity. On top of this secure, optimized fabric, customers can stretch Layer 2 networks and extend datacenters between sites. NSX Hybrid Connect provides high-performance large-scale L2 extension – up to 5Gbps per extended VLAN/VxLAN – at scale.

Workload Mobility:

NSX Hybrid Connect provides large-scale application mobility between sites without any impact to application performance, runtime, and access. NSX Hybrid Connect provides secure live migration and large-scale warm migration, enabling customers to transform their applications and datacenter more rapidly and securely. This migration approach combined with stretched networks allows bi-directional migrations without any network configuration changes, such as IP address, DNS, MAC address, etc. Additionally, delays due to large-scale application dependency mapping are avoided. Customers can move applications without worrying about application dependencies. NSX Hybrid Connect automates manual migration tasks, allowing your team to easily and safely leverage the cloud with reduced risks and cost. Simple, intuitive UI reduces data center and cloud complexity and eliminates the need for specialized skill and knowledge.

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VMware a Leader in Unified Endpoint Management - VMware Certifications

According to the Forrester Wave report, “Over the past year, VMware has invested heavily in helping customers embrace modern management for Windows 10 with its Workspace ONE product. The solution’s differentiated AirLift feature automates migration of SCCM collections, devices, and app packages to Workspace ONE. It excels in IAM, with features like single sign-on (SSO) to the Workspace ONE app and support for dozens of conditional access policies.”

VMware continues to deliver on new innovations that make Workspace ONE the industry’s digital workspace platform of choice for IT and employees. From apps to mobile devices to PCs, VMware Workspace ONE UEM provides employees with a single console to manage and better secure their most critical business apps and devices across all platforms, including Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, iOS, and Android. Workspace ONE UEM delivers an automated and on-demand workspace environment with greater flexibility and at lower costs for an intuitive, more secure experience for all employees, both inside and outside the office.

“By helping customers manage and better secure more devices and OS platforms, more apps, and more clouds with Workspace ONE, VMware is uniquely positioned to help them embrace the technology heterogeneity that is commonplace in today’s workplace,” said Noah Wasmer, senior vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware. “We are proud of the fact that our broad platform support, deep management and security capabilities, and expansive partner ecosystem are leading the industry and, we believe, have earned us recognition from today’s leading analysts.”

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VMware vSAN named the CRN Product of the Year, For Three Years Running

VMware is pleased to announce that, for the third year in a row, vSAN is the CRN Product of the Year in the Software Defined Storage category. We are thankful for the recognition from our partner community, and we’re excited to see the continued leadership momentum. This year, vSAN was named a leader twice by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure 

CRN’s annual Products of the Year Awards are given to standout products and services that represent best-in-breed technological innovation and customer demand, among other criteria. A panel of CRN editors selected five eligible products as finalists, and winners were chosen by survey fielded to solution providers to accurately capture real-world satisfaction among partners and their customers. CRN received over 3,600 responses to determine the Overall Winner in each category.

vSAN Delivered A New Hyperconverged Infrastructure Experience in 2018

This year, VMware released two new versions of vSAN, which delivered a new experience for users. In April 2018, VMware vSAN simplified operations with a new, intuitive management experience that included a new user interface based on HTML5 for consistent operations across the full SDDC stack. The UI was rebuilt from the ground up, with a clean, modern look. The user experience is similar to sleek web browsers that you use every day: clean, simple and intuitive. In addition, a new quickstart workflow empowered users to quickly build and integrate cloud infrastructure with guided, exhaustive instructions for a simple, consistent experience. vSAN also introduced a number of new capabilities to ensure predictable application performance and availability, including intelligent self-healing capabilities that minimize the impact of resynchronization (resync) operations and establishing guard rails for maintenance mode. Finally, VMware introduced ReadyCare, a term to describe the focused investments and innovations being made into vSAN support. Similar to vSAN ReadyLabs that focuses on certifications and new technologies, vSAN ReadyCare represents the combined investments the vSAN team is making in people, services and technology to provide a superior vSAN support experience. Support innovations included more proactive health alerts, tools that aid in rapidly diagnosing issues with less work for customers, and expediting self help with a centralized heath summary.