IT administrators have been hearing about the hybrid cloud for what feels like eternities.
You hear it discussed at conferences like VMworld, read about it in product guides and blogs (like this one), and even see it in commercials on television. You understand the reality of a multi-cloud world and see the benefits of deploying across different clouds.
But at the end of the day, how can your IT organization begin to build and leverage the benefits of a hybrid cloud architecture?
Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation!
VMware Cloud Foundation with Hybrid Cloud Extension provides you the simplest path to a hybrid cloud by helping you solve two fundamental problems when building a hybrid cloud.
First and foremost, Cloud Foundation provides you a consistent and robust architecture based on VMware Validated Designs (VVD) that is deployed across both private and public clouds. As seen below, we have a wide range of partners that can help you deploy Cloud Foundation’s best in class virtualization stack, including vSphere, vSAN, and NSX!
The automation of Cloud Foundation simplifies the experience of deploying a VMware based cloud and will have you up and running within days. Rather than spend time building and maintaining your cloud deployments, you can focus your efforts on deciding the best locations to house your workloads. By utilizing clouds built on the VMware’s virtualization technologies, you can easily move workloads around to the best suited cloud without worrying about re-platforming or re-architecting applications.
Hybrid Connectivity with Hybrid Cloud Extension
The second problem facing IT administrators as they build out their hybrid clouds is how to establish a secure connection between clouds. With Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX), this problem is easily solved with a click of a few buttons. HCX creates a bi-directional, high throughput, and WAN optimized connection between a VMware Cloud Foundation deployed on premises as a private cloud and a VMware Cloud Foundation public cloud partner. Furthermore, the connection allows you to extend your L2 networks so as you migrate VMs between clouds you will not need to worry about re-configuring IP addresses.
By installing HCX, you will easily be able to connect to a broad range of VMware public cloud partners, such as VMware Cloud on AWS, IBM Cloud, Rackspace, Fujitsu, NTT Communications, and many more!
Want to leverage the same technology for your on premises deployments? NSX Hybrid Connect, a part of the NSX Enterprise Plus bundle, allows you to do so, enabling you to migrate workloads into Cloud Foundation from legacy infrastructure (vSphere 5.0+) and create private cloud to private cloud connections.
With VMware Cloud Foundation and Hybrid Cloud Extension, IT administrators can focus on capturing the value of hybrid cloud rather than spending time building and designing one. Once you are up and running, you will be able to take advantage of use cases such as cloud bursting and regional expansion. To learn more, please refer to the links below. Cheers!
VMworld US 2018 Session: https://videos.vmworld.com/searchsite/2018/videoplayer/22291
Overview of VMware Cloud Foundation: https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-foundation.html
Overview of Hybrid Cloud Extension: https://hcx.vmware.com/
White paper on deploying NSX Hybrid Connect with Cloud Foundation: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/cloud-foundation/vmware-cloud-foundation-workload-migration-white-paper.pdf
