VMware Cloud Foundation brings together the building blocks of the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), namely vSphere, vSAN, and NSX, with the advanced automation capabilities of the VMware SDDC Manager. Combined, these components deliver an engineered integration of the core SDDC software stack. Whether you’re looking to build an on-premises private cloud, deploy the SDDC stack Read more...
As we prepare to head VMworld 2017 in both Las Vegas and Barcelona, we’re excited to announce that today, we’ve released the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 4.1 – continuing our commitment to delivering standardized, proven, and robust data-center level designs for the Software-Defined Data Center. The VMware Validated Designs provide our customers and Read more...
On March 2nd 2017 we released the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 4.0. A milestone release in our commitment to delivering our customers standardized, proven, and robust data-center level designs for the Software-Defined Data Center. The excitement from our customers and partners for this release has been phenomenal – from the wave of Read more...
We are seeing a great momentum with customers that are looking to adopt the VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) by implementing a standardized, scalable architecture using the guidance from the VMware Validated Designs. In no small measure this success we are experiencing is thanks to the partners that are part of our Certified Partner Architecture Read more...
We’re happy to announce that on 15 November 2016 we released an update to the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center from version 3.0 to 3.0.2. This release provides an updated Bill of Materials that incorporates new product versions and detailed upgrade procedures from the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center version 3.0 to version 3.0.2. The product versions Read more...
In the last year since VMware announced the VMware Validated Designs at VMworld 2015, we’ve delivered on two iterations of the VMware Validated Design for SDDC. The first release, VMware Validated Design for SDDC 1.0, became available as a special offering through VMware Professional services in the spring of 2015. That was then followed by Read more...
In my last post, I discussed the upcoming release of the VMware Validated Design for SDDC 3.0 that was announced at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas. Recall that the design provides a prescriptive and extensively-tested blueprint to deploy and operate an entire Software-Defined Data Center by synthesizing the full stack into a standardized, streamlined and Read more...
Without a consistent and repeatable approach to building a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), you’ll likely suffer through the pain of combinatorics. Combinatorics, the branch of mathematics that studies the enumeration, combination and permutations of variables, can be applied to the process of designing a data center. The more variables and permutations of those variables you Read more...
On behalf of the VMware Validated Design team, we are excited to announce the General Availability of the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 2.0. What are the VMware Validated Designs? A VMware Validated Design is a comprehensive set of documents that provide a prescriptive and extensively-tested blueprint to deploy and operate a Software-Defined Read more...
