VMware Cloud Formation 9.0
An Introduction to VMware Cloud Formation 9.0
Since it’s VMware Explore in London
The new VCF 9.0 is out and it’s quite the exciting product. I’m probably going to do a short break down of the 2V0-17.20 study guide later on too, so keep an eye out for that. (pictures nicked from VMware)
VMware Cloud Foundation Operations® (formerly VMware Aria Operations) or VCF Operations helps you build, manage, operate and secure your private cloud infrastructure by deploying and maintaining its fleet-level components, providing visibility and enhanced performance across the workload and infrastructure stack, and helping your organization stay compliant with regulatory standards and organizational guidelines.
VCF Taxonomy
Here you can see a VCF Fleet with the VCF Automation and Operations Managers. Below that you get individual VCF Instances comprising Management & Workload Domains.
VCF Operations
VCF Operations has the following main functional areas:
• Fleet management.
Enables operational consistency and efficient resource management of the VCF infrastructure at scale.
This gives you licence management, lifecycle management, IDAM, Certificate Management, Password Management, Configuration Management and Tag Management.
• Operations management.
Provides monitoring and optimization of performance, cost and capacity, and faster troubleshooting.
Here you get Health and Diagnostics, Intergrated Operations (Log analysis, Network Operations, Storage Operations & Management Packs)
• Workload operations.
Ensures that critical applications are running as expected.
• Performance monitoring.
Ensures applications have continuous access to resources
• FinOps and capacity.
Helps you analyze your infrastructure expenses and optimize capacity usage. With Capacity Management, you’re able to assess, optimise and plan your compute and storage, as well as see whose spending what. You also get Workload placement and the ability to do What-if Analysis. There’s a new Green Score as well to help you manage your sustainability and optimising your resources.
• Workload mobility.
Provides support for migrating and interconnecting workloads within and across VCF private cloud.
• Security management.
Provides security management to ensure that your VCF private cloud is operationally secure. Here you get Security Dashboard, Event Auditing, Compliance checks & the ability to build configurations to match CIS and others best practices.
VCF Automation
Cloud Services
you can provision VM’s, Kubernetes Workloads, networking, volumes, secrets stores, databases, etc
Provider Management
IT Teams and CSPs can create multiple isolated tenancies here. Either separate companies or breaking down departments into their own tenancies and VPC’s.
Organisation Management
Improved governance for used and resources allowing administrators to create projects beneath the tenancies & Namespaces for different application teams. You can set resource limits & polices via the VPCs.
vSphere Supervisor
This is the foundation of VCF consumption. It transforms vSphere clusters into a modern platform embedding Kubernetes Control planes directly into ESX. This integration allows end users to provision and manage their workloads while giving IT the ability to govern those resources and permissions. You get full Kubernetes clusters running besides Virtual Machines, Image registries & data services, all via an API Interface. You get governance and security via vCenter, VCF Operations and VCF Automation. There’s GIT integration & worfklows; in fact anything you get in the public cloud, you can now get privately.