MARK MIRCHANDANI: Cloud migration
is top of mind for many organizations today.
While moving to the cloud can be full of challenges,
the cloud offers many advantages around increased agility,
new and innovative services, and on-demand pricing
that traditional data centers don't offer.
So let's talk about one way to make migration easier--
hosting your native VMware environment right
on Google Cloud.
The reality is that managing your own infrastructure
is often an unnecessary burden and usually
isn't a differentiator for the business.
While migrating to the cloud is the end goal,
there can be significant complexity in refactoring
applications, as well as the tools and policies
your teams use.
The challenge of migration can involve risks
and put your business in analysis paralysis.
Google Cloud wants to help businesses capture
the benefits of cloud while reducing the complexity
of doing a full refactor.
Today we're going to show you how
that's possible with Google Cloud VMware
Engine, a fast and safe way to move your VMware
workloads to the cloud.
Google Cloud VMware Engine is built
to address the biggest issues that
prevent most workloads from moving to the cloud--
lack of resources and the cost of re-architecting apps.
With Google Cloud VMware Engine, you can migrate your apps
with zero changes.
You'll be able to run your VMs in a private native VMware
environment.
This means you can use the same tools, processes, and policies
while still getting the advantages of being
in the cloud, on top of deeper integration with other Google
Cloud services.
In fact, it doesn't take long to spin up an environment.
You can lower your total cost of ownership
quickly and spend more time planning how
to re-architect down the road.
Let's walk through a demo of how to set up a Google Cloud VMware
environment with just a few clicks.
We'll start by showing how to access the Google Cloud VMware
Engine from the Google Cloud console.
After that, we'll create a secure and isolated boundary
called a private cloud that will contain the VMware environment.
Then we'll take a tour of some of the platform features
and jump into the familiar vSphere interface.
Let's start with the icon in the upper left-hand corner
of the console.
Scroll down to the Compute section,
and you'll see VMware Engine.
Clicking on this takes us to the overview
page, which provides additional details
and lets us do common operations,
like creating our private cloud, viewing documentation,
launching the vSphere client, modifying network settings,
and managing users.
Let's create a private cloud by clicking on the Create Private
Cloud button.
Here we'll be able to customize our cloud
by choosing a location.
Let's leave it on US east and increase the number of nodes
from 3 to 4.
We'll also add a CIDR range for our appliances
and then click Review and Create.
After reviewing that everything looks good,
we'll click Create to kick off the process.
Once completed, we can see the details of the environment
as well as other private clouds that we've created.
While the private cloud is being created,
let's talk about pricing.
Pricing is done per node and includes all the storage,
compute, and licensing to run a VMware environment.
By default, you'll pay per month,
but you can also sign up for a one or three-year plan
to save money.
All of the billing for VMware Engine
is integrated so you can see payment details
side by side with your other Google Cloud services.
After your private cloud is created,
you can access it from the Resources screen.
Here you can see all of your private clouds and manage them.
By clicking on a specific private cloud,
you can see the details of its configuration.
Here you can launch your VirtualCenter client,
which is the standard enterprise VirtualCenter client you're
likely already familiar with.
You can also expand the cloud by adding nodes, as well
as scrolling down to the bottom, where
you can shrink your environment, escalate your privileges so you
can get admin access in VirtualCenter,
or even delete the private cloud entirely.
Let's scroll back up to the top of the screen
and launch the vSphere client.
On this login page, we can enter our credentials.
After logging in, you can see that we're
working with the same interface that you and your team
are likely already familiar with.
This native access to VMware gives you a standard way
to control your applications while getting all the benefits
of running on Google Cloud.
Now let's return to the Google Cloud VMware Engine management
console and look at some of the networking details.
Here we can manage and set up our VLANs and subnets, firewall
tables, public IP addresses, VPN gateways, and VPC Peerings,
where you can easily access your Google Cloud infrastructure
from your VMware environment.
The activities interface provides details
that your security and operations
teams will be interested in.
It provides any alerts that have occurred in the environment,
details on any events that have occurred in the past,
current running tasks, and allows
you to audit any activities done by a user.
The Account screen gives you an overview of your entire VMware
Engine environment, including the ability
to sign up for email alerts.
You're also able to manage the users who
have access to the environment.
We're eager for everyone to see Google Cloud VMware Engine
and are excited to say that it's available for you
to try out right now.
With this quick tour, you should be
ready to migrate your VMware environment to the cloud
quickly.
Check out the documentation and see more details
and spin up your own private cloud.
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