Hey gurus, this is Mark Mikula.
And today I'm talking to you about VMware hybrid.
VMware is not a cloud provider.
So you might be wondering why should I be looking at this and an overview of
cloud providers? Well, VMware is the pioneer of virtualization,
which all clouds are based around. And because of that,
about three quarters of all virtualized servers and enterprises run
VMware.
Most enterprises will never just dump all of their infrastructure in the cloud
and shut down everything in their own data centers in a heartbeat.
Cloud providers noticed that and developed a new option for these companies.
Let them run their data center in the cloud rather than come up with lengthy
migration strategies. Think about it for a moment,
just move your servers into the cloud,
manage it the way that you always have no tools required,
your IT department continues to do what they already know.
It's a simple but effective idea. In this video,
We're going to uncover what VMware hybrid cloud is,
how it simply works and how you can quickly and easily establish
a cloud presence on existing platforms like Amazon web services,
Google cloud platform, and Microsoft Azure.
Where manages all of its servers,
virtual machines and the rest of an on-premise infrastructure using their own
native tools: Vcenter, Vrealize, vSphere, et cetera.
It's become increasingly easy to use VMware solutions to manage a virtual data
center.
This won't be a video that intricately describes all of the VMware products and
services, but instead,
explain to you why VMware products and services can be a valuable tool and
offering for your existing IT setup.
Simply put they can connect to a cloud provider.
And that cloud is then added to the locations, allowing you to provision,
manage and remove services, just like any other VMware data center.
This is why hybrid on VMware is so effective.
You get the best of both worlds - on-premises,
as well as some benefits of the cloud utilization.
It's not limited to just one cloud either.
You can add and manage resources like compute,
storage and networking in multiple clouds using the same VMware
tools.
So if one cloud provider has stronger features or benefits than others regions,
you can use them. Compute, storage,
networking and other services on the cloud provider remains unchanged.
The only thing that changes is the way that it's managed.
Because VMware isn't a cloud platform. It doesn't face the same competition.
If you're already using VMware, it makes sense to ask,
do we continue to use VMware or do we use another set of management tools?
And there may be a few things to consider here.
First there's a licensing fee associated with all of VMware's products.
It can be a hefty sum and companies might rather change their
entire environment just to avoid paying another licensing cost.
There are plenty of open source and cloud native tools available to perform
essentially the same functions. There's an important point to note though,
VMware solutions have gained market share by simply being the best
at what they do.
There are other products out there that are cost effective yet have a
much smaller market footprint.
So you may want to heavily consider how your environment is
utilized,
monitored and managed before making any hasty decisions.
All right, let's start with the pros. Number one,
you don't have to refactor or rearchitect workloads.
You can just migrate them over. That's fantastic. Number two,
you can pick almost any cloud provider. Also fantastic.
Three is consistent environment and operations,
which is also going to be really huge. For weaknesses,
you're going to have to make sure that your VMware environment is updated to
mitigate some of the issues that may result in older versions.
The other one is that because of the huge range of features offer
across all the different clouds,
there are some limited availabilities in some regions and some
providers. Make sure that when you're selecting a cloud provider,
you review the VMware documentation and any limitations for the cloud
provider that you're researching.
The ideal scenario for VMware hybrid includes well VMware utilization.
It would honestly make no sense if you were primarily using another management
tool or a product and not VMware to set up a VMware hybrid
infrastructure.
So this solution is only an option if your main virtualization platform is
VMware on-premises. And speaking of VMware on-premises,
the other requirement for the scenario is using an on-premise
infrastructure. While you probably wouldn't go for this option.
If you're already cloud native,
if you have a large VMware footprint in your data center,
this would be a great option to help reduce complexity. Now,
assuming you have both an premises data center and it's running VMware,
the main reason people are using it is because lift and shift is the focus
on gaining a cloud footprint.
If you're not going to be using a lot of platform as a service or software as a
service offerings immediately,
and you're not heavily integrating new management tools into your application
development processes immediately,
VMware hybrid cloud is the way to go.
If you're going to choose VMware hybrid cloud first step is to select the cloud
provider.
VMware hybrid cloud can be integrated with numerous cloud providers and
services.
So you'd want to do a bit of research to find out which provider will work best
for you. For example, if you're already familiar with Amazon web services,
then you'll be happy to hear that there is a lot of integration built up between
the two. In fact,
they've created a certification track for VMware cloud on AWS.
If you'd like to dig a little deeper into that,
our VMware cloud on AWS management exam course on a cloud guru would be a great
place to start.
It'll help you learn how to integrate and migrate as well as how to
modernize app deployment using the new VMware cloud foundation software
as a service. Well, that's all for now.
Keep being awesome cloud gurus.