Broadcom bolsters VMware Cloud Foundation with storage, compute options

Broadcom announced upgrades to its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Portfolio this week, including an increase in vSAN capacity as well as compute virtualization options for customers.

VMware increased the virtual storage area network (vSAN) capacity in vSphere Foundation by 2.5x to 250 GiB per core, which the company says will offer customers a more powerful HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) offering for running virtual machines and containers. VMware’s vSAN is storage virtualization software designed for HCI and multicloud environments and provides customers with centralized management from a single cloud console. The additional storage capabilities will give customers greater scalability, according to VMware.

“To give our customers a more powerful and valuable enterprise-class HCI solution for running VMs and containers with IT infrastructure optimization, we will be increasing the amount of vSAN capacity included in VMware vSphere Foundation by 2.5x to 250 GiB per core,” said Prashanth Shenoy, vice president of product marketing, VCF division, Broadcom, in a blog.

Other enhancements to this release include additional compute virtualization options. Customers can now select VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and VMware vSphere Standard through distribution channels or directly from Broadcom.

The updates are part of a bigger effort from VMware, according to Shenoy, who detailed earlier this year how Broadcom will continue to innovate with VCF to help customers looking to embrace the benefits of public cloud with private cloud infrastructure.

“VMware Cloud Foundation helps organizations modernize their infrastructure with the best possible [total cost of ownership]. It’s fully software-defined compute, network, storage with automated and simplified operations,” Shenoy wrote in a blog. “VMware Cloud Foundation enables a cloud operating model that provides the benefit of public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises private clouds.”

A trend toward moving workloads back on-premises and private cloud infrastructure has been noted by research firms. According to the IDC report, Assessing the Scale of Workload Repatriation: Insights from IDC’s Server and Storage Workload Surveys, a majority of companies will bring compute and storage resources back on-premises.

“More than 80% of companies are expecting to undergo some repatriation of compute and storage resources to private cloud or non-cloud environments after one year of public cloud migrations,” IDC reports.

Source:: Network World