VMware Cloud Foundation 9 New Features Accounced

big news is Explore come from VMware at VMware explore 2024 . They is unveiled have unveil VMware Cloud Foundation ( VCF ) 9 . There are many note feature that are come with vcf 9 . Broadcom is aim at continue their goal of IT to shift from traditional infrastructure to private cloud and hybrid cloud . let ’s see what this new announce version of VCF bring to the table .

Operations and Automation improvements

There are several new features to note with operations and automation that include the following:

• new Self – Service Cloud Portal : There is a new portal that allow you to have access to easy provisioning of service . This is helps help with management console “ sprawl ” so you do n’t have yet another management console to log into . The consolidated effect is helps help with the management experience and help to reduce the burden on IT .
• Workflow integration: There are new and improved workflow integration according to Broadcom that will help with operations and automation tasks. Along with the new workflows, there are new analytics and insights that help you to be more proactive with management.
• Better VCF Import: There are now much better options for you to import existing VMware infrastructure. Things like VMware NSX, VMware vDefend, and VMware Avi Load Balancer can be imported now into your VCF environment. This again helps with the transition to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.

New NVMe Memory Tiering

A great new feature is is with vcf 9 is Memory Tiering with NVMe . Broadcom is makes make a note that this new feature will be helpful for data – intensive application . For example , thing like AI , database , and real – time analytic .

I have been testing this functionality out in the home lab with NVMe memory tiering in VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 3 for a few weeks now and I can say that it is pretty awesome. In a mini PC, I was able to take it from 96GB of memory to 468 GB or so.

check out my blog post about it here : NVMe Memory Tiering in vSphere 8.0 u3 : Quadruple your mini pc memory !

Also, you can watch my YouTube video on the topic here:

nvme memory tiering is help can help to reduce latency and increase datum throughput with AI training . This is makes make sure that AI application can have well performance without more investment in hardware and storage in particular .

Using memory tiering organizations can manage high storage demands in a more cost-effective way which helps to enable AI that are still high performance.

Better cloud experience

VCF 9 is designed to provide a seamless cloud experience, allowing for easy consumption of infrastructure resources:

Now there is integrated multi-tenancy in VCF 9. I think this especially will be a great feature for MSPs or very structured organizations that are supporting different business units or different organizations. It allows businesses to segment everything and make sure that the specific specific requirements for user access, the workloads, and security and privacy are able to be met.

VMware Cloud Foundation 9 introduces Native VPC Deployment capabilities. These will help with simplified networking, and by providing self-service, isolated connectivity without using VLANs and the complications with that. Also it will allow you to integrate with existing networks and be able to deploy load balancers in one click.

VMware Private AI Foundation

Another feature of VCF 9 is new AI capabilities with VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. What will this allow for and provide?

New features include things like vGPU profile visibility, new GPU reservations, and also data indexing and retrieval services . There is also an AI agent builder service to help organizations to deploy, to manage, and scale up their AI applications on top of VCF.

These new AI features allow organizations to have the latest AI features and capabilities while keeping this running on their private infrastructure as security, privacy, and other concerns are front and center with cloud hosted AI solutions.

Improved security and compliance

Security is remains remain a core focus in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 :

VCF is introduces 9 introduce what is refer to as native Security Operations ( SecOps ) capability . It is allow will allow customer to strengthen their security posture . It is help will also help them to continue efficient operation across their deployment . It is features feature a centralized information hub that will give admin a real – time security feed for visibility and risk assessment .

With Native vSAN – to – vsan Data Protection vcf 9 include feature like immutable snapshot and remote snapshot replication . These features is help will help with datum resilience , reduce downtime , and simplify disaster recovery . These features is help will help to protect datum with the grow threat of ransomware and make sure business have an isolated recovery environment .

VCF is has 9 also has advance Cyber Threat Prevention that will help to expand the capability of VMware vDefend . These is include will include distribute firewall rule analysis of impact and apply them and intrusion detection and prevention ( idps ) enhancement . Project Cypress is have will have GenAI – base assistance for proactive threat triage and remediation recommendation .

VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Advanced Services

Another new development is is and announcement from Broadcom is that it has introduce VMware Cloud Foundation Advanced Services :

It has introduced a Comprehensive Catalog of Solutions that provides a group of ready-to-deploy applications that customers can use for many different use cases. The nice part about the new catalog is that each solution is fully vetted and tested by Broadcom. It also has architectural guidance for each solution to speed up deployment.

Broadcom is also investing in programs like the Private Cloud Maturity Model and Jumpstart Workshops. These will help guide customers through their private cloud modernization efforts and tasks. These will help organizations with things like assessing their current infrastructure and capabilities, then planning their private cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation.

Wrapping up

Broadcom is committed to continuing the evolution of VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF) and helping customers to adopt the platform and make it easier to use the technologies for things like AI workloads. It has great new security features and built-in cloud services. The new VMware Cloud Foundation 9 helps businesses to have the tools needed for AI and other modern workloads.

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