VMworld

In this VMworld TV video the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service is explained by Chris Colotti.

VMware vCenter Log Insight delivers automated log management through log aggregation, analytics and search, extending VMware’s leadership in analytics to log data. With an integrated cloud operations management approach, it provides the operational intelligence and enterprise-wide visibility needed to proactively enable service levels and operational efficiency in dynamic hybrid cloud environments.

VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5 Technical Preview 2 - What's New

Despite its name, the HyTrust Appliance is not a physical piece of hardware. It’s a VMware vSphere-compatible virtual appliance that’s deployed right alongside the rest of your virtual infrastructure. It can be deployed on the same hypervisor that it is actively protecting.


HyTrust Appliance sits in the management plane of the virtual infrastructure. In other words, it sits between the administrators of the virtual infrastructure—the virtualization admins, the network admins, the application owners—and the virtual infrastructure itself. From this centralized vantage point, HyTrust Appliance intercepts all administrative requests for the virtual infrastructure, determines whether or not the request is in accordance with the organization’s defined policy, then permits or denies the request as appropriate.

Meet Bruce Davie, Lead Architect for NSX, for a walkthrough about VMware's new product: NSX. What it is, how to use it and best practices, all in one video.

In this VMworld TV video you will see an exclusive demo by CloudPhysics CTO Irfan Ahmad. CloudPhysics is uniquely positioned to solve operations management problems because of the collective intelligence it derives from analyzing the world's IT operations data, combined with its unique, patent-pending data center smart modeling and simulation techniques.

Customers use CloudPhysics to identify and troubleshoot hundreds of operational issues by accessing focused operational analytics -- referred to as "Cards" -- available on the CloudPhysics SaaS platform.

Example capabilities include:

• Health Checks - CloudPhysics acts as an early warning health service for the IT operator to identify operational hazards before they emerge by continuously checking and matching a user's environment against a live database of field issues, including firmware bugs, hardware incompatibilities and other potential problems. CloudPhysics builds the collective intelligence for health checks through its Knowledge Base Advisor, continuously gathering best practices from vendors and field knowledge from the CloudPhysics community of sys admins.
• Reporting - Admins gain insights into their VMware environments through interactive queries using CloudPhysics' Card Builder, which requires no scripting or knowledge of schemas. Users can pull pre-built reports (Cards) shared by community members or build unique ones and share with community members and colleagues.
• Analysis - CloudPhysics gives users big data-driven analytics for storage, compute and other systems to identify radical efficiency and safety improvements for VMware. Customers lower cost and risk by using results based on the CloudPhysics smart modeling techniques.
• Planning - CloudPhysics customers can simulate planned purchases or configuration changes before rolling out in production. For example, CloudPhysics predicts the latency benefit of I/O caching and determines optimal cache sizes to balance cost and performance. Customers run this analysis before making storage hardware purchases (like SSD devices) to avoid wasteful procurement while dramatically improving the performance of business-critical applications. In the case of mission-critical configuration changes common to HA applications, CloudPhysics analyzes HA configuration scenarios before customers commit them into production. Customers optimize resource settings while ensuring critical VMs are protected against server failures.