VMworld 2019 Day 2 Recap

The day two general session is typically the icing on the cake with all the demos and this year did not disappoint. The general session began with VMware's Executive Vice President Ray O'Farrell greeting the crowd of over 20,000 plus attendees to this years VMworld. 

He began talking about how we are in a world dealing with ever increasing complexities with both technology and applications. How do we build, connect, manage, and experience modern applications in an ever changing landscape. VMware has put a lot of thought into how to best address the challenges we face within this new landscape and it is done by focusing on the four pillars mentioned above, Build and Run, Connect and Protect, Manage, and Experience.​

This vision was was detailed in the general session which can be watched here.

Announcements 

• Project Pacific: the biggest evolution of vSphere in a decade. As much of a game-changer as vMotion was, embedding Kubernetes into vSphere and making ESXi a native K8s platform. Read Kit Colbert’s announcement and Jared Rosoff’s technical overview.
• VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is now available. This is a huge step forward for edge and datacenter deployments, bringing the simplicity of the cloud to on-premises locations. Read more in Kit Colbert’s blog post.
• VMware vSphere is now available from Dell EMC pre-installed and pre-activated with your license keys. This decreases the time and friction when installing new ESXi nodes and clusters. Read more in Gina Rosenthal’s blog post.
• VMware Tanzu, a portfolio of products and services to transform the way the world builds software on Kubernetes. Read Paul Fazzone’s post to learn more.
• A large Virtualize Africa summit was held, reinforcing VMware’s commitment to training and support for Africa and gathering dignitaries and leaders in San Francisco to share experiences.
• vRealize Automation 8, a major reworking of the cloud automation platform, has been announced. Read Karl Fultz’ post to learn what’s new.
• vRealize Operations 8, a big upgrade to the cloud management and monitoring tool, has been announced. Read Taruna Gandhi’s post for more information.
• In keeping with their versioning, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8 has been announced, too. Hicham Mourad has the details.