The increasing requirement for the fast delivery of innovative applications encourages organizations to modernize the way they develop and manage the applications and infrastructure they operate. Ensure your organization maintains compliance with and benefits from the latest vSphere capabilities by upgrading to VMware vSphere 7.
Although the upgrade is not essential, the technical guidelines for vSphere 6.0 will only be available until March 12, 2022. If not upgraded, you would technically be running older unsupported software in your environment. Scalability increased built-in security, high performance, and fast access to the self-service infrastructure are vital for DevOps and IT teams.
The next generation of vSphere, VMware vSphere 7, provides all of these critical features. Including in-house support for Kubernetes, VMware vSphere 7 enables organizations to manage their Kubernetes virtual machines and containers from the popular vSphere platform and streamlines development, agile operations and accelerates innovation across enterprise applications.
As one of the core releases in over a decade, here are just some of the reasons why your organization should admit that upgrading to VMware vSphere 7 shall ease the entire process.
The quickest approach to modern applications
VMware vSphere 7 assists in aligning DevOps and IT teams to deliver developer-ready infrastructure and simplify cloud operations to help organizations consolidate their modern and traditional application environments into one heap.
As a unified platform for managing virtual machines and containers and with native support for Kubernetes, applications can be deployed applying each combination of virtual machines and containers.
IT administrators can also attach policies to a whole range of Kubernetes virtual machines, containers, and clusters, providing security and isolation of the resources needed by modern applications.
With the usage of Kubernetes as a vSphere redesigned and extending its capabilities to all modern and traditional applications, VMware vSphere 7 helps IT and DevOps teams work together to build, run, and manage enterprise-class platform applications.
Also, you could achieve consistent operations, rapidly increasing new applications and increased flexibility between private and more public clouds.
Improve the security of physical infrastructure
Protect yourself from malicious attacks by increasing the reliability of your computer database throughout your organization’s computer infrastructure with the VMware vSphere Trust Authority.
The VMware vSphere Trust Authority verifies that the clusters meet the trust requirements using remote authentication and access to advanced cryptographic capabilities.
The trusted computing base, the hardware root of trust, uses a small, stand-alone cluster of VMware ESXi hosts to enable organizations to build confidence in their hardware and software configurations at a deeper level and provide a more straightforward, more robust, and scalable approach to infrastructure security.
Reduce complexity and increase the volume
VMware vSphere 7 uses new tools and the REST API to help organizations increase consolidation, flexibility, and automation for easier access to configuration and maintenance.
As a brand-new feature in vSphere 7, VMware vCenter Server Profiles allows organizations to export existing vCenter Server configurations from one node and then import them into another vCenter node. This helps organizations benefit from:
- Simplified setup and change management
- Easy detection of non-compliant configurations
- Automatic repair
- Configuration data is provided in a user-readable format
Composed of four REST APIs, including List, Export, Validate, and Import, organizations can modify and validate configurations exported from one vCenter server and import and apply them to another vCenter Server node, using predefined attributes such as passwords, drivers, and WWN.
It is made for faster and easier deployment of new hardware and execution of maintenance tasks.
Enhance performance and efficiency
Using VMware vSphere’s new Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), organizations can achieve better consolidation and better workload balance. vSphere DRS has been rewritten to provide an acceptable level of resource scheduling that focuses on workload.
Its improved logic is more focused on the workload than the cluster. The VM DRS Score improves performance by quickly alerting virtual machine “lucky” administrators to deploy resources with minimal disruption efficiently.
Simplify software fixes and hardware upgrades
The vSphere Lifecycle Manager allows organizations to detect, manage, and upgrade VMware software and firmware from the vSphere GUI or REST API. They simplify lifecycle management and support efficient upgrades while improving reliability and performance and facilitating host maintenance.
VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager provides better cluster management consistency with firmware, drivers, and components and better integration capabilities by providing unified software and firmware lifecycle management.
VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) functionality changes the warehouse management paradigm from data warehouse management to managing abstract storage objects by handling storage arrays.
With vVols, the individual virtual machine, not the data store, becomes the storage management unit.
The storage hardware gets complete control over the contents, layout, and management of the virtual disk. You can create a vVols file in an environment with a compatible storage system. Virtual volume, created and manipulated out of range by the vSphere Storage Awareness Provider (VASA) provider, is a vSphere storage container.
The VASA provider maps virtual disk objects and their derivatives, such as clones, recordings, and replicas, directly to the virtual volumes of the storage system. ESXi hosts access virtual volumes through a midpoint in the data path called the protocol endpoint.
The endpoints of the protocol serve as input/output ports between the ESXi hosts and the storage system, using Fiber Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, or NFS.
