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vSphere, NSX and vSAN from design to operation

Server virtualisation, software-defined networking and storage on one platform. We help with deployment, upgrades, new licences and day-to-day management.

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The VMware platform

Three pillars of the modern data centre: compute, network and storage. Choose what interests you.

VMware vSphere

It is one of the most widely used server virtualisation platforms on the market and forms the basis for other products and services such as VMware NSX, VMware vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation. vSphere lets you create and manage virtual servers that behave like physical servers but share the resources of a single physical server. This improves resource utilisation and simplifies IT infrastructure management. The two main components of vSphere are ESXi and vCenter Server.

ESXiThe virtualisation platform on which you create and run virtual machines and virtual appliances.

vCenter ServerA service for managing multiple hosts / hypervisors connected in a network and sharing their resources.

Key vSphere features

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Migrates virtual machines between hosts in a cluster to balance the load and ensure that every host has enough resources for its virtual machines.

High Availability (HA)

Automatically restarts virtual machines on healthy hosts when a host fails, minimising downtime and increasing system reliability.

Fault Tolerance (FT)

Ensures continuous availability by maintaining a secondary virtual machine that mirrors the primary one, guaranteeing uninterrupted application operation if a host fails.

Lifecycle Manager

Simplifies updating and patching of ESXi hosts and virtual machines, ensuring security and compliance with the latest software versions.

VMware NSX

It is a network virtualisation platform that lets you virtualise network elements such as firewalls, VPN and load balancers, and even physical networks. This gives developers and IT infrastructure administrators the ability to automate the deployment, configuration and updating of network infrastructure, because all components are virtualised and implemented as code. The concept is also known as software-defined networking (SDN).

Key NSX features

Dynamic security policies

NSX Service Composer lets network administrators dynamically assign network and security services to applications. It also allows you to create dynamic security groups using custom filters such as vCenter objects and tags, OS type and Active Directory.

Operations

Integrated operational features include a CLI, port analyser, IP flow information export, application rule manager, endpoint monitoring and integration with VMware Aria (formerly vRealize Suite) for proactive monitoring, analysis and subsequent troubleshooting.

Automation and API

NSX uses a REST API, which simplifies integration with third-party products and services and lets you connect NSX to cloud management for extended automation options. Integration with VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation) and OpenStack cloud management comes as standard.

Advanced networking features

Roll out new services quickly and efficiently thanks to a highly scalable, automated platform that covers networking, security and load balancing from layer 2 to layer 7 and is designed for any workload. NSX can also provide network services such as routing, DNS and DHCP, or network appliance functions such as a firewall.

VMware vSAN

vSAN is software-defined storage (SDS) integrated into vSphere that pools storage resources from multiple servers to create shared storage infrastructure. This increases storage efficiency, performance and scalability. VMware vSAN is enterprise virtualisation software for high-capacity storage that supports hyperconverged infrastructure, known by the abbreviation HCI.

Key vSAN features

Scalability

vSAN offers flexible storage infrastructure that you can easily expand or shrink simply by adding or removing disks as your business needs change. This simplifies storage capacity management and removes the need for specialised storage hardware.

Resilience

VMware vSAN provides high availability and resilience for virtualised workloads. It offers RAID and erasure coding for data protection and automatically repairs failed components, which minimises the risk of outages.

Central management

Fully integrated with VMware vSphere, it enables centralised control of virtual machines and storage resources, which simplifies management and increases efficiency. Its seamless integration with the vSphere APIs enables advanced automation options.

Lower hardware costs

Because vSAN uses the local storage resources of ESXi hosts, no dedicated storage hardware is needed. This lowers costs and makes deployment easier. It also provides efficient data compression and deduplication, which helps reduce overall costs.

News

What has changed in the world of VMware

Since Broadcom's acquisition, VMware has gone through major changes. We'll help you find your way through them.

Licensing

Move to subscriptions

Subscriptions have replaced perpetual licences. Products are now sold mainly in bundles rather than as individual licences.

Packages

VCF and vSphere Foundation

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) combines vSphere, vSAN, NSX and management into one platform. For smaller environments there is VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF).

Platform

VCF 9

The new generation of Cloud Foundation unifies the management and operation of a private cloud and makes deployment and updates easier.

Naming

vRealize is now Aria

Monitoring and automation tools have been renamed VMware Aria, for example Aria Operations and Aria Automation.

What we can help with

VMware with Evenir

Design and deployment

We design the cluster, network and storage to fit your needs and deploy them.

Upgrades and migration

We safely move your environment to a new version or new hardware.

Licensing

We help with the move to new licences and choose the right bundle.

Administration and support

We take care of patching, backups, monitoring and troubleshooting.

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