VMworld: NetApp Unveils Simple, Scalable, and Integrated Solutions to Manage Virtual Desktops and Deploy Hybrid Cloud

NetApp, Inc. announced combined solutions for VMware, Inc.‘s platforms that offer simplified, scalable, performance infrastructure for any cloud.

Showcased at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, CA, the company debuted a VDI solution, the firm’s HCI for VDI with VMware Horizon 7. It also announced the availability of NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS) and HCI Implementation Services for VMware Private Cloud, all designed to accelerate VMware workloads and make it for customers to run their applications where they want.

VMware administrators who create, deploy, maintain, and optimize a network and server infrastructure are increasingly challenged to meet the high expectations of the business for scalability, agility, affordability, and performance. Achieving the infrastructure often comes at a high cost when IT is forced to make tradeoffs between simplicity, scalability, and performance. With these solutions from the company, VMware admins can manage and monitor their environments, scale up or down as required, and secure and protect their data wherever it resides.

“In today’s data-driven world, faster, simpler access to applications and data is critical to business success,” said Brett Roscoe, VP, product management, cloud infrastructure business unit, NetApp. “As a result of our ongoing partnership with VMware, we offer breakthrough management solutions for virtual infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud, and desktop virtualization-in any cloud, in one experience-that offer superb simplicity for high-performance, complex environments.“

Solutions for VMware include:

• NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS) on VMware. NKS supports a fully managed Kubernetes service on vSphere, no matter where the VMware infrastructure is being run. It eliminates and reduces the complexity of deploying and managing on-premises Kubernetes clusters and their application workload, delivering enterprise capabilities such as in-place upgrades, role-based access control (RBAC), application lifecycle management, multicloud and hybrid-cloud configurations, and Istio service mesh automation – all backed by the company’s Enterprise SLA.

• NetApp HCI for VDI. HCI portfolio includes simple, GPU-enabled nodes to accelerate high-performance, 3D VDI environments. These offerings improve performance for power users who use complicated, data-intensive applications like medical imaging, CAD/CAM, and other technical and scientific applications that require special attention to run effectively in virtualized desktop environments:

  • • HCI for VDI with VMware Horizon 7 solution supports all major third-party VDI solutions with VMware Horizon. Customers can install, expand, and upgrade capabilities while adding storage and compute independently.

    • H615C compute node is the latest version of firm’s expanding GPU portfolio for performance technical and scientific apps. It offers guaranteed performance levels and can be provisioned by discrete workload.

• HCI Implementation Service for VMware Private Cloud. Implement an integrated solution for accelerating the deployment of a private cloud platform to meet business needs today and easily scale for the future. The company’s turnkey acquisition and implementation service delivers the expertise to build a scalable, preconfigured, and consumable private cloud – with the simplicity and convenience of NetApp HCI and the power of a VMware-based private cloud – that is application ready for critical workloads. By aligning the technical platform with required cloud business outcomes, the firm can help accelerate the deployment of a VMware-based private cloud so that organizations can be confident that the new platform can scale.

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