VMware launched its two-day virtual VMworld conference on Tuesday. It also announced several updates to VMware’s long-running strategic partnership (AWS) with Amazon Web Services (VMW).
The VMware Cloud on AWS service, which is a hybrid cloud effort between AWS/VMware, was launched four VMworlds back. Customers of VMware vSphere have the option to extend their on-premises environments by connecting to a VMware datacenter in the AWS cloud.
VMware announced Tuesday that Tanzu, its Kubernetes management system, will be included in VMware Cloud On AWS sometime in the month. This release is specifically scheduled for the third quarter fiscal 2022 which ends Oct. 29, 2022.
VMware announced that Tanzu services makes app modernization with Kubernetes quicker, easier, and cheaper on VMware Cloud than other managed Kubernetes solutions. IT admins can use VMware vCenter to quickly provision Kubernetes clusters and unify container and VM management on a single platform. SREs, platform operators, can manage Kubernetes clusters across clouds using Tanzu services. This is a multi-cloud Kubernetes management plan.
VMware also announced that version 1.4 of its Kubernetes runtime Tanzu Kubernetes grid now supports NVIDIA GPU instances in AWS (aswell as Microsoft’s Azure cloud).
VMware stated that Cluster API, the upstream technology that we use to manage cluster lifecycle management, supports GPU instance types for AWS or Azure. “Developers now have the ability to create and manage the lifecycles of GPU-enabled Clusters in Tanzu Kubernetes grid for AWS or Azure.”
VMware also announced support for its platform via the AWS Outposts service by the end October. AWS Outposts allows organizations to run the full AWS cloud from their own premises using server racks that AWS delivers and installs in the location they choose. VMware claims that this integration will allow customers to benefit from a cloud operating system for VMware Cloud infrastructure running in either their data center or thick edges.
