VMware Cloud Universal

Cross Cloud | Multi Cloud | Super Cloud As the term depicts Cloud Universal is embracing universal cloud concept which is a need of the hour. Cloud always have high value proposition which comes with on demand services, elasticity, resiliency, scalability what not even it is easily consumed through a self service catalog. In-spite of all these above benefits many has migrated to cloud considering how it helps to redefine the economics moving from capex model to opex model.

As the requirements grew with high expectations as always and technology evolve considering these observations, we can see plethora of services offered from various service providers with competing pricing. Business decision to avoid vendor lock-in and to take out the advantage of best-of-breed solutions pushed midsize and large organization to get adopted to hybrid-multicloud strategy. Along with Data-centric approach due to data management and compliances, distributed data processing attracts lots of attention which resulted in multi-geo requirements from multi vendor. Recent Gartner studies reveals that 81% of organization who has responded to their survey states that they are working with two or more cloud providers. This trend continues with some addition such as framework for multi cloud & hybrid cloud (multiple public cloud with private cloud) strategy.

We had discussed enough with respect to the cloud/multi-cloud however I would like to drag your attention to the solution portfolio what VMware offers in this Multi Cloud Framework.

Developing Multi Cloud or Hybrid Cloud framework involves much introspection. Every organization need to assess their current and future requirements not just with their application or data, it is much more than that which is inclusive of unified management and operation platform for your heterogenous environment. Multi/Hybrid Cloud consumers are facing various challenges due to the complexity of cloud services from different providers. Hence they look for consistency across their environment.

VMware Cloud Universal helps to run a for Private Cloud and having a choice where to run your cloud.

How to migrate to the VMware Cloud Universal based Cloud Model

• License Migration
  

Workload Mobility

• Datacenter Migration - Migration services to move mass-amount of application between private cloud, public cloud and edge cloud

• Application Migration - Application migration between private cloud, public cloud, and edge cloud while maintaining UX for end users

• Data Migration - Leverage Datrium ( DRaaS) technology to manage data migration across the hybrid cloud

which enables customer flexibility

VMware vRealize Cloud Universal is licensed using a CPU that gives customers flexibility to manage workloads regardless of whether they are on-premises on vSphere, third-party hypervisors, physical servers or supported public clouds (Figure 1). There is no license switching or conversion required.

Seamless portability between on-premises vSphere environment and public cloud Through the CPU licensing metric, current deployments of vRealize Cloud Universal can switch between managing on-premises vSphere workloads and managing workloads on supported public clouds as well as third-party hypervisor and physical servers. As a result, even if a VM migrates from on premises to public cloud, the same instance of vRealize Cloud Universal can be used to manage the workloads without switching the license. In addition, the customer can use the SaaS version of the product to manage the workloads without any impact on licensing.

Although vRealize Cloud Universal is made up of several components, it is a single solution with a single license. All the components of a vRealize Cloud Universal edition are licensed as a single entity. A single license of vRealize Cloud Universal cannot be used across multiple processors.

vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager is a cloud utility service that integrates with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to collect data for your on-premises products, and integrates with respective cloud services to monitor license data usage for your cloud services.