On day 1 of VMworld 2021 we have heard and seen a lot of super exciting announcements. I believe everyone is excited about all the news and innovations VMware has presented so far.
I’m not going to summarize all the news from day 1 or day 2 but thought it might be helpful to have an overview of all the VMware projects that have been mentioned during the general session and solution keynotes.
Project Cascade
Project Cascade will provide a unified Kubernetes interface for both on-demand infrastructure (IaaS) and containers (CaaS) across VMware Cloud – available through an open command line interface (CLI), APIs, or a GUI dashboard. Project Cascade will be built on an open foundation, with the open-sourced VM Operator as the first milestone delivery for Project Cascade that enables VM services on VMware Cloud.
VMworld 2021 session: Solution Keynote: The VMware Multi-Cloud Computing Infrastructure Strategy of 2021 [MCL3217]
Project Capitola
Project Capitola is a software-defined memory implementation that will aggregate tiers of different memory types such as DRAM, PMEM, NVMe and other future technologies in a cost-effective manner, to deliver a uniform consumption model that is transparent to applications.
VMworld 2021 session: Introducing VMware Project Capitola: Unbounding the ‘Memory Bound’ [MCL1453] and How vSphere Is Redefining Infrastructure For Running Apps In the Multi-Cloud Era [MCL2500]
Project Ensemble
Project Ensemble integrates and automates multi-cloud management with vRealize. This means that all the different VMware cloud management capabilities—self-service, elasticity, metering, and more—are in one place. You can access all the data, analytics, and workflows to easily manage your cloud deployments at scale.
VMworld 2021 session: Introducing Project Ensemble Tech Preview [MCL1301]
Project Arctic
Project Arctic is “the next evolution of vSphere” and is about bringing your own hardware while taking advantage of VMware Cloud offerings to enable a hybrid cloud experience. Arctic natively integrates cloud connectivity into vSphere and establishes hybrid cloud as the default operating model.
VMworld 2021 session: What’s New in vSphere [APP1205] and How vSphere Is Redefining Infrastructure For Running Apps In the Multi-Cloud Era [MCL2500]
Project Monterey
Project Monterey was announced in the VMworld 2020 keynote. It is about SmartNICs that will redefine the data center with decoupled control and data planes for management, networking, storage and security for VMware ESXi hosts and bare-metal systems.
VMworld 2021 session: 10 Things You Need to Know About Project Monterey [MCL1833] and How vSphere Is Redefining Infrastructure For Running Apps In the Multi-Cloud Era [MCL2500]
Project Iris
I don’t remember anymore which session mentioned Project Iris but it is about the following:
Project Iris discovers and analyzes an organization’s full app portfolio; recommends which apps to rehost, replatform, or refactor; and enables customers to adapt their own transformation journey for each app, line of business, or data center.
Project Pacific
Project Pacific was announced at VMworld 2019. It is about re-architecting vSphere to integrate and embed Kubernetes and is known as “vSphere with Tanzu” (or TKGS) today. In other words, Project Pacific transformed vSphere into a Kubernetes-native platform with an Kubernetes control plane integrated directly into ESXi and vCenter. Pacific is part of the Tanzu portofolio.
VMworld 2019 session: Introducing Project Pacific: Transforming vSphere into the App Platform of the Future [HBI4937BE]
Project Santa Cruz
Project Santa Cruz is a new integrated offering from VMware that adds edge compute and SD-WAN together to give you a secure, scalable, zero touch edge run time at all your edge locations. It connects your edge sites to centralized management planes for both your networking team and your cloud native infrastructure team. This solution is OCI compatible: if your app runs in a container, it can run on Santa Cruz.
VMworld 2021 session: Solution Keynote: What’s Next? A Look inside VMware’s Innovation Engine [VI3091]
Project Dawn Patrol
So far, Project Dawn Patrol was only mentioned during the general session. “It will give you full visibility with a map of all your cloud assets and their dependencies”, Dormain Drewitz said.
VMworld 2021 session: General Session: Accelerating Innovation, Strategies for Winning Across Clouds and Apps [GEN3103]
Project Radium
Last year VMware introduced vSphere Bitfusion which allow shared access to a pool of GPUs over a network. Project Radium expands the fetature set of Bitfusion to other architectures and will support AMD, Graphcore, Intel, Nvidia and other hardware vendors for AI/ML workloads.
VMworld 2021 session: Project Radium: Bringing Multi-Architecture compute to AI/ML workloads [VI1297]
Project IDEM
IDEM has been described as an “easy to use management automation technology”.
VMworld 2021 session: Solution Keynote: What’s Next? A Look inside VMware’s Innovation Engine [VI3091] and Next-Generation SaltStack: What Idem Brings to SaltStack [VI1865]
Please comment below or let me know via Twitter or LinkedIn if I missed a new or relevant VMware project. 😉
Must Watch VMworld Multi-Cloud Sessions
I recently wrote a short blog about some of the sessions I recommend to customers, partners and friends.
If you would like to know more about the VMware multi-cloud strategy and vision, have a look at some of the sessions below:
