3 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Kubernetes

Enterprise infrastructure software giant VMware is coupling its vSphere virtualization platform with its Tanzu portfolio to help extend millions of workloads already running on vSphere into the Kubernetes ecosystem, the company said. VMware also revealed updates for vSphere 7 and vSAN 7, as well as for Cloud Foundation 4.1 to help support Kubernetes deployments and to manage stateful applications running in containerized environments, including storage. In addition to offering vSphere with Tanzu (which will become available by end of October), VMware is also offering Cloud Foundation hybrid platform with Tanzu as of today.

While vSphere with Tanzu is the “fastest way for many of our customers to get started with Kubernetes,” VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu is very similar, Lee Caswell, vice president of marketing, said during the press conference on Tuesday.

As mentioned above, VMware also provided detailed on updates to vSphere 7 (Update 1) and to vSAN 7 (Update 1): VMware is a sponsor of The New Stack.