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Get Benefits of the Cloud for Your On-Premises Workloads

News | 06.06.2023

Enterprises prefer running many of their workloads in traditional, on-premises data centers for a variety of reasons such as better economics, network bandwidth, latency-sensitivity, data privacy or sovereignty, regulatory compliance and the technical complexities of refactoring and migration. These workloads can be enhanced by cloud services. Businesses need to empower their IT admins, developer teams and their business decision makers to achieve the full benefits of their on-premises.

VMware vSphere+ addresses many of these needs, paving the way for customers to get the best of both worlds moving forward—a unified and consistent VMware Cloud™ experience for all their workloads, no matter where those workloads run. VMware vSphere+ is the multi-cloud workload platform that brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads. vSphere+ combines industry-leading virtualization technology, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes environment, and high-value cloud services to transform existing on-prem deployments into SaaS-enabled infrastructure that can be purchased through a flexible subscription plan. With vSphere+, IT admins and developers can easily build, run, manage, protect, and secure their traditional and next-gen applications. 

VMware vSphere+ delivers benefits of the cloud to on-premises workloads

Benefits of vSphere+

 
 
Supercharge productivity with admin services
  • Enhance operational efficiencyby centralizing management and governance through the Cloud Console.
  • Simplify vCenter lifecycle management through cloud-enabled automation and promptly remediate configuration drift.
  • Easily monitor global inventory, alert status, and security posture, and provision VMs to any vSphere cluster.
 
Accelerate innovation with developer services
  • Transform existing virtual infrastructure into an enterpriseready, self-service Kubernetes platform
  • Streamline platform management with integrated logging, registry, monitoring, ingress, and more.
  • Centralize platform operations with a multi-cloud management plane that increases security and governance of your Kubernetes clusters
 
Transform on-premises infrastructure with cloud integration
  • Get benefits of the cloud and enhance existing vSphere deployments in place, without disrupting your workloads
  • Activate add-on hybrid cloud services that expedite disaster recovery, ransomware protection and capacity planning.
  • Gain the flexibility of OpEx-based from existing investments

The Cloud Console

vSphere+ connects all vCenter instances (at your discretion) to VMware Cloud for centralized management. A vCenter cloud gateway is installed on-premises and connects with vCenter to collect the minimal data needed for display within the VMware Cloud Console. Through this Console, you will see your entire vSphere estate and can centrally monitor events, alerts, resource capacity, and identify unaddressed security vulnerabilities. You can also update vCenter instances with a single click, and in just a few minutes, reducing the operational effort and maintenance window required