vSphere 7 Update 1

vSphere continues to deliver the ability to scale your infrastructure to meet the demands of modern application workloads such as Kubernetes clusters/pods, or high-performance application workloads. 

 

Let’s glance at the increased scalability numbers and see how it can benefit you in your journey towards application modernisation.

vSphere 7 update 1, the total number of ESXi hosts in a vSphere Cluster is now increased to 96 hosts compared to 64 hosts in a previous release. Starting from vSphere 7 Update 1, you can run up to 10000 VMs in a vSphere cluster compared to 6400 VMs in vSphere 7.

Starting from vSphere 7 Update 1, we now support a maximum of 768 vCPU and 24 TB vRAM per VM, leaving competitors far behind in this category. These scales are well suited to support memory-intensive database workloads such as SAP HANA and EPIC Cache Operational Database.

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VMware vSphere with Tanzu

vSphere 7 Update 1, VMware has extended the capability of vSphere with Tanzu (formerly vSphere 7 with Kubernetes) to more fully support your existing vSphere environment.  The fastest way to provide developer ready Kubernetes infrastructure to DevOps teams is through vSphere with Tanzu.

We are embedding a Kubernetes control plane into vSphere and deploying Kubernetes agents onto ESXi hosts – turning them into Kubernetes worker nodes.  The Kubernetes Agents are called Spherelets.  The embedded kubernetes cluster is managed through a service that is part of vCenter.  We call this the Supervisor Cluster.

 Enabling Kubernetes exposes a set of capabilities in the form of services that can be consumed by Developers.  Primarily, DevOps teams can use the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service to do self service deployments of their own Tanzu Kubernetes clusters.   TKG clusters are fully compliant, upstream aligned Kubernetes clusters that can be controlled by developers.  Self-service deployment is done by submitting a straightforward cluster specification to the Supervisor Cluster Kubernetes API.

 

vSphere with Tanzu is a developer-ready infrastructure, that delivers:

    The fastest way to get started with Kubernetes – get Kubernetes infrastructure in an hour:

• Configure an enterprise-grade Kubernetes infrastructure leveraging your existing networking and storage in as little as an hour *

• Simple, fast, self-service provisioning of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters in just a few minutes.

• A seamless developer experience: IT admins can provide developers with self-service access to Kubernetes namespaces and clusters, allowing developers to integrate vSphere with Tanzu with their development process and CI/CD pipelines.

• Kubernetes to the fingertips of millions of IT admins: Kubernetes can be managed through the familiar environment and interface of vSphere. This allows vSphere admins to leverage their existing tooling and skillsets to manage Kubernetes-based applications.  Moreover, it provides vSphere admins with the ability to easily grow their skillset in and around the Kubernetes ecosystem.

 I hope this has been informative and thank you for reading!