What is Project Monterey ?

 Project Monterey is the next major step in the evolution of cloud infrastructure for modern applications, including bare-metal workloads. Project Monterey reimagines the virtual infrastructure as a distributed control fabric through tight integration with DPUs (Data Processing Unit – also known as SmartNICs). VMware is leading an industry wide initiative to deliver a solution for its customers by bringing together the best of breed DPU silicon (NVIDIA, Pensando Systems, Intel) and server designs (Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo). We are on the cusp of delivering on our commitment to our customers and partners. Until then, here are some articles that will help you learn more about Project Monterey.

Project Monterey is a new way to architect the core infrastructure by orchestrating and managing infrastructure services with DPUs that

• Run and administer core infrastructure services including composing and consuming hardware resources on demand
• Can manage the lifecycle of new kinds of workloads such as bare-metal, in addition to traditional virtualized and containerized workloads
• Can offload infrastructure services from CPUs, such as security and network processing By integrating tightly with DPUs, Project Monterey creates an alternate control fabric comprised of DPUs. 
   
  

 
Project Monterey Helps Enterprises Respond Rapidly to Application-Driven Infrastructure Needs

Unified and consistent manageability

Project Monterey provides a single, secure operating model that unifies management for traditional, cloud native and bare-metal workloads. It proactively monitors, identifies and mitigates network infrastructure bottlenecks. It reduces the operational overhead of managing DPU lifecycle by leveraging familiar and known VMware tools and methods.

Improved performance

Project Monterey enables the offload of infrastructure functions from host or server CPUs to DPUs, thus freeing up CPU cycles to serve applications. This results in higher workload consolidation per host and lower infrastructure TCO. Additionally, the latency and throughput of the infrastructure are improved by accelerating infrastructure services on the DPU.

Enhanced infrastructure security

Project Monterey hardens the security posture of the infrastructure by providing an air-gapped isolation between infrastructure and workload domains. Project Monterey enables a uniform security control model across virtualized and bare-metal workloads.

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