VMware announced updates to vSphere 6.7 and vSAN 6.7, enabling reliable execution of business-critical applications across data centers, edge environments, public clouds, and hybrid cloud environments. With these announcements, VMware enhances user experience, security, application support, and hybrid cloud operations.

“Verserv and vSAN, already recognized as competitive hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions in the industry, serve as the driving force behind hybrid cloud implementations,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, chief operating officer, Products and Cloud Services, VMware. “This announcement represents an opportunity to establish a solid digital foundation across on-premises and public cloud.”

VMware vSphere 6.7 delivers enhanced new features and an efficient and secure platform for hybrid cloud environments. This update delivers simple and efficient operations at scale, built-in security features, and enhanced workload support, enabling a seamless hybrid cloud environment. vSphere 6.7 continues to support popular application platforms such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, big data, business-critical or cloud-native applications, in-memory, and 3D graphics.

vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode enables enterprises to achieve unified management and visibility when different vSphere versions operate on-premises or in public clouds such as VMware Cloud on AWS, IBM Cloud, and VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP) partner clouds. Enterprises can maintain their current vSphere version on-premises while leveraging new features in vSphere-based public clouds.

Dramatically reduce reboot times by halving the number of required reboots, and further shorten remaining reboot times by skipping hardware initialization steps with vSphere Quick Boot. Leverage cutting-edge hardware technologies like non-volatile memory (NVM) to dramatically improve the performance of existing and new applications.

Suspend and resume capabilities for GPU-powered virtual machines improve host lifecycle management and reduce interruptions to users' ongoing work. vSphere 6.7 optimizes VDI workload management with enhanced support for NVIDIA GRID virtual PCs and virtual applications and NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstations, and supports workloads leveraging NVIDIA GPUs, including AI and machine learning.

It significantly improves the protection and integrity of the hypervisor and guest OS, and virtual TPM 2.0 prevents virtual machines and hosts from being tampered with or corrupted. Additionally, it prevents loading of unauthorized components and enables guest OS security features.

The vCenter Server Appliance delivers an enhanced user experience through more efficient management capabilities and major performance improvements. Compared to vSphere 6.5, the vCenter Server Appliance offers vSphere administrators time and cost savings. It improves vCenter Operations performance by 200% per second, reduces memory usage by 300%, and speeds up DRS-related operations, such as VM power-on and array operations, by 300%.

Meanwhile, VMware, an industry-leading HCI software company, provides vSphere and vSAN-based HCI to public cloud providers such as AWS and IBM. Through its extensive partner ecosystem, VMware offers a wide range of HCI software choices, from turnkey HCI integrated systems like Dell EMC VxRail and VxRack SDDC solutions, to certified vSAN ReadyNode hardware reference architectures, and as-a-service models for public clouds.