Google has announced a new partnership with VMware that will make it easier for enterprises to run their VMware workloads on Google Cloud. Particularly, Google Cloud will now support VMware Cloud Foundation, the company’s system for deploying and running hybrid clouds. The solution was developed by CloudSimple, not VMware or Google, and Google will offer first-line support, working together with CloudSimple.
While Google would completely like for all enterprises to switch to containers and make basically the most of its Anthos hybrid cloud provider, most noteworthy companies currently use VMware. They’re going to are also looking out to switch those workloads to a public cloud, but they aren’t ready to put a stop to something that has long labored for them. With this contemporary ability, Google is merely giving enterprises fewer reasons to opt for a competitor with out even taking its choices into chronicle.
“Customers have asked us to provide broad support for VMware, and now with Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple, our customers will be able to run VMware vSphere-based workloads in GCP,” the company notes in the announcement, which we got an early copy of but which for reasons unknown to us will only go live on the company’s blog tomorrow. “This brings customers a wide breadth of choices for how to run their VMware workloads in a hybrid deployment, from modern containerized applications with Anthos to VM-based applications with VMware in GCP.”
“Possibilities bask in asked us to produce colossal toughen for VMware, and now with Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple, our possibilities will most certainly be ready to bustle VMware vSphere-primarily based workloads in GCP,” the firm notes within the announcement, which we bought an early reproduction of but which for reasons unknown to us will easiest inch are residing on the firm’s weblog the next day to come. “This brings possibilities a huge breadth of choices for suggestions to bustle their VMware workloads in a hybrid deployment, from popular containerized applications with Anthos to VM-primarily based applications with VMware in GCP.”
The contemporary solution will provide toughen for the corpulent VMware stack, together with the likes of vCenter, vSAN and NSX-T.
“Our partnership with Google Cloud has always been about addressing customers’ needs, and we’re excited to extend the partnership to enable our mutual customers to run VMware workloads on VMware Cloud Foundation in Google Cloud Platform,” said Sanjay Poonen, chief operating officer, customer operations at VMware. “With VMware on Google Cloud Platform, customers will be able to leverage all of the familiarity and investment protection of VMware tools and training as they execute on their cloud strategies, and rapidly bring new services to market and operate them seamlessly and more securely across a hybrid cloud environment.”
While Google’s announcement highlights that the company has a long history of working with VMware, it’s interesting to note that at least the technical aspects of this partnership are more about CloudSimple than VMware. It’s also worth noting that VMware has long had a close relationship with Google’s cloud competitor AWS, and Microsoft Azure, too, offers tools for running VMware-based workloads on its cloud.
