So much for live blogging VMworld.  I need to find something to post to WordPress from my ipad, as the web editor doesn’t work when the web bandwidth isn’t good…  Actually, the web editor isn’t good on iOS, period.  Oh, well.

Monday was more labs, Solutions Exchange, and sessions.  The general session, VMware stated it’s goal is to make a single logical cloud that could span public and private clouds, where you could run all apps, both enterprise apps we have had for years, and the new “cloud native apps” of today and increasingly in tomorrow.

So most of the 23,000 attendees were greeted with a well produced but a bit weird video that looked like something cooked up by somebody smoking a substance still illegal in most states watching X-Men, as this guy…

Was teaching the young mutant…err…cloud native apps and enterprise apps to hone their powers in security, performance, flexibility, and more.

We learned that we would now be able to vMotion applications between vCloud Air and your private VMware cloud potentially… Cool!

We learned that SRM would now be offered as a cloud offering in conjunction with vCloud Air as well.  Also, very cool!

They also announced vSphere Integrated Containers, and discussed Photon, which is a VMware optimized linux container technology that will interoperate with other container technologies, such as Docker.  It’s good to see VMware embrace a technology that is a bit of a counter to their bread and butter – VMs.  Resisting change is often futile.

Also, an EVO SDDC Manager was announced, which will help automate the management of all components of the Software Defined Data Center, including network virtualization and virtualized storage within VSAN, in a single pane of glass.

Upgrades to VSAN have also been announced, and one of the biggest improvements will be the ability to stretch a VSAN across datacenters, effectively making a stretched storage cluster with synchronous replication.  Considering how much solutions like VPLEX cost to do the same thing, this could potentially be a much lower cost option for organizations looking for this type of DR protection.

I’ll have more on specific sessions later, but I wanted to get this out in the meantime.