{"id":8360,"date":"2019-08-27T08:41:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=8360"},"modified":"2019-09-05T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T06:34:05","slug":"vmware-vmworld-2019-monday-general-session-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/vmware-vmworld-2019-monday-general-session-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; VMworld 2019 &#8211; Monday General Session Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Disclaimer: I recently attended\u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"VMworld 2014\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vmworld.com\/registration.jspa?SponsorCode=17GINFVXP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>VMworld 2019 \u2013 US<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u00a0 My flights and accommodation were paid for by <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalsense.com.au\/\">Digital Sense<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/?src=vmw_so_vex_dfrit_205\">VMware<\/a> provided me with a free pass to the conference and various bits of swag. There is no requirement for me to blog about any of the content presented and I am not compensated by VMware for my time at the event.\u00a0 Some materials presented were discussed under NDA and don\u2019t form part of my blog posts, but could influence future discussions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VMworld_2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VMworld_2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VMworld_2019.jpg 2037w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VMworld_2019-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VMworld_2019-768x284.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VMworld_2019-1024x379.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are my rough notes from the Monday General Session at VMworld US 2019. You can grab a PDF of them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Monday_General_Session.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/company\/leadership\/pat-gelsinger.html\">Pat Gelsinger<\/a> takes the stage. Welcome to VMworld 2019 and thank you. Thrilled to be back in San Francisco, the hub of tech on the planet. Sorry to those Las Vegas lovers out there.<\/p>\n<p>Tech in the age of any. There&#8217;s a natural tension between choice and complexity. We create that choice, but we have to make it work.\u00a0 &#8220;Strength lies in differences, not similarities&#8221; (Stephen Covey).<\/p>\n<p>At VMworld there are 100 countries represented, 5000 different organisations, 22% are learning Klingon (!). NuqneH!<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PatG_GeneralSession.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PatG_GeneralSession.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PatG_GeneralSession.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PatG_GeneralSession-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PatG_GeneralSession-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PatG_GeneralSession-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[image courtesy of VMware]Welcome the Pivotal family to team VMware. Welcome Carbon Black to the family too. Read more about those acquisitions <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/08\/22\/vmware-acquires-pivotal-and-carbon-black-for-nearly-5-billion\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In October it will be 4 decades in technology for Pat.\u00a0Each of these areas are permeating our every day life<\/p>\n<p>2009<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>52 Million apps in the world<\/li>\n<li>5 million app developers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>335 Million apps<\/li>\n<li>13.5 million developers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology for Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tech amplifies the good and the bad. But what does it mean to shape technology as a force for good? We, as technologists, need to participate in the shaping. For example, schools at Nairobi in Kenya. On Friday, Callum Eade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelingacause.com\/\">swam the English channel to raise money for cancer research<\/a>. Callum takes the stage.<\/p>\n<p>PG: Why do it?<\/p>\n<p>CE: It was an insurmountable goal. Something I wanted to do was &#8220;Make My Mark&#8221;. I&#8217;m also wearing a jacket from Tour de Cure. Specific cancer &#8211; children cancer. No one should have to bury a child. Program for a tumour called DIPG. Mortality rate unchanged &#8211; every diagnosed child dies within the first 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>PG: My son battled Hodgkins-Lymphoma. It takes a team.<\/p>\n<p>CE: It does. My wife, son, and daughter are here in the front row. The training was arduous. Pat, you stood up at our all hands meeting in APJ six months ago and reinforced the importance of career and family balance.<\/p>\n<p>PG: Why the English Channel?<\/p>\n<p>CE: 10 years ago it seemed like a really good idea. The distance is the same as from SFO to Palo Alto and it was really cold.<\/p>\n<p>PG: What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>CE: As far as the charity was concerned, a lot of people in this room contributed. The request from the pledge was $100K. We raised $130K. We\u2019re going to go on holiday as a family, do something together.<\/p>\n<p>CE leaves the stage.<\/p>\n<p>PG: From floating hospitals to flying hospitals. Let\u2019s hear from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angelmedflight.com\/\">Angel MedFlight<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Video.<\/p>\n<p>Higher success bringing the patient to the organ.<\/p>\n<p>But what about the law of unanticipated consequences.\u00a0We\u2019ve bought together communities online, and then created platforms for disinformation. End of privacy.\u00a0Bitcoin is bad &#8211; it\u2019s not okay. Apparently. VMware wants to &#8220;Do good engineering, and engineering for good&#8221;.\u00a012 million non-profits in the world. 4.5% of global GDP is non-profit sector. Larger than the GDP of Germany. They do great work, but they\u2019re technology sucks.\u00a0Video &#8211; Working with Tech Soup enable all of those other missions out there. Grow the tech talent pool. Historically served the smallest organisations.\u00a0Working with a million coders. 24% are women (not enough). Rebecca Masisak (CEO) is here. Working with them to scale their mission.<\/p>\n<p><em>Who&#8217;s Doing It?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s never been a more exciting time to be a technologist&#8221;.\u00a0There\u2019s also never been a more important time to be a technologist.\u00a0Who will operationalise the powers of edge, AI, IoT in the world? You. No one is more qualified, more capable to do that. If you\u2019re a VCP, you\u2019re qualified. Shout out to VCIX folks, VMUG leaders, the VCDXs.<\/p>\n<p>The VMware vision remains unchanged. Any cloud, any app, any device, with intrinsic security.\u00a0Is this innovation helping us or harming us? Does it inspire us? Empower us?<\/p>\n<p>Customers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comcast &#8211; getting a handle on chaos. Built a modern private cloud with connection to the public cloud.<\/li>\n<li>FedEx &#8211; leveraging VCF and Pivotal.<\/li>\n<li>IHS Markit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Multi-Cloud Strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VMware have worked hard on multi-loud, and have built a preferred partnership with Amazon. They&#8217;re also working with IBM, Google, and Microsoft, enabling an &#8220;any-cloud&#8221; environment. They want you to be able to &#8220;Build, Run, Manage, Connect, Protect&#8221; your workloads.\u00a0Kubernetes has emerged as ubiquitous infrastructure, joining developers and IT operators. Now Pat&#8217;s going to &#8220;get some help from a Kubernetes celebrity&#8221;.\u00a0Joe Beda &#8211; the first committer to Kubernetes, this guy\u2019s a rock star &#8211; and he&#8217;s now a Principal Engineer at VMware.\u00a0Joe takes the stage. PG: &#8220;Can we take a selfie?&#8221;.\u00a0Joe talks about &#8220;Goldilocks level between devs and IT ops&#8221;.\u00a0Wanted it to span any infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><em>Complexity vs flexibility.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What enterprises need is a secured opinion through this journey, and VMware is well placed to do this, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heptio.cloud.vmware.com\/\">Heptio<\/a> acquired, Pivotal, and Bitnami.\u00a0We\u2019re excited to be bringing this to market &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2019\/08\/26\/1906432\/0\/en\/VMware-Announces-VMware-Tanzu-Portfolio-to-Transform-the-Way-Enterprises-Build-Run-and-Manage-Software-on-Kubernetes.html\">VMware Tanzu<\/a> (Swahili for branch).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build Modern Apps<\/li>\n<li>Run Enterprise Kubernetes<\/li>\n<li>Manage Kubernetes for developers AND IT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pivotal and Kubernetes like peanut butter and jelly.\u00a0What if we build it into vSphere? Announcing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/vsphere\/2019\/08\/introducing-project-pacific.html\">Project Pacific<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uniting vSphere and Kubernetes<\/li>\n<li>Extending vSphere for ALL modern apps<\/li>\n<li>Enabling Dev and IT Ops collaboration<\/li>\n<li>30% faster than a traditional Linux VM, 8% faster than bare metal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/cloudnative\/2019\/08\/26\/vmware-tanzu-mission-control\/\">VMware Tanzu Mission Control<\/a>.\u00a0How do get started right now? PKS is the answer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Managing Multi-cloud<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Talked about build, but what about run? The challenge is how we manage across a diverse environment. There&#8217;s a loss of efficiency, security.\u00a0This is why VMware acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudhealthtech.com\/partners\/cloud-and-infrastructure-platforms\/vmware\">CloudHealth<\/a> and they&#8217;ve now announced &#8220;CloudHealth Hybrid&#8221;. But what\u2019s the difference between multi-cloud and hybrid cloud? The goal is to give you the tools to manage or have consistent ops in a multi-cloud world. What about hybrid cloud? You also want a consistent infrastructure experience. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/cloud-foundation.html\">VMware Cloud Foundation<\/a> is the platform for Hybrid cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Migrate or modernise? Migrate and modernise?<\/p>\n<p>Cost of migration is expensive<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Native cloud &#8211; $1M to migrate 1000 VMs<\/li>\n<li>Years to refactor apps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Migrate to VMware Cloud &#8211; it\u2019s easy :)<\/p>\n<p>Video &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/nvidianews.nvidia.com\/bios\/jensen-huang\">Jensen Huang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also working with MS Azure (announced at DTW earlier this year). Now globally available. US and Europe. Australia by the end of the year.\u00a0Announced Project Dimension with Dell. Now available VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. DCaaS.\u00a0Partnership with Equinix<\/p>\n<p><em>Operate in a hybrid cloud world?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taking vRealize hybrid<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automation<\/li>\n<li>Operation<\/li>\n<li>Network insight<\/li>\n<li>Log insight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DRaaS and DPaaS &#8211; doing a lot with Dell EMC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edge and Telco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the edge?<\/p>\n<p>1. Where the physical and the digital worlds intersect<\/p>\n<p>2. Distributed, low-latency infrastructure located close [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Thin edge,\u00a0Medium Edge,\u00a0Thick Edge<\/p>\n<p><em>5G<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Massive capital scale out<\/p>\n<p>Vertical hardware to horizontal software<\/p>\n<p>Thrilled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/company\/news\/updates\/vmware-announces-intent-to-acquire-uhana.html\">acquire Uhana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video &#8211; Verizon &#8211; 5G will save the world<\/p>\n<p>Started this journey a number of years ago. Started in the DC. Now connecting all the clouds together.<\/p>\n<p>NSX-T supports all types of workloads<\/p>\n<p>VeloCloud &#8211; #1 in SD-WAN marketshare, 150K+ sites<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/networkvirtualization\/2019\/06\/avi-networks.html\/\">AVI Networks acquisition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>vRealize Network Insight<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to move all that hardware into software<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>59% redaction in CAPEX<\/li>\n<li>55% reduction in OPEX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Customer Testimonials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sanjay Poonen (COO) takes the stage.\u00a0You fired up?<\/p>\n<p>2 Customers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rathi-murthy\/\">Rathi Murthy<\/a> &#8211; CTO of GAP<\/li>\n<li>Tim Snyder &#8211; Deputy CTO of Freddie Mac<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RM:\u00a080% of purchases still happen in store.\u00a0We\u2019re all getting more and more impatient by the day.\u00a0Speed, responsiveness, scale is all becoming critical.\u00a090% of our production workloads on VMware<\/p>\n<p>TS: We have\u00a0600 apps. 5 or 10 SaaS. The others needed to move to cloud. Why not refactor? We\u2019re a heavily regulated environment. We can\u2019t take the risks to transform our apps. Sitting on 100 million lines of code. Moved all apps to VMC on AWS. Well, 95% +. We\u2019re 2\/3 through the journey.<\/p>\n<p>SP: Do you migrate, modernise, do both?<\/p>\n<p>RM: 1000 apps across the board. Critical to us to migrate what\u2019s critical to the business without disruption. There hasn\u2019t been a database we didn\u2019t like. Being able to modernise without disrupting was a challenge. Pivotal played a critical role. 60 &#8211; 70% of apps modernised through PKS.<\/p>\n<p>SP: We don\u2019t call it lift and shift, we prefer migrate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/File-26-8-19-10-21-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8361 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/File-26-8-19-10-21-10-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/File-26-8-19-10-21-10-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/File-26-8-19-10-21-10-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/File-26-8-19-10-21-10.png 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SP: Your migrate strategy is Azure. But in the middle is VMware. Yes.<\/p>\n<p>SP: Tim, in the M and M world.<\/p>\n<p>TS: Running 5% of apps in containers now. We wanted to push to migrate this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why is consumer life so easy and enterprise so hard?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Consumer simple, enterprise secure.\u00a0&#8220;Every employee in the world should be using Workspace ONE&#8221;.\u00a0Dell unified workspace product.<\/p>\n<p>Why invest in digital employee experience?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>23% more likely to be an industry leader<\/li>\n<li>60% more likely to be a growth company<\/li>\n<li>41% more likely to have a positive Employee Net Promotor Score (eNPS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Video plays. SP:\u00a0My latest favourite topic is security.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Intrinsic security&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>5 control points<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Endpoint device<\/li>\n<li>Endpoint workload<\/li>\n<li>Network infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Apps<\/li>\n<li>Data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Talked briefly about the <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.vmware.com\/overview\/press-releases\/press-release-details\/2019\/VMware-Enters-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Carbon-Black\/default.aspx\">Carbon Black acquisition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Solid session. 3.5 stars. Watch the replay <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2MExk0b\">here<\/a>. Read more about Project Pacific and Tanzu <a href=\"https:\/\/cormachogan.com\/2019\/08\/26\/vmworld-2019-announcement-vmware-tanzu-portfolio\/\">here<\/a>. Scott Lowe&#8217;s coverage of the general session can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.scottlowe.org\/2019\/08\/26\/liveblog-vmworld-2019-day-1-general-session\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer: I recently attended\u00a0VMworld 2019 \u2013 US.\u00a0 My flights and accommodation were paid for by Digital Sense, and VMware provided me with a free pass to the conference and various bits of swag. There is no requirement for me to blog about any of the content presented and I am not compensated by VMware for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,73],"tags":[786,796,1230],"class_list":["post-8360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","category-vmworld","tag-vmware","tag-vmworld","tag-vmworld2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8448,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}