Virtualization & Containers

VDI offers remote employees access to their desktop environment from anywhere, fostering productivity and flexibility. By centralizing data and applications on remote servers, VDI enhances security, reducing risks associated with lost or stolen devices. With centralized management, IT teams can efficiently handle updates and security patches, simplifying administrative tasks and potentially reducing costs.

Containerisation has revolutionised how applications are developed and managed, offering a more flexible, portable and efficient way of managing them across various environments and infrastructure.

VMware Tanzu simplifies Kubernetes, enabling efficient modern application development and management across diverse environments. It streamlines container orchestration, supports microservices, and enhances DevOps. Tanzu improves scalability, reduces costs, and facilitates legacy application modernization.

VMware is a virtualization technology that allows you to run multiple virtual machines on a single server. It offers benefits like cost savings, increased efficiency, and improved resource utilization. It creates an abstraction layer between the hardware and the operating system.

VMware vSphere Foundation is a powerful virtualization platform that transforms physical data centers into software-defined infrastructure. It provides compute virtualization, optional software-defined storage, and integration with networking virtualization. vSphere Foundation offers increased efficiency, improved performance, enhanced security, and accelerated innovation.

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a platform that offers a complete set of software-defined data center (SDDC) components in a single, integrated virtualization stack. It simplifies the deployment and management of private and hybrid clouds.

A virtual machine (VM) is a computing resource that uses software rather than a physical computer to run programs and deploy applications, providing increased flexibility and efficiency in managing computing resources.

VMware vCenter centralizes ESXi host and VM management, simplifying virtual infrastructure. It enhances scalability with dynamic resource allocation, integrates hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and provides robust data protection. Core features include vMotion, DRS, and HA.

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that facilitates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerised applications in distributed environments. It automates deployment, resource management, and high availability tasks, providing a robust infrastructure for modern applications.

Hypervisors are software, firmware, or hardware that create and manage virtual machines, enabling multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine. They optimize resource utilization, enhance security, and improve scalability, leading to cost savings and increased efficiency in IT infrastructure.

Containerization is a game-changing technology revolutionizing software development and deployment. Packaging applications and their dependencies into isolated units called containers offer numerous benefits, including portability, efficiency, scalability, and faster deployment.

Cloud containers are lightweight, executable packages encapsulating everything needed to run software, including code, runtime, and system tools. Cloud containers offer a portable solution that ensures consistency across diverse environments from personal devices to public clouds. Through OS virtualization, containers isolate applications, providing each with dedicated resources.

Container orchestration is an automated process that manages the deployment, management, and scaling of containerised applications. It optimizes resource usage, ensures resilience and system scalability, making it easy to manage thousands of containers in complex environments like the cloud.

Container management (Conte refers to a set of practices that govern and maintain containerization software.

Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration engine that is ideal for complex applications but requires management expertise. Rancher simplifies Kubernetes adoption with a user-friendly interface and centralized multi-cluster management, making it accessible to a broader audience.

Kubernetes automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, working as a cluster. Docker popularised containerization, packaging applications with dependencies into isolated containers. They are complementary: Kubernetes orchestrates containers, often built with Docker, for large-scale, resilient deployments.

Virtualisation revolutionised IT by enabling multiple simulated environments on a single physical machine, moving away from the one-to-one ratio of hardware to operating system. Containers is an evolution of virtualisation that offers lighter, application-specific isolation, enhancing speed and cloud compatibility.