Expanding FlexPod hybrid cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation

Customer interest in hybrid cloud is increasing at a lightning pace. With a myriad of cloud technologies and products from every vendor, plus all the choices in hyperscalers and service providers, the hybrid cloud solution matrix is almost unlimited. IT leaders must navigate through the vast hybrid cloud landscape. Added to this daunting task are the integration challenges of these new cloud products and technologies. Sadly, many IT teams can recount horror stories about failed integrations and support nightmares.

But don’t worry, the FlexPod^® validated converged platform helps you eliminate integration issues and provides superior support. And you can extend your datacenters to hybrid cloud with ease and confidence.

FlexPod has a proven track record of delivering integrated infrastructure from NetApp, Cisco, and VMware. With this validated platform, you can run a wide range of workloads — consolidation, databases, virtual desktop, healthcare, AI, and more. The single unified support also eliminates finger-pointing when technical issues arise. Your IT team can instead focus their energy on advancing business initiatives achieving positive outcomes.

NetApp is the leading innovator in hybrid cloud. The NetApp^® Cloud Volumes platform offers integrated NetApp ONTAP^® storage infrastructure and advanced data services for private and public cloud alike. It’s the most widely adopted cloud platform on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. There’s also the NetApp Astra™ product family, the industry’s first stateful storage management solution for cloud applications.

FlexPod has continually integrated these intelligent hybrid cloud products with its proven infrastructure. You can use FlexPod hybrid cloud solutions to simplify your journey to the cloud, with minimal disruption to your business operations.

NetApp and VMware have been partners for the past 20 years. A large majority of FlexPod customers use vSphere virtualization. So it’s a natural evolution to expand the FlexPod hybrid cloud portfolio — with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — to offer a new FlexPod hybrid cloud solution with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

The new FlexPod hybrid cloud solution with VMware Cloud Foundation provides several key benefits:

• A new management domain is created for VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) Manager to manage your datacenter and hybrid cloud workloads.
• For your virtual cloud network, IT has the option to use VMware NSX-T to support your hybrid cloud networking framework and security policies for your organization.
• For your hybrid cloud storage management, the new solutions uses NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP in the same way as the existing FlexPod hybrid cloud solution with AWS.
• Cisco Intersight continues to provide unified infrastructure management for FlexPod on premises and in hybrid cloud.

Many customers have already completed a proof of concept for the FlexPod hybrid cloud solution with VMware Cloud Foundation. You can get started today. To learn more, visit:

• Flexpod.com
• NetApp.com/FlexPod
• Cisco.com/go/FlexPod
• FlexPod Design Guides
• Cisco Intersight