Google Cloud VMware Engine is a fully managed service that lets you run the VMwareplatform in Google Cloud. VMware Engine provides you with VMwareoperational continuity so you can benefit from a cloud consumption model andlower your total cost of ownership. VMware Engine also offerson-demand provisioning, pay-as-you-grow, and capacity optimization.
Your VMware environment runs natively on Google Cloud bare metalinfrastructure in Google Cloud locations and fully integrates with therest of Google Cloud. Google manages the infrastructure and all thenecessary networking and management services so you can consume the VMwareplatform efficiently and securely.
VMware Engine includes vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T, HCX, andcorresponding tools, so it's fully compatible with your existing VMware tools,processes, and skills training. This compatibility enables your team to manageworkloads without disrupting existing policies, such as those related tonetworking, security, data protection, and auditing.
Features and benefits
VMware Engine provides you with a number of benefits to your overallproductivity:
- Infrastructure agility. Get on-demand self-service provisioning of VMwarecloud environments, with the ability to add and remove capacity on demand orreserve capacity to lower costs.
- Infrastructure monitoring, troubleshooting, and support. Google operatesyour underlying infrastructure as a service. Failed hardware is automaticallyreplaced. Focus on consumption while Google manages VMware platformdeployments and upgrades, management plane backups, health and capacitymonitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and remediation.
- Security. Edge-type networking services, including VPN, public IP, andinternet gateways run on Google Cloud and carry the security anddistributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) protection ofGoogle Cloud. Infrastructure is fully dedicated to you and physicallyisolated from infrastructure of other customers.
- Hybrid platform. VMware Engine enables high-speed, low-latencyconnectivity to the rest of Google Cloud, as well as your on-premisesenvironment. VMware Engine also provides the underlay networkingservices required to enable VMware, including L2/L3 services and firewall rulemanagement.
- Convenient monitoring. Monitoring and management tools help you keep trackof platform activity, resource usage, user account management, billing, andmetering.
- Lower cost. VMware Engine provides high levels of automation,operational efficiency, and economies of scale. Google further lowers costs bypublishing solution architectures for you to use Google Cloud servicesin an integrated VMware cloud in a public cloud architecture.
- Operational continuity and policy compatibility. Google offers nativeaccess to VMware platforms. The architecture is compatible with your existing:
- VMware-based applications
- Security procedures
- Disaster recovery backups
- Audit practices
- Compliance tools and certifications
Use cases
- Retire or migrate data centers
- Scale data center capacity in the cloud and stop managing hardware refreshes.Cloud migrations reduce risk and cost by using familiar VMware tools andskills. In the cloud, use Google Cloud services to modernize yourapplications at your pace.
- Expand on demand
- Scale capacity to meet unanticipated needs, such as new developmentenvironments or seasonal capacity bursts, and keep it only as long as you needit. Reduce your up-front investment, accelerate speed of provisioning, andreduce complexity by using the same architecture and policies across bothon-premises and the cloud.
- Disaster recovery and virtual desktops in Google Cloud
- Establish remote access to data, apps, and desktops in Google Cloud.High-bandwidth connections let you quickly upload and download data to recoverfrom incidents. Low-latency networks give you fast response times similar tothose of a desktop app. Use the VMware Engine portal and familiarVMware tools to replicate all your policies and networking in the cloud.Recovery and replication with VMware Engine greatly reduces theeffort and risk of creating and managing DR and VDI implementations.
- Power high-performance applications and databases
- Google provides a hyper-converged architecture designed to run your mostdemanding VMware workloads. Run Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, middlewaresystems, and high-performance noSQL databases. Experience the cloud as yourown data center with high speed network connections that let you run hybridapps that span your on-premises environment, VMware on Google Cloud,and Google Cloud private workloads without compromising performance.
- Unify DevOps across VMware and Google Cloud
- Optimize VMware administration by using Google Cloud services andsolutions that can be applied across all your workloads. Access public cloudservices without having to expand your data center or re-architect yourapplications. Centralize identities, access control policies, logging, andmonitoring for VMware applications on Google Cloud.
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Last updated 2024-08-05 UTC.
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