VMware announces vCloud hybrid services

BANGALORE, INDIA: VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, at an event recently, unveiled vCloud Hybrid Service, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud operated by VMware and built on vSphere.

"VMware's mission is to radically simplify IT and help customers transform their IT operations," said Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware. "Today, with the introduction of the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, we take a big step forward by coupling all the value of VMware virtualization and software-defined data center technologies with the speed and simplicity of a public cloud service that our customers desire."

vCloud Hybrid Service will extend VMware software into the public cloud. This means customers will be able to extend the same skills, tools, networking and security models across both on-premise and off-premise environments.

vCloud Hybrid Service will support the thousands of applications and more than 90 operating systems that are certified to run on vSphere so customers can get the same level of availability and performance running in the public cloud without changing or re-writing their applications, as per a release.

VMware vCloud Hybrid Service will allow customers to use virtual networking to extend existing Layer 2 or Layer 3 networks from their data centre to the vCloud Hybrid Service.

Built on vSphere, vCloud Hybrid Service will offer automated replication, monitoring and availability for business-critical applications, leveraging the features of vSphere, including VMware vMotion, High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler.

vSphere administrators will be able to view, manage and migrate VMs from the vSphere client using the free vCloud Connector plug-in.

"Our new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service delivers a public cloud that is completely interoperable with existing VMware virtualized infrastructure," said Bill Fathers, senior vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware. "By taking an ‘inside-out' approach that will enable new and existing applications to run anywhere, this service will bridge the private and public cloud worlds without compromise."

VMware vCloud Hybrid Service will be available in June through an Early Access program, with general service availability in the US expected in Q3 2013.

vCloud Hybrid Service Dedicated Cloud will provide physically isolated and reserved compute resources and will be sold on an annual term with pricing starting at 13 cents an hour for a fully protected, fully redundant 1 GB virtual machine with 1 processor.

vCloud Hybrid Service Virtual Private Cloud has a multitenant compute resource model, but with dedicated allocations for customers. Virtual Private Cloud will be sold on a monthly term with pricing starting at 4.5 cents an hour for a fully protected, fully redundant 1GB virtual machine with 1 processor.