VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud enables enterprises to support application growth, network agility and simplified branch implementations while delivering optimized access to cloud services, private data centers and enterprise applications simultaneously over both ordinary broadband Internet and private links. NSXSD-WAN combines the economics and flexibility of a hybrid WAN with the deployment speed and low maintenance of a cloud-based service. It includes policy-based network-wide application performance, visibility and control while dramatically simplifying the WAN by delivering virtualized services from the cloud to branch offices. The VMware NSX SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud appliance is a compact, thin edge device that is zero-touch provisioned from the cloud for secure,optimized connectivity to applications and data. The NSX SD-WANEdge is also available as a VNF (virtual network function) for instantiation on a virtual CPE platform. The NSX SD-WAN Edge with Dynamic Multi-Path Optimization (DMPO) and deep application recognition aggregates multiple links (e.g. Private, Cable, DSL, 4G-LTE) and steers traffic over the optimal links to other on-premises NSX SD-WAN Edges in branch offices, private data centers, campuses, and headquarters. The NSX SD-WAN Edge can also optionally connect to the system of global VMware NSX SD-WAN Gateway by VeloCloud to provide performance, security,and visibility for cloud services (SaaS, IaaS, B2B Internet). This system of NSX SD-WAN Gateways is deployed globally at top-tier cloud data centers to provide scalable and on-demand cloud network services. NSX SD-WAN Gateways implement NSX SD-WAN DMPO, cloud VPN and NSX SD-WAN Multisource Inbound Quality of Service between global cloud services (SaaS, IaaS, network services) and each NSX SD-WAN Edge, enabling multiple broadband and private leased lines to appear as a single, high-performance WAN. The cloud-based VMware NSX SD-WAN Orchestrator by VeloCloud is used to provision network-wide business policy, enable services insertion, perform real-time monitoring,and analyze application performance. Deploy in Minutes Using NSX SD-WAN’s zero-touch deployment capability, NSX SD-WAN can be quickly installed. The NSX SD-WAN Edge is shipped to the branch office where a non-technical person simply plugs in power and a few cables. Activation, configuration, and ongoing management are all handled in the cloud. Enterprise-wide Business Policies NSX SD-WAN makes setting policy as simple as a single click. Enterprises or their managed service providers can define business level policies that apply enterprise wide across many Edges, all througha centralized, cloud based NSX SD-WAN Orchestrator. Link steering, link remediation and QoS are all applied automatically based on the business policies; however specific configuration overrides may also be applied. The centralized NSX SD-WAN Orchestratoralso provides an enterprise wide view and configurability of routing in an overlay flow control table, eliminating complex node by node route configurations. SDN for the WAN NSX SD-WAN brings SDN concepts to the enterprise branch WAN. Business policies implemented across the logical overlay deliver abstraction of application flows from the underlying physical transport. Agility is achieved based on adjusting forwarding to meet policy as well as real-time link conditions. NSX SD-WAN has a distributed control plane for forwarding decisions to be made locally with context, so there are no latency issues nor points of failure across the WAN. Yet each NSX SD-WAN node receives centralized control policies for easy programmability and enterprise wide visibility. A software based approach enables the flexibility and portability of deploying virtual NSX SD-WAN Edges on off-the-shelf x86 based hardware or as virtual network functions (VNFs) on virtual CPEs. Management is configurable via both a GUI and a Rest API. Solution Benefits The WAN is in transition as enterprises seek to improve agility and economics, and adapt to the shift of applications to the cloud. NSX SD-WAN offers enterprise-grade performance, security, visibility, and control over both public Internet and private networks.NSX SD-WAN dramatically simplifies the WAN with zero touch deployment, one-click business policy and services insertion, and cloud-based network as a service.

What AirWatch Does Manage All Endpoints in a Single Solution  AirWatch is built to manage the entire lifecycle of any endpoint, across all major operating systems in a single management console. You have various use cases spread across your business. The advantage of managing mobility with AirWatch is the ability to uniquely support these use cases within a single solution, including full device management, app-level management for BYOD or line of business use cases such as kiosk or shared devices. Support Full App Lifecycle from Development to Deployment  AirWatch supports the complete app lifecycle including sourcing or developing an app, applying security policies, deploying an app catalog and analyzing app metrics. You can seamlessly deploy any app – native, web or remote – through a single app catalog across every device with built-in single sign-on. If you’re looking to develop internal apps, AirWatch supports three approaches: AppConfig Community, VMware AirWatch Software Development Kit or app wrapping. Automate Processes and Deliver Intelligent Insights IT is consistently challenged to deliver more for the business without additional budget or resources. One of the key advantages of the AirWatch platform is our powerful automation engines that ease the strain on IT that is typically associated with initial device deployment and day-to-day mobility management.

Highly targeted assets demand perfect security, but can’t afford loss in performance. Critical systems are increasingly targeted because they contain the most valuable information. These systems cannot afford a moment of unscheduled downtime or performance degradation as they are the lifeblood of the organization. They often run on out-of-date or unsupported operating systems, which are costly to secure and support. The most common approach to defending these systems typically relies on layering multiple, ineffective security products, which is costly, creates risk and jeopardizes performance. VMware Carbon Black App Control is an industry-leading application control product, used to lock down servers and critical systems, prevent unwanted changes and ensure continuous compliance with regulatory mandates. Leveraging cloud reputation services, IT-based trust policies and multiple sources of threat intelligence from the VMware Carbon Black Cloud, VMware Carbon Black App Control ensures that only trusted and approved software is allowed to execute on an organization’s critical systems and endpoints. VMware Carbon Black App Control combines application whitelisting, file integrity monitoring, full-featured device control and memory/tamper protection into a single agent. VMware Carbon Black App Control watches for behavioral indicators of malicious activity and conducts continuous recording of attack details to provide rich visibility into everything suspicious that attackers attempt to do. With the addition of the File Delete feature, VMware Carbon Black App Control is now a direct control for requirement 5 of PCI DSS, enabling customers to remove traditional antivirus without the need for undergoing the compensating control process. Security teams can harden their new and legacy systems against all unwanted change, simplify the compliance process, and provide the best possible protection for corporate systems at enterprise scale. VMware Carbon Black App Control is available through MSSPs or directly through on-premise.

KEY CAPABILITIES VMware Carbon Black App Control is a powerful positive security solution for data centers and critical systems that allows server admins to control change while consolidating agents. Using a ‘Default Deny’ approach, VMware Carbon Black App Control reduces your attack surface and downtime by automating approval of trusted software and eliminating the burden of whitelist management. Lock Down Critical Systems Stop malware and non-malware attacks by preventing unwanted changes to your applications and files, providing you with the control over your environment that you need. Ensure Continuous Compliance Accelerate compliance by meeting many of the requirements in regulatory standards and frameworks, such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, SOX, NERC CIP, GDPR and NIST 800-53. High Performance and Low Touch Application Control Be confident that your solution is blocking the “bad” and allowing the “good” without interrupting daily operations.

BENEFITS

• Stop malware, ransomware and next-gen attacks

• Eliminate unplanned downtime of critical systems

• Consolidate endpoint agents

• Prevent unwanted change to system configuration

• Meet IT risk and audit controls across major regulatory mandates

• Increase efficiency of IT resources with streamlined IT audit processes

• Protect legacy systems running on unsupported operating systems

• App Control is now a direct control for requirement 5 of PCI DSS

FEATURES

• Application control

• File integrity monitoring and control

• Device control

• Memory protection

• Reputation services

• Open APIs

PLATFORMS

• Sensor Support:

• Windows XP, Server, Vista, Embedded, POS

• Mac OS X

• RHEL Linux

• CentOS Linux

• Oracle RHCK Linux

VMware Carbon Black Cloud is a cloud native endpoint and workload protection platform (EPP and CWP) that combines the intelligent system hardening and behavioral prevention needed to keep emerging threats at bay, using a single lightweight agent and an easy-to-use console. By analyzing more than 1 trillion security events per day, VMware Carbon Black Cloud proactively uncovers attackers’ behavior patterns and empowers defenders to detect and stop emerging attacks. As a key means to realizing intrinsic security, VMware Carbon Black Cloud simplifies and strengthens your approach to security across any app, any cloud, and any device. Adaptive Prevention Delivers Better Protection The majority of today’s cyberattacks feature advanced tactics such as lateral movement and island hopping that target legitimate tools to inflict damage. These sophisticated hacking methods pose a tremendous risk to targets with decentralized systems protecting high-value assets, including money, intellectual property and state secrets. VMware Carbon Black CloudTM thwarts attacks by making it easier to:

• Analyze billions of system events to understand what is normal in your environment

• Prevent attackers from abusing legitimate tools

• Automate your investigation workflow to respond efficiently

All of this is unified into one console and one agent, so that infrastructure and InfoSec teams have a single, shared source of truth to improve security together. One Platform for Your Endpoint Security Needs VMware Carbon Black Cloud consolidates multiple endpoint security capabilities using one agent and console, helping you operate faster and more effectively. As part of VMware’s intrinsic security approach, VMware Carbon Black Cloud spans the system hardening and threat prevention workflow to accelerate responses and defend against a variety of threats. Endpoint standard – next-generation antivirus and behavioral EDR Analyze attacker behavior patterns over time to detect and stop never-seen-before attacks, whether they are malware, fileless or living-off-the-land attacks. Managed detection – managed alert monitoring and triage
Gain 24-hour visibility from our security operations center of expert analysts, who provide validation, context into root cause and automated monthly executive reporting. Audit and remediation – real-time device assessment and remediation Easily audit the current system state to track and harden the security posture of all your protected devices. Enterprise EDR – threat hunting and containment Proactively hunt for abnormal activity using threat intelligence and customizable detections.

Real-Time Device Assessment & Remediation Even the most effective security teams are often forced to play catch up during emergency situations due to limited time and resources to perform regular, proactive analysis and evaluate potential risks. Any delays during the investigation prolongs downtime and leaves the organization open to increased risk. Once the scope of an attack is understood, dispersed processes and tool sets can cause bottlenecks that delay the remediation of problematic endpoints. VMware Carbon Black Audit and Remediation is a real-time assessment and remediation solution that gives teams faster, easier access to audit and change the system state of endpoints across their organization. By providing administrators with real-time query capabilities from a cloud-native endpoint protection platform, Audit and Remediation enables teams to make quick, confident decisions to harden systems and improve security posture. Audit and Remediation closes the gap between security and operations, allowing administrators to perform full investigations and take action to remotely remediate endpoints all from a single solution.

KEY CAPABILITIES Single Agent, Cloud Platform Audit and Remediation is built on the PSC, a cloud-native endpoint protection platform that offers converged prevention, detection, and response with additional services that can be activated as you need them, using the same converged agent, without any additional deployment or infrastructure. On-Demand Queries Audit and Remediation gives your Security & IT Operations team visibility into even the most precise about the current system state of all endpoints, enabling you to make quick, confident decisions to reduce risk. Immediate Remote Remediation Audit and Remediation closes the gap between security and operations, giving administrators a remote shell directly into endpoints to perform full investigations and remote remediations all from a single cloud-based platform. Simplified Operational Reporting Audit and Remediation allows you to schedule daily, weekly, or monthly queries to automate operational reporting on patch levels, user privileges, disk encryption status and more to track & maintain the desired state of your ever-changing environment.

BENEFITS

• žExecute abroad range of operational activities quickly and confidently

• žEstablish proactive IT hygiene to prevent attacks
• žBuild consistency into operational reporting and auditing processes

• Remove barriers between security analysis and IT operations
• žExtend existing investigation and remediation capabilities
• žReplace adhoc scripts and manual tasks with a structured security platform
• žAutomate operational reporting with scheduled queries

AUDIT AND REMEDIATION

• žLeverages the same agenta nd console as NGAV, EDR and threat hunting platform
• žCloud-based storage of all query results
• žEasy access to unified data across Security and IT teams

FEATURES

• žPre-Built Recommended Queries
• žSQL query (open text field)
• žQuery Scheduler
• žCopy & Re-run Queries
• Save and favorite queries
• žEmail notifications
• žFilter and group results
• žData export
• žSecure shell for remote remediation
• žTwo-way API

PLATFORMS

• žWindows 7 and above
• žWindows Server 2008 R2 and above
• žMacOS 10.10 and above
• žRedHat 6 and above
• žCentOS 6 and above
• žUbuntu 16.04 and above
• žSUSE 12 and above
• žOpenS USE 15 & 42
• žAmazon Linux 2

Prevention for Today’s Advanced Cyber Attacks Protect your organization and customer data with an easy-to-manage, cloud-native endpoint protection platform (EPP) that combines prevention and automated detection to defend your organization from today’s advanced cyber attacks. The VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard is a next-generation antivirus (NGAV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution that protects against the full spectrum of modern cyber attacks. Using the VMware Carbon Black Cloud’s universal agent and console, the solution applies behavioral analytics to endpoint events to streamline detection, prevention, and response to cyber attacks. Multi-level protection Cyber attackers are innovating faster than traditional defenses can withstand. Our next-generation antivirus (NGAV) solution employs multiple protection layers including file reputation and heuristics, machine learning, and behavioral models to analyze endpoint activity and block malicious behavior to stop all types of attacks before they reach critical systems. With flexible behavioral prevention policies, protection is easily tailored to your organization’s distinct needs. Enhance endpoint protection and operations Prevent malicious attacks on your organization’s resources with a single NGAV and endpoint detection and response solution offering comprehensive prevention and endpoint activity analysis capabilities, and free up resources with our easy-to-use cloud platform for fast integration into your existing systems. Features: Protection from known and emerging attacks and in-product alerts on the latest attacks from our security experts

• Comprehensive protection of your organization’s data and customer information from malware, non-malware and living off the land (LotL) attacks.
• Simplified deployment and operation with out-of-the-box policies to adapt protection to your organization.

• Stay up to date on the latest attacks with in-product updates from our expert Threat Analysis Unit (TAU).

Prioritized alerts, attack chain visualizations, and in-product response capabilities

• Save money and time investigating and responding to incidents. With visibility into the entire attack chain and endpoint activity analysis, there’s no need to spend time tracking down which of your systems were affected and when.

• Respond remotely and minimize downtime to endpoints with a tool that allows you to instantly roll back attacks from the console.

Flexible security policies

• Tailor policies to your organization’s specific needs for easy integration into your existing systems and security practices, with less false positives.

Single agent and cloud-native platform

• Simplify your security stack and return critical CPU cycles while improving performance on endpoints with an easy-touse, single cloud platform and agent.

Active, engaged user community of internal security experts and peers

• Get answers fast on how to use the product, and learn about the latest attacks and remediation tips from our expert Threat Analysis team and industry peers, with access to our User Exchange community.

Benefits:

• Protection from known and unknown attacks

• Clear alerts and prioritization of potential attacks

• Easier investigation into security incidents

• Faster mean time to resolution (MTTR)

• Reduced overhead; no infrastructure required

Operating Systems:

• Windows: Windows 7/8/10

• macOS X: 10.6.8+

• Linux RedHat (RHEL) & CentOS 6/7

• Windows 2008 R2

• Windows 2012

• Windows 2012 R2

• Windows 2016

• Windows 2019

Enterprise security teams struggle to get their hands on the endpoint data they need to investigate and proactively hunt for abnormal behavior. Security and IT professionals currently lack the ability to see beyond suspicious activity and need a way to dive deeper into the data to make their own judgments. VMware Carbon Black Enterprise EDR is an advanced threat hunting and incident response solution delivering continuous visibility for top security operations centers (SOCs) and incident response (IR) teams. Enterprise EDR is delivered through the VMware Carbon Black Cloud, a next-generation endpoint protection platform that consolidates security in the cloud using a single agent, console and dataset. Using data continuously collected and sent to the VMware Carbon Black Cloud, Enterprise EDR provides immediate access to the most complete picture of an attack at all times, reducing lengthy investigations from days to minutes. This empowers teams to proactively hunt for threats, uncover suspicious behavior, disrupt active attacks and address gaps in defenses before attackers can. Along with continuous visibility, Enterprise EDR gives you the power to respond and remediate in real time, stopping active attacks and repairing damage quickly.

Key Capabilities Complete Endpoint Protection Platform Built on the VMware Carbon Black Cloud, Enterprise EDR provides advanced threat hunting and incident response functionality from the same agent and console as our NGAV, EDR and real-time query solutions, allowing your team to consolidate multiple point products with a converged platform. Continuous & Centralized Recording Centralized access to continuously collected data means that security professionals have all the information they need to hunt threats in real time as well as conduct in-depth investigations after a breach has occurred. Attack Chain Visualization & Search Enterprise EDR provides intuitive attack chain visualization to make identifying root cause fast and easy. Analysts can quickly jump through each stage of an attack to gain insight into the attacker’s behavior, close security gaps, and learn from every new attack technique to avoid falling victim to the same attack twice. Live Response for Remote Remediation
With Live Response, incident responders can create a secure connection to infected hosts to pull or push files, kill processes, perform memory dumps and quickly remediate from anywhere in the world. Automation via Integrations & Open APIs Carbon Black boasts a robust partner ecosystem and open platform that allows security teams to integrate products like Enterprise EDR into their existing security stack.

BENEFITS

• Reduced complexity for more efficient endpoint security

• Easy deployment,automated updates, and elastic scalability

• Accelerated investigations with continuous endpoint visibility

• Complete understanding of root cause to close existing gaps

• Secure remote access for investigations

• Greatly reduced dwell time and average time to resolution

FEATURES

• Lightweight sensor deployed and managed from the cloud

• Process and binary search of centralized, unfiltered data

• Out-of-the-box and customizable behavioral detection

• Proprietary and third-party threat intel feeds

• Automated watchlist store-run queries

• Interactive and expandable attack chain visualization

• Secure remote shell for rapid remediation

• Open APIs

PLATFORMS

• Windows

• macOS

• Red Hat

• CentOS

As enterprises face a shortage of skilled security professionals, security teams often spend too much time monitoring and validating alerts, which limits their ability to address other security needs. Even more concerning, when attacks occur, many security analysts are limited by the tools and data available for analysis in their own environment.This is compounded by lack of visibility into the history of the event. Carbon Black Cloud Managed Detection provides a much needed view into attacks with recommendations for the policy changes needed to remediate the threat. Managed Detection Analysts notify service subscribers via email of threats and provide specific policy changes to address the threat in Carbon Black Cloud Next Gen AV and Behavioral EDR. Built directly on the Carbon Black Cloud platform, CB Managed Detection is staffed by a world-class team of security experts who monitor and analyze the data in the Carbon Black Cloud using advanced machine learning and algorithmic tool sets.
Offered as a managed service, Managed Detection provides a world-class team of Carbon Black security experts who with your organization to validate and prioritize alerts, uncover new threats and accelerate investigations.

Key Capabilities Threat Validation and Insight With 24x7x365 coverage, your team can have true peace of mind knowing that nothing will slip through the cracks. Carbon Black’s security experts proactively validate alerts and send email notifications, helping to assure that your team doesn’t miss the alerts that matter. Roadmap to Root Cause Carbon Black Managed Detection provides additional, human-generated context to Carbon Black NGAV and Behavioral EDR alerts, such as connecting alerts caused by the same root cause, to help you streamline investigations and resolve security issues. Outbreak Advisories Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit constantly monitors threat trends across the globe. When widespread and newsworthy outbreaks occur our team sends out advisories that include indicators of compromise, giving your team a jump start on assessing risk and closing gaps. Monthly Reporting Our Carbon Black Managed Detection experts provide monthly reports that summarize activity across your environment, including the most common suspicious events and most targeted machines. These reports provide a starting point for refining policies, help your team see big-picture trends and make reporting effortless.

BENEFITS

• More efficient and proactive security operations

• More actionable alerts, reducing alert fatigue

• Notifications provide analysts with the information needed to keep their leadership aware of threats and mitigations.

• Reduced time spent investigating root cause

• Alleviation of staffing pressures with 24x7 support

• Clearer view of security trends to help guide policy

FEATURES

• Threat validation

• Email alerts

• Root cause analysis

• Threat advisories

• Monthly reports

PLATFORMS Carbon Black Managed Detection is an add-on service to Carbon Black NGAV and Behavioral EDR, which supports:

• Windows: Windows 7/8/10

• Mac OS X: 10.6.8+

• Server:
  Windows 2008
  Windows 2012
  Windows 2016

Threat Hunting & Incident Response for Hybrid Deployments Enterprise security teams struggle to get their hands on the endpoint data they need to properly investigate and proactively hunt for abnormal behavior. Security and IT professionals lack the ability to see beyond suspicious activity and need a way to dive deeper into the data to make their own judgments. Carbon Black EDR is an incident response and threat hunting solution designed for security operations center (SOC) teams with offline environments or on-premises requirements. Carbon Black EDR continuously records and stores comprehensive endpoint activity data, so that security professionals can hunt threats in real time and visualize the complete attack kill chain. It leverages the VMware Carbon Black Cloud’s aggregated threat intelligence, which is applied to the endpoint activity system of record for evidence and detection of these identified threats and patterns of behavior. Top SOC teams, IR firms and MSSPs have adopted Carbon Black EDR as a core component of their detection and response capability stack. Customers that augment or replace legacy antivirus solutions with Carbon Black EDR do so because those legacy solutions lack visibility and context, leaving customers blind to attacks. Carbon Black EDR is available via MSSP or directly via on- premises deployment, virtual private cloud or software as a service.

Key Capabilities Continuous and Centralized Recording Centralized access to continuously recorded endpoint data means that security professionals have the information they need to hunt threats in real time as well as conduct in-depth investigations after a breach has occurred. Live Response for Remote Remediation With Live Response, incident responders can create a secure connection to infected hosts to pull or push files, kill processes, perform memory dumps and quickly remediate from anywhere in the world. Attack Chain Visualization and Search Carbon Black EDR provides intuitive attack chain visualization to make identifying root cause fast and easy. Analysts can quickly jump through each stage of an attack to gain insight into the attacker’s behavior, close security gaps and learn from every new attack technique to avoid falling victim to the same attack twice. Automation via Integrations and Open APIs Carbon Black boasts a robust partner ecosystem and open platform that allows security teams to integrate products like Carbon Black EDR into their existing security stack.

BENEFITS

• Faster end-to-end response and remediation

• Accelerated IR and threat hunting with continuous endpoint visibility

• Rapid identification of attacker activities and root cause

• Secure remote access to infected endpoints for in-depth investigation

• Better protection from future attacks through automated hunting

• Unlimited retention and scale for the largest installations

• Reduced IT headaches from reimaging and helpdesk tickets

FEATURES

• Out-of-the-box and customizable behavioral detection

• Multiple, customizable threat intel feeds

• Automated watchlists capture queries

• Process and binary search of centralized data

• Interactive attack chain visualization

• Live Response for rapid remediation

• Open API sand 120+ out-of-the-box integrations

• On-prem, virtual private cloud, SaaS, or MSSP

PLATFORMS Sensor Support:

• Windows & Windows Server

• MacOS

• Red Hat

• CentOS

• Oracle RHCK

• SuSE

Deployment Options:

• Clouds or On-Premise

VMware ESXi: The Purpose-Built Bare Metal Hypervisor Discover a robust, bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto your physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi effectively partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs. It’s the industry leader for efficient architecture, setting the standard for reliability, performance, and support. What ESXi Delivers IT teams are under constant pressure to meet fluctuating market trends and heightened customer demands. At the same time, they must stretch IT resources to accommodate increasingly complex projects. Fortunately, ESXi helps balance the need for both better business outcomes and IT savings. VMware ESXi enables you to:

• Consolidate hardware for higher capacity utilization.

• Increase performance for a competitive edge.

• Streamline IT administration through centralized management.

• Reduce CapEx and OpEx.

• Minimize hardware resources needed to run the hypervisor, meaning greater efficiency.

FEATURES By consolidating multiple servers onto fewer physical devices, ESXi reduces space, power and IT administrative requirements while driving high-speed performance. Small Footprint
With a footprint of just 150MB, ESXi lets you do more with less while minimizing security threats to your hypervisor.
Reliable Performance
Accommodate apps of any size. Configure virtual machines up to 128 virtual CPUs, 6 TB of RAM and 120 devices to satisfy all your application needs. Consult individual solution limits to ensure you do not exceed supported configurations for your environment. Learn more about configuration maximums.
Enhanced Security
Protect sensitive virtual machine data with powerful encryption capabilities. Role-based access simplifies administration, and extensive logging and auditing ensure greater accountability and easier forensic analysis.
Ecosystem Excellence
Get support for a broad ecosystem of hardware OEM vendors, technology service partners, apps, and guest operating systems.
User-Friendly Experience
Manage day-to-day administrative operations with built-in modern UI based on HTML5 standards. For customers who need to automate their operations, VMware offers both a vSphere Command Line Interface and developer-friendly REST-based APIs.

EVO:RAIL enables power-on to Virtual Machine creation in minutes, radically easy VM deployment, easy non-disruptive patch and upgrades and simplified management. EVO:RAIL is a scalable Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) building block that delivers compute, networking, storage, and management to empower private and hybrid cloud, end-user computing, test/dev, and branch office environments. Building on the proven technology of VMware vSphere,  vCenter Server, and VMware Virtual SAN, EVO:RAIL  delivers the first hyper-converged infrastructure appliance  100 percent powered by VMware software. EVO:RAIL Software Bundle:

• EVO:RAIL rapid deployment, configuration and management engine;
• Compute, network and storage virtualization enabled with vSphere and Virtual SAN.

2U 4-node hardware platform optimized for EVO:RAIL:

• Four independent nodes for compute, network and storage;
• Each node has dual processors and 192GB memory;
• Total of 16TB of SSD and HDD storage via Virtual SAN;
• Phone and in-field hardware and software  Support & Services (SnS).

EVO:RAIL is delivered as a complete appliance solution with hardware, software, and support through Qualified EVO:RAIL Partners; customers choose their preferred brand.

VMware View is a commercial desktop-virtualization product developed by VMware, Inc. Its first two releases (2.0.0 and 2.1.0) sold under the name VMware VDM, but with the 3.0.0 release in 2008 VMware Inc. changed the name to "VMware View". "VMware View" became "Horizon View" with the launch of Horizon 6 in April 2014. VMware View provides remote-desktop capabilities to users using VMware's virtualization technology. A client desktop operating-system - typically Microsoft Windows 7, Vista or XP - runs within a virtual environment on a server. The VMware View product has a number of components which are required to provide the virtual desktops, including: VMware vSphere for Desktops (includes ESXi, VMware's hypervisor) VMware vCenter Server (management of virtualization environment) View Composer (advanced View management, with automation and cloning) View Manager (administration of the View Environment) View Client (communication between View and the desktop OS) VMware ThinApp (application virtualization) View Persona Management (user profile management) vShield Endpoint (offloaded desktop antivirus) Although VMware licenses vSphere hypervisor per physical CPU-socket, it licenses VMware View per concurrent desktop. The bundled hypervisor, vSphere for Desktops, is functionally equivalent to vSphere Enterprise Plus.

VMware NSX® Data Center is the network virtualization and security platform that enables the virtual cloud network, a software-defined approach to networking that extends across data centers, clouds, and application frameworks. With NSX Data Center, networking and security are brought closer to the application wherever it’s running, from virtual machines (VMs) to containers to bare metal. Like the operational model of VMs, networks can be provisioned and managed independent of underlying hardware. NSX Data Center reproduces the entire network model in software, enabling any network topology—from simple to complex multitier networks—to be created and provisioned in seconds. Users can create multiple virtual networks with diverse requirements, leveraging a combination of the services offered via NSX or from a broad ecosystem of third-party integrations ranging from next-generation firewalls to performance management solutions to build inherently more agile and secure environments. These services can then be extended to a variety of endpoints within and across clouds.

Networking in software VMware NSX Data Center delivers a completely new operational model for networking defined in software, forming the foundation of the software-defined data center (SDDC) and extending to a virtual cloud network. Data center operators can now achieve levels of agility, security and economics that were previously unreachable when the data center network was tied solely to physical hardware components. NSX Data Center provides a complete set of logical networking and security capabilities and services, including logical switching, routing, firewalling, load balancing, virtual private network (VPN), quality of service (QoS) and monitoring. These services are provisioned in virtual networks through any cloud management platform leveraging NSX Data Center APIs. Virtual networks are deployed non-disruptively over any existing networking hardware and can extend across data centers, public and private clouds, container platforms and bare-metal servers.

KEY BENEFITS

• Protect applications with micro-segmentation at the workload level and granular security.

• Reduce network provisioning time from days to seconds and improve operational efficiency through automation.

• Gain consistent management of networking and security policies independent of physical network topology within and across data centers and native public clouds.

• Obtain detailed application topology visualization, automated security policy recommendations and continuous flow monitoring.

• Enable advanced, lateral threat protection on east-west traffic using the built-in, fully distributed threat prevention engine.

vRealize Suite provides developer-friendly infrastructure (supporting VMs and containers) and a common approach to hybrid and multicloud, supporting major public clouds, such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. What vCloud Suite Delivers

• Application Operations. Enable developers to quickly release, troubleshoot, and optimize performance of highly distributed microservice-based cloud applications in real time.
• Self-Driving Operations. Help IT continuously optimize capacity and performance based on operational and business intent.
• Programmable Provisioning. Help developers and IT easily access infrastructure and application resources on any cloud through API, catalog, or CLI with full lifecycle management.
• Data Center Virtualization. Leverage the world’s leading virtualization platform as the foundation for multiple data center initiatives. Consolidate servers and data centers. Improve application availability and performance. Address application requirements for scale up or scale out.

What’s Included in vCloud Suite?

• vRealize Suite . Cloud management platform that helps IT enable developers to quickly build VM and container-based applications in any cloud with secure and consistent operations.
• vRealize Lifecycle Manager. Automated installation, configuration, upgrade, patch, drift remediation, health, and content management of vRealize products.
• vRealize Operations. Automated IT operations management that enables IT to manage performance and gain visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure.
• vRealize Business for Cloud. Automated cloud costing, cloud consumption analysis, and cloud comparison for private, public, and hybrid cloud.
• vSphere . Deliver business value from day one, with powerful server virtualization, breakthrough availability, safe automated management, and intelligent operational insight that adapts to your environment.
• vRealize Automation. Self-service, policy-based infrastructure and application provisioning and lifecycle management for multi-vendor virtual, physical, and public cloud environments.
• vRealize Log Insight. Heterogeneous and highly scalable log management for deep operational visibility and faster troubleshooting across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

What vRealize Automation Delivers Agility Through IT Automation Accelerate the end-to-end delivery and management of infrastructure and applications. Choice Through Flexibility Provision and manage multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure and applications by leveraging new and existing infrastructure, tools and processes. Personalization Through Governance Policies Ensure that users receive the right size resources, or applications, at the appropriate service level for the jobs they need to perform. Efficiency Through Cost Containment IT Automation reduces time-consuming, manual processes and provides additional cost savings through automated reclamation of inactive resources. FEATURES Enhanced Governance Meet specific business needs at the right service level with personalized, policy-based governance. Deliver infrastructure, applications or any IT service through a IT service catalog. Flexible Cloud Deployment Choose the right cloud platform and location that meet your business needs. We support private, public and hybrid cloud deployments of all sizes. Unified Blueprint Model Model infrastructure and applications using a visual canvas with a drag-and-drop interface or entirely as code. Choose from a prebuilt content library or leverage existing configuration management tools.

What vRealize Business for Cloud Does  Understand Your Cloud Cost Track and manage your private cloud cost and public clouds spending in a single dash board. Communicate to Your Cloud Consumers Monitor cloud consumption by business groups and applications. Align IT with lines-of-business through showback. Plan Your Cloud Spending Evaluate cost efficiency across data centers, private clouds and public clouds. Optimize resource management across hybrid clouds. Get Value in Cloud Speed Get instant cost visibility through automated data collection and reference cost library for your vSphere infrastructure and public clouds. USE CASES Cloud Costing Track private and public cloud costs in a single dashboard, providing a simple-to-interpret view of cost drivers and spending efficiency. IT organizations can automatically and continuously track the cost of on-premises vSphere virtual infrastructure, as well as easily assess how much the business is spending across multiple public cloud providers and accounts. Cloud Consumption Analysis and Showback IT organizations can quickly see which business groups, applications, or services are consuming the most and least enterprise infrastructure. IT teams can also securely share cloud services allocation statements, or showback reports, with specific LOBs through role-based access to online reports. With monthly charge projections and budget tracking, the solution provides greater transparency across the business. Cloud Comparison and Planning Automating cost comparisons on current and planned workloads helps IT organizations quickly evaluate cloud options and improve decision making. IT teams can compare public clouds to private clouds and make smarter cloud purchasing decisions. The solution also provides procurement planning capability to help IT teams improve resource management.

Why Choose vRealize Log Insight? Promote Rapid Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis Delivers innovative indexing and machine learning based Intelligent Grouping, to enable high performance searching, for faster troubleshooting across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Monitor and Manage Machine Data at Scale Analyzes massive amounts of log data and delivers near real-time monitoring, search and log analytics, coupled with a dashboard for stored queries, reports and alerts. Speeds correlation of events across an entire IT environment. Create Structure from Unstructured Data Collects and automatically identifies structure in all types of machine-generated log data (application logs, network traces, configuration files, messages, performance data, system state dumps, etc.) to build a high performance index for performing analytics. Lower Operating Expenses Offers a predictable pricing model that includes unlimited data and does not require buying licenses based on peak usage and worst-case scenarios.
FEATURES Universal Log Collection and Analytics Leverage vRealize Log Insight to collect and analyze all types of machine-generated log data. Administrators can connect it to everything in their environment—operating systems (including Linux and Windows), applications, storage, firewalls, network devices or something else—for enterprise-wide visibility via log analytics. Enterprise-Class Scalability Highly scalable and designed to handle all kinds of machine generated data. In recent internal testing, Log Insight was three times faster than the leading solution in query tests across 1 billion log messages. Each node can ingest double the data per node, supporting up to 15,000 events per second, per node. Intuitive GUI & Easy Deployment An intuitive, GUI-based interface makes it easy to run simple interactive searches, as well as deep analytical queries for quick insights that provide immediate value and improved IT efficiency. vRealize Log Insight automatically chooses the best visualization for your data, saving you valuable time. Built-in vSphere Knowledge Developed by VMware experts, vRealize Log Insight comes with built-in knowledge and native support for VMware vSphere with Operations Management. You can analyze logs beyond your virtual infrastructure and use a central log management solution to analyze data from your entire IT environment. Integration With vRealize Operations Integration with the vRealize Operations platform extends operational visibility and proactive management capabilities across infrastructure and applications. It also helps you maximize ROI, by bringing unstructured data (such as log files) together with structured data (such as metrics and key performance indicators).    

VMware vRealize Network Insight helps customers build an optimized, highly available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. It accelerates micro-segmentation deployment, minimizes business risk during application migration and enables customers to confidently manage and scale NSX deployments. USE CASES Plan Application Security and Migration • Accelerate micro-segmentation deployment • Troubleshoot security for SDDC, native AWS and hybrid applications • Minimize business risk during application migration Optimize and Troubleshoot Virtual & Physical Networks • Reduce mean time to resolution for application connectivity issues • Optimize application performance by eliminating network bottlenecks • Audit network and security changes over time

USE CASES Application-aware monitoring across SDDC and multiple clouds Centralize management of SDDC and multi-cloud environments, accelerate time to value and troubleshoot smarter with native integrations, unified visibility from applications to infrastructure health and actionable insights combining metrics and logs. Unified Performance Management Get a unified operations view into applications and infrastructure health with an easy-to-use, highly scalable and extensible platform. Visualize key performance indicators and infrastructure components dependencies. Get simple actionable out-of-the-box persona-based dashboards with explanation of underlying problems and recommended corrective actions. Troubleshoot quickly with an easy to navigate and intuitive UI. Enable proactive remediation of performance problems through predictive analytics and smart alerts. Monitor applications and operating systems in one place. Customizable dashboards, reports and views enable role-based access and enable better collaboration across infrastructure, operations and applications teams. 360 Degree Troubleshooting Troubleshoot smarter with 360-degree troubleshooting using metrics and logs side-by-side and in context. Integration of vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight bring structured data (such as metrics and key performance indicators) and unstructured data (such as log files) together, for faster root-cause analysis. Save time and improve return on investment by using a central log management solution to analyze data across the IT environment, including virtual, physical and cloud environments. Native SDDC Integrations Operationalize and scale VMware SDDC components such as vCenter, vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation, with native integrations. Native vSAN management provides vSAN-specific capacity monitoring, including capacity and time remaining, dedup and compression savings and reclamation opportunities. It enables centralized management of multi-site and stretched clusters with advanced troubleshooting, proactive alerting and visibility from virtual machines to disk. Open and Extensible Platform Manage large, complex heterogeneous and hybrid environments with an open and extensible architecture with scalability and resilience to support highly complex environments. Deploy domain-specific Management Packs from VMware and third-party hardware and application vendors. Application-Aware Infrastructure Management Gain insight into application-to-infrastructure dependencies through a centralized operations view. Visualize infrastructure components dependencies for applications, simplify change impact analysis and troubleshooting. Assess and analyze dependencies and uncover overlooked relationships between virtual machines and critical connections that may be missing from your disaster recovery plan. Automated and proactive workloads management Simplify and streamline operations with fully automated management of infrastructure and applications performance, while retaining full control. Automatically balance workloads, avoid contention and enable proactive detection and automatic remediation of issues and anomalies before end users are impacted. Automated Workload Balancing Automatically and continuously move and balance workloads across hosts and clusters based on business requirements. Control of the level of automation, what automated actions are taken and when these occur. Select business imperative, such as optimizing for cost, performance or utilization and then automate and schedule workload balancing, or even continue to perform manual rebalancing. Predictive DRS Avoid contention by combining predictive analytics from vRealize Operations with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), to calculate future contention and proactively move workloads to avoid the issue. Predictive analytics learn the normal behavior, analyzing hourly, daily and monthly patterns for every metric associated with an object including the upper and lower bound of “normal”. It uses the analytics to predict future demand and proactively prepares for increased demand by triggering move actions by DRS. Predictive Analytics and Remediation Enable proactive remediation of performance problems through predictive analytics and smart alerts, which correlate multiple symptoms into meaningful warnings and alerts. Get simple actionable explanations of underlying problems and recommended corrective actions. Remediate alerts and issues before they impact end-users with 1-click as well as fully automated actions. Cloud Planning, capacity optimization and compliance Correlate operational and cost insights to accelerate cloud planning decisions, control costs and reduce risk. Optimize cost and resource usage through capacity management, reclamation and right sizing, improve planning and forecasting and enforce IT and configuration standards. Cloud Planning Gain cost transparency for the private cloud resources, as well as across multiple public clouds to help optimize placement decisions. Evaluate the expenses of infrastructure in a private cloud environment and compare that with the cost of running the same infrastructure on other public cloud environments like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Correlate Business and Operational Insights Combine capacity analytics with costing information to easily understand and track how operational efficiency and capacity management drives cost efficiency. Understand cost implications of unused and underutilized capacity. Easily and accurately make hardware procurement plans with the insights into what and how many to buy. Capacity Management Reclaim overprovisioned capacity and right-size virtual machines with automated resource optimization. Intelligent capacity management and modeling eliminates the need for scripts and spreadsheets. Capacity analytics provide proactive alerting based on capacity usage and demand and deliver optimization capabilities that can help reclaim unused and overprovisioned capacity and right-size VMs to increases resource utilization. Capacity Forecasting Use flexible capacity modeling to develop resourcing strategies and what-if scenarios according to business demand as well as service level agreements (SLAs). Advanced capacity modeling provides the ability to create and save multiple “what-if” scenarios and commit these capacity models to the analytics engine to influence future capacity calculations and alerts. Capacity planning and project management capabilities extend beyond vSphere and across physical and application-level metrics, helping to increase consolidation ratios or to plan in accordance with SLAs. Configuration & Compliance Reduce risk by ensuring hardening for vSphere and all VMware SDDC components such as VSAN, NSX and vCenter. Get out-of-the box cluster, host and VM compliance dashboards and vSphere regulatory compliance templates such as PCI & HIPAA. Get an overview into SDDC health and compliance with breakdown for each product, Drill into noncompliant areas and remediate.    

What vRealize Suite Delivers Intelligent Operations Proactively address health, performance and capacity management of IT services across heterogeneous and hybrid cloud environments with the right cloud management tools in order to improve efficiency, performance and availability. IT Automating IT Automate the delivery and ongoing management of IT infrastructure to reduce the time it takes to respond to requests for IT resources, while improving the ongoing management of provisioned resources. Understand the cost of infrastructure options and the consumption of resources by end users in order to maximize capital spending. DevOps-Ready IT Build a cloud solution for development teams that can deliver a complete application stack and support developer choice, in the form of both API and GUI access, to resources and provision resources across a hybrid cloud. Extend the solution scope by addressing continuous delivery to further speed up application delivery. VMware offers three vRealize Suite editions that provide different functionality at various price points, making it easy to license VMware vRealize Suite to meet your specific requirements and use cases with the right cloud management tools. Standard Edition: Supports Intelligent Operations Management use cases for companies looking to improve application performance and availability via predictive analytics and smart alerts. See the Standard Edition Product Walkthrough. Advanced Edition: Supports Automated IT use cases for companies who need to accelerate the delivery of IT infrastructure services by automating delivery and ongoing management. See the Advanced Edition Product Walkthrough. Enterprise Edition: Supports DevOps-Ready IT use cases for companies with DevOps initiatives who are looking to automate the delivery and management of full application stacks. See the Enterprise Edition Product Walkthrough. Upgrades to vRealize Suite can be purchased for vRealize Operations, vRealize Automation, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Business for Cloud Advanced, or from lower editions of vRealize Suite. Get more out of vRealize Suite with third-party integrations, adaptors and management packs. For a complete list, visit Solution Exchange.