Announcing New Alibaba Cloud VMware Service
We are excited to announce the general availability of Alibaba Cloud VMware Service, which integrates VMware on-premises tools, skillsets, and processes, delivering a vSphere-based cloud service to Alibaba Cloud. Partnering with Alibaba Cloud, we are bringing innovative and cost-effective hybrid cloud service to the Greater China area.
Extend on-prem vSphere into Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud VMware Service leverages VMware compute, storage, network virtualization products, and centralized management functions deployed to Alibaba bare-metal hosts. This consistent and unified cloud infrastructure enables organizations to seamlessly move workloads between on-premises and Alibaba Cloud at scale.
Unified Platform
A unified platform to transfer applications with fully automated provisioning and life-cycle management.
High-Speed and Secure Cloud Network
99.9% SLA for both SDDC instance availability and management components globally with VMware NSX, L2-L4 network security.
Consistent Infrastructure
Delivered by the same vSphere-based SDDC used on-premises without rearchitecting or refactoring applications.
Improved TCO with Cloud Economics
Save on hardware and enjoy the benefit of consistent operation management without the need to re-platform or re-architect while migrating to the cloud.
Accelerate with Alibaba Cloud VMware Service
Seamless Integration
Fully integrated control plane with Alibaba Cloud native console and monitoring panel.
Accelerated Migration
Migrate your workloads without retrofit or disruption, reducing migration effort from months to weeks.
Consistent Operations
Based on vSphere and vCenter APIs so your existing VMware and third-party tools continue to work without the need for re-training.
Meet Domestic Regulations and Compliance
Deploy existing or new applications with the only China-based cloud provider that meets regulatory export control and data privacy requirements across Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.
Use Cases
Migrate Your Applications to the Cloud
Alibaba Cloud VMware Service empowers the enterprise to migrate existing workloads quickly and cost-efficiently by combining on-premises data centers with the Alibaba public cloud.
Extend Your Data Center to the Cloud
On-demand expansion of data center capacity to Alibaba Cloud with no impact on application uptime or disruption to the end users.
Disaster Recovery
End to end data protection with simple SaaS-based management for IT resiliency and cloud economics.
Application Modernization
Combine Kubernetes, popular developer tools and frameworks, and access to native Alibaba Cloud services to achieve a fast path to production for applications.
Components of Alibaba Cloud VMware Service
Leverage your existing investments, skills, and tools.
VMware vSphere
Run existing applications alongside modern containerized apps on the server virtualization platform geared for the modern hybrid cloud.
VMware NSX
Connect and protect apps across the data center, multi-cloud, bare metal, and containers – all from a single pane of glass.
VMware vSAN
Reduce cost and complexity – while improving business agility – with this enterprise-class storage virtualization software.