01. Cullen Ruegemer, HPE, visits #theCUBE!. (00:19) 02. The Vibe of VMworld and the Energy Around HPE. (00:50) 03. Unpacking Hyper Converged from a Product and Architectural View. (01:58) 04. The VMware Component in the Hyper Converged Solution. (05:13) 05. Uses Cases with Hyper Converged: Why It's Winning. (06:05) 06. Is There a Prime Target for Hyper Converged Solutions?. (08:25) 07. Core Storage Innovation and the Road Map Ahead. (09:28) 08. Customer Feedback and Take Away from VMworld 2016. (11:24) 09. The Overlap of Systems is the New Complexity Challenge. (13:11) Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com. --- --- The synergy of VMware and hyper-converged platforms | #VMworld by Tim Hawkins | Aug 31, 2016 The ability to easily create virtualized resources is a fast-growing customer market. And Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) is partnering with VMware, Inc. on its hyper-converged platforms in order to quickly create state-of-the-art composable infrastructure. Cullen Ruegemer, senior director of Product Management at HPE, sat down with John Furrier (@furrier) and John Walls (@johnwalls21), co-hosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld in Las Vegas, to talk about the company’s foray into Virtual Machines (VM) vending through the HPE-VMware collaboration. Hyper-converged and VM vending The underlying technologies of converged infrastructure are not new, and HPE has been in the market for almost 10 years. Hyper-converged infrastructure systems combine compute power and software-defined storage in the same form factor. This hardware model is then simplified enough so that a customer is able to go in and quickly procure and provision their own virtual network infrastructure. “What really makes it hyper-converged is taking a different consumption model and user experience wrapped around those compute and storage,” said Ruegemer. “And then the lifecycle management and the upgradability and just making it very easy to maintain and operate these over time. All of this through a common management construct.” VMware is essential to the hyper-converged package At the end of the day, hyper-converged platforms are about being able to simply and easily create virtualized infrastructure. Having a fully integrated, turnkey converged platform is great, but being able to create this infrastructure quickly and virtually makes the converged concept that much more powerful, according to Ruegemer. HPE’s collaboration with, and implementation of VMware on its hyper-converged systems is what is making it possible. “It’s absolutely core to the solution,” said Ruegemer. “VMware is a really critical partner what we’re doing here.”