VMware NSX-T gets support for Pivotal Container Service

VMware NSX-T upgrade gets support for the Pivotal Container Service and the Pivotal Cloud Foundry. The update is designed to improve the use of vSphere in hybrid clouds. VMware has updated its version of NSX for non-vSphere environments, adding to the network virtualization software integration with the Pivotal Container Service and the latest iteration of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. VMware introduced NSX-T 2.1 on Tuesday. Through NSX-T, Pivotal Container Service, or PKS, brings support for Kubernetes container clusters to vSphere, VMware's virtualization platform for the data center. PCF is an open source cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that developers use to build, deploy, run and scale applications. VMware developed the Cloud Foundry service that is the basis for PCF. Pivotal Software, whose parent company is Dell Technologies, now owns the PaaS, which Pivotal licenses under Apache 2.0. VMware NSX-T was introduced early this year to provide networking and security management for non-vSphere application frameworks, OpenStack environments, and multiple KVM distributions. Support for KVM underscores VMware's recognition that the virtualization layer in Linux is a force in cloud environments. As a result, the vendor has to provide integration with vSphere for VMware to extend its technology beyond the data center.