Google Cloud NEXT: Intel improves ideal TCO with Google Cloud VMware Engine while adding performance, flexibility, and security
At Google NEXT 25, Intel is partnering with Google Cloud. Intel will be showcasing new and extended solutions that will improve your total cost of ownership (TCO) by providing better performance and greater workload flexibility.
Benefit from C4 virtual machines growing on Intel Xeon 6 processors
The newest Intel Xeon 6 CPU, codenamed Granite Rapids, will be added to the C4 Machine Series. Customers may improve the performance and scalability of their most important applications to this expansion’s additional capabilities, increased shape options, and increased flexibility. created to provide performance that leads the industry for a variety of demanding workloads, including inference, databases, analytics, gaming, and real-time platforms.
- C4 with Titanium Local SSD: Google’s most recent local storage innovation, high-performance Titanium Local SSDs, will be available in new virtual machine forms for C4 on Intel Xeon 6 CPUs. With improved performance and up to 35% lower local SSD latency, this state-of-the-art storage technology is developed to satisfy the demands of the most I/O-intensive applications, significantly speeding up workloads.
- C4 Bare Metal: C4 bare metal instances are now available to customers who want the most control and flexibility. The performance of these new products is up to 35% better than that of bare metal examples from earlier generations.
- Larger C4 forms: Intel are supporting new, larger C4 VM forms to offer more options and scalability. These new designs have the greatest all-core turbo frequency of any Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) up to 4.2 GHz, along with higher frequencies, larger cache sizes, and up to 2.2 TB of memory. This makes it possible for workloads that are memory-bound or license-constrained, such as databases and data analytics, to grow efficiently.
Looking for a Memory-Optimized VM? Meet M4, the latest memory-optimized Virtual Machine
With the codename Emerald Rapids, the first memory-optimized instance built on 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors has arrived. The M4 virtual machine family, Google Cloud’s most recent generation of memory-optimized instances, is made for workloads requiring a lot of memory, such as in-memory analytics. M4 provides a notable boost in performance when compared to other top cloud solutions with comparable designs.
With a Memory/Core ratio of 13.3:1 and 26.6:1, M4 provides more flexibility to properly size your database workloads. For example, it can be configured with sizes ranging from 744GB to 3TB. The RAM to vCPU ratio is doubled with M4. With a variety of new designs in addition to the extensive memory-optimized virtual machine portfolio, M4 provides excellent possibilities for clients wishing to improve their memory-optimized infrastructure. The price performance of M4 instances is up to 65% better than that of M3 instances.
Perfect SAP Support
The performance and scalability of Intel Xeon processors make them perfect for demanding SAP applications. Google Cloud’s new memory-optimized M4 instances are certified for SAP NetWeaver Application Server and in-memory SAP HANA workloads ranging from 768GB to 3TB. Overall performance has been improved with the M4’s 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, which surpass the prior version by 2.25x more SAPs. With Intel’s hardware-based security and data protection and M4’s adaptability to particular SAP workload requirements, you can effectively control expenses and guarantee peak performance.
Z3-highmem and Z3.metal: New Storage Options for VMs Providing Specialised Industry Solutions
With the addition of new smaller VM shapes ranging from 3TB to 18TB Titanium SSD, Google Cloud’s Z3 instance on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs (codenamed Sapphire Rapids) increases its Z3-highmem Storage Optimised offers from two to eleven. By scaling from 2 to 11 virtual machines, this addition meets a range of storage requirements and provides flexibility for different workloads.
Z3.metal and Z3 high-memory forms have also been added by Google Cloud, which uses the Titanium Offload System to improve storage optimisation. Built on the Titanium Offload System, Google Cloud’s new bare metal instance, Z3h-highmem-192-metal, features 72TB of Titanium SSD in the form of a single compute engine machine. Advanced monitoring, hyperconverged infrastructure, and bespoke hypervisors are supported by this form. By having direct access to the CPU of the real servers, customers can build sophisticated CPU monitoring or tightly regulated process execution. Workloads that are unable to operate in virtualised systems because of license and vendor support requirements can be accommodated by industries like security, CI/CD, HPC, and financial services.
Google Cloud VMware Engine Changes the Game with 18 Additional Nodes
Cloud by Google One of the quickest methods to move and convert your current VMware estate to Google Cloud is via VMware Engine. VMware applications may already be operated and migrated to the cloud with ease to the use of Intel Xeon processors. The overall number of node forms across VMware Engine v1 and v2 now stands at 26, with 18 more node shapes added. You now have the most alternatives in the industry to optimise your TCO and tailor your capacity to the demands of your business.
Increased Security Using Intel TDX
Intel and Google Cloud are dedicated to giving users access to cutting-edge security tools including Intel Trust Domain Extensions (Intel TDX). Intel TDX is a proprietary computer technique and CPU feature that encrypts tasks while they are being used.
There are now two products that support Intel TDX:
- Google Kubernetes Engines that use hardware-based security capabilities to safeguard data in memory and offer extra defence against assaults are known as Confidential GKE Nodes. generally accessible in Q2 2025 with Intel TDX.
- Confidential Space: Intel TDX now offers a secure, separated environment for processing sensitive data.
What is Google Cloud VMware Engine
Quickly move and convert your VMware-based apps to Google Cloud without requiring modifications to your tools, processes, or apps. consists of every piece of gear and VMware license needed to operate in a specific VMware SDDC on Google Cloud.
Google Cloud VMware Engine Advantages
Completely integrated VMware experience
In contrast to other alternatives, Intel offer all the licenses, cloud services, and billing you require while streamlining the usage of VMware services and tools with unified identities, management, support, and monitoring.
Quick provisioning and scaling
Benefit from the cloud’s elasticity and scalability by using quick provisioning; with dynamic resource management and auto scaling, you can launch a new private cloud in roughly 30 minutes.
Utilise well-known third-party cloud apps
Keep using your essential business apps in the cloud without making any adjustments. Leading ISV solutions for databases, storage, disaster recovery, and backup are integrated with Google Cloud VMware Engine.
Google Cloud VMware Engine Key features
High availability and quick networking
In order to satisfy the demands of your most demanding enterprise applications, VMware Engine is based on Google Cloud’s highly performant, scalable architecture, which offers 99.99% availability and fully redundant networking up to 200 Gbps.
Increase datastore capacity without affecting computing capacity
VMware has certified Google Filestore and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes for usage with VMware Engine as an NFS datastore. For your storage-intensive virtual machines, you can grow storage independently of computing by using external NFS storage to supplement built-in vSAN storage. leverage Filestore or Google Cloud VMware Engine to extend storage from TBs to PBs for the capacity-hungry VMs, and leverage vSAN for low latency VM storage needs.
Experience using Google Cloud integrated
Take advantage of complete access to cutting-edge Google Cloud services. With native VPC networking, you can use common access methods like Cloud VPN or Interconnect to gain private layer-3 access between Google Cloud services and VMware environments. Access control, identification, and billing all work together to make the experience consistent with other Google Cloud services.
Sturdy VMware ecosystem solutions
A managed backup and disaster recovery (DR) service for centralised, application-consistent data protection is Google Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery. Alternatives include third-party services and IT management solutions that complement on-premises setups. Intel are partnering with NetApp, Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity, and Dell Technologies to ease migration and ensure business continuity. Go over the brief on the VMware Engine ecosystem.
Familiarity with Google Cloud’s operations suite and VMware tools
The shift is easy if you utilise the same VMware tools, procedures, and guidelines for on-premises workloads. Use the operations suite to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve Google Cloud applications.