Kerv Transform Limited

VMware SD-WAN

VMware SD-WAN is a cloud delivered solution ensuring resilient WAN connectivity, allowing consumers to have flexible connectivity choice. VMware SD-WAN offers improved application performance and availability over traditional private networks while also lowering networking costs. It can detect the degradations and dynamically remediate over one or multiple WAN links.

Features

• Centralised management and control
• Real-time WAN link reporting
• WAN encryption
• API based management and control
• Data traffic segmentation
• Stateful firewall
• Virtual LAN termination
• Network agility
• Cloud Gateway controlled
• Simplified configuration

Benefits

• Rapid delivery of WAN services
• Multiple WAN link connectivity options (DIA, Broadband, MPLS, LTE (4G/5G))
• Zero touch provisioning of WAN edge devices
• Highly resilient WAN operation
• User application traffic prioritisation
• Enforcement of business policies for mission critical applications
• Improve the quality of voice and video sessions
• WAN link bonding to increase available bandwidth
• Resilient delivery of SaaS application traffic via Cloud Gateways
• Rapid configuration through policy inheritance

£454.54 to £1,001.60 a licence a year

• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

145480236599495

Contact

Nicholas Cothill
0330 113 5000
nicholas.cothill@kerv.com

Service scope

• Service constraints: VMware SD-WAN provides clear guidance regarding the implementation best practises needed for the service. Recommendations should be followed for the deployment of physical appliances to meet the requirements of the site for throughput and overlay tunnel needs. Deployment of virtual appliances should be followed for appropriate resource requirements to meet the throughput and tunnel needs.
• System requirements:
  • Purchased edge devices – Physical or Virtual
  • Software license agreement for each device
  • Compliant hypervisor for virtual edge
  • Resource allocation in the hypervisor for virtual edge
  • Aligned support agreement for the hardware and software as required
  • Internet access and/or private networking
  • Platform selection to meet requirement for throughput and tunnel count

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support response times: VMware offers online trouble ticketing through the Customer Connect portal provided at the VMware website. A response timeline is defined based on the tickets assigned severity level, and the level of support plan purchased: Basic: Sev1 (<1 hour 24x7), Sev2 (<6 hours 12x5), Sev3 (<12 hours 12x5), Sev4 (12x5) Production: Sev1 (<30 mins 24x7), Sev2 (<4 hours 12x5), Sev3 (<8 hours 12x5), Sev4(<24 hours 12x5) Premier: Sev1 (<30 mins 24x7), Sev2 (<2 hours 24x7), Sev3 (<4 hours 12x5), Sev4(<12 hours 12x5)
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Software support plans are defined as Basic, Production, and Premier. Each support level offers Call Centre support for severity one through four incidents. Basic and Production provide 24x7 severity one support, with the remaining levels being provided at 12x5. Premier improves this by adding severity two with 24x7 support. Hardware replacement services operate a return to base, next business day, 4 hour 9x5, or 4 hour 24x7.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: VMware Professional Services can rapidly deploy solutions according to the business and technical requirements. This is focused on architecture, topology, and functional testing. Knowledge transfer sessions are completed to ensure that our customers are fully versed in the operational infrastructure. VMware also partners with organisations that can provide training, deployment, management, and customer-specific documentation for SD-WAN implementations. VMware has training and classes available with a two-day course that can be delivered privately, remotely, or in person. Details of the enablement course can be found here: https://mylearn.vmware.com/descriptions/EDU_DATASHEET%20VMware%20SD- WAN%20Deploy%20and%20Manage%204.x.pdf
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: All metadata within the Orchestrator remains until the Orchestrator is taken out of service. All backups of the Orchestrator are deleted after one year. VMware Gateways that contain customer metadata are cleared when a log purge event is actioned (either monthly, semi-yearly, or yearly). Upon explicit request, the data present in the Orchestrator can be deleted at an earlier date.
• End-of-contract process: At the termination of a subscription, VMware disables all accounts to prevent access. Edge devices may still send traffic if connected to the network operate with their locally stored configuration. Edges will no longer receive any configuration updates, software support or hardware replacement.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Using the web interface: VMware Operations create a customer-specific tenant within an SD-WAN Orchestrator. The monitoring, addition, configuration, and deletion of SD-WAN edges are handled through the Orchestrators' web-based service. The administrator creates site profiles that represent the types of edges to be used and the features required. The profile includes information related to the devices interfaces, routing protocols, firewall configuration, and traffic policies. SD-WAN edge devices are then added to the Orchestrator and mapped to a profile that defines the configured policies. Profiles ensure simple and consistent configuration of the SD-WAN network. SD-WAN Edges are added to the network using Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) minimising the need for smart hands activity. Any modifications needed on the Edge, i.e. localised addressing and route peering, are centrally handled through SD-WAN Orchestrator. Users of the SD-WAN Orchestrator service are allocated to roles that control their ability to configure and view. This ensures that only approved users can make configuration changes and modify privileged elements of the SD-WAN network. SD-WAN Orchestrator is available in both cloud-based or on-premises versions. The cloud-hosted version is completely managed by VMware for resiliency, security, and scale. That responsibility falls onto the customer for the on-premise version of Orchestrator.
• Web interface accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web interface is accessible: N/A
• Web interface accessibility testing: VMware has 146 products with ongoing efforts to increase accessibility. VMware has a team of accessibility subject matter experts embedded in the product teams. Over half of our accessibility team has a disability, including five screen reader users and one magnification/keyboard user, and including individuals with cognitive disabilities. VMware also does testing annually with users outside of VMware that have disabilities through the VMware Design Studio program.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: The VMware SD-WAN Orchestrator can be managed via a Northbound RESTful API via HTTP/TLS1.2. Any action that can be completed through the VMware SD- WAN Orchestrator GUI (monitoring, additions, creation, and deletion) can also be achieved through the API. Many customers and partner integrate their own scripts and delivery tools with the VMware SD-WAN API.
• API automation tools:
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • Terraform
  • Puppet
  • Other
• Other API automation tools:
  • Postman
  • CURL
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• Command line interface: Yes
• Command line interface compatibility:
  • Linux or Unix
  • Windows
  • MacOS
• Using the command line interface: VMware SD-WAN provides a secure method to support CLI access to Edges using key pairs generated per user and sends a logged-in user into an Edge CLI shell that only exposes SD-WAN troubleshooting commands and meets CSO requirements. CLI is available for low-level debugging. VMware recommends utilising SD-WAN Orchestrator or API for provisioning, configuration, and ongoing management and troubleshooting of SD-WAN Edges.

Scaling

• Scaling available: Yes
• Scaling type: Automatic
• Independence of resources: VMware SD-WAN Orchestrator is multi-tenant by design and scales to 15,000 active edge devices. VMware operations team monitor the load and take proactive management. VMware SD- WAN gateways are mapped to customer tenants from pools of resources allocated to an Orchestrator. VMware follows a horizontal stateless scale model, even if an SD-WAN Gateway fails, it re-pins to the next available Gateway (secondary). All VMware Gateways have a stateless architecture; there is no dependency on an earlier failed Gateway for proper functionality. VMware SD-WAN Gateways are continuously monitored by a dedicated cloud operations team responsible for Gateway lifecycle management.
• Usage notifications: Yes
• Usage reporting: Email

Analytics

• Infrastructure or application metrics: Yes
• Metrics types:
  • CPU
  • Disk
  • Memory
  • Network
  • Number of active instances
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: VMware

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: None

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest: Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
  • Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Backup and recovery

• Backup and recovery: Yes
• What’s backed up:
  • VMware SD-WAN Orchestrator Database
  • Orchestrator DR as hot-standby with live feed from primary
  • Extract key configuration and statistics information via API
• Backup controls: Backups of the VMware SD-WAN Orchestrator are handled by the VMware operations teams
• Datacentre setup: Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
• Scheduling backups: Supplier controls the whole backup schedule
• Backup recovery: Users contact the support team

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: VMware will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the services are available during a given month equal to the “Availability Commitment” specified as follows: VMware SD-WAN: 99.99%. VMware Secure Access: 99.90%. VMware Cloud Web Security: 99.99%. Availability in a given billing month is calculated according to the following formula: “Availability” = ([total minutes in a billing month – total minutes Unavailable] / total minutes in a billing month) x 100 Details regarding the Service Level Agreement can be found here: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/downloads/eula/vmware- nsx-sd-wan-by-velocloud-service-level-agreement.pdf
• Approach to resilience: VMware SD-WAN Orchestrator Disaster Recovery (DR) is provided by database replication from the live Orchestrator to a hot-spare at an alternate location. Operations tools monitor the live system and trigger the failover to hot-spare when an offline condition is confirmed. VMware SD-WAN Gateway the solution uses multiple logical gateways to provide high availability service to the edges. Each logical gateway can be scaled horizontally for high availability. VMware SD-WAN Edge operate in a High Availability (HA) configuration leveraging an Ethernet interconnect on the GE1 port of each device. The configuration on the Orchestrator causes the active edge to reserve its GE1 port for an expected HA peer. The HA edges exchanges configuration information, software updates, current traffic flow, and WAN link information so the second unit does not require explicit configuration. During an HA failover event, the failover is triggered to the standby device in a sub-second fashion such that active traffic sessions are maintained.
• Outage reporting: The real-time status of the VMware SD-WAN services along with past incidents is publicly available on https://status.vmware-services.io/. This page also provides information on future maintenance. Email alerts from the page can be enabled.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google apps)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: The VMware SD-WAN Orchestrator is designed for multi-tenant environments. There are three organisational tiers providing distinct roles for access and visibility for the operator, multiple agents/managed services or channel partners, and multiple end enterprise customer tenants. The Orchestrator utilises a native database to authenticate accounts but can also use an external RADIUS server for this validation. Each tier has its own subset of roles and privileges to properly segment users based on responsibility. Roles: Operator (Reserved), Superuser, Standard Admin, Customer Support, and Enterprise Read Only
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
• Devices users manage the service through:
  • Dedicated device on a government network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated device over multiple services or networks
  • Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
  • Directly from any device which may also be used for normal business (for example web browsing or viewing external email)

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months
• How long system logs are stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: VMware: Schellman & Company LLC
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 14/10/2021
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: Yes
• CSA STAR accreditation date: VMware: 25/03/2022
• CSA STAR certification level: Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
• What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover: N/A
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: VMware: 360 Advanced, Inc
• PCI DSS accreditation date: 31/03/2021
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: N/A
• Cyber essentials: No
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • ISO 27017 Cloud Service Providers (VMware)
  • ISO 27018 Protection of PII (VMware)
  • SSAE-16 / SOC2 (VMware)
  • ICSA (VMware)

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: VMware SD-WAN has a security team that oversees security features during SDLC and manages ongoing security for our product and service offering. To demonstrate the results of this oversight, VMware SD-WAN has received ISO 27000 (27001, 27017, and 27018) certification. VMware SD-WAN’s SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls) is designed for service providers storing customer data in the cloud. It requires companies to establish and follow strict information security policies and procedures encompassing the security, availability, processing, integrity, and confidentiality of customer data. For ISO compliance, please go to https://www.vmware.com/products/trust- center/certificate.html?family=ISO

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: VMware Configuration Management policy is based on industry best practices. Revisions and exceptions are processed through a documented procedure to help ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our hosted offering. - maintains cryptographic keys for required cryptography in the SaaS environment based on standards, procedures, and secure methods. Change Management is staged on the Orchestrator by creating a copy of the profile undergoing the change. The updated profile is attached to individual Edges to test and roll back as needed. All changes are logged in the Orchestrator event log, indicating who/when enacted the change.
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: VMware analyzes identified vulnerability for applicability, adjusting the vulnerability score on mitigating factors determining the final criticality score. The network layer, application, and internal OS layer vulnerability scans are performed. This includes third-party vulnerability scanning and penetration tests. Vulnerability scans are reviewed annually. After analyzing the severity and impact, VMware patches all network, utility, and security equipment. VMware has subscriptions to vendor security and bug- tracking notification services. Critical patches are installed timely. Non- critical patches are applied within reasonable timeframes. Patch testing/rollback procedures are completed with minimal impact. Third- party auditors perform reviews against industry standards, including ISO 27001.
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Security scans against the infrastructure components are completed regularly. If a security breach is detected, affected POPs will first be detached from the management core to isolate the exposure. Local bastion hosts will be spun up to provide out-of-band access to the resources. Once the compromised instance or instances are identified, these will be terminated and rebuilt to restore functionality or service. If a material breach is observed, impacted customers will be notified within five days or in the timeframe as required by local law or other applicable regulations (such as GDPR).
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: VMware has pre-defined processes for common events. VMware users who become aware of a security vulnerability in VMware products contact VMware with details of the vulnerability. VMware has established an email address used for reporting a vulnerability security@vmware.com. Incident reports are provided via email and release notes

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Separation between users

• Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: No

Energy efficiency

• Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
• Description of energy efficient datacentres: VMware SD-WAN typically utilizes AWS datacenters and information about AWS & Sustainability can be found here: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity

  Fighting climate change

  Kerv Transform offers the following social value packages for fighting climate change:; ; 1. Achieve net zero as soon as practically possible. The reporting metric for this package will be defined by obtaining and sharing a SBTi approved, science-based target. This will be reported in the Kerv Impact Assessment report produced on an annual basis.; ; 2. Increase climate change literacy by directly supporting 5 partners who are just beginning their climate action journeys. The reporting metric for this package will be the number of partners supported each financial year. This will be reported in the Kerv Impact Assessment report produced on an annual basis.; ; 3. Mobilise our workforce for collective climate action by motivating 20% of staff to join a climate positive initiative. The reporting metric for this package will be the number of staff as a percentage who have joined a positive climate initiative. This will be reported in the Kerv Impact Assessment report produced on an annual basis.

  Tackling economic inequality

  Kerv Transform offers the following social value packages for tackling economic inequality:; ; 1. Supporting the most vulnerable in wider society by donating 1% of cash profits* to charitable causes. *Definition of Profit – EBITDA, less exceptional items, less capex, less cash interest, as recorded in the company accounts. This will be reported in the Kerv Impact Assessment report produced on an annual basis.; ; 2. Empower disadvantaged job seekers by supplying 500 hours of support to individuals not in education or training. The reporting metric for this package will be the number of hours of support supplied in each financial year. This will be reported in the Kerv Impact Assessment report produced on an annual basis.

  Equal opportunity

  Kerv Transform offers the following social value packages for equal opportunity:; ; 1. Increase candidates from underrepresented groups by 10% (including the socially economic underrepresented). The reporting metric for this package will be the % increase of underrepresented groups recruited into Kerv. This will be reported in the Kerv Impact Assessment report produced on an annual basis.; ; 2. Reduce the disability employment gap by setting up a candidate and employee accommodations concierge. The reporting metric for this package will be the number of people utilising the concierge on an annual basis. This will be reported in the Kerv Impact Assessment report produced on an annual basis.; ; 3. Empower disadvantaged job seekers by supplying 500 hours of support to individuals not in education or training. The reporting metric for this package will be the number of hours of support supplied in each financial year. This will be reported in the Kerv Impact Assessment report produced on an annual basis.

Pricing

• Price: £454.54 to £1,001.60 a licence a year
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: A Proof of Concept (PoC) trials are possible with VMware SD-WAN, but require approval and signed agreements in advance. PoCs are time bound by agreement and require the completion of a mutally agreed test plan.
• Link to free trial: N/A

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at nicholas.cothill@kerv.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.