Musings of Rodos

Updated VMware Technical Resource documents listing on VMTN.

4 new documents added, now at 206 documents listed with abstracts.

Dell EqualLogic VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 
by Dell on 01/25/2009 @ http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/partners/dell/dell-vmware-solution-brief-r2final08q4.pdf

This solution brief explains how organizations can use VMware virtualization technologies to provide a virtual desktop infrastructure.

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Dell EqualLogic VMware® View 3 
by Dell on 01/25/2009 @ http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/partners/dell/dell-vmware-desktop-wp-r208q4.pdf

This paper assumes that the reader already has a good understanding of desktop virtualization and has reached the point where they are ready to begin sizing their server and storage architecture.

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Address Desktop Challenges with VMware View and NetApp 
by NetApp on 01/24/2009 @ http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/partners/netapp-tap-desktop-solution-brief.pdf

NetApp helps you realize the full potential of your VMware environment by addressing the common storage challenges associated with virtual desktop solutions.

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Comprehensive Virtual Desktop Deployment with VMware and NetApp 
by NetApp on 01/24/2009 @ http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/partners/netapp-vmware-view-wp.pdf

VMware offers an end-to-end solution called VMware® View, the next generation of VMware VDI, that allows organizations to provide corporate end users with access to virtual desktop machines that are hosted in a central data center.

Rodos

Preeti Somal is the VP of R&D at VMware with responsibility for vCloud. Pretti presented a session at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo 2008 in San Jose and the video has been released for public viewing.



If you have been tracking and reading everything on vCloud there is no ground breaking new information but if you want to come up to speed on where VMware is coming from on vCloud its a great primer. There is certainly more presented here than there was at VMworld. There is a new slide I had not seen before expanding out some of the vApp metadata plus there is mention of vCloud Services which are different to the vCloud API.

Unfortunately to see the video you need to complete a registration from and then get sent an email with a link to the video. You can complete the registration form here. The mail arrives in a minute or two.

Maybe we have found someone who can solidify our definition of what constitutes an "internal Cloud" from a VMware perspective? Preeti?

Rodos

Updated VMware Technical Resource documents listing on VMTN.

3 new documents added, now at 202 documents listed with abstracts.

In our continuing conversation on Cloud computing I stumbled today across an interview with Ballmer where he gives his view of cloud computing. This occurred about 6 weeks before the release of Azure.

Here is what he had to say.

We have a form of cloud computing today. We've have hosted services for a number of years. Hosted services are not cloud computing primarily because nobody went back and rearchitected the underlying server software designed specifically for the kind of scaling, fault tolerance, geo-replication, security that you would want in an environment that is multi-tenanted and shared.

So when people are talking about cloud computing we are talking about outside the firewall and software that has been specifically architected to be managed and propigated in a certain fasion. Do I think their is a relationship between the cloud and the datacenter, absolutely. People don't want to rewrite application depending on where they want to happen to instance the software, so I think I would agree with Maritz on this notion of federation and a certain level of symmetry and homogenaity between the two environments.

Interesting comment that people don't want to rewrite applications. Ballmer was probably referring to the continued use of .net rather than the VMware IaaS workloads of today and tomorrow mantra, but its still a validation of the VMware position.

What does that description of rewriting the underlying fabric for cloud sound like? Can you say VDC-OS and vCloud API, that is essentially the features and services these bring to todays server workloads.

Likewise Ballmer agrees with the cloud definition we have been working with, referring to the outside the firewall, which we can translate into accessed via the network.

There is a video recording of the whole interview where quite a number of topics are discussed.



Here are the times of the interesting bits.

23:50 VMware, server and desktop virtualisation
28:13 Cloud computing

Great conversation.

Rodos