Comments on: VMworld shows a VMware in flux

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 02:59:03 +0000

Here’s all my posts about this year’s VMworld http://bit.ly/S3GgKH

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:29:49 +0000

I thought the announcement on the death of vRAM entitlement was a tad uncomfortable. It was a kind of “we shot ourselves in the foot” now cheer the fact that we’ve bandaged it moment. I was extremely impressed with the vCloud Hadoop demo. It shows the strength and potential of VMware’s vision around software controlled data centers. They will need to continue to add this intelligence to their management suite. How this plays with OpenStack is yet to be seen. It seems like a collision course.

From the hypervisor front I was also impressed with enhanced vMotion and their virtual SAN solution for SMB’s. The ideas are pretty innovative and takes into account a whole part of the market they kind of ignored.

I’m not too excited about VDI in general. I’ve shared my thoughts in the past. For those needing VDI they will buy VDI. For the rest of us trying to figure out BYOD we’ve decided VDI isn’t the solution. It may be a filler solution until something better comes along for mobile devices.

I’m pretty excited about VXLAN. It’s the most enterprise relevant part of the whole SDN movement I’ve seen so far. The demo of extending your data center virtually to public clouds using the same address space was network geek nip.

The keynotes have been pretty much deep enough for my role as an Architect. I’m leaving the deep dive stuff up to the folks that do virtualization as part of their everyday jobs.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:11:05 +0000

@keith.. would love to hear your thoughts on the keynote/demos etc.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:15:05 +0000

Reblogged this on Virtualized Geek and commented:
I’m going to keep preaching “2013 the year of the commodity hypervisor.” VMware did and is talking about the areas they had to move into. They’ve milked the hypervisor as much as possible and needs to leverage their skill and IP to fight the management suites of the other big providers.

This meant embracing OpenStack and playing nice with KVM, Xen and Hyper-V. I promise that these solutions will be good enough in 2013. Microsoft is throwing Hyper-v into Windows 8. Which could be an area of opportunity for VMware.

Which leads to the discussion on client side virtualization where Citrix is constantly schooling VMware. I like VMware solutions on whole but XenDesktop is a better product than View.

I still need to watch the keynote from to day but I don’t believe virtualization will save BYOD. We need real enterprise applications on mobile devices that integrate with each individual platform. I need my customers to use Siri but secure my data. This is a challenging problem but I look to smart people like to folks at VMware to solve it. It’s been a long time since the wowed me and VMware is smart enough to wow.