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EMC World 2009: Day 1 keynotes continued.
Well, as promised I am posting the second of the two main keynote speeches. A little later then expected, but still something worth posting if you ask me.
The second main keynote was given by Paul Maritz. After Joe Tucci finished he handed over the stage to Paul, and Paul gave us an overview of what is new with VMware. VMware started off back in 1998 with a workstation version. Customers soon realized that the savings potential was in the server segment. VMware the started developing server based products. And the rest, as we say, is (known) history.
Even though VMware now has a very large customer base, there are still a lot of companies that simply can't switch. They would like to make the transition to a virtualized environment, but they are simply unable to do so do to various reasons. One of the main reasons to switch to a virtualization platform is to increase the flexibility that you have. As Maritz stated, "Virtualization is the most obvious
way of getting more out of multi-core CPU's".
According to VMware, vSphere is no longer about individual hypervisors. They are in the business of a new software layer. that will help customers to achieve the maximum return out of their invest, and to have the possibility to scale on demand. They way to go according to VMware is SME clouds. One might think that in the current economic environment the SMB market should also be of interest, but Maritz did not say anything about the SMB market.
Next item was the definition of one of the most popular buzzwords at this moment. The question was, "What is a cloud?". The answer? "People associate a cloud with good and with anything they like to see in their own datacenter. Clouds are associated with "infinitely flexible" and "infinitely scalable".
This state of mind brings some problems according to VMware. The enterprise can not (be bothered to) write custom applications that are required for a lot of cloud solutions. Application stacks and pillars that are known are built, along with secure environments, but they are hard to connect to the currently offered cloud solutions.
Challenges include the question that once you have made a choice, how do you check out an application that has been checked in to the cloud? They brought the example of "Hotel California" by the Eagles; "You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave".
VMware developed a solution for this. They introduced a new layer by the name of vSphere. This will allow you to remove the hard link that exists in current virtualization implementations, and allow you to implement the currently existing stacks.
vSphere is the "cloud operating system" according to Maritz, since it's platform is open to partners as well.
vSphere allows you to run all you existing applications. It can be used as the foundation for your own virtual datacenter, and I/O-performance has been on heavy emphasis for vSphere. It is needed and even required for some virtual data center's.
Joint team tested with 1.000.000 million I/Ops, random read and writes. That impressed the heck out of me to be honest, and I could see the same look on a lot of the people who attended the event. Also, the overhead of virtualization was reduced to <= ~15%. An example of load was 5x the current amounts of transactions that are being processed by VISA on a VMware system combined with the V-Max architecture.
Another cool feature was the one thing that will take v-Motion to the next level. The feature is called "Continuous vMotion". Basically, it's full software fault tolerance by using a second instance to move out of rack. They did a live demo of this feature, and I was quite impressed. Also, this opens up a ton a new possibilities, and I will be blogging about some of the ideas that I have this week. They offered the same feature for the storage environment, called "Storage vMotion".
A recap of the sessions of day 2 will be posted, but since I had a lot of NDA sessions I can't post everything just yet. I will probably combine day 2 and three to keep the posts interesting, and I will post more as soon as the NDA's are lifted.
Cool things are going to happen, and I was lucky enough to receive a sneek preview. I am looking forward to day number three.
Talk to you tomorrow!
The second main keynote was given by Paul Maritz. After Joe Tucci finished he handed over the stage to Paul, and Paul gave us an overview of what is new with VMware. VMware started off back in 1998 with a workstation version. Customers soon realized that the savings potential was in the server segment. VMware the started developing server based products. And the rest, as we say, is (known) history.
Even though VMware now has a very large customer base, there are still a lot of companies that simply can't switch. They would like to make the transition to a virtualized environment, but they are simply unable to do so do to various reasons. One of the main reasons to switch to a virtualization platform is to increase the flexibility that you have. As Maritz stated, "Virtualization is the most obvious
way of getting more out of multi-core CPU's".
According to VMware, vSphere is no longer about individual hypervisors. They are in the business of a new software layer. that will help customers to achieve the maximum return out of their invest, and to have the possibility to scale on demand. They way to go according to VMware is SME clouds. One might think that in the current economic environment the SMB market should also be of interest, but Maritz did not say anything about the SMB market.
Next item was the definition of one of the most popular buzzwords at this moment. The question was, "What is a cloud?". The answer? "People associate a cloud with good and with anything they like to see in their own datacenter. Clouds are associated with "infinitely flexible" and "infinitely scalable".
This state of mind brings some problems according to VMware. The enterprise can not (be bothered to) write custom applications that are required for a lot of cloud solutions. Application stacks and pillars that are known are built, along with secure environments, but they are hard to connect to the currently offered cloud solutions.
Challenges include the question that once you have made a choice, how do you check out an application that has been checked in to the cloud? They brought the example of "Hotel California" by the Eagles; "You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave".
VMware developed a solution for this. They introduced a new layer by the name of vSphere. This will allow you to remove the hard link that exists in current virtualization implementations, and allow you to implement the currently existing stacks.
vSphere is the "cloud operating system" according to Maritz, since it's platform is open to partners as well.
vSphere allows you to run all you existing applications. It can be used as the foundation for your own virtual datacenter, and I/O-performance has been on heavy emphasis for vSphere. It is needed and even required for some virtual data center's.
Joint team tested with 1.000.000 million I/Ops, random read and writes. That impressed the heck out of me to be honest, and I could see the same look on a lot of the people who attended the event. Also, the overhead of virtualization was reduced to <= ~15%. An example of load was 5x the current amounts of transactions that are being processed by VISA on a VMware system combined with the V-Max architecture.
Another cool feature was the one thing that will take v-Motion to the next level. The feature is called "Continuous vMotion". Basically, it's full software fault tolerance by using a second instance to move out of rack. They did a live demo of this feature, and I was quite impressed. Also, this opens up a ton a new possibilities, and I will be blogging about some of the ideas that I have this week. They offered the same feature for the storage environment, called "Storage vMotion".
A recap of the sessions of day 2 will be posted, but since I had a lot of NDA sessions I can't post everything just yet. I will probably combine day 2 and three to keep the posts interesting, and I will post more as soon as the NDA's are lifted.
Cool things are going to happen, and I was lucky enough to receive a sneek preview. I am looking forward to day number three.
Talk to you tomorrow!
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