VMworld 2009 Trends and Summary
I’ve been watching things finally quiet down from VMworld 2009 and have some of the trends and summaries I have seen. Some of the trends are interesting, some not so much.
Twitter
Twitter really started the first time last year with following @vmworld. This year the # was all the rage. As long as you followed [...]
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VMworld 2009 – Day 2 Wrapup
Day two at VMworld ended up being quite a bit more exciting than yesterday. The keynote by Steve Herrod was much more what I expected from the keynotes. He covered some of the “cool” stuff coming down the pipes in both the short term and longer term. The PCoIP demo showing Google Earth zooming up [...]
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EA3196 – Virtualizing BlackBerry Enterprise on VMware
Once again.. another session I didn’t sign up with and zero issues getting into.
To start off RIM & VMware have been working together for 2 years and it is officially supported on VMware. Together RIM & VMware have done many numerous and successful engagements running BES on VMware. The interesting thing is RIM runs their [...]
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TA3461 – IO DRS: Tech Preview for VM Performance Isolation
This is a very new area of research at VMware. Only about 2 years ago. Since thm is is a Tech Preview it has no roadmap for when it will be available.
The Problem:
Many different workloads hit the same set of disks/arrays/spindles etc. Low priority processes that run ad-hoc or other times will cause higher priority [...]
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VMworld 2009 – Keynote P5
To expand and handle the next layers of Virtualization is:
vSphere Control:
Appspeed: is the “finger of blame” now. Instead of Network always getting the finger, now AppSpeed can point the finger at someone else.
vApps are the containers of the future for applications be it standalone or multi-tier. The idea is with a vApp is that it [...]
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VMworld 2009 – Keynote P4
vSphere is the basis of all the improvements and technology over the years. Based on Software Mainframe (for those of you over 40), the Cloud (for the under 40 crowd) and decides the best idea is to call it The Giant Computer. The reason this all works is because of VMotion. It is the basis [...]
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VMworld 2009 – Day 2 Keynote – P1
The morning video is pretty neat and a clean match to yesterday’s video. Anyone get this video for replay? Lots of playing with letters flying around and a good theme fitting with the “hello freedom” this year.
This is mainly Steve Herrod’s presentation. 3 major initatives - View, vCloud, vSphere. All driven around business need.
View has over [...]
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VMworld 2009 Day 1 Wrap Up
I went to two other sessions and they just weren’t anything I was intersted in so I left early and spent time talking with engineers from various companies about their products. So far I’m not really too wowed by much of the products. This fits into my feelings about the keynote after it was done. [...]
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TA4820 – What keeps a cloud up?
Arrived at the session early and was easy to get in even though I hadn’t registered. The CTO of Stratus Tech started and covered the basics for his presentation. Covering things like his history and what the cloud is. A pretty common “Cloud is whatever folks want” and 80% of IT management agrees that the [...]
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VMworld 2009 – Opening Keynote – Tod Throws the Gaunlet
Today there are 30 Fortune 1000 companies who are not using VMware. The gaunlet has been thrown. Free VMworld passes if you can get them to start using VMware. This was thrown by Tod Nielsen, Chief Operating Officer of VMware.
update (1 Sept 09 10:31PM): The list of 30 is as follows – Thanks to Anthony [...]