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Blown away by the New VMware VDC-OS features

Holy vMoley, I was just blown away by the 3:30 pm Partner Day session titled Sneak Peak Into Future Virtual Infrastructure. I thought I was ready. I researched the new VMware VDC-OS and vCloud announcement last night and I saw the list of new features. I even read the new feature posts by Duncan at Yellow-bricks.com and Scott over at blog.scottlowe.org, but I had no idea. This concept is such a game changer that it is almost hard to believe. The features by themselves don’t do proper justice to the technical possibilities they create together.

What’s even more amazing is that you can see and understand how VMware got to here. There is not a “black magic” technology we are being asked to accept on faith. VMware has taken most of the pieces of their individual virtualization products, enhanced and improved them, and put them all behind the vCenter (the new VirtualCenter) GUI. Once again let me point you to yellow-bricks.com for Duncan’s post with details about the new vCenter.

To top it all off VMware has now added their own versions of technologies that third party solutions provide today to enhance VI. For example, features like de-duplication, chargeback, performance and capacity analysis, security monitoring, and configuration control are all native VMware VDC-OS features.
Honestly, it seems like most all of “wish list” features I’ve ever heard somebody talk about have now been provided.

VMware has promised all of this in 2009. vWOW!

I”ll blog more about the pieces and technologies that provide these features later this week as I attend the different sessions during VMworld.

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  • Ed Grigson
    The big question of course is whether they can follow through on the vision. Virtual switches have been on the cards for ages but not arrived, and the features advertised in the virtual datacentre are a significant step away from the reality available today.
  • Ed,

    Hold that thought about virtual switches until tomorrow ... ;)
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