Get to the Substrate of VDC-OS and vSphere, please!
March 4th, 2009 | 
Author: I wish this post was a definitive answer to all the confusion about VMware’s new product names. Instead it’s a conversation I had on Twitter this morning that both a. establishes my misunderstanding and b. sets the precedent for how I will refer to VMware VDC-OS and vSphere moving forward. After reviewing the tweets below feel free to shed some light for me on the VMware terminology that, at least to me, is as “clear as mud”.
rbrambley: VMware use of vSphere replaces the “VI” in VI 3.5 Enterp suite of products. U can have a vSphere client but not a vSphere server. Yes?!!mikedipetrillo: @rbrambley Actually you have a vCenter client – not a vSphere client. It’s probably time for me to write up what everything is.rbrambley: @mikedipetrillo If not mistaken, recent vids show “vSphere Client” in windows title bar. Does that mean “ESX” will be replaced by “vSphere”?rbrambley: @mikedipetrillo write up would be great but lose the “substrate” talk. Speak to me relating the current products and their substitutesmikedipetrillo: @rbrambley vSphere encompasses all products. ESX is still ESX. Virtual Center is vCenter. I’ll send you a secret decoder ring.
mikedipetrillo: @rbrambley Yup. That’s exactly what I need to write up. Here’s what it is today – here’s what it is tomorrow.rbrambley: @mikedipetrillo I would appreciate that VMware decoder ring!tom_howarth: @rbrambley vSphere is the new name for VMware Infrastructure, VDC-OS is the new name for ESXrbrambley: @tom_howarth More than ESX. VDC-OS incl ESX, vCenter, View, Appspeed, & all. Think vSphere is a subset group of VDC-OS. VDC-OS is substraterbrambley: Hey Paul, pick VMware’s preferred definition of “substrate” 4 us! I’m going w/ aquarium material on tank bottom. http://tinyurl.com/aq47qptom_howarth: @rbrambley I think it is the other way roundlangonej: @rbrambley Having had my fair share of fish tanks, that’s exactly the image, “subtrate” conjures for me.
Hopefully Mike D. will soon “filter” all of our “tanks” on the new VMware terminology.
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