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Paul Maritz spoke during the opening General Session of Partner Day Monday morning and provided a better understanding about Vmware’s vCloud initiative and the concept of evolving it’s current VI 3.5 products into the VDC-OS of the future announced Sunday night. Paul is scheduled to expand on this vision in greater detail during Tuesday’s VMworld 2008 kick off Key Note Session, but here is a high level outline of my understanding of Paul’s talk.

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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.

The conference has not even started yet but the big news is out. VMware has announced a new data center operating system concept, VDC OS, that will leverage exciting new features in future versions of VMware’s infrastructure products to deliver dynamic resource pools of applications and infrastructure known as a vCloud. With pieces of the vCloud expected to be available starting in 2009, VMware’s announcement seems to be more of a vision right now then a complete solution. This week at VMworld 2008 will obviously provide more details, but for now here are some links and quotes from various sources already available on the web tonight. Read the rest of this entry »