VMWare to launch VSphere - the internal cloud builder
AN A-LIST OF TECH CELEBRITY CEOS is set to kick off the launch of VMWare's VSphere "cloud operating system" today. The web celeb list includes EMC's Joe Tucci, Cisco's John Chambers, Dell's Michael Dell, Vmware chief Paul Maritz and non CEO but still VIP, Intel senior veep, Pat Gelsinger. It doesn't get any sexier than that!
With virtualisation very much the buzzword of the year, and the abstract notion of ‘cloud computing' coming a close second, VMWare is using all the hype to its advantage, and launching its VSphere 4 - the "first operating system for building the internal cloud" - amidst industry wide acclaim.
VMWare even reckons its new version of VSphere is a totally new type of software, which will let techies set up internal clouds within their firms to facilitate the delivery of various IT services.
Of course, VMWare is also vociferously proclaiming how cost efficient its new product is, and how it will shine the warming white light of the cloud over internal enterprise IT and the internal data centre.
VSphere can manage up to 64 processor cores in a single server, double the number managed by the firm's current software. It can also apparently support 256 virtual machines per host OS, up from 170 in VMWare's Virtual Infrastructure 3.
The head-in-the-clouds company also posits that VSphere, set to be made available in Q209 in six different editions, is capable of supporting faster I/O rates and more memory per virtual machine than its predecessor.
To complement VMWare's launch, EMC will be releasing some new kit of its own, giving its decade old PowerPath a bit of a makeover.
PowerPath/VE, as it's being dubbed, will integrate the old path management system with a virtualised environment, to purportedly find the quickest I/O path for bits flowing between an application and the storage resource it's using. It apparently also works for both virtual machines and physical servers too.
VMWare says its VSphere 4 software bundles will start at around the $995 price mark for three physical servers.
Not a sky-high price, but not just a bit of fluff either. µ
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/*now supporting more CPUs, was 32*/
#define MAX_CPUS 64
/*more virtual machines too, was 170*/
#define MAX_WMS 256
/*That was hard! I'm so getting a raise*/
It's so pathetic that there is still a host OS required. When are they going to fix the hardware so that all that is needed is a minimal hypervisor, a la the IBM System 360, a 40 year old design. How BACKWARDS the computer industry is!
Bunch of damn marketing hyperspin sissy gay boys, IMHO. Are there no more REAL men in the computer industry? Men like Gene Amdahl and Seymour Cray? No, just a bunch of limp-wristed, high-pictched-voice, querelous, whiny, pseudo-humans.