VMworld Keynote 2

The day starts with the second keynote where the new vSphere will be presented in all it's technical detail, by Stephen Herrod.





It started out with showing some interesting statistics to show that VM's have scaled from machine for low to medium intensive workloads all the way up to high resource intensive workloads. Especially the advances that have been made in IOPS, where a 3.5 infrastructure allows 100K IOPS the new vSphere will now support >200K IOPS and memory is brought up to 256GB. Some serious numbers allowing some serious workloads to be run. Another interesting point was the fact that virtualization allows us to really unlock the CPU horsepower as becomes evident when we take the example of a web farm.



This point is further underlined in the following slide, which shows the amount of mailboxes you can run on 1 server running the application on a single OS as opposed to running multiple OS images on the same server.



The VMsafe API is now a real product (well when vSphere is released). McAfee will have a product and others will follow. This being an example of what is possible when having a hypervisor in between the OS and the hardware having complete visibility of all IO events the app and subsequently the OS generates and providing the abilitiy to use that data for auditing purposes f.i.



The presentation then moved on to the possibilities of Cloud capabilities where the point was that a lot of engineering effort is going in the R&D necessary to make sure that workload can securely roam across federated clouds.




The vCloud plugin for vCemter was demo-ed, which allows administrators to have an integrated view of external Cloud resources. Allowing you for instance to move an App from your internal infrastructure to the cloud provider's.

On the View side, the PCoIP even 3D is now possible.

Keynote session 1

After long lines to get into the conference center thenk God someone had the sense to relax security in order to get everyone in on time.




The keynote is opened by the European general manager Mauricio Carli.





Next up of course Paul Maritz




After a bit of history of VMware the scene is set for the Cloud architecture vision of VMware.







And there it is, VMware's evolutionary vision towards cloud computing. The idea is that this addresses a number of things:
- ownership of data, security
- legacy apps, no need to re-write your business apps. You can enter the cloud as-is and possibly migrate slowly to a jeos(pronounced juice, just enough OS).

Next up was a demo of terremark as an example of an external cloud provider.




The above slide summarizes the benefits that an external provider can offer, concisely.

Next up the vision for enterprise user computing.
The idea that is being built on is that the traditional model is device centric but should really be user centric.
To complete the vision that started with VDI, enter the client hypervisor.
This in turn will enable the BYO- PC (bring your own) vision.




Next was sap



Problems with this today:
- billing
- asset management
- can't buy the automation n orchestration layer





To fund this following projects were idnetified to address this:



Config management also an issue.
Here's an idea:

VMworld Europe General session partner day

Started off earlier to be on time for the first session. We opted for breakfast at the conference, but it was lukewarm coffee with a croissant only. Nevermind, the content should be interesting.




It stared with a welcoming speech by Andy Hunt.

Next up was Paul Maritz




Budget for future of VMware products is larger than that of what it was for Windows @ Microsoft.




The management added-value products for the coming year:
- BC/DR
- selfservice Datacenter
- better App mgmt
- Centralized Desktop

The average VDI deal size > 200k, larger than a server virt. deal.


Finally the calls to action: