You may or may not be aware that over in America VMware are currently hosting their end user event - VMworld. Like with previous years there has been a slew announcements and Equanet can articulate them into this single blog entry. These are the main announcements from VMware delivered through their key note sessions:
In 2008 25% of workloads were virtualised; today, that figure is estimated to be 60%.
In 2008, everyone was asking, “What is cloud?” Now, according to VMware, we’re asking “How do we build a cloud?”
VMware has an aspiration to increase the number of workloads that are virtualised (aiming for >90%) and the amount of time to provision new workloads (shooting for minutes/seconds). This is what VMware call the “software-defined data center.”
VMware has announced vCloud Suite, which will include vSphere, vCloud Director, vCloud Connector, Site Recovery Manager, vCenter Operations, and vFabric Application Director–all rolled into a single SKU to make it easier to buy, deploy, and use.
VMware also announced that vRAM will no longer be considered a part of VMware’s licensing approach.
VMware also stated its ongoing support of OpenStack by applying to join OpenStack Foundation.
In vSphere 5.1 VM capacity grows to 64 vCPUs, 1 TB of RAM, and 1 million IOPS in a SINGLE VM, so if you have a need for a machine that big I would love to meet you!
VMware announced enhanced vMotion, which is VMware’s ability to perform live migration without shared storage.
VMware discussed Mirage (an acquisition of Wanova) which is built on the idea of layers, allowing organisations to “decompose” images into smaller, more manageable chunks, and allows for synchronisation of images across the network. Mirage is considered complementary to View, and brings VMware functionality for managing physical desktops and adding functionality for offline computing.
Project AppShift was identified to allow you to access traditional mouse style applications on touch based devices.
VMware Horizon Suite has been launched as a single, product suite that assists in managing and brokering desktops, applications, and data between users and devices (very similar to Citrix CloudGateway 2) Project Octopus is now known as Horizon Data and has moved from Beta code to Alpha code. Project AppBlast will be used to deliver desktops to devices. Oh, and Horizon will also be able to manage XenApp based applications.
Horizon also supports mobile applications as well, through Horizon Mobile. VMware announced a "container application" for iOS (Similar to Good Technology) that allows VMware Horizon Mobile to deploy and manage applications to iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.
So plenty of announcements from VMware and just to recap the main points from the keynotes are:
- vRAM licensing model is to be disbanded
- vCloud Suite is a set of products under a single SKU to help kickstart your cloud projects
- Horizon Suite is again a set of integrated products to help focus on the end user experience
- Project Octopus is now know as Horizon Data
- vSphere 5.1 has been announced
- VMware View 5.1 has been announced.
- Project App Shift
- AppBlast is WIP
- Mobile Application management on iOS via app wrapping
- Horizon will Manage XenApp.
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