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VMware, Cisco Plan Data Center OS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the right-tool-for-the-right-job dept.

Lucas123 writes "John Webster over at Computerworld says VMware and Cisco plan to develop a Data Center OS that would consist of a data center cloud populated by servers, storage, and Cisco's 'intelligent' networking gear, all managed by Cisco and its partners — starting with VMware."

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  1. Re:It's Buzz-word-licious! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ordinarily BEA's stack would look like this:

    HW => OS => BEA => JVM => your code

    With virtualization, it looks like this:

    HW => ESX => OS => BEA => JVM => your code

    They essentially wrote their own OS, so now it looks like this:

    HW => ESX => BEA OS => JVM => your code

    The ironic thing is that BEA called their OS "Bare Metal", but it is only capably of running as a guest in a VM (i.e. it can't actually run on bare metal). Since it only runs in a VM, it doesn't have to concern itself with all the nitty-gritty details of things like managing interrupts and having device drivers, because VMWare supplies all that.

    dom