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Inside VMware's 'Virtual Datacenter OS'
snydeq writes "Neil McAllister cuts through VMware's marketing hype to examine the potential impact of VMware's newly pronounced 'virtual datacenter OS' — which the company has touted as the death knell for the traditional OS. Literally an operating system for the virtual datacenter, VDC OS is an umbrella concept to build services and APIs that make it easier to provision and allocate resources for apps in an abstract way. Under the system, McAllister writes, apps are reduced to 'application workloads' tailored through vApp, a tool that will allow developers to 'encapsulate the entire app infrastructure in a single bundle — servers and all.' The concept could help solve the current bugbear of programming, parallel processing, McAllister concludes, assuming VMware succeeds."
Well, since there were complains from the /. community about vaporware (if not an actual product) and slashvertizements (if an actual product) we thought it would be an improvement to avoid these and hence introduce the "umbrella concept".
In this case, if you ONLY use VMWARE products throughout your organization, then you have configured your systems properly.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
With VDC, no more. You build all of that into the datacenter "OS", and when a new application comes along they are put into the VDC OS and they inherit everything, not just HA but BC, DR and all of the ease of use. If they don't want BC or DR, they don't pay into that bucket
Yeah, but what about TR, WD, RF, and GH? Not to mention NR, SS, and BD? How could they leave thouse out - I mean WTF?
IBM: the only company who can pack mainframe complexity into 2U.
No, thanks. Give me Sun over IBM ANY day of the week. Every time I have to deal with IBM/AIX, I wind up with a headache.
well clouds are made of vapor...
And after a few years when Microsoft follows VMWare, we'll have Microsoft DataCenter OS, abbreviated MS-DOS.