During the VMworld opening session some very important announcements were made. A short summary is below:
- Paul Maritz steps down as CEO after leading the company for 4 years. His successor is Pat Gelsinger;
- VMware is focussed on building the architecture for Cloud Computing which is called the Software Defined Datacenter;
- vCloud Suite is announced, consisting of:
- vSphere
- vCloud Director
- vCloud Networking and Security
- Site Recovery Manager
- vCenter Operations Manager
- vFabric Application Director
- vCloud API’s
- vCloud Connector
- vCenter Orchestrator
- vSphere 5.1 is announced;
- vCloud Director 5.1 is announced;
- vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 is announced;
- vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 is announced;
- vRAM is no more! VMware will use a priced per CPU model;
- Cloud Ops, a new operating model for IT;
- Monster VMs will get bigger: 64 virtual CPUs and 1 million IOPS...per VM
- Enhanced vMotion: Live migration without the need of shared storage!
- New virtualized storage options (more on this later);
- Create secure and logical networks using the new vCloud Networking & Security suite and VXLAN;
- vSphere 5.1 contains a full featured browser based vSphere Client, the Web Client;
- The vCloud Director interface is now vSphere Web Client style (and this looks great!);
- The vSphere Web Client now offers great extensibility options for 3rd party vendors;
- Use vFabric Application Director for deploying complex applications;
- Existing vSphere Enterprise Plus customers will get a free upgrade to the vCloud Suite;
- VMware recently acquired Nicira, a company that virtualizes networking.
More detailed information on all these announcements will follow on this blog during VMworld 2012.
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