http://application-virtualization.com Virtualization Software Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:17:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Remember back in July, when Dell and Hewlett-Packard made the surprising news that they would resell Oracle VM [1] and other Oracle software? I even wrote a clever blog post comparing the whole thing to “Inception” and asking, “Are Dell and HP REALLY reselling Oracle VM, or is it all in my mind?” Well, it looks like the whole HP part of that equation may be on hold. As you know by now, HP fired former CEO Mark Hurd [2], who was promptly hired by his good buddy Larry Ellison [3] to be a president at Oracle, and now HP is suing Hurd [4] for joining its rival/partner. In response, Ellison has gone all “oh no they didn’t!” [5] and released a tersely worded statement calling the lawsuit “vindictive.” “The HP board is making it virtually impossible for Oracle and HP to continue to cooperate and work together in the IT marketplace,” the statement says. So I guess that means you shouldn’t look for Oracle VM on HP servers any time soon. Syndicated via RSS From: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization [6] [1] http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/dell-hp-to-resell-oracle-vm-yes-really/ [2] http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/hurd-out-at-hp/ [3] http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/hurd-in-phillips-out-at-oracle/ [4] http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/hp-sues-hurd/ [5] http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/ellison-to-hp-nyah-nyah-nyah/ [6] http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization http://application-virtualization.com/server-virtualization/maybe-hp-won%e2%80%99t-resell-oracle-vm-after-all/ The VMworld 2010 conference [1] is over, but the experience at the show will help attendees throughout the year. To that end, we’re holding a contest. Just tell us what you learned at VMworld, and you could win one of three prizes: TrainSignal’s “VMware vSphere Pro Series Vol. 2″ DVDs Cisco Press’ “A Complete Reference Guide to the Cisco Data Center Virtualization Server Architecture” An official VMworld 2010 T-shirt To enter, send a 150- to 200-word writeup on what you learned at VMworld to  csteele at techtarget.com [2] by Wednesday, Sept. 15. We’ll select three winners at random and publish as many responses as we can. 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A mob of 17,000-plus swarmed the Moscone Center for VMworld this week, in hands-down the busiest and most crowded of the three VMworld’s I’ve been to so far. Couple that with VMware’s “first-come, first-served” approach to session scheduling this year, and there was certainly never a dull moment. So what was it like being part of such a massive sea of humanity? [3] Great migratory herds were crossing at every intersection, especially in the mornings and evenings. [4] The show floor was sometimes all but impassible. This photo was taken during the Best of VMworld 2010 Awards [5] ceremony, but it gives you an idea of what the floor looked like when they first opened it on Monday night — people packed in shoulder to shoulder. But what caused the most chaos this year was session scheduling. Prior to the show, this message appeared on the VMworld 2010 website for registered attendees: This year, there is no Session pre-registration, which gives you more freedom and greater control over your conference experience. Forget trying to plan your daily agenda around Sessions you picked weeks ago - use Schedule Builder to view a complete listing of available Sessions, and then just show up at the ones that work best for you. Plus, we’ll be repeating most Sessions at least once, so you’ll have ample opportunity to attend your top choices. In fairness, VMware has received complaints in past years when sessions were limited to those who had pre-registered. Inevitably, some people wouldn’t show up, sometimes leaving empty chairs inside the session rooms and people who wanted to get in out in the cold. And freely available, come as you are resources are what the cloud’s all about, right? VMware also did run parallel sessions, as its message indicates. There was a slide added to the electronic sign screens around the show with a list of the most popular sessions and a notification that they were “most challenging” to attend, so people at least had some warning of which sessions they needed to show up for as early as possible. But wherever I went in the Moscone Center this week, people were talking about how difficult it was to get into sessions, and I saw some lines, particularly for hands-on labs, PowerCLI sessions, and View 4.5 sessions, that were truly eye-popping. [6] This is the line outside a View 4.5 session late Tuesday afternoon. You actually can’t see the end of the line in this picture — it stretches all the way down the hallway. There also seemed to be a stricter observation of the fire code at Moscone than in other convention centers I’ve been to, meaning there was no standing room inside the sessions. Judging by the size of the room for this session and the size of this line, I’d estimate no more than a third of the people waiting here actually got in to this one. [7] I’ve seen shorter lines for roller coasters at amusement parks — and at times the lines at VMworld had to double back on themselves, in a way similar to the lines at a Six Flags. I don’t know what the solution would be here. Managing this many people in this short a time in limited space is no small feat. But maybe we’ll see even more “parallelization” for better “throughput” next year. 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This shot shows “The Oracle”, who told the narrator of the video his brain is now a “dumb terminal,” and got a huge laugh from the audience.  That said, considering the context of The Matrix (a future dystopia brought about by artificially intelligent computers), I’m not sure The Matrix was the reference VMware wanted to be making! [3] Hope Steve Jobs didn’t take a pass through here on his way to announce his new iPod at Yerba Buena… [4] This was the Year of the iPad. [5] An example of the show’s highway-themed decor on the walls of the company store. [6]Company store, filed under Management. [7] Dave Welch, CTO of House of Brick, an Oracle consultancy, discusses virtualizing Oracle databases with attendees following a session Tuesday. [8] Almost all of the ad space in the neighborhoods surrounding the Moscone center was virtualization-related; the spaces not devoted to virtualization ads of various types were dedicated to Apple or Microsoft consumer products. [9]Moscone West exterior. [10]Actually, I was hoping you could help me with that… [11] Tech Target news director Alex Barrett interviews Raghu Raghuram [12], general manager of virtualization and cloud platforms for VMware. [13] Beware strangers with company-logo’d candy… [14] Hey, I laughed. [15] XSigo’s life-size globe on the show floor. [16] All aboard the VMware Express. [17] Heard this word quite a bit over the last week. Maybe next year Journey can be the conference band… [18] Pano Logic T-shirt [19] Brian Madden regales the crowd at the Best of VMworld 2010 Awards [20] ceremony Wednesday afternoon. [21] I gave these guys a big thumbs up after taking a picture of this T-shirt, displayed at their window table in a restaurant near Moscone. I don’t know who they DO work for, but it’s a clever shirt just the same. 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[2] Syndicated via RSS From: http://itknowledgehub.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Infostor [3] [1] http://itknowledgehub.tradepub.com/c/pubRD.mpl?sr=rss&_t=rss&pc=w_hp131 [2] http://itknowledgehub.tradepub.com/c/pubRD.mpl?sr=rss&_t=rss&qf=w_hp131 [3] http://itknowledgehub.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Infostor http://application-virtualization.com/virtualization-research/managing-the-server-migration-process/ By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer SAN FRANCISCO — VMware demonstrated its new vShield Edge [1] routing virtual firewall on the VMworld 2010 conference [2] floor, and passersby stopped to give it a look. Most attendees were intrigued by the concept but worried about the cost and complexity of another virtual layer for networking security. “The complexity of managing VPNs and different networks is always difficult,” said Tony Stauffer, manager of end user services for an automotive manufacturer in the Midwest. “I’ll be testing it out to see if it’s really as simple as what’s been demonstrated.” Ed Symanzik, information technologist at Michigan State University, said his shop has a virtual stack running 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), but it’s bottlenecked by a 1 GbE edge firewall. “If I had this, I might be able to do an end-run around that physical firewall,” he said. But that would only be if money was no object, Symanzik said. As it is, he’s not keen on paying further VMware licensing costs to get vShield Edge. Other users weren’t comfortable philosophically getting such a product from a virtualization vendor. “I don’t want to commingle security with the same vendor,” said Ashraf Keval, Windows systems administrator for California’s Department of Water Resources. “I have a relationship with Trend Micro, and I want to stick with that.” A user from an accounting firm said, “I don’t need another firewall or another point of failure.” And another user from a major credit card issuer said he will investigate host-based firewall alternatives before committing to vShield Edge. 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