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25 Sep 08
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Forget about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. VMware’s future ‘Virtual Datacenter OS’ is a set of services that will allow customers to “pool all types of hardware resources - servers, storage and network – into an aggregated on-premise cloud – and, when needed, safely federate workloads to external clouds for additional compute capacity, “according to a release issued today at VMworld.
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“Unlike a traditional OS, which is optimized for a single server and supports only those applications written to its interfaces, the VDC-OS serves as the OS for the entire datacenter and supports the full diversity of any application written to any OS, from legacy Windows applications to modern distributed applications that run in mixed operating system environments.”
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Among the new application vServices: VMsafe, for security; the vApp solution for creating self managing VMs, and vStudio tool for creating virtual appliances. VMware also committed to supporting very large virtual machines with up to 8 virtual CPUs and 256 GB of RAM and VMDirectpath, which offers enhanced network and storage I/O performance.
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VMware also promises a set of infrastructure services including vStorage Thin Provisioning and vStorage Linked Clones , which reportedly allows users to reduce storage use by as much as 50 percent. The slated vNetwork Distributed Switch, which enables a sort of network vMotion, ultimately enables delivery of cluster wide virtual networking services.
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