So there’s a new term floating around “vCenter”. So what is vCenter?
vCenter provides comprehensive management of applications and infrastructure in this flexible, fluid environment and integrates with leading systems management vendors for seamless, end to end datacenter management.
So as spectacular as this may sound, it just VirtualCenter renamed. Although not every section of the VMware website as been changed accordingly, this is what vCenter is.
So I just noticed a couple of more “hidden” announcements. These announcements all deal about management and automation. And if you do the math you can probably link some of them back to certain acquisitions that VMware did recently.
So here’s the list of new vCenter add-ons:
- vCenter ConfigControl extends policy-based change and configuration management with automated enforcement across every aspect of the VDC-OS.
- vCenter CapacityIQ continuously analyzes and plans capacity to ensure optimal sizing of virtual machines, resource pools and the entire datacenters.
- vCenter Chargeback enables automated tracking of costs and chargeback to the business enabling IT to function as a utility with true visibility into operating costs.
- vCenter Orchestrator enables the development of customized workflows that automate operational tasks through a simple drag and drop interface, without the need for scripting.
- vCenter AppSpeed automatically ensures application performance levels. It monitors end user response time for applications, correlates these response times with different elements in the infrastructure, and triggers remedial actions to alleviate bottlenecks.
Combine these 5 with the ones that were already discovered but also in some way deal with management and automation: Host Profiles, Distributed vSwitches, Linked VC’s and vApp and you’ve probably got the ultimate Virtual Automated DataCenter… Only two question left. How is VMware going to top this? And how is the competition going to respond?
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What you spell out here was along the lines of what was implied in the announcement. Good to see VMware take existing products and build on top of them to improve them. The difference between VMware and their competitors is becoming larger.
Thanks for providing this extra detail.
Todd
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What I saw with ConfigControl was vaporware. A nice set of wishlist items already being delivered by the likes of ManageIQ, Fortisphere, DynamicOps and others. I’d like to hear a timeline for when product are targeted for beta. Not “we will have something in 2009″.
Some of the mentioned products are indeed under development. I know people are eager to hear timelines, but that’s something VMware never did before and same applies here.
This is far beyond of anything Microsoft and Xen friends are even thinking about. VMWare is many generations ahead of the game.
Yes some of the products are under development and in the past they have not disclosed ‘details’, but they are now a public company in a public forum and needs to start to share details on ‘products’ they announced.
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