Yes not only Chad Sakac deals with face melting ultra uber geeky cool stuff I do as well (those on twitter know what I am referring to), but unfortunately I cannot share the details on some of the stuff I am working on. I can however provide you a link which contains the papers written by the engineers on some of the stuff that might be coming up in the future. Note the “might”, there is no guarantee it will ever make it into the VMware products, but nevertheless still cool to read:
http://labs.vmware.com/publications
Is this all distant future? No it isn’t. For instance the paper that talks about Parda is actually what ended up as Storage I/O Control in 4.1. A couple I would recommend reading or at least that had my personal interest are:
Interesting, very interesting. Sounds like an extension of the N+1 redundant network-mirrored iSCSI systems that appeared and were rumoured to show up in ESX 4.1/5 A technique to make efficient use of local storage and bring the ZFS feature set to VMware would be great. Shame it took so long really 🙂