by Duncan Epping
Don’t know if anyone noticed yet, but just before I wanted to go to bed I noticed the logo on the VMware website changed. Although it seems to be a minor change it looks like more mature in my opinion.
Not only the logo changed but also the favicon, I love it:
Every year a day before VMworld announcements start to appear online and of course it also happened this year. VMware just released the preview version of the VMware vCloud API.
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The vCloud API is an interface for providing and consuming virtual resources from the cloud. It enables deploying and managing virtualized workloads in internal and external clouds. The vCloud API allows for upload and download of vApps along with their instantiation, deployment and operation.
- RESTful with full programmatic control
- OVF standards based
- Platform independent
- Pure virtual
- Supports multi-tenancy
Version: Technology Preview (ver 0.8)
Target Platform: Platform independent
Keep in mind it is still a technology preview, alpha version of the API, but if you are building an internal or external cloud it’s definitely worth looking into. There’s a FAQ available here and there’s a forum on VMTN to be found here.
A couple of months ago during the VMTN podcast I shared an idea with John Troyer and Edward Haletky. I thought that it would be cool to have a demo environment at the community booth where the vExperts could show there skills. After some discussions with the VMworld Team I decided to start building a lab and John Troyer asked the vExpert/Bloggers who would be willing to spend an our of their time at the Community Booth.
The list of vExpers that signed up is immense, and I’m really glad to see that guys like Eric Siebert, Scott Herold, Steve Beaver and Scott Lowe are participating. (Amongst many others of course.) I guess the full list will be published soon and I hope all of you take some time to visit the community booth and ask the vExperts some challenging questions! I know I will so you vExperts guys better be prepared. 😉
Just wanted to give you guys a quick update on the current status. We had a little setback last week. We found out that we had to redo a complete chapter the very last minute. Because of this we missed our deadline for submitting it to VMware, as you can imagine as a VMware employee this needs to be officially approved. We don’t know what the release date will be. My guess is the third week of September. We are currently discussing our options, but it will either be lulu.com or booksurge.com. Both have its pros and cons, but for booksurge one of the biggest pros is definitely their presence on amazon.com.
I also have good news. Vizioncore will have a limited amount of preview copies of the book available during VMworld to give away! If you would like to have one visit their booth!
As a VMware employee I was not allowed to talk about this but Eric Sloof just posted it so I guess it’s okay for me to do so as well:
VMworld 2010
August 30 – September 2
Moscone Center, San FranciscVMworld Europe 2010
October 11 – 14
Bella Centre, CopenhagenVia @vnagornyi #VMworld 2009 Conference Program Guide http://twurl.nl/2r6p8e
Last page: VMworld 2010 US 8/30-9/02 in SF, Europe 10/11-10/14 in Copenhagen
Yihaaaaaaa, a different location for VMworld Europe! It’s not that I did not like Cannes, but Copenhagen is definitely more appealing!