With the announcement of vSphere on Tuesday by VMware and the associated products that are coming as part of the overall solution, it is a very exciting time for us IT folk. There are several enabling technologies that are a part of their new ‘cloud operating system’ that will fundamentally change how we implement IT services within the datacenter, and bridge those services between the public and private cloud. There are two technologies that are really interesting to me, the new version of Orchestrator and VMsafe.
With Orchestrator, truly automated application delivery based on SLA targets can be achieved, and not just for the components running on vmware, but across the service stack. Orchestrator provides hundreds of out of the box workflows, with 3rd party vendors providing their own workflow packs for Orchestrator. Creating fully automated stacks across multiple vendors is about to become much easier. What used to take significant development effort can be accomplished with a drag and drop workflow builder.
The other technology that is very exciting is VMsafe. Through VMsafe, software vendors will be able to provide technology solutions that are truly application aware. Through the API they will be able to know exactly what the application workload is doing to the vSphere environment without having to instrument the guest.
Distributed Fault Tolerant workloads, and lifecycle/stage manager/orchestrator all come together to provide a complete solution that will allow commodity servers to provide the flexibility and availability that was once the realm of MVS, but without the expense.
Posted on behalf of Chris Knowles
Tags: uptime, VMsafe, VMware, Vmware Orchestrator, vSphere, vSphere monitoring
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