VMworld 2010 Keynote

The keynote was Tuesday morning and started out with a video asking “what is cloud” highlighting the fact that there isn’t a real definition of a cloud. The video made a reference to a cloud being like a pizza place – if you don’t have a kitchen at home you can use a dumb device (in this case a phone) to order your pizza.

The first speaker VMware’s Chief Marketing Officer who gave some stats on VMworld. This year there was 17,021 attendees and of those 55 have been to every VMworld since the inaugural one back in 2004. This year instead of having all the equipment onsite they are using a private cloud: some of it is onsite, some is at Terremark and some with Verizon. They are deploying 4000 virtual machines per hour from this hybrid cloud.

Paul Maritz, the CEO of VMware, spoke next and described the 3 phases of the IT journey. He said phase 1 is about IT production and focusing on hardware efficiency. Virtualizing things like file, print and web servers. Phase 2 was about the business resiliency core apps and finally phase 3 is having ITaaS agility and being able to enable the business. As we go through the phases, being able to migrate a workload from one virtual datacenter to another is important. With secure hybrid cloud computing you can migrate your workload from your virtual datacenter to a service provider cloud.

Finally Steve Herrod, the CTO of VMware, spoke about some of the new maximums in vSphere 4.1 which was released recently. He focused on increased vMotion performance and how this is important when we are migrating workloads. Some of the other new features to 4.1 are being able to place shares on storage and network resources and VAAI which I hope to blog on in more depth later.

One acquisition he mentioned was Integrien, which offers proactive analysis for VMware environments.

Another announcement was what was formally called Project Redwood is now VMware vCloud Director (also planning on blogging on this more later).  He also mentioned the new vShield products which I had touched on in my previous post for a VMware View session I was in.

Finally Steve mentioned there is a new program called vCloud Datacenter Service which will have 5 partners at launch: Bluelock, Colt, SingTel, Terremark, and Verizon.  More information about this is available by clicking here.

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