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Lol. Can you explain how?

by parth16 15y ago

geoffc 15y ago
Alternative virtualization platforms are proliferating and get better all the time. Vmware has an early lead like Palm did and is correctly optimizing revenue from that lead but down the road ... where is palm today?
- stock_toaster 15y ago
  Agreed. Between Citrix (xen) and Redhat (kvm), as well as the related open source offerings, keep getting better. I think the main area that VMWare still has a win, from people I know who use it, are management tools and the ability to prioritize/allocate/throttle IO on network block devices (SANs) per vm.
GaryOlson 15y ago
VMware has lost focus on where the expense savings monetize for virtualization. VMware captured virtualization of all the small/medium application servers; and built a company. The focus lately has been convincing customers to virtualize all the large application servers. Thus, VMware could claim victory for creating a fully cloud enabled data center. But, VMware lost the focus on engineering a fully virtualized application cloud; and let the MBAs direct the buffalo hunt. Just like Palm. And now the buffalo are going to stampede all over the product and VMware is gonna bleed. Vmware should just ignore the largest buffalo -- if your application server uses (suggestion) 64GB of RAM or more; no vRAM is counted against licensing. Those buffalo are tough, not too tasty, and the risk and resource requirements are not worth the pain. The small nimble buffalo are where the tasty hunting is best.
SageRaven 15y ago
Hyper-V is gonna eat VMWare's lunch. 2008 Server is kicking ass and taking names, and is indeed a solid product from what I hear. MS's next iteration of server+virtualization will be the death knell for VMWare unless VMWare drastically reduces prices and comes up with remarkable innovative improvements in the next few years.
- Duff 15y ago
  Hyper-V is a hail mary play, in case EMC/VMWare does something really stupid to screw up a good thing. VMWare is an enterprise product. How many big enterprises are using Hyper-V? (A: Zero, officially anyway)

Lol. Can you explain how?

by parth16 15y ago

Lol. Can you explain how?

Alternative virtualization platforms are proliferating and get better all the time. Vmware has an early lead like Palm did and is correctly optimizing revenue from that lead but down the road ... where is palm today?

stock_toaster 15y ago
Agreed. Between Citrix (xen) and Redhat (kvm), as well as the related open source offerings, keep getting better. I think the main area that VMWare still has a win, from people I know who use it, are management tools and the ability to prioritize/allocate/throttle IO on network block devices (SANs) per vm.

GaryOlson 15y ago

VMware has lost focus on where the expense savings monetize for virtualization. VMware captured virtualization of all the small/medium application servers; and built a company. The focus lately has been convincing customers to virtualize all the large application servers. Thus, VMware could claim victory for creating a fully cloud enabled data center. But, VMware lost the focus on engineering a fully virtualized application cloud; and let the MBAs direct the buffalo hunt. Just like Palm. And now the buffalo are going to stampede all over the product and VMware is gonna bleed. Vmware should just ignore the largest buffalo -- if your application server uses (suggestion) 64GB of RAM or more; no vRAM is counted against licensing. Those buffalo are tough, not too tasty, and the risk and resource requirements are not worth the pain. The small nimble buffalo are where the tasty hunting is best.

SageRaven 15y ago

Hyper-V is gonna eat VMWare's lunch. 2008 Server is kicking ass and taking names, and is indeed a solid product from what I hear. MS's next iteration of server+virtualization will be the death knell for VMWare unless VMWare drastically reduces prices and comes up with remarkable innovative improvements in the next few years.

Duff 15y ago
Hyper-V is a hail mary play, in case EMC/VMWare does something really stupid to screw up a good thing. VMWare is an enterprise product. How many big enterprises are using Hyper-V? (A: Zero, officially anyway)