Over the last 2 days everyone in the virtualization community has been going vSphere nuts. Since it was announced yesterday by Paul Maritz, President and CEO of VMware, levels of online buzz have increased even more.
I thought i’d add to the chat after I ready a post today by VM Guru Juergen Urbanski on the GIGAOM blog.
He talks about the pros and cons of vSphere and also asks the big question “will it sell”.
He brings up a few good points, including mentioning that vSphere might only be aimed at medium to small sized businesses:
“A true private cloud provides infrastructure-as-a-service to enable end-to-end application services delivery. VMware is currently focused on virtual infrastructure as a delivery platform, and parts of that stack – such as the ability to charge back internal departments based on usage — are still missing. vSphere 4 also maxes out at 32 physical servers in a single logical resource pool. To me, that seems to be more of a medium-sized puddle, not the large pool required for an enterprise-sized cloud.”
Great article Juergen!
