I just got the confirmation from the Cisco representative as the Nexus 1000V will be bundle on the Cisco UCS as FOC if the customers who deploy the virtualization VMware vSphere 4 with Cisco UCS platform. It will definitely be helpful and encourage more users to be adopted on nexus 1000V implementation in the Virtual Infrastructure when the VMware vSphere 4 are deploying on Cisco UCS platform. If you are running the VMware vSphere 4 with others server vendor, the Nexus 1000V will be an extra features with additional cost.
Microsoft had included the virtual PC with backward compatible of Windows XP to support the users who may had difficult to run their application on Windows 7. This is free and we can see more user will sure include this as part of the Windows 7 installation move forward. Bear in mind, if you have VMware Workstation running on the same machine, you may see the conflict happen if you have your Virtual PC application running and you try to start up a virtual machine from VMware Workstation. There will be a message prompt to inform you that there are existing hypervisor utilize the virtualization capabilities on your machine. The only way to get your VM start up is to end the session of your Virtual PC application. You should able to start your virtual machine up. Not very sure whether there are any workaround beside this, but at this moment, it consider a conflict and we need to choose either 1 to be run at a time.
With my last 3 years of experience, I had seen numbers of companies require significant expansion in the data center to support the business growth, just because of the additional 200 to 2000 servers or storage shelves they need to put in to the data center. With the technology today, it does help us to reduce the space we need to slot in the servers, and storage thanks to the success of virtualization and higher capacity disk drives in the market. To run a full solution of data center with less number of server racks for SME and enterprise, will no longer be a dream due to some facts below,
- Higher consolidation ratio in virtualization with the latest CPU, memory and servers performance
- Higher capacity disk drive which significant reduce the number of storage expansion require
- Virtual I/O which allow the higher utilization of the available bandwidth in data center
- UCS to provide consolidation and higher capacity of bandwidth to support network and storage utilization in the data center
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Break news today which shocked most of the IT folks as Oracle had announced to buy over Sun Microsystems for 9.50 a share. I am really shocked to see this as last week, we were still talked about the deal called off with the possible merging from Sun Microsystems with IBM, which may end up IBM monopolize some high end computing market. Oracle could make a good move by taking over Sun. This may direct or indirect many environment which related to Virtualization, Java and MYSQL which is the strength of Sun Microsystems. There are chances to reduce the dependency of Oracle to Redhat and Enterprise Linux and move over to Sun Solaris or open solaris. This is more positive VS the buy over that suggested by IBM previously.
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As we noticed that all servers vendors like HP, DELL and IBM had launched their latest generation of servers to support the Intel Nehalem which also name as Intel Xeon 5500 series high performing virtualization chipset. I had read up couples of review from the expert which provide some useful information for reference purpose.
VMETC
Virtualization Review
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