VMWare figures out that virtualization is an OS feature

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Linuxbasiccommand — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:58:16 GMT

Did you read that announcement carefully?

linuxbasiccommand.blogspot.vn

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Sarc — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:59:14 GMT

We made it clear to our Microsoft TAM that Hyper-V is a bit of a joke compared to how many generations of innovation VMware is ahead of it in the enterprise. And from this post it's also pretty clear Microsoft's virtualization strategy is akin to throwing dust in their opponents face, rather than innovate.

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IainR — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:34:34 GMT

blogs.vmware.com/.../setting-microsoft-straight-on-the-vmware-novell-oem-agreement.html

This pretty much says it all...

re: VMWare figures out that virtualization is an OS feature

IUnknown — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:44:45 GMT

If by VMware "further isolating themselves within the industry" you mean the only vendor in the leadership quadrant for the x86 Server Virtualization market according to Gartner, then you are right.

www.gartner.com/.../article4.html

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Big Fan — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:28:53 GMT

MS is warning customers about getting locked into and inflexible offer? Seriously?

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pmorourke — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:50:27 GMT

@OtherKevin - thanks for reading and commenting. As Ian says below, and you say, certainly SLES gets most favored nation status with vSphere customers. We'll have to agree to disagree on VMW's motivation around points 3 and 4.

@Huh? - huh? ;-). Yes, SLES for the apps/appliances.

@Bart - thanks for reading. With an EPS of 50x earnings, I'll bet VMW is good for at least 2 years ;-)

@Ian - thanks for reading. Yes it's good news for NOVL.

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Ian Bruce, Novell — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:28:01 GMT

Thanks for the blog post.

Novell's longstanding strategy on virtualization and hypervisor support is to offer customers maximum choice and flexibility. That was the impetus behind our groundbreaking partnership with Microsoft. The reality is, most customers have a mixed environment and they're looking for solutions that work across all of their existing IT investments. We've worked hard with all the major vendors to make sure that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is optimized as the “best guest” OS no matter what hypervisor is being used.

Our partnership with Microsoft has been a tremendous success at the commercial and technical levels. We've engaged with hundreds of customers over the last 3 ½ years, and have made major strides to offer technical solutions that bridge Linux and Microsoft environments, including groundbreaking work supporting Hyper-V.

The partnership with VMware is absolutely unique in the industry in that VMware is OEMing SLES so they can deliver and support it along with shipments of their flagship vSphere product. Further, they're standardizing on SLES for all their virtual appliances. This is a tremendous endorsement of Novell and of our technology. VMware selected Novell and SLES because, among other things, we offer more than 5,000 certified applications, more than double that of Red Hat. Again, an example of offering customers choice.

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Bart — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:46:16 GMT

Wow - it kind of makes me wonder if anybody believes that VMWare will still be in business in 2 years without some sort of a major paradigm shift and maybe a top down restructuring of the company.

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Huh? — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:50:33 GMT

Did you read that announcement carefully? They aren't shipping a version of SLES that will host VMs. So how does this mean that VMware believes virtualization is an OS feature?

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OtherKevin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:07:41 GMT

I think that you're trying to spin this too hard. This looks like it's much more about Novell/Suse trying to become the default virtualized Linux distribution than it is about vmWare taking a swing at the Windows/Hyper-V pairing. Every vmWare customer who was running Linux (or looking at Linux) is going to have to work hard to justify using anything other than SLES. Meanwhile, Windows shows will continue to virtualize as they have been.

Your third point is totally unsubstantiated by this announcement. They are not integrating an OS into vSphere nor are they integrating vSphere as an OS feature in SLES. They are merely including SLES licensing with vSphere licenses and selling SLES support alongside.

Your fourth point, while more or less accurate, has nothing to do with this announcement.