VMware and its coming future
Oct/050
VMware is clearly not sitting still. At the recent VMworld, a yearly virtualization event organized by VMware, it made some major new announcements.
First the announced the availability of the VMware Player. A Free!! piece of software that allows you to run any virtual machine on your Windows or Linux desktop. You can not create new virtual machines, you would have to use any of the commercial available software from VMware of Microsoft for this, but you can then run them on any PC without buying any additional software (excluding operating system licenses and applications). Also new to VMware Virtual Machine Center is a ‘browser application’. This is a Virtual Machine, with pre-installed Linux and web browser software. The Virtual Machine is ‘only’ 250mb large and can be run directly with the VMware Player.
Also on the server side a lot of new things are happing. VMware made public some information about their upcoming releases for VMware ESX Server and VirtualCenter. It will support larger Virtual Machines; 4 way SMP and 16GB RAM. But also a lot of new services will become available (as separate additional plug-in). 2 of these additional services will be Distributed Availability Services and Distributed Resource Scheduling. The first will make virtual machines fail-over automatically when a physical server fails. The Virtual Machines will then be powered-on on other running VMware ESX Servers. The second service will load balance Virtual Machines around based on CPU and Memory using the VMotion technology.
More information about these anouncements can be found here
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