MMS - Keynote
Walked into the giant keynote arena to the strains of “Sweet Child of Mine”, which made me long for the Guns and Roses of old, like it always does. I wondered if they were trying to say something about their management products with this song selection… but then “message in a bottle” came on, and it was clear they were just programming loud and fast to get us worked up.
In a minute, the Microsoft Funny Guy will come out to do his annual “show of hands” joke. I can’t wait.
Ok, Funny Guy starts out harsh, really struggles. No show of hands joke! Maybe tomorrow. Video is unfunny too. Too bad for him.
Right away we’re talking about the cloud with Bob Kelly, VP of Server & Business Tools. He tells us that clouds are delivered services that are reliable, predicable, and automated. The cloud is an operational expense, not a capitol one, which is something I hadn’t thought about before. It can shrink or grow to suit business needs.
Cloud Computing is not a massive revolution, but the next logical step in Dynamic IT.
Demo : VMM 2008 R2 Live Migration. Points out that a live migration can be automated based on any factor that Ops Manager can surface, including SLA’s and Distributed App models. A shot across VMWare’s bow.
Demo : Decoupling the app from the server in VMM. Applications get managed in the VMM library, and you can right-click for OS Upgrades that leave the App alone. Very cool.
Ops Manager 2007 R2 Releases within 30 days!
Tech Preview VMM Leveraging the Public Cloud: How about migrating your internal VM’s to a hosted cloud on the fly, all within the VMM console? Coming in VMM.next. An extremely compelling demo. And you can manage your public / private vm’s from within the same tool.
Launch of Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Hosters and Enterprises to leverage the above technology.
So for an overview, some of the best explanations of the cloud and how it might affect all of us that I’ve heard to date. At least three, maybe four direct shots at VMWare. Exciting stuff around public / private cloud federation. Great demos. Great Keynote!