VMWare Lacks Bare Metal Server Management, Cisco complains
- 17 years ago
http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2007/09/vmworld_07_vmware_lacks_bare_metal_server_management_cisco_says_video.php
At VMWorld yesterday, Cisco launched a version of their server provisioning platform compatible with VMWare's ESX hypervisor. What VFrame does is that it configures remotely and dynamically a bare-metal server with images of OSes (Windows, Linux and now ESX) and/or (virtual) applications that are typically centrally stored in a storage area network (SAN) device. In Cisco's scenario, the network becomes the virtual management platform that allocates both storage and network resources to bare-metal servers.
"VMWare doesn't do anything like this at all. VMWare don't really do much management at the bare metal server level. They would leave it up to the customers to go configure to some of their management consoles the ESX load image and configuring it to a set of shared storage environment. There's a fairly complex set of configurations that users will have to go through", said Bill Erdman, marketing director of Cisco's server virtualisation business unit.
http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2007/09/vmworld_07_vmware_lacks_bare_metal_server_management_cisco_says_video.php
At VMWorld yesterday, Cisco launched a version of their server provisioning platform compatible with VMWare's ESX hypervisor. What VFrame does is that it configures remotely and dynamically a bare-metal server with images of OSes (Windows, Linux and now ESX) and/or (virtual) applications that are typically centrally stored in a storage area network (SAN) device. In Cisco's scenario, the network becomes the virtual management platform that allocates both storage and network resources to bare-metal servers.
"VMWare doesn't do anything like this at all. VMWare don't really do much management at the bare metal server level. They would leave it up to the customers to go configure to some of their management consoles the ESX load image and configuring it to a set of shared storage environment. There's a fairly complex set of configurations that users will have to go through", said Bill Erdman, marketing director of Cisco's server virtualisation business unit.
http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2007/09/vmworld_07_vmware_lacks_bare_metal_server_management_cisco_says_video.php