VMWare buys B-Hive
 

Very interesting press release from VMWare I have seen today....

"The B-hive virtual appliance, Conductor, is able to discover the applications running inside each virtual machine in the virtual infrastructure, to track how the end-users are interacting with them and how the apps are interacting with different resources (storage, network, other applications).
At this point, following service level agreement (SLA) rules Conductor can interact with VMware Virtual Center and improve the performance of those virtual machines running relevant applications.
This goal can be achieved in several ways: by restarting the VMs if they are down, by granting them a higher priority access to physical resources or by moving them on less busy virtualization hosts).
Conductor is even able to shut down the VMs hosting applications which are not needed or to interact with 3rd party load balancing applications to change their load sharing settings depending on how the virtualized applications are performing."

Dave

We (EMC) appear to buy companies every other day :)

Steve

Booooooo VMware :) :norty:

Having recently spent some time with Citrix looking at Xen Server and the application virtualisation I wondered how long it would take VMWare to be doing the same sort of thing. Its the next step on from server virtualisation.

Dave

I've always found VMWare an excellent product. It really helped us solve a previously insurmountable obstacle in one particular application.

I've heard people mention VMWare with server environments. I work in the SME sector, where the smaller companies I deal with tend to only have a couple of servers. Is there a trick I'm missing where it could be implemented ?

Yes you can probably run smaller SMEs with a few servers on one big powerful one, but I would always go for a minimum of 2 so that you offer HA to your applications at least.

PM me if you want to talk more about this, I deal with SMEs and VMWare at work.

Dave

yeah looks like you guys and us are over lapping in all sorts of areas now :) Competition is always a good thing!