VMware Ushers in Virtual OS

VDC-OS serves as the OS for the entire datacenter


September 16, 2008
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/vmware-ushers-in-virtual-os/210601955


VMware has announced its Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS) which lets organizations to efficiently pool all types of hardware resources -- servers, storage and network -- into an aggregated on-premise cloud. Datacenters running on the Virtual Datacenter OS are highly elastic, self-managing, and self-healing. .

The VDC-OS expands virtual infrastructure along three dimensions:

Unlike a traditional OS, which is optimized for a single server and supports only those applications written to its interfaces, the VDC-OS serves as the OS for the entire datacenter and supports the full diversity of any application written to any OS, from legacy Windows applications to modern distributed applications that run in mixed operating system environments.

"Automation and virtualization technologies are shifting the center of gravity for server computing from server operating systems to a new breed of infrastructure operating system that spans many distributed servers, " says Thomas Bittman, research vice president, at Gartner.

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