Virtual, Virtual
Datacentre – Future of Cloud Management?????
At VMworld last week, we had a demo of the Virtual, Virtual
Datacentre during the General Session on day 1.
The demo was presented by Alan Renouf and Pat Gelsinger.
The introduction was pitched as a possible future of cloud
management and may mean that IT people will never have to interact with a real
person ever again.
Bear in mind that this was created as a concept in a
Hackathon (lots of people working together to produce a software project), and
was completed in a day and a half.
With the VR headset in place Pat entered the Virtual
Datacentre and was presented with a virtual representation of a VMware
datacentre.
He could approach the four hosts and see the hardware
running the VMs, also he could pick up the VMs and was presented with
information relating to the operating system, CPU, Memory, disk, and network
information of the VM, also the resources were colour related, Green equals
good, red equals bad.
With the VM in hand it could be migrated by simply placing
onto a different host, or deleted by simply placing them into the bin.
The best part of the demo for me was the VMware Cloud on AWS
(VMC on AWS), I this part of the demo, Pat picked up a VM and threw it at the
cloud, and the VM migrated with no operating or VM downtime.
Pat then entered the cloud and was asked to look at the
cluster, the cluster had some red, and this was due to lack of resources on the
cluster.
Brian the virtual support chap popped up and gave some
suggestions.
Pat enable a new host using AWS elastic DRS, this has the
functionality to spin up a new ESXi host and migrate VMs to it, in order to
alleviate the overloaded cluster.
Alan then said that the code would be available via their GitHub site
To watch the demo, scroll through to 48 minutes of the
VMware General session, youtube video.
Enjoy.
