First up this morning was Tod Nielsen, Chief Operating Officer from VMware.
Tod thanked the sponsors for their support and gave us the number: 12,488 attendees at VMworld 2009. Quite an amazing achievement given this economy. Tod also described the goal of VMware: To Energize and Save, wither that would be Financial Savings, Human Savings, or Earth’s Savings. He then showed a video of customer testimonials from Siemens and Kroger. Next up Tod introduced Paul Maritz, Chief Executive Officer from VMware.
Paul gave a definition of the cloud to the audience. He went on to talk about how VMware will bridge the gap between the datacenter and the cloud of the future. He described the VMware journey, where VMware has come from and where he believes VMware is headed. He reiterated a comment that I’ve heard him say once before: that vSphere had more than 1,500 engineers working on it which was more than any Windows operating system durning his tenure at Microsoft. This is another reason that vSphere is reconized as a true platform. He went on to give a review of the vSphere features and how vSphere integrates into the ecosystem of available software. He talked about customer upgrade plans and how customers polled are planning on upgrading to vSphere in the next few months. He then introduced Tom Brey, Sr. Technical Staff Engineer, IBM.
Tom showed a great demo of power consumption of a IBM 3850 inside the vSphere client. In the standard performance tab, he had real time counters of power consumption in watts on a per VM basis. Very cool to see how much power your VM’s are using. One thing I did note from his preso, he was running it on ESX 4.1 build 000000 (where can I get a copy of that?)
Paul returns after the demo to give us a explanation of all of the things coming to enhance vCenter and the management of the infrastructure. With that lead in, Paul introduces us to an engineer named Bruce who goes thru a demonstration of Lab Manager 4 and chargeback.
Bruce shows us a demo of checking out a configuration in Lab Manager and then Paul leads that into a new portal called vCloud Express. This portal lets customers check out VM’s or groups of them to use for development or for production. It’s an interface that fulfills the much needed aspect for the cloud: a self-service portal.
Paul next leads into Desktops as a service and what is happening on that front. For this Paul introduces Steve Dupree, Director of Platform Virtualization, Hewlett Packard.
Steve talks about the direction that HP is headed with virtualization. Steve does a great demo of Hp Insight integration into the vSphere client. An extra tab is show for the physical hosts where admins can find all of the Insight information about the health of the physical hardware.
Next up, Paul introduces Chris Renter, Telus Communications.
Chris demo’s a bit on the upcoming functionality and experience customers can expect from VMware View with PCoIP integration. The PCoIP protocol will be a new enhancement for View coming later this year according to Paul.
The last (whew!) of the guests is Rod Johnson, CEO, SpringSource.
Rod gives us a description of how SpringSource will complement VMware to deliver PaaS (Platform as a Service). He demo’s how easily code can be migrated to the cloud using the SpringSource framework. It’s pretty impressive to see how this migration can happen from a developer’s perspective.
At this point Paul finally closes the opening keynote. On to the press event and more pictures to follow.
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