[Info-vax] IBM nearing deal to acquire Red Hat

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
> via Info-vax
> Sent: April 17, 2019 8:07 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] IBM nearing deal to acquire Red Hat
> 
> On 4/16/2019 8:40 PM, clair.grant at vmssoftware.com wrote:
> > Here is the way I look at it. Let's say I sign up for some compute
> > time with AWS and I need to run my apps on Windows. AWS will give me a
> > VM guest running Windows. The real question is, what hypervisor is
> > providing that guest? Hyper-V, VMware, kvm, xen? This what VSI needs
> > to provide...the ability to run in as many guest environments as is
> > reasonable so you can run your VMS applications in a standard cloud
> > provider.
> AWS use KVM (originally they used Xen but switched to KVM).
> 
> Azure uses Hyper-V.
> 
> Both supports multiple OS, so I assume they are not unreasonable difficult
to
> deploy on.
> 
> Arne

Re: KVM benefits for VSI-

Fwiw .. Although VMware is clearly the front runner today, there appears to
be quite a bit of growing interest in large companies internal IT and
private clouds  getting away from the very high costs associated with VMware
and SAN technologies and adopting the native KVM based virtualization
solutions offered in the new HCI (hyper converged infrastructure) solutions
today from vendors like Nutanix.

Although there are always architecture specific pros and cons, due to the
lower costs, HCI is really starting to take over from the previous
"converged infrastructure" solutions with expensive SAN's etc. 

Fyi - HCI from Nutanix uses local storage and hypervisor clustering with KVM
based virtualization with local storage on each node.  It also supports
VMware if the Cust wants. Think of HCI solutions like an OpenVMS cluster
with local storage MSCP clustering. (yes, back to the future again)

If VSI focus is on KVM virtualization, then HCI solutions like Nutanix could
be a very nice match.

General HCI References:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=Qf8Oh62reiI>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N46PFNZE9zM>

And big announcement between HPE and Nutanix from 10 days ago-
<https://www.nutanix.com/press-releases/2019/04/09/hpe-nutanix-sign-global-a
greement-deliver-hybrid-cloud-service/>
<https://bit.ly/2ZofJNp> if previous link wraps
" SAN JOSE, Calif., – April 9, 2019 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and
Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX) today announced a global partnership to deliver
an integrated hybrid cloud as a Service (aaS) solution to the market. This
offering will leverage Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software including its
built-in, free AHV hypervisor, delivered through HPE GreenLake to provide
customers with a fully HPE-managed hybrid cloud that dramatically lowers
total cost of ownership and accelerates time to value. Additionally, as part
of the agreement, Nutanix will enable its channel partners to directly sell
HPE servers combined with Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software so that
customers can purchase an integrated appliance."

KM - Key extract from the above - "free AHV hypervisor.." AHV is competitor
to VMware and is based on KVM. Might be a natural fit for VSI - KVM and
ProLiant servers with solution proposed above. This allows Customers to run
their Linux, Windows and OpenVMS workloads on the same platform without the
high VMware costs. They also save by NOT requiring very expensive SAN
solutions.

AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor Virtualization) reference:
<https://www.nutanix.com/products/acropolis/>
<https://www.nutanix.com/documents/datasheets/Nutanix_Acropolis_Datasheet.pd
f> 


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com