[Info-vax] VMware

[IanD]

Dave, no shame coming from the 80's, the only shame is to refuse to want to even entertain a different world, you hardly seem like someone who refuses to look at the newer world, you just want proof that it's better, totally understandable

I assume you downloaded and had a tinker with virtualbox and saw how easy it was to spin up an OS and configure it and play with it versus real hardware

VMware is the same but on steroids. It has management functionally built in that allows the management of 1000's of instances. You can do funky thinks like create resource pools and manage multiple instance as though they were a single entity etc

You can do things like dynamically migrate a running instance to another VMware instance or even another DC all on the fly without having to reconfigure underlining network elements. You can see the immediate benefit here of continual operation, more continuous than a VMS node in a cluster because a job running on a VMS node is tied to that node which is ultimately tired to the physical machine, in VMware it's so visualised that the machine itself can be migrated to another VMware instance while still running, every process running on that machine keeps running while it's motioned off to another VMware instance

But of a lousy rushed explanation but hopefully you get the idea

Docker, another technology is making gains on VMware using a container technology but this is a topic for another day, I think OpenVMS may have to embrace contains at some point in time

I really thought VMware was out of scope as far as OpenVMS was concerned but it seems that I misunderstood, I think this is some of the biggest news yet because without VMware official support (in time), OpenVMS in my opinion would have really struggled to get traction other than in environments where it was already accepted in

The fact that VMware are bothering to talk to VSI is pretty dam good news