Posts tagged POD

Bloggers in the new HP POD

Jun 9th

Posted by Hans Vredevoort in Hans Vredevoort

During the HP Discover event five bloggers toured the Expo and tried out the new HP EcoPOD

It’s a complete datacenter in a box! HP calls it the world’s most efficient data center.

Unlike traditional brick and mortar data centers, the HP POD 240a packs ten times the IT capacity into a compact, modular, ultra efficient package.

Lightning fast deployment – up to 88% faster

A quarter of the cost – up to 75% savings

Near perfect energy efficiency – up to 95% less energy

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Bloggers, Datacenter, HP Discover 2011, POD, POD 240a

Virtual Machine Manager vNext

Apr 21st

Posted by Hans Vredevoort in Hans Vredevoort

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During the MMS2010 keynote of Bob Muglia, Edwin Yuen showed a glimpse of SCVMM vNext. The short demo presented a very interesting view ahead of what a complete virtual management solution looks like.

Next to the familiar categories like Hosts, Virtual Machines, Library, Jobs and Administration a few new categories were visible: Datacenter, Network and Storage. Apparently these will be the new building blocks in the deployment of virtual machines and most likely also Hyper-V hosts. Along with Server App-V to deploy server apps to running virtual servers. By means of a model/template objects were dragged and dropped to define a new service/server combination.

Also the concept of the private cloud and the public cloud is translated in the user interface of SCVMM vNext. In the top lefthand corner, we can now see a new light blue (azure?) container with several private clouds as well as a hosted cloud. As I wrote earlier, we can expect to move servers and services between the two clouds.

Building blocks in the SCVMM vNext Library for creating servers

SCVMM vNext will support Virtual Sever, Hyper-V R1, Hyper-V R2, Xen and VMware. By the time the product is ready it will probably also support the latest incarnation of Hyper-V, if it still listens to that name in 2011/2012. For a System Center roadmap see my previous blog.

Factor of 10 reduction cost for hardware
Factor of 10 greater speeding up application delivery
Factor of 10 reduction in cost

This translates to faster time to market for solutions, and a great enabler for the business.

Part of the cost savings is done by means of scale of buying and using server hardware. As I wrote in my blog http://hyper-v.nu/blogs/hans/?p=159, the new server form factor for the cloud is the container. A picture was shown of how Microsoft gets its servers delivered: by the thousands and ready-to-go on delivery.