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Mohammed Raffic is a subject Matter Expert of VMware Virtualization technology and an author, technical guy and blogger focusing on Virtualization and Cloud computing.Independent author and Founder of VMwarearena.com He has more than 6 years of high level knowledge in Remote infrastructure services, consulting, designing, implementing and troubleshooting downloadhelper VMware Virtualization technology. See full bio
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Just like a 2010 Mercedes SL550 being crashed into a wall, the parts are being scrapped and re-purposed into other applications. I knew this was a speculated announcement coming up at VMworld, but kept heads down until I heard it was true.
Yesterday, there was an article detailing all of this information by Beth Pariseau from TechTarget that detailed everything extremely well, VMware splits vCloud Director into vCenter, vCloud Automation Center .
EDIT:: 9/3/13… vCloud Director will still be available as a service provider offering. There will be a special version of vCD for service providers that is not correctly stated in the article but the plan to split the code functions between vCAC and vCenter is correct.
Here are my thoughts. While I enjoyed working with vCloud Director, I can’t say that enough of the clients were fond it. The UI itself just wasn’t sexy enough to get mainstream attention and the storefront for ordering out of a catalog wasn’t stupid simple. It will be a matter of time that vCloud Director users will have to make the jump (once again).
For the time being, downloadhelper there is an update to vCloud Director with version 5.5. This new version adds very little enhancements downloadhelper and new features. The one thing to remember is that you still shouldn’t discount vCloud Director as part of a solution in the interim. The dis-assembling of vCloud Director downloadhelper components into vCAC and vCenter will take a while. If you have a cloud initiative right now, think about how you plan on using VXLAN or utilizing shared catalogs between users. One of the features that I always thought was interesting with vCD was the ability to have developers use catalogs for different applications or versions of code. Today, it’s not possible to make it look clean with vCAC. Another downloadhelper useful feature was the ability to share a user’s vApps among other users in the same Organization. VXLAN was a hot topic 2 years ago, and vCD is the only automated way today.
Now, who are the losers in this situation? Well, I’m sort of a loser in this situation because I’ve built quite a good following downloadhelper based on my knowledge of vCD and even wrote a chapter in a book about it. My ability to transfer knowledge somewhere else won’t be hard. Software vendors who spent thousands and even upwards of millions downloadhelper of dollars on integration into vCD. These all need to be re-written and transferred over to a new product in the upcoming year or two. Or they are completely screwed in general. The customers are the real losers here. Anyone who has taken the time to change their operational habits to utilize vCD to its full potential. These customers who spent a lot of money, not only on the product itself, downloadhelper but in professional services to get them up and running. I would like to see VMware come full circle with these customers and help them migrate with little to no cost. Utilizing vCloud Director takes a lot of change in regards to operations and administration. Customers who used a different product as a storefront (such as vCAC or UCS Director) to then provision into vCD, will be off in a much better way than anyone who chose to use vCD for the whole shabang.
EDIT:: 9/3/13… vCloud Director will still be available as a service provider offering. There will be a special version of vCD for service providers that is not correctly stated in the article but the plan to split the code functions between vCAC and vCenter is correct
The downloadhelper BlogNotions Virtualization Blog. © 2013 NetLine Corporation
Mohammed Raffic is a subject Matter Expert of VMware Virtualization technology and an author, technical guy and blogger focusing on Virtualization and Cloud computing.Independent author and Founder of VMwarearena.com He has more than 6 years of high level knowledge in Remote infrastructure services, consulting, designing, implementing and troubleshooting downloadhelper VMware Virtualization technology. See full bio
Mitesh downloadhelper Soni is a Technical Lead having over 5 years of experience in Information Technology and has worked primarily on Cloud Computing Technology. Mitesh has performed many roles such as a Software Engineer, Research Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer, and Technical Lead with efficiency. As a part of Cloud Service team, he has been involved downloadhelper in Private Cloud Lab Activities and Thought Leadership work. See full bio
Kendrick Coleman is a virtualization evangelist with a vision for the future of enterprise cloud and end-user computing. Owner and sole contributor downloadhelper to kendrickcoleman.com that is focused on solving uncommon problems to VMware products with helpful tips, tricks, and walkthroughs. See full bio
Just like a 2010 Mercedes SL550 being crashed into a wall, the parts are being scrapped and re-purposed into other applications. I knew this was a speculated announcement coming up at VMworld, but kept heads down until I heard it was true.
Yesterday, there was an article detailing all of this information by Beth Pariseau from TechTarget that detailed everything extremely well, VMware splits vCloud Director into vCenter, vCloud Automation Center .
EDIT:: 9/3/13… vCloud Director will still be available as a service provider offering. There will be a special version of vCD for service providers that is not correctly stated in the article but the plan to split the code functions between vCAC and vCenter is correct.
Here are my thoughts. While I enjoyed working with vCloud Director, I can’t say that enough of the clients were fond it. The UI itself just wasn’t sexy enough to get mainstream attention and the storefront for ordering out of a catalog wasn’t stupid simple. It will be a matter of time that vCloud Director users will have to make the jump (once again).
For the time being, downloadhelper there is an update to vCloud Director with version 5.5. This new version adds very little enhancements downloadhelper and new features. The one thing to remember is that you still shouldn’t discount vCloud Director as part of a solution in the interim. The dis-assembling of vCloud Director downloadhelper components into vCAC and vCenter will take a while. If you have a cloud initiative right now, think about how you plan on using VXLAN or utilizing shared catalogs between users. One of the features that I always thought was interesting with vCD was the ability to have developers use catalogs for different applications or versions of code. Today, it’s not possible to make it look clean with vCAC. Another downloadhelper useful feature was the ability to share a user’s vApps among other users in the same Organization. VXLAN was a hot topic 2 years ago, and vCD is the only automated way today.
Now, who are the losers in this situation? Well, I’m sort of a loser in this situation because I’ve built quite a good following downloadhelper based on my knowledge of vCD and even wrote a chapter in a book about it. My ability to transfer knowledge somewhere else won’t be hard. Software vendors who spent thousands and even upwards of millions downloadhelper of dollars on integration into vCD. These all need to be re-written and transferred over to a new product in the upcoming year or two. Or they are completely screwed in general. The customers are the real losers here. Anyone who has taken the time to change their operational habits to utilize vCD to its full potential. These customers who spent a lot of money, not only on the product itself, downloadhelper but in professional services to get them up and running. I would like to see VMware come full circle with these customers and help them migrate with little to no cost. Utilizing vCloud Director takes a lot of change in regards to operations and administration. Customers who used a different product as a storefront (such as vCAC or UCS Director) to then provision into vCD, will be off in a much better way than anyone who chose to use vCD for the whole shabang.
EDIT:: 9/3/13… vCloud Director will still be available as a service provider offering. There will be a special version of vCD for service providers that is not correctly stated in the article but the plan to split the code functions between vCAC and vCenter is correct
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