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Rene Vester
From speaking to the engineers at the VMware booth it seems obvious that is new approach is most of all an attempt to once again deliver something that Microsoft, XenSource and the others cannot. From what i have learned the development of the products will continue and we are not going towards Embedded ESX only in the near future. It appears there are several reasons for this:
- ESX 3I has no service console, so no third party solutions using the service console will work with 3I.
- ESX 3I will only be supported by a limited number of hardware vendors and few models(atleast for now).
When i suggested that it might be a good idea to push for an embedded "pci-card" with 3I on it, for use in older/nonsupported hardware models i was kindly referred to the hardware vendors, "VMware delivers an embedded ready hypervisor and thats it" so we will have to wait and see what the hardware vendors are going to come up with. The 3I will be released late november, and atleast some of the hardware vendors are ready with their ESX-models at the same time. Dell demoed the 3I in one of their new models in the general session, lots of memory, lots of CPU, lots of I/O. I think its gonna be interesting.
If you guys want to read a bit more about 3I have a look here: http://www.vmware.com/vmworldnews/index.html
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