There are some things that I am curious about. One in particular that I have been thinking about is Virtual Computing Environment ( VCE ) Vblock architecture. If I am reading the glossies correctly, this is basically a joint venture between VMware, Cisco, and EMC. They seem to want to take a building block approach to getting people to virtualize their workloads.
The blocks consists of:
- VMware Hypervisor and other software
- Cisco switches in both hardware and software form ( MDS and Nexus 1000v )
- Cisco compute in the form of UCE
- EMC storage as either a Clariion or Symetrix
- Some software glue
Interoperability
One of the tenets of VCE is that it makes deployment of these products simpler due to rigorous testing.
Lets looks at all these products. Each one is already certified to work with the other. The "testing" they claim has already been done. All these vendors want/need to make sure that their products work with each other since their customers demand it already. The only added functionality that VCE brings to the block is this software glue that supposedly makes configuring and maintaining this environment simpler. I'll have more to say about that after I see a VCE demo at EMC world.
Support
You can go to one place for support of this entire complex. I have to question this due to my personal experience. When it comes to support of gear from one vendor from another vendor, it is weak at best. Case in point, Cisco MDS 95xx series switch purchased through EMC. When we need support for it, we need to call EMC. The feeling we get from support makes us feel that EMC then basically opens a support case with Cisco. They seem to play the middle man. I wonder how this will work when you have a blade in your UCE that needs to be replaced.
Flexibility
The idea behind these building blocks is that they make it easy for you to manage and maintain your environment. If that was the case why are they only working with VMware, EMC, and Cisco gear? It seems to me the most important part of this whole product is the glue that lets you tie in the management of all this gear in a simple way. I don't see why this must be done with this gear specifically. The hardware and software provided by these vendors has open and public APIs for management. Can the glue software not be abstracted to the point where it would not matter what hardware is behind the scenes?
Hopefully I will get a better idea of why EMC is pushing this approach during EMC world.
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