VMware releases vsphere Big Data Extensions

Large data and virtualization are two of the hottest trends in the IT industry over the last ten years. VMware, as a leader in virtualization, is committed to helping vsphere users improve the management efficiency of large data projects. The above plan is implemented through the newly released VMware vsphere Big Data Extensions,vmware Company. The Vmwarevsphere Big Data extensions is another milestone in VMware's ongoing breakthrough in innovation based on its early large Open-source project Serengeti.

Prior to this, VMware had been helping IT managers achieve virtualization of the Hadoop cluster more easily through the Serengeti project. Due to the success of the Serengeti project, VMware added bigdata extension as a standard configuration to vsphere. According to Fausto Ibarra, senior director of product management at VMware, the beta version of vsphere Big Data extensions is ready for trial.

Vspherebig Data Extensions is based on open source Serengeti project development

The release of the beta release will enable vsphere to support the deployment and operation of Hadoop distributed. "It supports all key Hadoop distribution and provides a new management interface to help vsphere users manage large data work," Ibarra said. "Ibarra stressed that the purpose of VMware's release of Bigdata extensions is to help IT managers achieve seamless and easy management of the vsphere-based Hadoop virtualization effort.

Ibarra also notes that the Open-source Serengeti project has been upgraded to Version0.9, and that the PIVOTALHD Hadoop distribution, which is owned by EMC, has been certified to run on Vmwarevsphere; it is worth mentioning , the vsphere Big Data extensions can support a variety of Hadoop distributions, including Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MAPR.

The beta version of Vmwarevsphere Big Data extensions is ready to download the test. Users can download it on the website.

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Original Author: Jeff James

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