So many voices: wave of new products perfect strategy VMware confident that the road ahead is a good

This issue will be discussed in the following two topics: 1. Wave released 5 Smartrack new products, pointing to the integration of the architecture market, 2.VMware upgrade NSX expansion users, the latest vsphere 6 also full of confidence!

So many sound column links: http://voice.zdnet.com.cn/2015/0206/3046088.shtml

Guest point of view refine:

"00:00" Wave released 5 Smartrack new products, pointing to the integration of the architecture market

The wave released in fact is mainly the No. 50000 smartrack Machine Cabinet server node, 2001 first out of the blade server, still has a relatively stable shipments, its original intention is to share the entire chassis of power and refrigeration, as well as related network peripherals interconnected components, so the design is inevitable, To achieve a more compact, more efficient power supply, and so on the machine cabinet server It is also a natural birth, and the demand is the original kind of higher density, better deployable, and manageability, better cooling efficiency. Now the expansion of the Internet scale and a large number of information to make the server local storage technology back, scale-out architecture more mature, the tide has come to the front, its smartrack and Scorpio plan inseparable, can achieve the integration of the overall structure, But there is a long way to go to replace the blade server.

"20:00" VMware upgrades NSX expansion users, the latest vsphere 6 also full of confidence!

VMware's NSX users are expanding, this is a sign of time, the NSX represents the inevitable trend of the future network virtualization, represents a very flexible network topology of the main network division, its application will open a very broad imagination space. The NSX has a secure feature that provides a window into the security solution.

VMware stressed that Vclould air is a mixed cloud service, but not the main revenue of VMware, it is urgent need to supplement their own services, Google is also so rich, vclould air can through Google's appeal to expand the bandwidth on the Internet, is a very good means of mutual benefit. VMware wants to make alliances to improve revenue in cloud services, but it depends on the performance.

VMware is proud of the new Vsphere 6 has many new bright spots, in Hana, Hadoop has the ability to strengthen, its virtual machine between the interconnection efficiency than the physical machine interconnection efficiency is better, give people with new imagination space. Vsphere from the point of view of the pioneer to continuously improve their product line, related to the surrounding ecosystem is also more mature, if it can smoothly bring Vsan constantly, then its market competitiveness will make others difficult to contend with.

The following is a transcript of the interview:

Wave released 5 Smartrack new products, pointing to the integration of the architecture market

Yang Yanji: Good friends, again to our "so many sound", today is the 93rd phase, see our 100 mark how also in the year of the RAM, today is also concerned about the ZDNet official micro-letter friends, may be enough to eat lunch in the afternoon to see a new single push message, Is the wave released five smartrack new products, the people always specialize in a more than 7,000 words of an article, but also about this, you are from this product to see Blade server's overall fate, if we do not see this article, you probably summed up to help us say.

Chi: This is actually from the blade server and the whole cabinet server of a origin, this wave is actually released the No. 50000 smartrack Machine Cabinet server node, this node, it certainly did not mention the No. 50000 node is what node, is equal to compute node or storage node, Of course anyway we don't care about it first, let's take a look at smartrack what kind of products and solutions.

Today in the article I published, I used a product analogy, we from the Blade Server 2001 first out, to this year also 15 years, if the 2001 release of the Year also counted, this is 15 years. The blade server came out when there was actually this demand, can improve the entire cabinet of the calculation density, at that time, according to the traditional terms of the cabinet itself is 42U, we know this u it is a height unit, Height probably should be 4.45 centimeters, 1U height on behalf of more than 4.4 centimeters, 42U on the Bai, according to our usual standard some design, 42U cabinet is 42 servers, 1U server.

However, the density of the cabinet requirements, the pursuit is to see if there is a new form of the server, when the 2001 blade server, Blade server has been still relatively stable shipments, although it is not as fast as before, that time is probably from 2005, Starting in 2006, Blade server has a relatively fast and obvious growth.

Now look at the highest blade server, such as a blade chassis inside can have more than 30 blades, you calculate it, for example, a 10U chassis inside it has 32 blades, 42U cabinet inside can install 4 such 10U Blade chassis, 4x32 is 128 blades, 128 servers are significantly more than 42 servers in the original cabinet.

So this blade server was born with a purpose, this blade server is an important principle, or it is a design concept is that the original every server, such as 42U inside my 1U server each 1U server has its own power, has its own fans, refrigeration fans, have their own external network of these interfaces. For the blade server, I integrate the power supply to the chassis, the cooling fan is integrated, the blade itself is a key related it component, CPU, memory, hard disk or solid-state disk. These blades are plugged into the chassis it shares the power and cooling of the entire chassis, as well as the interconnected components of the associated network perimeter.

Such a design will be more compact first, the efficiency of the power supply will be higher, refrigeration efficiency, that is, this intensive efficiency will be better. So it was inevitable that this blade was born at that time, from this point of view the blade to today it is a very natural birth, and so on machine cabinet server It is also a natural birth, and demand is the original kind of demand, higher density, or better this deployment, deployable, manageability, Better cooling efficiency. This is the same as the original blade, you single machine server, 1U server, each server is a single complete individual, you are in the blade server inside a chassis is a complete individual, you can see from the chassis inside the blade server exactly how the match, At that time in fact, someone tube blade server also called a node, such as a knife box can have 16 blades, you can think of 16 nodes.

And so on in the machine cabinet server was also 2010 years when the internet began to heat up quickly, and you should have the feeling, 2010 when the smartphone has been in an explosion period of growth, the smartphone to the size of the Internet to expand the geometric number of growth.

Then you can see a large number of information, data integration, coupled with cloud computing, the birth of a giant internet companies, China is bat, Baidu, Ali, Tencent, foreign we also see Facebook, Google these well-known internet companies, they are collecting more user information company, Their data center is also the largest, this time faced a problem, in the traditional development of the blade server by the time it is very advanced design, it is very high density, but its own storage capacity is very weak. It was also because of the storage performance inside the server and its poor sharing efficiency. So, with this centralized storage of an external SAN, the centralized storage and the blades are very well matched, the blades themselves are very weak, and you have a design that is designed to complement each other with a SAN.

Later in the Internet age, with the development of these related technologies, interconnection technology development, software definition Virtualization technology development, you will find that the server's local storage technology is back, that is, we feel that this is a better choice, so that applications and data closer to the local storage can have a better play, This time they all saw a kind of scale-out is the spread of a distributed processing architecture more mature, this is the basic Internet infrastructure.

The traditional architecture of such a centralized storage with a blade server with a SAN is clearly unsuitable for the internet, and it is proving that the Internet's it model is becoming more and more recognized, and that many traditional companies are turning to it. In this trend, we also see that the blade server this design is a certain limitation, for Internet companies can not say that will take the Blade plus SAN to do its main business platform.

Take this opportunity, internet companies also talk about their own ideas, because their procurement scale has been very large, a year of procurement may be tens of thousands of or hundreds of thousands of of the purchase volume of servers, so it has a large voice, its application needs are very clear, it can be customized according to their own application requirements to customize the specifications of such a server.

At that time thought of, he said I can not put in a larger space to define my server, larger space now can see a larger maximum space is its design of the whole cabinet, the machine cabinet at that time in foreign Facebook-led Ocp,open Compute Project, Open computing projects, or an overall plan for open computing. Domestic bat, Baidu, Ali, Tencent, it is also a very large number of internet giants, in the world are ranked, they are associated with the Chinese telecom operators, China Telecom, China Mobile, also launched its own machine cabinet server design, is Scorpio.

From the design of the machine cabinet server and blade design, why do I say it is the fate of the blade server machine cabinet? It is actually to extend the blade chassis to the entire cabinet, the original one of your blade chassis is 10U, I am now the entire 42U large chassis, the inside of this node I would prefer to see it as a new blade, but this blade may be larger, Smartrack is actually a specific solution based on the design of Scorpio.

In Scorpio's composition, the Scorpio Alliance is now called Open Data Center Committee, but Scorpio design specifications will find some OEM and ODM manufacturers to do specific implementation. The wave is one of the implementing vendors, and we know there are other things like MSI, which are ODM vendors, and Lenovo, who are members of the implementation side of the Scorpio program.

The wave may be at the front in this respect, its market share is also the highest, from 2011-2015, to this year has delivered 50,000 nodes. Now it's actually the whole cabinet you have to say from its overall calculation density, is not particularly high, you may be compared with the blade, pure by quantity is not the highest, it is a whole cabinet now by smartrack,32 a compute node, in fact, not high, 32 compute nodes Even if each node is the design of the Gemini Star is 64 nodes.

We have just calculated that, by the blade server is now up to 128, this you can not compare. However, its calculation capacity per blade, as well as its storage capacity, this space, performance configuration, this is not comparable. So, the whole cabinet in my opinion it is actually a larger scale blade server evolution, the overall power of each node, as well as the thermal design are all in the size of the cabinet as a whole to consider, is tantamount to the original blade server such a form to expand in a whole cabinet form to see, This is my basic understanding of smartrack.

Of course, in this press release they also stressed the need to fully replace the blade, of course, in my view it is still very long, not so easy, need to wave on the Scorpio specifications to see how much of their own innovation.

Yang Yanji: You introduce us so much, it actually shows the tide, because Smartrack is the first step in integrating the architecture strategy, so you think it's the first step is still and solid stable.

Chi: In a way it is inseparable from the design of Scorpio, but we would like to see the wave in the completion of the Scorpio implementation of the task at the same time, it can go to add some of their own design, this is really can see the server manufacturer's own innovative ability. The specification of the Scorpio design is strictly not the implementation of these implementations, not to say what the wave, Lenovo these manufacturers to develop, it is those internet companies designated by the operator, it to their business needs to do this. But look at them. The company is relatively simple some, that is, the Internet companies and telecommunications operators, to their needs designed by the design of this machine cabinet layout, is not still able to adapt to the traditional enterprise-level users of this application scenario, at present, I think certainly is not completely covered.

Scorpio is also not obligated, the Scorpio Committee, or the Open Center Committee, it is not obligated to now cover your enterprise-class user needs. But how can you use Scorpio's existing results to meet your other user needs, this depends on the manufacturer's own personal play, in the Scorpio program it calculates the node height is uniform, 1U design, of course, this u may not be our traditional frame space 1U height, but it this 1U is dead, That's one spec, no more specs. However, you can not be on this basis to improve the size of the blades, in their view is a node, which I think is entirely possible, depends on your manufacturer's own technology research and development capabilities, so generally speaking their relationship is so.

So I am still very much in anticipation of the wave, they also stated in the press conference, said that they smartrack to spread to different industries. Of course, this must be a framework for its integration, no doubt, because it is in the calculation, storage, network together, this is a whole structure of the integration, plus your software definition, management software related to some of the relevant pre-integration settings, this is the first step to integrate infrastructure, integration system, this is certainly no problem, But what are you going to do with the fusion system? Complex optimizations for different applications must involve special designs for different nodes, which is not to say that a single node can fit all the application requirements, which is not possible.

So this is really the first step, see how the wave to improve the product mix, the wave also said that in order to go to some new industries, they will certainly do some new nodes, or in my opinion analogy for the blade of this design, I believe that in the future, this year should be able to see so many new products out.

Yang Yanji: So it fits the Scorpio standard, will there be any useful in the international market?

Chi: This scorpio is actually Chinese standards, in the international like the Facebook-led ACP, may be more sound, of course, OCP and Scorpio are basically incompatible, this may be a new topic. So now I think that Scorpio Smartrack has not said some concrete plans to go out, but you do not rule out that wave, Lenovo, these real participants, have been able to eat very well, they may not rule out the possibility of selling them abroad, especially to associate such an international company, It is possible to say that the result of this Scorpio as two times to transfer to foreign countries, but it is not the same as the original Scorpio specification is not easy to say.

Yang Yanji: May upgrade later or be an external version.

Chi: Yes.

Yang Yanji: Said the tide also to our localization brought a very big positive.

Chi: Yes, this OCP is foreign, Scorpio is domestic, and I think that the name of Scorpio is pretty good, Scorpio cabinet, I hope that every time out of the cabinet side door will draw a big scorpion, draw a Scorpio, I think it is a very cool thing. So this is also to wish all of these Chinese server vendors, including the tides, to participate in the Scorpio program as an implementing party, on the one hand to meet the needs of Scorpio these specifications, on the other hand, I really want to say that these manufacturers can launch their own innovation, can bring such a number of results, internet companies of these IT architecture results To effectively translate to your enterprise-class users, I think it is a very good direction for the change of the enterprise-wide market and its future progress.

"20:00" VMware upgrades NSX expansion users, the latest vsphere 6 also full of confidence!

Yang Yanji: Let's talk about the wave of our own family, let's talk about the outside. This manufacturer, VMware, now seems to have a lot of business, in addition to cloud computing mess, now seems to put security in a more important position, is the NSX users are also expanding, and now the test version is gone, It seems that all paid users are applying, what do you think about it?

Chi: I think this is a very good thing, it is very symbolic. Because the NSX represents the inevitable trend of the future, is a trend of network virtualization, and it is in the Hypervisor virtualization layer directly to embed into your internal architecture of such a network virtualization, so that it also provides some basic functions, For example, some basic network functions such as firewalls are inside. For the security of the entire virtual layer I think this is an undeniable benefit, and it itself represents a very flexible network topology of the main network division, if you use a good NSX will give you a lot of flexibility.

For example, you're in a virtualization layer, a virtual machine, a network, such as these virtual machines in a net, the several virtual machines in a network, between the corresponding strict logical isolation, the NSX is a clear arena, it is in the virtualization layer between you do isolation, You can not need to go to the switch level to do a particularly troublesome physical setup, in fact you may point a few mouse at a software level, through its NSX inside of this load balancing, and even its firewalls, some of these features, you could let it develop a good security policy.

I think this thing in fact in the beginning may make everyone feel very strange, difficult to start, if you as time goes on this familiar, after the relevant skills have mastered, it will open a very broad imagination space. This software how to program, how do you use, how do you according to its API, according to its interface to construct your entire virtual machine deployment network topology, this is the NSX bring to the user an important value.

So that's when the founder of the NSX and some of their technicians have put security but it was possible that the user, because of his own understanding, or the limited skills he had deployed, might not have been particularly aware of the relevant benefits, and now I feel that the time has come, and I feel that by removing the NSX, the related , and its rivals will benefit from these things, even if I am unfamiliar, but through these news, through the word of mouth, people already know that this is capable of this thing, if you have this demand, especially like public cloud service providers, not necessarily they use NSX, but public cloud service provider, or large private cloud , this internal security is a very important topic.

So even if you have a good progress in this area, some manufacturers customer feedback will cause a more intense attention, I think this is a good thing.

Yang Yanji: The industry also has a lot of specialized to do security manufacturers, do you think VMware this NSX really can do other professional security vendors?

Chi: They are not directly to manage, is to have the function of security, but that it is in this level of security solutions related to the manufacturer into a window, for example, you can through my interface to the call can be more efficient at the basic level to check security vulnerabilities, to do some viruses, There are also some settings on this isolation.

NSX can be opened out of the relevant interface calls outside, and its load balancing can invoke Jie NetScaler such a dedicated load-balancing device. However, the NetScaler load-balancing device was originally dealing with, it is not with the NSX, it is directly with these virtual machine level network interface, now the NSX put these things have been embedded into the hypervisor, efficiency will improve, and your combination of flexibility, Its firewall, some of its security interfaces you can also work with third parties, it gives the virtualization layer security, you may not have the ability to get these third-party security solutions embedded in your virtualization layer, but now it opens up an interface to you on the network level, it's flexible to do network segment isolation, security design of the network segment , as I said just now, it gives Third-party security vendors A window, how you adapt to the new technology, and then you refine your solution, which may be a third-party security vendor to consider.

Yang Yanji: So there will be security vendors to work with it.

Chi: Yes, it was released at the time many vendors announced that it supported this interface standard, supported its technology, and based it on new security solutions. However, the solution believes that a solution that is only intended for virtual machines is more efficient and potentially more secure than ever before.

Yang Yanji: Will VMware's tentacles reach the security field later?

Chi: I'm not sure that the third party involved is either a good performance for VMware acquisitions or a better performance for being able to do more than VMware and to make VMware hurt you less.

Yang Yanji: After we talk about VMware's contribution to virtualization, let's say it's cloud computing, vclould, and say Vclould's path is tough.

Chi: Vclould Air.

Yang Yanji: Vclould Air, said it road more difficult, and Google cooperation, you think it and Google cooperation is inevitable point?

Chi: Vclould Air is VMware's own, in the outside world appears to be a public cloud service, of course VMware himself has been saying I am a mixed cloud service, of course, it emphasizes a focus is mixed cloud services. Its 2014-year overall revenue will be over 6 billion dollars, if the overall cloud service point of view, this revenue is not high, and I believe that it 6 billion dollars inside Vclould air contribution should be very small, its main revenue should still be its data center this piece of stuff.

So, it's urgent to replenish the richness of its own service, Google is also the case, Google it actually wants to do some better business-class expansion, at this level it and VMware come together I think is a win-win situation, VMware by Google's stay, to Google to establish a better relationship of cooperation. Of course, we also know that Google's appeal is still very large, especially in the field of the Internet, it put some of its related main functions, applications, and vclould air to do the convergence, the two sides in the interconnection of the network to further expand the bandwidth, this level is very clear, both sides in the service within each other a good interconnection, With Google's clout, VMware is hoping that its services will bring more users, and that Google is doing better with vclould air and more direct access to some of the traditional enterprise-class users, which may be the right one for both parties.

And Google in the overall public cloud services has been Microsoft's Windows Azure and AWS, of course, the two biggest enemies are AWS. In fact, in the eyes of VMware in the future worldwide, the global level of public cloud service providers, VMware believes that there are only four, the four are Google, Vmware,aws and Microsoft's Azure, has been very clear that the two first alliance, those two should not ally, is AWS and Windows Azure is definitely not an alliance, I think it will be a disorderly win, or you can be in the double, or whether the cooperation of the two giants will bring an obvious benefit, we have to see the follow-up performance.

Of course, there is no denying that this thing for China, Chinese users will see a happy AH is over. I do not believe that vclould air in China through the Chinese telecom to operate, will bring Google services, I think it is impossible. So, Chinese users I believe that the main content of Vclould Air Service is the option of some of VMware's own services.

Of course, I think VMware is likely to be a service provider for a public cloud similar to Google's in the global position, it is not in a favorable position in China, who will cooperate with the bad, because there is also a China telecom, China Telecom also has its own sky-wing cloud, anyway, we have a wild guess, Just say this model may be very common in the future, especially in the international I think there may be some cloud services will do some cooperation between, and even do some mergers, this is not sure, because I think the future public cloud service market will be very crowded.

Yang Yanji: So the fact that they are now in alliance to break the current competition model, can not dominate.

Chi: Can't dominate.

Yang Yanji: Say VMware more proud of the vsphere, out of a new version, this new edition has any highlights?

Chi: It's a lot of bright spots, first of all, its overall capabilities and its virtual machine capacity all of these things are going up, including its single maximum supported memory capacity can reach 12TB, the memory capacity of a single virtual machine can reach 4TB, which is a great progress, Even they can use the traditional thought of this high load of memory computing Hana database, can also be placed in a virtual machine to run, he said that my virtual machine has 4TB of memory for you to use, this is available.

In other ways, these capabilities and the ability to apply them are also increasing, Hana is part of it, and Hadoop,vsphere's deployment of Hadoop is said to be higher than the physical machine. This may be because the efficiency of the interconnection between its virtual machines is better than that of your physical machine.

So that gives us a glimpse of some new possible imaginary space, so the development of virtualization, vsphere is indeed a pioneer of the angle, in this field it is undisputed a king, but Vsphere also did not say complacent, or constantly to improve the product line, I think it is worth praising , there are other functional changes that vsphere, including Vsan, and Vvol, which are also officially unveiled at their channel conferences, partner conferences, and so on. So you can see the ability to expand out of the vsphere as the Origin VMware is constantly strengthening, for example, like Vsan it has really been a better way to expand to a larger level, I forget is 64 nodes, or 32 nodes, like a normal storage hard disk 64, The full flash should be 32, I forgot, it is much stronger than the original 16 nodes.

So say this together it's for the ecological environment, you can think it's stronger, but it may be even worse for its former partner because it gives me a bit like Intel's CPU, the Intel CPU is the core of the CPU, the core of the processor. Slowly it adds the memory controller, later, the controller added to the PCIe, the original first to make it North Bridge chipset manufacturers do not have to play, because this memory controller does not need you, the CPU itself dry, now PCIe This IO interface, this is very common, now the most mainstream interface controller, It is also integrated, of course, it does not necessarily integrate the channel enough, but basically most of the scenarios are sufficient.

So said before do this kind of PCIe card, PCIe chip director, basically business and is greatly affected, it unless do more high-end PCIe, with your CPU integration of things to pull away. VMware is doing the same thing now, just say it continues to the virtualization layer in the integration of things, Vvol, then left an interface to the outside, you can let it access its virtual volume, or the external device to host its virtual volume, Vsan directly Rob Business, Virtualization of storage within the server into a large storage pool is a more realistic threat to many of the storage system's vendors.

Of course what these vendors are likely to do, many of them are doing their own sort of vsan solution, but you jiabuzhu VMware has a vsphere sword that is still dominant in the enterprise market.

This dominance, if it can smoothly bring vsan, you such a competitive advantage is difficult to contend with, so that is why many of these storage vendors are more worried about. Of course, it does not matter to VMware, anyway, your business may be mine sooner or later, of course, it also said that we should try to maintain the ecological space of partners, but money does not earn is a fool, I think there is nothing to say business. Also VSphere6 came out later, its own strength is stronger, and its surrounding drive related to these ecological also more mature, more powerful, constitute the overall broad sense of the vsphere platform, I think this is really can make VMware more proud of such a result.

Yang Yanji: So in fact, the major domestic users are also using vsphere?

Chi: Anyway, in the enterprise market, it is said that Vsphere's share is about 70% to 80%.

Yang Yanji: The obvious is the giant.

Chi: Yes, for example, to apply a monopoly law is to abuse dominance, abuse their dominant position in this field, of course, we joke, we say this meaning. In fact, in history, any manufacturer who says that it has acquired an important dominance in an industry, or a monopolistic position in fact, will use this position to enhance the influence of its business.

For example, micro-letter is the beginning of the chat tool, it slowly put a lot of Tencent's business to add, games, shopping, pay, music, some time ago to kill this, my site I am the Lord, the same reason. Once windows like Microsoft had done it and started to integrate these browsers, integration of some of these related video players, or something, you used to be a video player, of course, now the video player because of the emergence of video sites, may not be affected much, I just cite this example, Microsoft said IE browser is every PC user should want, he installed my machine should have this thing, can not let people to choose to download something, reasonable.

Then said the video player, installed my system, multimedia era he should be able to enjoy the playback of these, of course, Microsoft Player it does not give force, it has to do a good job really no other people what. And so on, it's really reasonable to see VMware doing this, and it's a very reasonable and inevitable thing to look at. So for other users, other ecological environment, regardless of its competitors, or the current partner, must recognize this, you do not go to special foolish, feel particularly optimistic or special goodwill to consider these issues. Or to continue to strengthen their own strength, but also to their own possible defense system continues to consolidate, this may be in the IT circle to play the manufacturers should have the thinking.

Yang Yanji: is to learn from VMware, although accounted for 70%-80% of the market share, is still improving their products.

Chi: Yes.

Yang Yanji: There are many features about vsphere 6, such as instant cloning, if you have not read and understand, you can also go to our zdnet search to see.

Chi: We have a very detailed introduction.

Yang Yanji: Yes, there will be reports on the following. Because every time we uphold the need to live this habit, so that if we have anything wrong please forgive, thank you netizens.

Chi: or later the tomb.

Yang Yanji: You can go to our website to spit, thank you, Happy weekend.

Chi: Have a good weekend.

(editor: Mengyishan)