VMware delivery Deployment and Modeling cloud application Templates

In the absence of a smoke-free war for corporate cloud customers, VMware expects new modeling and deployment cloud templates to consolidate their position.

When it comes to modeling and deploying cloud applications, enterprise developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) can build templates using products like Amazon Web Services, Cloudformation, IBM workload deployer, and tools from Rightscale. VMware dominates the domain of enterprise running virtualization, so expect ISVs to also consider their vfabric creator Director (VFAD), and eventually will be in the new VMware Cloud applications Posted on marketplace.

First developed in-house, first announced in March, Vfabric Creator Director provides developers with a drag-and-drop canvas to build reusable application templates that can be deployed in vsphere and vcloud based public clouds, Now the new version is 5.0, for the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). is about to support other cloud platforms, Shahar Erez says he is head of VMware cloud applications overseas.

Call all private cloud clients

Delivering a complex server application preconfigured, repeatable cloud templates call on ISVs to focus on VMware's vast corporate customer base, which is called "blueprints" in VMware's words.

"This gives our company a very good private cloud solution," said Kent Mitchell, Zend Technologies Product Management executive, which is the commercial branch of the Open-source PHP scripting language. Zend builds the Zend Server PHP Web Application server template using Vfabric Creator Director and publishes it on cloud applications marketplace.

In itself, access to the VMware Private cloud is good, but it is better to provide customers with a variety of public cloud deployments, Kavitha Mariappan, who is riverbed Marvell's product marketing director, Their company's Stingray application delivery family has also been posted on cloud creator marketplace.

"Consolidation EC2 make it more compelling," Mariappan said, "and will no longer receive corporate restrictions." ”

VMware's public cloud partners use these VFAD application blueprints to deliver more compliant services and compete with Amazon EC2, says the company's Erez.

"Service providers are struggling to be themselves different from other IaaS vendors," he said, Vcloud partner programs support the VFAD Blueprint, which includes Bluelock, Iland, Savvis, NTT America and Techdemocracy.

Apply Release automation

In general, Vfabric creator developer into a basket of application release automation software, provided by vendors, including Urbancode, Nolio and Bmc,gartner vice president and renowned analyst Ronni Colville.

The Application release Automation tool brought by VMware has deeply inherited its performance analysis tools in the Vcenter Operations management stack, she said. By using this tool, developers can specify beforehand how the cloud template release is monitored and how to expand or shrink it based on resource consumption.

Combined with EC2 's support, Vfabric creator director's release delivered a strong message Colville said, "This is another step that tells us they are trying more, not just VMware stacks," she added.

To use the cloud template, the customer must run Vfad locally as part of VMware's Vcloud Suite 5.1. The price of the Vfabric creator Director for provisioning tool is 25 virtual machines 6250 USD, Vfabric creator Director for release The price of Don is 25 virtual machines 9375 USD.

VMware has also announced a new version of the VMware vcenter Operations Management Suite, consisting of performance management and monitoring tools from Integrien and EMC Ionix. The 5.6 release includes a new compliance control Panel, customized based on group views and hyperic for application layer monitoring via vfabric.

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