BMC has over 13K VMs up from less than 4K VMs since 2008. They have used CLM to analyze the churn rate on their VMs. They typically allow 180 day life cycle on their VMs that can be extended through an approval process.
They are using a multi-tenant style management process along with chargeback models to proved virtualizattion on the “cheap.”
VMware liason Eddie Blackwell hints that there will be big news at VMworld. More news to come at the next VMUG post VMworld. Cloud cloud cloud? Look to more Labs at VMworld. He says to start looking at the news about Project Serengeti.
DynamicOps can be a cohesive glue between types of various cloud providers. This will eventually link in with how the Nicira acquistion may be used to provide a method to mesh these various products. There will be some overlaps in DynamicOps and vCD until the product features/code are merged.
VMworld will be huge! BIG BIG announcements!!! Plus the have this old guy Bon Jovi at some tiny little party.
Next up is EMC BC/DR product group with an Avamar product presentation.
VM level deduplication in Avamar is between 96% for image level backup and up to 99% for guest level backups. They offer bare metal recovery with all VM backups. With Image level it uses VMware Changed Block Tracking to reduce backup times. Files can be restored from either Image Level or Guest based backups for both Windows and Linux guests.
Now onto the Movie! We had the opportunity to see The Bourne Legacy. I’ll let you read those reviews elsewhere.