ESXi Chronicles

Recently, IBM announced a new Cloud Computing offering called CloudBurst.  From the product page:

IBM CloudBurst is a complete IBM Service Management package of hardware, software and services, which simplifies your cloud computing acquisition and deployment.

This blog entry from the ibm.com Community describes the software used to provide the resource abstraction layer:

Cloud Software Configuration:
•IBM CloudBurst service management pack
•IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager v7.1
•IBM Tivoli Monitoring v6.2.1
•IBM Systems Director 6.1.1 with Active Energy Manager; IBM ToolsCenter 1.0; IBM DS Storage Manager for DS4000 v10.36; LSI SMI-S provider for DS3400
•VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 U4; VMware ESXi 3.5 U4 hypervisor

What's interesting to note is that the solution is based on the prior release of ESXi, version 3.5  With all the enhancements that have been added in ESXi 4 (which we'll talk about in upcoming blog postings), there should be no doubt that ESXi is the ideal architecture for building clouds of any size -- as many of our customers are already doing today.

The ESX Team