VMware and HP Team up for Virtualisation

December 16, 2008: VMware and HP have announced that they are expanding their strategic partnership to include the development of management software for manage mixed physical and virtual data centres.

The two say that the extended partnership will see them deliver integrated physical and virtual datacentre management and automation software solutions, standardised on various technologies within HP’s Business Technology Optimisation (BTO) software.

The due claim that these new solutions will provide greater management capabilities to the emerging concept of a virtual datacentre operating system (VDC-OS), and will expand on integrated software offerings earlier announced in the year that automate the management of heterogeneous environments.

To kick things off, VMware will work with HP to integrate HP BTO software with its vCenter Lab Manager, which provides self-service access to a library of pre-configured virtualised application environments that enable teams of users to check out systems on-demand while IT maintains administrative control.

Furthermore, VMware and HP will jointly develop virtualisation management offerings based on the HP BTO application and infrastructure discovery technologies to better manage VDC-OS environments.

A VDC-OS enables businesses to efficiently pool all types of hardware resources (including servers, storage and network) into an “internal enterprise cloud” that acts like a single, giant computer. The two say that a VDC-OS can also safely and automatically move workloads to external clouds when additional compute capacity is needed.

“Through an expanded co-development relationship with HP we would further strengthen the VDC-OS platform as the best place to run all enterprise applications,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president and general manager of VMware’s Server Business Unit.

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