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What is VI3?

VMwarePost by Mike DiPetrilloAdd comments

VI3 stands for VMware Infrastructure 3 by VMware. It’s the product suite that everyone seems to be talking about and what most of the other virtualization vendors out there compare themselves to. The problem I always find is that vendors with 1/15th of the feature set of VI3 compare their lesser equipped and often less expensive products to the robust and proven technology in VI3. To help people understand what exactly you’re getting out of VI3 there’s a couple of resources I’d like to point you to.

1) The VMware EMEA team has put together a great video that walks through a complete demonstration on VI3. Get the video here: http://www.vi3demo.com/.

 

 

2) If you’d like to know how VMware differs from the competition then you can always refer to the public “Why VMware” site.

After reviewing these two resources you should have a better understanding of why 100% of the Fortune 100 and 95% of the Fortune 1000 use VMware today.

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  • Good catch, Jason. I don't think that was on purpose. I caught a few other things when I watched the video this morning as well that I'm sending back to the team that created it.

    As for VMotion:

    - Without EVC (Enhanced VMotion Compatibility) you'll pretty much need the same family of processor (Intel 5300 to Intel 5300 or Intel 7100 to Intel 7100).

    - With EVC you'll pretty much just need the same make of CPU (Intel to Intel or AMD to AMD).

    I've been meaning to drill down on EVC and write a blog on it for people for some time. I think there's still a lot of confusion as to how it works and what it allows you to do.

    NOTE: The limitations above aren't just VMware limitations - it's for anyone that does live migration (everyone else in the x86 virtualization space except for Microsoft).
  • Like the video guys but didn't you fib just a bit on VMotion "not at all" requiring identical or similar hardware? We won't have that 100% even with EVC.

    Jas
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