SimDK

09Mar10

A few years ago, after writing my whitepaper on VMware Infrastructure (VI) plug-ins, I was fortunate enough to visit the VMware campus and meet several of their engineers. I mentioned to them that it would be nice to have a VMware Infrastructure simulator to develop against for when a full VMware installation was not available. […]

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Tags: emulation, hyper9, java, simdk, simulation, virtualization, xen

The OVM^2 Initiative

30Aug09

Some of you have been e-mailing me recently, asking why I’ve been so uncharacteristically silent these past few months. Well, I’m finally ready to do the big reveal, to pull the covers off what I’ve been working on all this time. I’m pleased to announce the Open Virtualization Management and Monitoring (OVM^2) Initiative. An ambitious […]

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Tags: akutz, citrix, hyper-v, jwbem, microsoft, ovm^2, uvapi, vangaea, virtualization, vmware, xen