Alex Danoyan, Novell

This session presents ZENworks Virtual Machine Manager which provides a cross-platform distributed virtual machine manager for Xen, VMware and Microsoft virtualization technologies. Learn about virtual machine creation, OS image management and virtual machine deployment to data center servers running SUSE Linux Enteprise Server (SLES 10) and other operating systems. We describe how System Virtualization (SVPC-V) model used in the implementation of Virtual Machine Manager, how SVPC-V model was extended for distributed Virtual Machine Builder and Virtual Machine Warehouse implementations. We discuss how CIM Statistical model used for health monitoring component of VMM.

Open Virtual Machine Format

Rene W. Schmidt, Vmware

The rapid adoption of virtual infrastructure has highlighted the need for a standard, portable model for the distribution of virtual machines between virtualization platforms. Packaging an application together with the operating system on which it is certified, into a virtual machine that can be easily transferred through test and development and into production as a pre-configured, pre-packaged unit with no external dependencies, is extremely attractive. Such pre-deployed, ready-to-run applications packaged as virtual machines (VMs) are called virtual appliances. In order to make this concept practical on a large scale, it is important that the industry adopts a vendor-neutral standard.

This session will deal with the challenges of a portable format, identify key industry initiatives towards this goal, and discuss the relevance of the portable format for an enterprise.