One surprising thing in it that Amazon Web Services has to run VMware virtualization software in their own cloud data centers is the way ... a cloud as it seems.
Amazon collects masses of computers "bare metal", which, unlike other AWS servers, lack of virtualization. This is because the VMware software is built using its own flavor of virtualization and that, in turn, AWS had to offer VMware servers a phalanx stripped of Xen virtualization, which runs the rest of Amazon computers, known collectively Such as Elastic Compute Cloud, the EC2.
AWS as product manager Matt Wood explained to Fortune in November:
We have partnered with VMware to bring its existing software stack to EC2. Customers told us they wanted AWS benefits and VMware benefits, but did not want to run our hypervisor, so they worked on a new EC2 part that allows VMware to run natively on EC2.
Think of VMware as offering a sandwich with peanut butter and jelly using your customers' bread. Now the customer wants to use the Amazon Pan, except the bread Amazon offers comes with a feature peanut butter. Following this analogy, Amazon has agreed to demold the peanut butter many loaves so VMware can make sandwiches using its own PB formulation and in The bread of Amazon.
In theory, this means that all major commercial customers - and there are many - who use VMware (VMW, -0.45%) to manage their own data centers can more easily move their workloads to AWS data centers using the cloud of VMware for the AWS product. This is an interesting proposal for companies that just want to continue running their virtualized applications as it is, rather than re-jiggering to run on Amazon infrastructure.
Virtualization, which allows a set of hardware to run more than one set of tasks is a key element of cloud computing, so bare metal is considered a kind of Uncloudy.
When this bare metal job was announced in October, it was painted as a single VMware option. But there are potentially other great uses for these servers without AWS Xen. Bare metal, for example, tends to be faster than virtualized hardware for applications such as databases that send large amounts of data in and out of disk storage.
"There is also a growing trend to put the bare metal virtualization containers to save on licensing costs and overheads, but it is usually for the private cloud," said Sebastian Stadil, CEO of a Scalr management company Cloud. Containers are a modern means that software developers to package applications that can run almost anywhere.
Bare metal is also useful for older applications, but it remains important that it can not be virtualized, for various reasons, he points out. Obviously, others saw opportunities. IBM (IBM, + 0.25%) and Rackspace provide the bare metal with other options in the more densely virtualized cloud.
When asked if in November AWS had other potential uses for these bare metal servers, Madera responded that there was "nothing to announce at this time."
Opinion is mixed among observers if the AWS company parlay this bare metal capability beyond VMware or only use it as a way to attract VMware data centers and powerful Amazon customers as some suspect, try to move them completely Amazon Under VMware).
"It would be reasonable to assume that once these workloads arrive at AWS, it is interesting to start rearchitecturer some (perhaps all a day) to run natively on the AWS infrastructure without the overhead of a VMware license declares Paul Miller , Senior analyst at Forrester Research.
Sateesh Narahari, vice president of Managed Methods Products, a cloud security company, also views these instances of bare metal VMware "as a transitory state toward the full cloud."
It is possible that even AWS executive does not know what will happen. The giant cloud is nothing if it is not pragmatic. If Amazon (AMZN, -0.89%) sees VMware's unique opportunity for the AWS cloud materializes in the middle of 2017, it will be built.
"If AWS can run the economy and infrastructure management - and tend to be good at this - it seems likely that we will see an AWS offers generic bare metal sooner rather than later," said Miller Forrester.
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