Ops Center Wraps Up Open World

Well, Oracle Open World has wrapped up.  It was (in the immortal words of Bill & Ted) Most Excellent!  The show was truly massive, spilling out of Moscone Center and onto Howard street (see pic below).

Of course, Ops Center had a demo area where we got to show of the new 2.5 release to tons of interested customers.  Here you can see Steve Stelting (Ops Center engineer) demoing the new stuff.

Also, Mike Wookey and Tony Tomarchio did a great presentation on Ops Center 2.5.  You can download a PDF of their slides here.  Too bad we didn't get to record all the demos (they took up much of the session), but you can see lots of demos here. 

Of course there were other surprises too.  A visit from the Governator and the Toxic Twins put a real cap on the experience! 

Posted at 10:30AM Oct 16, 2009 by Stephen Wilson in DataCenter  |  Comments[3]

Planning for Oracle Open World

I'm starting to plan for Oracle Open World, which starts this Sunday.  I find that I'm actually getting kind of excited.  With JavaOne (Sun's biggest show) I always know what to expect, and I pretty much knew all about the technologies that interested me.  This is not so with Oracle Open World.  It's massive, and there is so much new stuff to learn!

I spent part of the day yesterday scouring the program to find all the sessions that interested me.  There were really too many to possibly attend (several times there were two sessions at exactly the same time I wanted to attend).  Below you'll find my personal list of sessions I'm going to try to go to.  I may try to hit a few more, and may miss some of these, but this is my personal target this.  I hope to see some of you at these too.  It should be a blast.

Posted at 05:00AM Oct 06, 2009 by Stephen Wilson in DataCenter  | 

Platespin and Ops Center

Platespin is one of the companies that most effectively rode the first wave of virtualization mania.  It became the most popular Physical to Virtual (p2v) solution for VMware and has since branched out from there into other areas.  Then, last year Platespin was acquired by Novell.  Platespin continues to operate as a fairly autonomous division of Novell and to be hugely popular.

Back in July of this year, it was announced that Platespin's flagship product Migrate would support automated p2v migrations for bare metal Solaris 10 instances into Solaris Containers.  This is a huge boon to Solaris customers interested in consolidating multiple, older hardware systems onto a more modern Sun server.  Now they can p2v their Solaris workloads using exactly the same well-loved user interface they use to consolidate Windows and Linux work-loads onto VMware.

The timing of this release from Platespin couldn't have been better for Ops Center customers.  We've been certifying our recently announced Solaris Container management capabilities with Containers created by Platespin, and are really excited about the potential.  Just to give you a taste of what the combination can do I've put two screenshots below.  The first shows the Platespin interface migrating a system into a Container.  The second shows Ops Center managing the zone after discovering it and adding to it's managed asset list.

Posted at 05:00AM Oct 05, 2009 by Stephen Wilson in DataCenter  | 

The Upgraded Ops Center Info Exchange

As we've upgraded Ops Center, our Information Exchange for docs and training has also been upgraded.  The info exchange includes links to training and docs.  Click on the image below to check it out.

Posted at 11:29AM Oct 01, 2009 by Stephen Wilson in DataCenter  |