EMC wasn’t the first vendor to make a vCenter plugin – but I would argue that our current generation (5th generation) is one of the most simple, most robust, and most feature rich plugins on the market (shout out to Andrew Kutz and the ESG team!). The latest version has provisioning with rich roles based authentication, visibility, extend/snap/compress/clone, performance… heck even VFCache integration.
While we want to embed as much functionality in to VAAI, VASA, and natively in vSphere in other ways – the extensibilty of vCenter helps us enable and expose functionality to the VMware admin faster than VMware’s native cycle – and inherently, the APIs VMware uses “harmonize” the vendor community (ergo are lowest common denominator).
We’ve been working with VMware as the new vSphere Web Client will require a full re-write of the plugin – and this gives us an opportunity to further simplify.
At VMworld 2012 we’re talking about the next generation of this plugin based on Flex – and it is nice, sweet and simple. Check it out in the prototype demo below:
You can download a high-rez version of the demo here in MP4 format and WMV format.
BTW – it will take some time to complete the new Flex-based VSI plugin with our desired quality for an EMC supported feature – expect to see it GA not before the end of 2012 – feedback welcome on what you like/don’t like about VSI – there’s an opportunity to shift what we deliver to you!
Awesome demo Chad! Love the new UI, both vSphere and VSI!
Posted by: CookJason | August 30, 2012 at 10:16 AM
@Jason - glad you dig it amigo!
Posted by: Chad Sakac | September 07, 2012 at 01:20 PM