Why (and how) VMware created

Why (and how) VMware created a new type of virtualization just for containers:

Media management and traditional virtualization providers - - that is for packaging applications as container mounted ABOUT hype in the last year, questions about what this technology was raised. Some have wondered: will kill containers VMs?

VMware responded with a resounding no issue at its annual conference in San Francisco last week. But officials say that the containers of the Company may benefit from a new kind of platform management. He built a new type of single container virtualization.

Container virtualization

There are half a decade, VMware has revolutionized the technology industry has helped the development of enterprise-class hypervisors place that ushered in the era of server virtualization.

Last week, the company unveiled an STI Photon project name redesigned conventional virtualization software. It is a popular derivative slightly ESX hypervisor company that was specifically designed to run application containers.

"Basically, it is always the foundation of virtualization," said Kit Colbert, vice president and CTO of VMware cloud native applications. Photon Colbert called "micro-display" with "enough" for the positive attributes characteristic of virtualization, while being packed in a lightweight design perfect for containers.

Photon project has two key elements. One is called photon machine - born ESX hypervisor software is installed directly on physical servers. Drops miniature virtual machines are placed in containers. It includes a guest operating system, the user can choose. Default photon machine comes with customized Linux distribution called VMware OS photon, which also has the container company designed to be easy to use.

The second important piece is the controller name of photons, which is a plan multi-tenant control that can handle tens, if not hundreds or thousands of cases photon machine. Photon controller Photon Machines available groups and ensure they have access to network resources and storage as needed.

The combination of photons and the machine controller Photon Create a template for a scale-out environment that has no single point of failure and exposes a single logical criterion API developers can write. In theory, traders can implement projects of photons, developers can write applications that run on it.

With Photon project will integrate several open source projects, Docker: as a container for runtime support and Google and Cloud Foundry Pivotil kubernetes for the implementation of senior management. (Photon manages supply infrastructure kubernetes CF manage application deployments.)

VMware is priceless for any platform in September, but will be available at the time this year in private beta.