VMware VCloud Request manager which is launching tomorrow i.e. Oct 12, is very much adding the functionality which was missing in VCloud Director 1.0 and enables you to take control of vCloud Director based Private Clouds, via following
1. Adding sophisticated approval workflows to provisioning requests.
2. Automatically tracking software license usage as vApps are commissioned and decommissioned, and
3. Enforcing standardized settings on vCloud Director “Organizations” through the use of policies called “Blueprints”.
It is targeted to Enterprises building private cloud based on Vcloud director and enables self service provisioning and tracking 3rd party software licensing usage. Project Sydney runs on win2k8 64bit system with oracle 10g/11g and uses MS Active Directory. It will be available for public in Q4 2010. I don't see it much different from what SCVMM self service portal 2.0 [Microsoft Private cloud solution] provides already today.
For more details stay tuned to VMware website tomorrow and very soon product will be available for testing. Happy cloud computing till then.
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