Thank you guys! This is going to be another world for me. The latest months I worked an insane number of hours per day in order to do both Redis and my real work. Now I'll have more hours for Redis, in an environment where I'm more supported full of skilled techs, and not doing other works.
This is great news. I love people getting to work on something they love and it being open source. I'd rather use a OSS product made by VMWare than Oracle any day.
An ex employee of mine went to work for vmware and he was very positive about working there, if his experience is any guide then I'm sure you'll enjoy them. As you already wrote they're a technology company and they take their tech very serious.
So far their track record has been very impressive and they've successfully managed to hold their own against MS, something that few thought was possible.
What exactly does VMware do? Is it like VirtualBox but better ? Closed source? Hardware solutions? (Congratz to antirez!)
EDIT: Looks like they do a VirtualBox type normal host + guest servers as well as a bare metal host setup. They have multiple open and close source versions. None of this is clear on their website which is very enterprise and unnecessarily complicated.
Jackass? Don't be obnoxious. I thought exactly the same thing. How can someone be clued-in enough to be here at Hacker News - for over a year, no less - and not know VMWare!? It's like not having heard of Cisco or HP. How can you not have heard of them ..!?
I've heard of them and I have a vague idea of what their product does (as indicated by my asking of how it compares to VirtualBox). In any case how would one answer that kind of question? "Because I'm 15 years old", "Because I'm not as cool as you". Anyway. Sorry about the jackass comment. Just thought you were one but I'm being too sensitive ;)
If you're only 15, then my heartfelt apologies, I have a subconscious mental image of HN visitors as being people that are somehow active in the IT industry for a while, and not knowing about VMware would be unthinkable in that case.
Once again, sorry about that.
Regarding the 'jackass' bit, beware of thinking everybody on this forum is 15 years old, that street works two ways and bans here are swift and pretty permanent.
HN is a forum unlike most others and one of the reasons for that is that people that can't control their use of language get killed.
I'm not actually 15 years old. I'm 24 this week. I'm from Iceland and my english is not cleansed with bleach. I don't work in IT which is why I was asking for the hacker's explanation of VMware.
Thinks for the kid advice though. I'm having one next week.
Don't apologise. The expectation here is that this is a community of adults and your comments were well within those bounds.
Jokull won't be calling anyone a jackass again anytime soon, I hope, and I have realised anew that people without my lengthy background in IT might not worship the same totems I do. Interesting. I keep forgetting that.
Chalk it up to experience, comrades, and carry on ...
To answer your original question anyway: yes your right it's kind of like Virtual box - but they do specialty products. Data center virtualisation for example.
We use the VMWare workstation product and it's a really solid piece of kit (as others have said; they know their technology)
I'm interested in testing deployments locally with some virtualization. Currently I've been looking at doing this with a Python library against VirtualBox. Would I perhaps be better off doing this with a free variant of VMWare? (currently looking at http://github.com/cloudkick/libcloud/blob/master/libcloud/dr...) - are vCloud and workstation solutions mutually exclusive products? Sorry for questionnaire dump!
Im not sure if that works with VMWare workstation or not - I cant see anything obvious which says yea or nay.
We have an in-house cloud but the only virualisation we use is for the management nodes - for which we use Virtual box (everything else is just commodity servers).
Or in other words: I've only ever work with VMWare workstation on individual mounted disks. With that said it works solidly for pretty much and disk/OS setup you can throw at it. Of the 100's of computers we process monthly it handles 99.99% without a hiccup.
