[tsc] Responses to Public Comments

Chris Kantarjiev chris.kantarjiev at oracle.com
Fri Apr 20 17:15:31 CDT 2007


Here's another response.  Same drill as Dave's - object by the 25th.

The comment is here:

https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/topc4012

And reads:

> I absolutely agree that our management/deployment story must handle 
> virtualized resources. Perhaps if we added 'management' to the bullet? And
> moved it down the list a bit...
 >
> Maguire_Tom at emc.com wrote:
>> Page 3 (characteristics and goals) Infrastructure Virtualization It may be
>> a characteristic of Grids (but not a necessary one). I don't think it is a
>> goal either (at least w.r.t. Infrastructure). I would remove that one.
>> Further virtualization work is not being done (infrastructure-wise) in OGF,
>> storage, network and server virtualization are all be defined, spec'd and
>> implemented elsewhere.
> 
> I put that in there, because the experience at Oracle is that virtualization
> of resources is a big part of the grid story expected and experienced by our 
> customers. My intention there was mostly to try to recapture a bit of
> mindshare for OGF.
> 
> That said, I agree that we have no business defining/spec'ing/ implementing 
> virtualization, but our deployment/management strategy must (I assert)
> include an understanding of managing virtualized resources.

We will change the bullet to "Management of Virtualized Infrastructure".



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