VMware
I'm surprised to see VMware at the same level as EMCII what with them being EMCII's bitch and all. There can be no other reason why the steaming pile that is SSO was added to the product after all..
EMC has made a telling change to its brand.The company's full name, “EMC2”, is now the master brand for Pivotal, VMware and EMC II. Here's a slide that shows the distinction. New EMC branding The new scheme seemingly means EMC, the purveyor of storage hardware and associated software, is now called “EMC Information …
Have to agree here. SSO is garbage. Do better, VMware.
Why can't the vCenter Appliance simply scale up to dozens of hosts and hundreds of virtual machines? The whole point of this is that things should be simple and just plug in to each other, like any good relationship. Make it simple, keep it simple. Otherwise, you know, Hyper-V is pretty simple (okay System Center can be a nightmare, but SCVMM isn't required to make a cluster work).