Ravello unravels mystery of ESXi on AWS, Google

Ravello Systems, a purveyor of cloud hypervisors, has created a way to run VMware's ESXi in clouds from Amazon Web Services or Google. Does that sound nutty given that VMware itself and plenty of other cloud/managed services providers will happily give you a Virtzilla environment? Yes and no. Yes, because it seems like rather …

[MacroRodent]

wheels within wheels within...

If I understood correctly, the result would be having your code running inside 3 layers of virtualization, because AWS & Google also run their clients virtualized. Surely there must be a cost in performance or reliability?

[RichardMunro]

Regarding "No because vCloud Air and VMware cloud partners aren't really set up to do servers-by-the-hour." this is not correct - vCloud Air allows you 'per minute' metering with the vCloud Air OnDemand service.

[Simon Sharwood, Reg APAC Editor]

I should clarify: they're set up to do it. But it's not what VMware's selling. They're selling hybrid cloud in which, should you choose, you can pay by the minute. I'll tidy up the story to reflect that.