Bluebear and Kodiak

Friday, August 29, 2008 in Virtualization | 5 comments

I guess I’m a little behind the times here, but a little company named Bluebear is in the process of developing a cutting-edge cross-hypervisor management tool named Kodiak.

Kodiak is in private beta right now, so we can’t test it ourselves to see what it looks like. Based on the screenshots available on the website, and through what I’ve seen in talking with one of the developers in the #vmware channel on IRC, it’s pretty awesome. And the best feature? It’s cross-platform! Written in Adobe AIR, it runs on Windows, Linux, and (my personal favorite) Mac OS X. In addition to being cross-platform, it’s also intended to be hypervisor-neutral, managing VMware, Xen, and Hyper-V. Only VMware support is present right now, but support for the others is coming.

If Kodiak ends up being as good as it looks like it will be, this will be awesome tool. As a VM admin, you’ll want to stay on top of the development of this tool.

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Robin Wauters

Hey Scott, we discovered the company last July and wrote up the following: http://virtualization.com/news/2008/07/16/bluebear-koala-kodiak/

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 4:24 pm

slowe

Robin,

Yes, your site was one of several sites that mentioned Bluebear, which is why I didn’t think I was really breaking anything unusual or unknown here. Apparently, my post has attracted quite a bit of attention.

To be honest, I’m surprised that Bluebear has stayed “under the radar” for so long.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Dictator Bear

It appears our bears have escaped from their cage! They tend to be a little… uhhh… unrestrained, so let me add/clarify a few notable points:

1. Kodiak is 100% free for personal/individual use (and *always* will be)

2. Kodiak is not yet ‘open-source’, however, we are working toward this.

3. For now, In lieu of a fully open code base, we’ll be releasing an SDK; so you may still bend Kodiak to your will.

4. Come see bluebear at VMworld 2008, we are opening Kodiak’s private beta to ALL VMworld attendees. We’ll also be launching Koala’s big brother: Grizzly!
5. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAWRRR!