| VMWare Leaves Microsoft Behind With New Virtualisation Technology |
| Tuesday, 06 June 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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VMWare and its open source rival Xen already have profucts in the market based on hypervisor technology, which allow servers to run multiple operating systems in virtual machines on single servers, which maximises usage of normally underutitilised servers. Microsoft is not planning to have hypervisor technology on the market for at least another year. According to VMWare, the first generation of virtualization for industry-standard systems provided server partitioning through a hypervisor or hosted architecture. The second generation added management, capacity planning, a physical to virtual assistant and other tools for consolidating production servers. The third generation, VMware Infrastructure 3, enables systems infrastructure capabilities for entire farms of servers and storage, independent of the application/operating system workloads and of the underlying hardware. VMware Infrastructure 3 incorporates four new products -- VMware VMFS, a next generation Distributed File System; VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS); VMware High Availability (HA); and VMware Consolidated Backup. The suite is designed to deliver comprehensive virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability and operational automation capabilities in an integrated offering. With VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware claims to be ushering in a new era for data centers where industry-standard infrastructure farms can be managed as a shared utility and dynamically allocated to different business units or projects. New capacity can be added or removed based on business demand. Applications can be migrated automatically to available hardware resources. Customers will be able to automate their infrastructure and deploy virtualization pervasively across their entire environment. Read on here.
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