The VMware’s CTO Steve Herrod said in Q&A with SYS-CON’s Jeremy Geelan that “it is absolutely clear that virtualization is here to stay”. “In the future, we’ll look back at the non-virtualized compute models as we look back on the phonograph or on bulky CRTs. I believe we’re far from realizing the full benefits that virtualization can bring to datacenters, desktops, laptops, and mobile phones”, told Herrod SYS-Con’s journalist. “We have 3 major initiatives at VMware”, says Steve Herrod and particularizes:
Virtual Datacenter OS...
According to a “Virtualization Industry Survey“, a research work conducted and published by Virtualization.info among 1,050 respondents Hyper-V, the relatively new virtualization technology by Microsoft.
Question 6 of the survey is “What hardware virtualization platform do you implement?“. It is a closed question which offers respondents multiple choices to as answers. Among the options are 8 hypervisor choices – VMware ESX, Hyper-V, Xen Server, Virtual Iron, SuSe, RHEL, Oracle VM, KVM, as well an answer “None”.
Hyper-V receives 600 responses with 475 for EXS...
Only Microsoft doesn’t use Linux as a OS for its server virtualization platform. All other major producers of virtualization technologies use Linux Operating System.
VMware
VMWare hold almost 80% of virtualization market. Those who use their technology say that VMware provides great support, excellent training, and offers ver ystable virtualization products.
Virtuozzo
Virtuozzo and its predecessor OpenVZ are owned by Parallels. These are the worlds leading OS levelvirtualization technologies. While OpenVZ is free and anyone would use it to develop in-house virtualization solution, Virtuozzo...