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07 Nov 2006
XenSource has launched a beta of its XenEnterprise 3.1 application, offering what it claims is a cheaper alternative to VMware's virtualisation software.
XenEnterprise 3.1 is the first version of XenSource's application that allows enterprises to run Windows in virtual compartments. The company released a version last August which supported only Linux operating systems.
"We now have all the features of VMware, but at only 20 per cent of the cost, " John Bara, vice president of marketing at XenSource, told vnunet.com.
Bara claimed that the software offers superior performance over VMware and other Xen implementations because of the support for acceleration technologies built into Intel and AMD chips as well as a set of proprietary acceleration technologies.
"[Xensource] is positioning ifself between the full flagged VMware Infrastructure product and the freebie hosted versions of VMware Server and Microsoft Virtual Server," Gordon Haff, a principal IT advisor with analyst firm Illuminata, told vnunet.com.
XenSource offers a commercial implementation of the open source Xen technology developed at the University of Cambridge.
Several operating system vendors are building in support for the technology, including Sun Microsystems and Red Hat.
Microsoft has promised to add support for the technology in its forthcoming version of Windows Server codenamed 'Longhorn'.
Novell launched its Xen-enabled SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 last summer.
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all the features of VMware?
HA. "We now have all the features of VMware, but at only 20 per cent of the cost." Maybe that's because they have 20% of the features.
Posted by: Roberts 07 Nov 2006
Does it do Vmotion, DRS or HA?
Does Xen support a high availability environment? Does it allow seemless movement of VMs from one physical machine to another without user interruption? If it doesn't, then it is no competition to VMware's ESX software. And if it doesn't do that, then its actually more expensive because you'd be comparing it more to the FREE VMware Server that can be run on top of Linux as well. And please, don't say that Xen has "shipped" the product when it is only in Beta!!
Posted by: Steve 07 Nov 2006