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Sun launches two virtualisatieproducten: a hypervisor and management software. The two products are expected just next year. The hypervisor am called Server Sun xVM and has been based for the x86-platform on Xen, the open source hypervisor. For SPARC, LDOM (Logical Domain Management) will Server as a basis. The management software am called xVM Ops Center and let to manage users closed round their physical and virtual surroundings.

The hypervisor will single Sun-technologies now also available make for guest-operating systems as Windows. As predictive self-healing will and the Zettabyte truce system in the hypervisor sit. The beheertool, xVM Ops Center, will as source to manage the physical as the virtual surroundings.

It is not yet clear how Sun this virtualisatiestack goes vermarketen, but it is according to men with Sun not incredibly that the virtualisatiesoftware open source becomes.

Standaardisering yet far to seek

With xVM Server comes there yet a hypervisor by in the x86-virtualisatiewereld, next to that of VMware, Viridian of Microsoft and Xen of Xensource, that now by Citrix hears. Thus meanwhile the hypervisors gradually a commodity become, grows also the diversity. The interest of management software grows thus proportionally with. “Virtualisatie to let work, must be able to do you good at provisioning,” says Martin Hingley, IDC-analyst about this. That means that you with beheertools the workload of your servers must be able to divide about the machines.

Standardization appears with yet an additional hypervisor further off then ever. “In the reality will we see that it by itself a child of standard grows,” say Hans of the Pant, CTO of the Technology Solutions Group of HP.”,. On this moment, that is on Intel and AMD-hardware with Linux and Windows the software of VMware. It is the market leader and the de facto standard.” Yet finds of the Pant it not awful that it more choice comes. “It will usefully itsstandard to have, but homogeneous surroundings come now once not many furrow.”

According to of the Pant we must not pin down us too hard on the present developments. “Virtualisatie is its form yet seeking. It can be that we by an entire other form of IT come out then we now know. The first cars were couch also with a motor. This are the middle ages of the virtualisatie, but we can source say that we included were.”