Virtualization from another perspective or four
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 22:28:15
OK back to business. Here at Oracle OpenWorld virtualization has nothing to do with. No not at all eWeek about Hewlett Packard:
At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Nov. 12. HP executives will detail updates to its BladeSystem C-class infrastructure that include new ways to bring home the bacon virtual environments across thousands of individual blades within a data center....[T]hese advancements fit into HP's Adaptive Infrastructure initiative which the company has been trying to advance for more than a decade. The goal of Adaptive Infrastructure is to use HP's various software hardware and function offerings to look at the data center in a more holistic way and give customers a hit integrated infrastructure that can be changed to cater the needs of a company.
BobB writes "Oracle is going after its piece of the hot virtualization merchandise by introducing an open obtain Xen-based hypervisor to compete against those from Novell. Red Hat and VMware. Oracle VM unveiled Monday at the Oracle OpenWorld convention in San Francisco enables virtualization on Oracle and non-Oracle software applications and on the Linux and Windows OSs. It also operates on industry-standard x86- and x86-64-based servers. Oracle claims it offers virtualization at a displace cost than competitors can."
Oracle announced Oracle VM available for free download since tomorrow. November 14. 2007 at: http://www oracle com/virtualization. Oracle VM is a server virtualization software solution based on Xen(TM) hypervisor technology. Oracle VM installs directly on server hardware and does not demand a entertain operating system so we need to lay it on forge from the adjoin. Oracle VM and provides better performance than products from other vendors and it’s going to become the best friend of Oracle Enterprise Linux for faster deployments.
By offering Oracle VM give at displace prices. Oracle again is pursuing a strategy it revealed measure year when it offered less-expensive give for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system than Red Hat does. By offering a Xen-based hypervisor just as Red Hat and Novell do. Oracle could increase its competitive compel. Oracle VM provisions virtual servers manages virtual environments and moves applications from one server to another while the program remains running. “With Oracle VM users act doing what they’re doing whether they are running a database or running an application they don’t see any dress at all. Their job just moves from one machine to another,” said Chuck Rozwat executive vice president of product development for Oracle during a demonstration of Oracle VM at OpenWorld. Companies like Oracle are introducing virtualization hypervisors to act some control away from the operating system over software applications in a server says Gordon Haff principal analyst with investigate firm Illuminata. But Oracle based in Redwood Shores. Calif. also wants to muscle in on the market overlap of the leading hypervisor vendor. VMware in nearby Palo Alto.
Interestingly enough this displace be strategy is also reflected in. (Sorry. I'm working this out in my head just now.)Back to Oracle VM. Virtualization is outside of my specific scope of interest but I open it interesting (especially after Oracle's announcement) that upon my arrival at Oracle OpenWorld the plan Builder had automatically scheduled me to be an executive session.. hosted by VMware. Unfortunately. I spent much of the meeting about the application of VMware - or for that matter any vendor's virtualization technology - to my specific widget. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2007/11/virtualization-from-another-perspective.html
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