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Wednesday, September 10. 2008

There were many reports about the announcement of xVM today. I won´t repeat all the stuff said about this suite of products. The blog of Steve Wilson is a good starting point for this and you will find a further introduction to the topic on the website of Sun. Furthermore as we will opensource xVM Server, the website openvxm.org will be a very important one in the future of xVM Server and xVM Virtualbox

But i want to link to an article i wrote one year ago about xVM. My opinion is still valid. The advantages of xVM are systemic ones ... xVM is just a hypervisor ...but with Solaris it get very special strengths: xVM isn´t just Xen

When you ask "Why should I use xVM Server" the answer is "Because of Solaris". And with xVM OpCenter we have a really good management interface for it, too. (This is important, as most people don´t care for the VMware hypervisor for example but they really like the GUI.)

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Oracle at 22:15 | Comments (3)

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Well, at the moment, xVM is still not a competitor to ESX.

I still don't get Sun's strategy. With VirtualBox they have a second hypervisor. From a customer perspective I don't know which product is the right one to use.

#1 Ihsan+Dogan (Homepage) on 2008-09-12 22:53

Could you elaborate on the things missing in xVM to be a competitor to xVM?

#1.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-09-13 07:54

The tools. For example the VmWare Infrastructure Client can mount the clients CD Drive the VM. Or the VmWare converter.

#2 Ihsan+Dogan (Homepage) on 2008-09-13 09:18

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