Open Source Software For Sun xVM Server
Thursday, November 6, 2008 18:35Sun Microsystems Inc. have plan to publish the software code open source server virtualization own and will make a commercial version of the Sun xVM expected to be available next month. xVM Server can make virtualization Software Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating system on x86 hardware products from vendors such as Sun, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, DELL.
Steve Wilson, as Vice-President stated that Sun xVM strategy is focused on the operating system itself and the Sparc chipset. Sun has been doing server virtualization for some time, but most still focus on the platform own course.
xVM Server is now still in the Beta version, but the source code can be downloaded in. Commercial version offered with the support updates, patches, and is available with the October price of U.S. $500 for one physical server for one year. Sun has also launched a second version of xVM Ops Center is a management server to server physical and virtual servers. The new version is expected to facilitate setting a virtual machine, storage management and the use of live migrations xVM feature that allows a running application to move on a virtual server to a physical device other.




