[THIN] Article: Citrix has embedded its XenServer hypervisor into HP's ProLiant servers

An article recently posted on Network World is agog with strange
statements... Citrix in a good position AGAINST Microsot AND VMWare... Help
me Obi Wan Kenobi you are my only hope.  LOL

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Citrix, HP team up on virtualization-enabled servers Citrix has embedded its
XenServer hypervisor into HP's ProLiant servers
By Jon Brodkin, Network World, IDG News ServiceMarch 20, 2008

Citrix 
Systems<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/021208-citrix-xensource.html>has
embedded its XenServer hypervisor into
HP' <http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/hp.html>s ProLiant servers,
accelerating a trend in which virtualization software increasingly is
becoming just another part of the hardware, the company said Thursday.

VMware <http://www.vmware.com/> CTO Stephen
Herrod<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/030608-vmware-cto.html>recently
predicted that "within a few years, all servers will come
virtualization-enabled." A slimmed-down version of VMware's hypervisor will
begin shipping 
soon<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/022608-embedded-virtualization-set-to-lure.html>on
HP,
Dell <http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/dell.html>,
IBM<http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/ibm.html>,
Fujitsu, and Siemens servers. Now Citrix -- which bought
XenSource<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/081507-citrix-xensource-desktop-server-virtualization.html>last
year in a bid to challenge VMware's virtualization market supremacy --
says 10 HP ProLiant servers will ship with the XenServer hypervisor by March
31.

The HP deal is the high point in XenSource's history, says Simon Crosby, who
founded XenSource and is now CTO of Citrix's virtualization division. "It's
really the high point in our whole development to date," he says. "When we
founded the company, we always wanted the hypervisor to be in hardware."
Citrix virtualization technology will eventually be embedded on
Lenovo, Dell<http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/dell.html>,
and NEC servers as well, but the integration with HP is the most extensive
and a result of nine months of development, he says.

The HP servers, known as Citrix XenServer HP Select Edition, will have all
the same features as a standalone hypervisor but will be easier to install
and use, Crosby says. Using HP management tools, the interface will have the
simplicity of the Mac<http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/apple.html>,
he says. The goal is to make the virtualization software practically
invisible. "When you turn the thing on, you basically don't even see us," he
says.

Administrators will be able to see the consoles for all virtual machines at
once and easily zoom in on any of them. Customers can upgrade with a license
key change to access more powerful features that make it easier to provision
virtual and physical servers.

Citrix already is in a good position against
Microsoft<http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/>in terms of
technology, says Jeffrey Gaggin, an enterprise software analyst
for Avian Securities. Microsoft's upcoming Hyper-V lacks key features like
live migration; the ability to instantly move virtual machines from one
physical server to another; and hot-add, the ability to add memory to a
server while it's running, Gaggin writes in a research note released
Thursday.

The HP deal now improves Citrix's position against VMware, Gaggin writes.
"We think this announcement should raise the awareness of Citrix XenServer
from a marketing aspect and put them more on par with VMware from a
technology stand-point," he states.


-- 
Jim Kenzig
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
http://www.thinhelp.com
Citrix Technology Professional
CEO The Kenzig Group
http://www.kenzig.com
Blog: http://www.techblink.com

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