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

This is all very interesting. What we are finding with our clients is that
they are very interested in talking about XEN. When we get deep into it, it
tends to reinforce the decision to go with VMWare!  The reason is that XEN
is a great hypervisor and the free product is very attractive offering.
However, the reality is that VMWare has much better management features. So
XEN has a place and it will grow over time and take over some of the VMWare
market. For now, it is a nice offering that still needs a lot of work. It
appears to be built on a better foundation and should prove to formidable in
time.

 

I think Microsoft Hyper-V will very much be the same thing on the low end.
Hyper-V will be cheap and attractive, but I think once you get into it you
are going want to move up to at least XEN if not VMWare..

 

 

Steve Greenberg

Thin Client Computing

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Scottsdale, AZ 85266

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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 Service


March 20, 2008 



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

 <http://www.vmware.com/> VMware CTO
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/030608-vmware-cto.html> Stephen
Herrod recently predicted that "within a few years, all servers will come
virtualization-enabled." A slimmed-down version of VMware's hypervisor will
begin shipping
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/022608-embedded-virtualization-set-to
-lure.html> soon on HP,
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/dell.html> Dell,
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/ibm.html> IBM, Fujitsu, and
Siemens servers. Now Citrix -- which bought
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/081507-citrix-xensource-desktop-serve
r-virtualization.html> XenSource 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,
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/dell.html> Dell, 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  <http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/apple.html>
Mac, 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
<http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/> 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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