[THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE

  • From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:47:35 +0000

I know shared storage is available in ESX, I have it and am using it now.

I didn't know Citrix had shared storage on XenServer, what are they using
for a filesystem?

Berny

2009/2/20 Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>

>  What do you mean?  Shared storage is available now with VMware ESX and
> XenServer.  Microsoft is slated to have shared cluster support in Win 2008
> R2.
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> Joe
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Berny Stapleton
> *Sent:* Friday, February 20, 2009 7:44 AM
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> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE
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> Oh one more thing, lets see who gets their finger out first to do shared
> storage out of the box. (Yes, I know RedHat has it with GFS, but I haven't
> exactly heard of a lot of people using it)
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> VMWare supports this now with their FS (VMFS) on EMC and NetApp.
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>  2009/2/20 Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Xen in different flavours can be gotten from anywhere. MS is giving it away
> with Windows 2003 R2, Xen is available in multiple Linux kernels and
> distributions. So effectively, yes, it is free now.
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> VMWare have given out ESXi for nothing, but it's the management tools that
> cost (VMotion etc)
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> If Citrix release all their management tools and everything else for
> nothing, then the problem for VMWare then becomes "What are you guys
> selling, and why should I buy it?". Mind you, that would effectively destroy
> the market.
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> Berny
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>  2009/2/20 Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> But essentially its free **now** isn't it – its free for servers if you're
> not going to do any management on them?
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> The hypervisor component is a mere bagatelle imo .. all the major players
> are looking to support the same image type – its essentially 'all cars run
> on petrol' –it's the management of the virtual services, the feeding and the
> watering of them for enterprise solutions – that's where the development and
> license cost is going to go ... as well as services obviously.
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Greg Reese
> *Sent:* 20 February 2009 12:39
> *To:* Thin
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> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE
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> Microsoft is going to love watching a price war.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>   Umm, I think EMC still own part of them, but they were seperated and
> floated.
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> > How come I get the feeling that VMWare is the next Novell!
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> I hadn't thought about that, but everyone seems to be rallying around Xen,
> and if VMWare don't drop their price, it could well be a right thrashing for
> them.
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> Berny
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> 2009/2/20 Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Vmware is still an emc company right?
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:57 PM, "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>   Not  a bad choice this week but after next week the rumors are strong
> that not only is Citrix going to give away the hypervisor, but also the
> Enterprise features such as Xen Motion and storage repositories. It will get
> very interesting, very quickly if this really happens!!
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> How come I get the feeling that VMWare is the next Novell!?!!?!  J
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]
> *On Behalf Of *Jan
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:24 PM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE
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> Wow... we recently bought VMware ESX for 7 servers. I'm wondering if that
> was a bad fiscal choice in light of this.
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> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Tim <timothylanderson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> *Error! Filename not specified.*
>      Free XenServer virtualization hypervisor helps Citrix, partners say
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> *Error! Filename not specified.*
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> By Colin Steele, Site Editor
> 19 Feb 2009 | SearchSystemsChannel.com
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> The server virtualization hypervisor wars are heating up. Citrix plans to
> give away XenServer 
> 5<http://citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=683148>-- its 
> Xen hypervisor, along with live migration, native Windows and Linux
> support and other advanced features -- for free.
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> Rest of article at....
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