Review: SWsoft Virtuozzo for Windows 3.5.1 - Conclusion
Friday, February 24, 2006
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SWsoft Virtuozzo for Windows 3.5.1 is deadly simple to install and manage, with extended virtual servers' centralized management features, and enhanced provisioning capabilities.
Anyway you should consider that OS partitioning is different from virtualization.
Virtuozzo is less flexible than any VMware or Microsoft virtualization software and you won't be able to consolidate different platforms, or migrate some of them when the new Microsoft codename Longhorn Server will come.
If you're going to approach Virtuozzo and work on Linux platforms you should really check the Virtuozzo open source project called OpenVZ.
And just in case you are asking yourself: yes, it can be installed inside a virtual machine provided by virtualization platforms like VMware o Microsoft.
SWsoft Virtuozzo for Windows 3.5.1 is licensed per processor with a price of 1000 Euros per CPU, while the Management Console costs 1000 Euros per seat with an unlimited servers management capability.
SWsoft offers an online Return on Investment (ROI) calculator to better evaluate impact of Virtuozzo adoption on company budget.
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Table of Contents
- Introducing Virtuozzo
- Installation
- VPSs creation and modification
- Management
- Backup
- Security
- Physical to Virtual (P2V) migration
- Conclusion
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In your opinion, in what circumstances -- which apps, which deployment configurations -- does it make sense to use SWsoft vs a full machine virtualization a la VMware?
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John Troyer, at Friday, February 24, 2006 5:42:00 AM
One similar solution is linux vserver (www.linux-vserver.org) which we are using and is quite good.
John Troyer: it is very useful for separating services (security, package/service dependencies). In case of "linux in linux" this approach is much more resource friendly.
bye,
attila
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Anonymous, at Friday, February 24, 2006 9:13:00 AM
John,
thank you for commenting!
I believe the biggest point is performances: my review doesn't cover performances tests so we cannot tell if VMware-like virtualization layers degrade perfomances more or less than Virtuozzo.
Another point is price: while is true that VMware is going to released "Server" for free, it doesn't provide a P2V solution at a cheap price as Virtuozzo actually does.
Finally I expect some users could find Virtuozzo way of creating VPS a bit easier than handling virtual hardware (even if I feel this a minor point of comparison).
I really would like to hear other readers opinion on this, so I forward this discussion on the virtualization.info Google Group.
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alessandro, at Monday, February 27, 2006 1:05:00 PM
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