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VMware Infrastructure 3.5 Jun 1, 2008 VMware offers ESX Server and VirtualCenter together under the name of VMware Infrastructure, but in the last couple of years the package was vastly enriched with additional modules and today VI 3.5 is able to offer as much features as a sophisticated physical datacenter. Compared to VI 3.0, this version introduces a massive amount of improvements which boost the overall products’ value. These changes alone would be enough to fill an entire review, but virtualization.info reviewed the entire product not considering it as an upgrade. Therefore this document targets the potential customers as well as the experienced users.
SWsoft Virtuozzo 3.5.1 (Windows) Feb 26, 2006 Virtualization technologies provided by VMware, Microsoft, XenSource, Serenity and Parallels aren't the only available solution for server consolidation, fast provisioning and so on. A different approach, usually called operating system (OS) partitioning, can achieve same results and actually seems to be very appreciated by many customers. OS partitioning is considerably different from virtualization. In a virtualization solution we have virtual machines, insulated, empty boxes with a dedicated set of virtual hardware devices (from hard disks to memories), ready to sustain various operating systems, even different from the one installed on real, physical hardware.