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Red Hat CEO hints at the future of KVM virtualization

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:52:00 -0600

Since months now a serious number of companies and open source contributors is looking at Red Hat to understand its new virtualization strategy.

The company took a major step in June when it thrown out of window years of efforts on Xen to fully replace it with KVM.
Just two months after, Red Hat acquired Qumranet, the company that started KVM, that maintains it, that managed to inject it into the Linux kernel, and that sells a very interesting VDI solution.

What Red Hat wants to do now with KVM and Qumranet (somebody hopes that their highly performing VDI protocol SPICE will be open sourced) is critical to understand what chances has Linux to impose itself as a valuable virtualization platforms against the popular hypervisors ESX (offered by VMware) and Xen (offered by every other vendor except Microsoft).

Some hints of the new strategy surface in a recent interview that InformationWeek arranged with Jim Whitehurst, the Red Hat CEO:

Q: What is Red Hat's strategy with virtualization?

A: …We'll be offering both server and desktop virtualization. The first use-case of server consolidation is just the tip of the iceberg. There's a long-term use for grids of servers running large numbers of desktops. We plan to be the leading virtualization vendor based on the server operating system…

Q: What about cloud computing?

A: Clouds will run Linux.

It’s clear that Red Hat sees in KVM a huge opportunity to differentiate from Citrix, Virtual Iron, Oracle and its worst competitor Novell.
Now the company has to to execute in a much better way that how it did with Xen.

CA works with VMware to enrich Stage Manager

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:28:53 -0600

So far the CA activity in the virtualization space has been more than silent.
Yes, the company issued many press announcements stating that it’s reworking many of its products to support virtualization, but the software giant never took major steps to become a virtualization leader like almost every other major IT player did in the last two years.

Hiring the former co-founder of Virtugo (a virtualization startup that mysteriously disappeared shortly after its merge with uXcomm), Chris Dickson, as Vice President didn’t seem to help much.

Now things may change as CA just made a joint announcement with VMware, revealing that its Data Center Automation Manager is integrated with VMware vCenter and will interoperate with Stage Manager.
Additionally, VMware vCenter capabilities are integrated into the CA Advanced Systems Management (ASM), where the VMware’s Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) technology can merge with the CA’s Dynamic Resource Brokering (DRB), and together they can possibly start a fantastic virtualization management sprawl.

The announcement seems to imply that these are just the first steps of a much more tighten relationship. We’ll see for how long CA will be happy to play this role in the virtualization industry.

Whitepaper: Performance of AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI)

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:59:05 -0600

In September 2007 AMD was the first on the market to introduce an implementation of the much awaited nested page tables technology that promises unprecedented performance for virtualization platforms: the Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI).

As every virtualization professional knows, even the most enhanced CPU extension it’s useless without a virtualization vendor that supports it in its hypervisor.
VMware introduced support for AMD-V RVI almost one year ago with the release of VI 3.5.

Today most hypervisors support it (to see which ones you may want to check the brand new virtualization.info Buyer’s Guide) but we still didn’t have much details about the performance boost that this technology provides in a virtual infrastructure.

This week VMware released a very interesting 9-pages whitepaper answering the question:

…We evaluated RVI performance by comparing it to the performance of our software-only shadow page table technique on an RVI-enabled AMD system. From our studies we conclude that RVI-enabled systems can improve performance compared to using shadow paging for MMU virtualization.

RVI provides performance gains of up to 42% for MMU-intensive benchmarks and up to 500% for MMU-intensive microbenchmarks…

These results come out of an analysis conducted with VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 and the upcoming AMD Quad-Core Opteron 8384 (codename Shanghai).

While waiting for the Intel version of this technology, dubbed Extended Page Tables (EPT) and expected somewhere between 2009 and 2010, this paper is a great reading.

Symantec SVS becomes Workspace Virtualization

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:41:06 -0600

In January 2007 Symantec started its slow entrance in the virtualization market acquiring Altiris, a company mostly known for its enterprise management products than for its brand new application virtualization product SVS (Software Virtualization Solution).

After the acquisition Symantec released just a minor update of SVS (that became the acronym of Symantec Virtualization Solution), still using the Altiris brand, in June 2007 and then nothing else.

For a long time the security giant strategy for the application virtualization market has been totally obscure, until March 2008 when a dedicated Endpoint Virtualization Business Unit was created. Then Symantec went silent again.

Now, maybe, the company is ready to move forward and tell the world its plan to compete with Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, Novell and the plethora of startups that populate this market segment.

On what it seems to be the official blog of the former Altiris SVS business unit, somebody announced the upcoming beta program for Symantec Workspace Virtualization (SWV), the new name for SVS.
It’s worth to not that, along with the name, also the product versioning has a significant refresh, jumping from 2.1 to 6.1.

The features that will be introduced in this new version are remarkable anyway:

Layers dependency (users can define chain of layers that are activated as soon as the main layer is)
Application isolation (this point requires further clarifications as the application virtualization layers are supposed to be already isolated)
Layers patching (users can patch layers without replacing them through incremental deployments of new bits)
Support for multi-users (which means support for Microsoft Terminal Services)

No words on when SWV 6.1 will be available.

PlateSpin former CEO joins Embotics Advisory Board

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:14:39 -0600

In February the most popular virtualization company for P2V migrations , PlateSpin, was acquired by Novell for $205 Million.

In October, the founder and CEO Stephen Pollack left his own creature for personal reasons, but he couldn’t stay away of the virtualization market for much time: today the startup Embotics announces that he joined its Advisory Board.

Pollack certainly has the position to facilitate the acquisition of Embotics or at least the introduction to the thousands of PlateSpin customers.
For sure this is a good move from this young company focused on the so called VM lifecycle management market.

Is ISVs support still a top issue in virtualization adoption? Ask Symantec.

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:47:02 -0600

As most loyal virtualization.info readers know, this website publishes a report detailing the top 10 challenges in virtualization adoption.
The report didn’t change a single bit from 2007 to 2008: the report still lists ISVs support as the top issue in embracing virtualization.

Of course things change in two years, so we wanted to verify how our readers rate such issue at the end of 2008.
To do so not one but two questions of our Hardware Virtualization Adoption Survey 2008 were dedicated to this very topic.

Surprisingly enough, on over 1000 responses received in less than one month, a very small percent of people indicated the ISVs support as the biggest obstacle in adopting virtualization (just 9%) or as the biggest challenge in implementing a certain virtualization project (just 2%).

(don’t worry: virtualization.info will publish the complete results of this survey in the next few weeks)

We were ready to drastically change the report for 2009, moving support to the last position, when a remarkable issue was highlighted by the guys at vinternals.

Symantec just published a knowledge base article stating that the company doesn’t provide support for two key products, Symantec Antivirus (SAV) and Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP), when used inside VMware ESX virtual machines with VMotion in use.

The official reason for this support denial is:

There have been many issues reported a few examples are,

Client communication problems

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) communication issues

Content update failures

Policy update failures

Client data does not get entered in to the database

Replication failures

As vinternals guys say (with some vivid words):

I urge every enterprise on the planet who are customers of both VMware and Symantec to rain fire and brimstone upon Symantec (I've already started), because your entire server and VDI infrastructure is at this time officially unsupported.

So let’s ask this again: is ISVs support for the hypervisor of choice still a top issue or not?
Oracle customers can avoid to complain on this, we know their answer…

IBM acquires Transitive

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:16:01 -0600

IBM announced today its intention to acquire Transitive, the company that offers an emulation layer (billed as cross-platform virtualization) to run applications on non-native hardware platform.

The company’s engine is behind the Apple Rosetta software that runs Mac OS applications for IBM PowerPC CPUs on Intel x86.
Transitive is also able to translate Sun Solaris applications developed SPARC architecture in a way that they can run on Linux on any x86/x64 or on Intel Itanium architecture.

In January 2008 Transitive also powered a special PowerVM Lx86 software offered by IBM, which allows to run Linux applications developed for any x86 architecture on IBM System p platforms with Power CPUs.

Probably IBM found the solution so interesting that decided to acquire the company.
The entity of the acquisition is unknown.

VMware and Intel are skeptical about cross-CPU live migration

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:28:15 -0600

Just one week ago AMD demonstrated that performing a virtual machine live migration from an Intel CPU to an AMD one is possible.

Today SearchServerVirtualization publishes a very interesting article with VMware and Intel comments on that demonstration:

…"VMware currently provides full support for Enhanced VMotion Compatibility, which allows live migration of enterprise workloads across different processor families within the same CPU vendor. This technology provides customers the flexibility to move these workloads across different processor iterations in a stable and reliable way," said Richard Brunner, the chief platform architect at VMware and a former Intel CPU architect.

But "attempting to make cross-vendor x86 instruction sets and features compatible in a VM for live migration puts this stability at risk, and so we have not pursued it," he added…

Probably VMware is right in being so cautious about supporting cross-CPU live migrations, but the author correctly highlights its special relationship with Intel, that invested $218.5 million in the virtualization vendor (and was even rumored to be in bid to acquire it).
Maybe, without such relationship VMware would take some more risks and support the AMD effort.

While waiting for VMware and Intel to change their mind, savvy and well-respected virtualization professionals don’t mind tricking non-production ESX hosts with some CPU masking stunts (see here, here, here and here).

Microsoft will use Visual Studio 2010 and SCVMM for virtual lab automation

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:06:23 -0600

Finally Microsoft has decided to leverage the opportunity that its huge developers community represent for virtualization.
The company announced that the next version of its IDE, Visual Studio 2010, will seamlessly work with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to offer a complete virtual lab automation solution.

Specifically, the VLA feautres should appear in the Team System version of the product, now available as Community Technology Preview (CTP).
And because SCVMM supports 3rd party hypervisors (namely VMware ESX) the developers will be able to use them for VLA environments.

Microsoft published an interview with a couple of VS2010 program managers, talking about the new features and showing them in action.
There’s also a PowerPoint slide deck, presented at the Microsoft PDC 2008 conference, that it’s really worth to check.

The companies that compete in this segment are VMware (which acquired Akimbi in 2006), Surgient, VMLogix, and the newcomers StackSafe and Skytap (this last one only offers a hosted VLA service), but it’s VMware that really won the heart of developers so far through its desktop product Workstation.

Since years Workstation offers enhanced capabilities to do software development and testing, and they go much beyond a needful snapshot manager.
With Workstation 6.0 for example VMware introduced a powerful Record/Replay feature, and with the 6.5 upgrade the product also sports a dedicated set of APIs called VAssert, for code debugging.

So far Microsoft did nothing to counter VMware in its own territory, and this allowed the competitor to enter in a number of companies thanks to the end users rather than through the decision makers.
Through the developers community VMware built a brand awareness that it’s now very hard to weaken. It’s good that Microsoft finally decided to do something, despite 2010 still seems too far away.

VKernel wants to benchmark virtual machines resource allocation

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:24:26 -0600

The startup VKernel is definitively full of resources, both in terms of development effort and ideas.

The company just launched an interesting website called CompareMyVM, where it hopes to collect from the community how many virtual resources are allocated for a certain workloads.

Analyzing the (anonymously) submitted data, VKernel aims at benchmarking the typical approach that virtualization professionals take when deploying new virtualized applications.

The website also allows to rate and vote each submitted configuration so that CompareMyVM can easily turn into a recommendation engine for virtualization newcomers.

In some ways this is something similar to the new Benchmarking Service that Google introduced in its Analytics tool: by submitting anonymous statistics the website owners can cooperate in measuring the average performance of several web categories and check where their website is positioned.

The difficult part will be keeping the community engaged and provide enough details about each submitted configuration to make it relevant for others.

Pano Logic ditches Microsoft RDP for its own remote desktop protocol

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:06:00 -0600

The startup Pano Logic releases today version 2.5 of its VDI platform.

Its Virtual Desktop Solution (VDS) is comprised of a connection broker, the Pano Management Server, that currently supports VMware Infrastructure, and a minimal thin client that doesn’t require an operating system or any other software.

This 2.5 release is specially important for the company as it ditches Microsoft RDP as the remote desktop protocol of choice.
Pano Logic developed its own remoting protocol called Console Direct, which delivers audio, video and USB device interfaces on the zero client.

The company published a presentation of this new technology.

Pano Logic is not the first company working to replace RDP in VDI environments: Qumranet (recently acquired by Red Hat) was the first to drop the Microsoft protocol for their own, called SPICE, and VMware is working with Teradici to do the same.
Even Microsoft itself took serious steps to renew RDP for VDI purposes, acquiring the company Calista.

The only VDI players that are seriously enhancing RDP without looking at replacements are Citrix and Quest/Provision Networks that recently achieved a 8x compression factor for RDP sessions.
We’ll see which approach will return the most on the investment once that Microsoft will have integrated Calista technology.

Video: Windows Azure under the hood

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:27:35 -0600

At its PDC 2008 conference last month Microsoft unveiled its effort to become a cloud computing provider through a new version of Windows called Azure.

In a couple of days some early details about the new operating system started to emerge, and we discovered that Azure will certainly leverage hardware virtualization but not through the Hyper-V 2.0 engine that Microsoft hinted about.

Now the video footage of a PDC presentation details how Windows Azure actually use the hypervisor. The guys at vinternals made a good summary of it:

Rather than put that base VHD onto local USB devices ala ESXi, Microsoft PXE boot a Windows PE "maintenance os", drop a common base image onto the endpoint, dynamically build a personality (offline) as a differencing disk (ie linked clone), drop that down to the endpoint, and then boot straight off the differencing disk VHD (booting directly off VHD's is a _very_ cool feature of Win7 / Server 2008 R2). I'm glad even Microsoft recognize the massive benefits of this approach - no installation, rapid rollback, etc.

Release: VMware Fusion 2.0.1

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:11:46 -0600

Just one after the launch of Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0, VMware feels the need to remind everybody that there’s a competing product in town: its Fusion.
To do so the company releases a minor update that fixes and enhances a series of aspects.

It doesn’t matter if the new build (128865) doesn’t introduce any new feature: the wildly popular Mike DiPetrillo, Principal Systems Engineer at VMware, is happy to clarify why there’s no need to compete with the new Parallels product (comments in that post are very interesting as well).

Download a trial of VMware Fusion 2.0.1 here.

Tool: HVRemote

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:03:26 -0600

The Hyper-V Senior Program Manager John Howards recently released a small program to simplify the configuration of the Microsoft new hypervisor: HVRemote.

The tool allows to complete the configuration of Windows Server 2008 (both Full Installation and Server Core edition), enable the Hyper-V role and configure the hypervisor with just two commands in place of the many steps required.

Note that while Howards works at Microsoft, this tool is a personal work and the company doesn’t provide any support for it.

Download it here (source code is included).

Virtual Computer welcomes Rick Faulk on its Board of Directors

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:56:38 -0600

After the September launch, the US startup Virtual Computer (formerly known as Old Road Computing), co-founded by the Virtual Iron founder and former CTO, seems ready to build its leadership team.

The first one joining the two co-founders on the Board of Directors is Rick Faulk, President and CEO of Mzinga, a startup that launched in November 2007 that is focused on social networks.

Certainly Faulk has a vision about the so called Web 2.0 universe, but it’s not clear how his experience will benefit an emerging virtualization company like Virtual Computer.

virtualization.info Adoption Survey 2008: over 750 responses so far

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:51:24 -0600

Fifteen days ago virtualization.info launched a web survey to try to understand the state of the union for hardware virtualization.

We invited our readers to answer the survey at the very end of a post about Gartner and IDC, questioning the marketshare numbers that the two recently published.

Despite this very unofficial launch, in just three days we collected over 500 responses, and now we surpassed 750.
Of course our questionnaire is not comparable with the studies of the tier-1 analysis firms, but it certainly collected one of the biggest number of answers so far in a virtualization survey. And the emerging picture is surprisingly interesting.

We’d like to wait another 15 days or 1000 responses before stopping the survey. After that we’ll publish the results on virtualization.info for free.

If you didn’t participate yet please do: http://www.virtualization.info/surveys

Cisco will start Nexus 1000V beta program in December

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:05:42 -0600

It’s more than one year that the virtualization community waits to puts its hands on the first 3rd party virtual switch for VMware Infrastructure. At that time Cisco was reported as the networking provider but the company never confirmed.

Finally, at VMworld 2008, Cisco and VMware unveiled such piece of software, called Nexus 1000V, but so far nobody gave a precise release schedule.

Now trusted sources informs us that Cisco will start the Nexus 1000V beta program in December.
VMware Infrastructure 4.0 beta testers will be able to join even but it’s not clear if this will be a public beta or not (probably not considering that VI 4 beta itself is private).

VMware Infrastructure 4.0 is near, screenshots surface

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:49:54 -0600

In September, just before VMworld 2008, virtualization.info broke the news about the upcoming VMware Infrastructure 4.0 and its beta 1 feature set.

Immediately after the conference moved in beta 2 phase where it stayed for a while now.
At this point VMware may be near the release time so while waiting for this major upgrade here a meaningful screenshot that was leaked online:

More at source.

VMware moves to influence the PCI Security Standards Council

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:20:41 -0600

VMware just announced its intention to join the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council.

The virtualization leader hopes to influence the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) so that virtualization doesn’t represent an obstacle to security compliance.
At today in fact, as Christopher Hoff, Chief Security Architect at Unisys, noted on his personal blog, the PCI Council didn’t do anything to put virtualization on top of its priority.

Additionally, VMware is now fully busy pushing its cloud computing vision, and if the company wants to convince large corporations to move their data into the cloud better have some security standards supporting the scenario. Otherwise this is what is likely to happen.

VMware is not the first virtualization firm interested in the PCI standards. In March Fortisphere joined the PCI Security Vendor Alliance demonstrating its commitment to comply with DSS standards.

Lanamark offers some capacity planning for free

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:40:05 -0600

The Canadian startup Lanamark (see virtualization.info coverage here) is taking serious steps to promote its capacity planning service after just one month after the launch.

The company now offers a free, one-time capacity planning assessment for up to 500 desktops and servers, for a maximum of 10 days.

As expected, customers signing for this service will receive a performance trend report containing information about physical machines and workloads inventory, as well as CPU and memory usage.

This is a smart move from Lanamark: capacity planning is one of the fundamental steps that every company embracing virtualization should take but its cost is often too high to justify the investment.
With a one-time free assessment the startup may demonstrate the value of its service.

Nonetheless the company may have other reasons behind this promotion: the competition with VMware on is harsh as the virtualization leader is offering its hosted Capacity Planner for free since July and it includes a basic capacity planning tool in VI 3.5 at no additional cost.

Egenera renames vBlade as vmBuilder, updates it to include XenServer 4.1

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:19:57 -0600

Egenera is mostly known as a hardware vendor offering its own blade system, BladeFrame, but the most interesting proposition of the company is its management console: PAN Manager.
This software layer is able to aggregate the hardware resources of each blade and abstract them in a sort of computing cloud in a box.

For a long time Egenera tightened PAN Manager to the BladeFrame, making it almost unknown for the wide audience. But more than one year ago, Egenera finally allowed to use the software on other hardware provided by a number of OEM partners.

The resource pool provided by PAN Manager is a perfect companion for a virtualization engine so the company developed a special module called vBlade, which allows a hypervisor to manage the abstracted hardware.
Rather than develop (or acquire) its own virtual machine monitor, Egenera preferred to sign an agreement with XenSource to adopt its XenEnterprise.

Now, thirteen months after opening PAN Manager, Egenera is taking further steps to make its strategy more virtualization-friendly: the new vBlade 2.1 is renamed vmBuilder and it’s shipped with Citrix XenServer 4.1.
This introduces much wanted features to the platform like XenMotion, virtual machines suspend and resume and support for Red Hat Enteprise Linux 64bit as guest OS.

Additionally Egenera may bring VMware ESX on vmBuilder, as announced a long time ago.

Release: Veeam Configurator 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:40:52 -0600

Exactly one year after the last update, Veeam finally revamps Configurator, its product for configuration and change management.

In this new major release the company re-engineered the engine, which now automatically discovers VMware ESX and ESXi configurations, saving them in so called host profile templates.
The administrator can apply those saved profiles to multiple new VMware hosts at the same time.

Then Configurator 2.0 can scan the hosts on recurring basis and allow the administrator to reapply the correct profile.

As some readers may remember the upcoming VMware Infrastructure 4.0 will introduce a similar feature with a similar name: host profiles.
Veeam doesn’t see this as a problem but instead looks forward to build innovation on top of that capability. Meanwhile VMware administrators can enjoy the feature today with Configuration 2.0.

Download a trial here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

Release: Trilead VM Explorer 1.5

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:22:39 -0600

Trilead, one of the youngest virtualization startups that emerged during the last VMworld 2008, went out of beta phase and released officially launched its product: VM Explorer (VMX) 1.5.

VM Explorer is a virtual machines backup/recovery solution that puts Trilead in competition with well-known companies like Vizioncore and Veeam.

The solution is able to copy VMs between different VMware ESX hosts (ESXi is supported as well), or on Linux and FreeBSD file servers.
VMX also offers an integrated SSH client to administer the servers where users want to copy the VMs, and a snapshot manager, where VMware administrators can create and remove VM snapshots without passing through VirtualCenter.

Download a trial here.

Trilead has been included in the virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Radar.

VM Explorer 1.5 has been included in the virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap.

Release: Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:00:23 -0600

Parallels certainly has a lot of challenges these days: in the server space it’s about to introduce its first bare-metal hypervisor, Parallels Server, what will put the company in competition with VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Virtual Iron, Novell, Red Hat, Oracle and Sun; in the desktop space, specifically in the Apple market, it has to bank the spread of VMware that is raising much consensus with its Fusion.

On this second front the company is specially combative and demonstrates its capability with the new Desktop for Mac 4.0.

This release introduces some fifty new features. Among the others:

Command line interface
API and SDK for 3rd party developers
Capability to scale Windows virtual machines desktop to fit the Mac OS screen
Simultaneous access to removable storage devices from guests and host.
Remote control from Apple iPhone
Voice control (24 commands available)
Support for 4 vCPUs per VM
Support for Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Server as guest OS
Support for DirectX 9.0, DirectX Pixel Shader 2.0 and OpenGL 2.0 graphical primitives on Windows guest OSes
Experimental support for Apple Mac OS X codename Snow Leopard

Download a trial here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

Hyper9 reaches private beta, shows a glimpse of the GUI

noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro Perilli) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:23:53 -0600

Hyper9, the startup born from the ashes of InovaWave, is finally approaching its relaunch day.

The company is developing a search engine for virtual infrastructures that mimics the successful approach of Splunk, indexing any element of the data center and applying analytics on the information collected.

In large scale deployments there’s a big need for enhanced troubleshooting tools and Hyper9 has a unique opportunity to address the challenge through the business intelligence.

After months of work, the Hyper9 product, still unnamed, has finally approached the private beta phase.
The ones that want to try it can send an email to this address (do not forget to mention virtualization.info).