Virtualization - Battle of the Tools?

I remember about 12-months ago presenting to a large audience on Virtualization. Only memorable because I referenced “Virtual Machine Sprawl is coming” and it received an unintended laugh. But they were laughing at me rather than considering the relevance of the statement. It really doesn't matter your preference for managing large numbers of physical servers, OS instances, or application containers, you need to be in control. So interesting to see Virtual Machine sprawl all over the technical press and IT Managers debating the consequence of large scale DC virtualization. Performance differences exist in the hypervisor solutions but probably not significant enough to differentiate between the leading brands considering the x86 processor advances. So for me, it's down to the tools for managing the virtualized environments and to determine if you believe it's worth paying extra licensing fees? Vmware appears ahead but for how long? With the OS vendors providing alternatives it's a fascinating landscape.
- InsomniacsAnonymous

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(N.B. As an employee of Sun Microsystems, the opinions expressed here are purely my own and not necessarily that of Sun or any other party).
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Posted by 142258 [Virtualization] ( October 27, 2006 05:35 AM ) Permalink | Comments[0]