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VMware offerings for Sun Blade Systems
As you may know, on February 27, 2008, Sun
Microsystems announced an OEM agreement with VMware, adding VMware
virtualization offerings to Sun's current x64 Server and Storage
products.
Starting today, VMware is now available on Sun's worldwide pricelists.
Customers and channel partners may order VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Products with the Sun Blade Systems. This provides customers with virtualization choice
and flexibility across industry leading virtualization solutions. Sun
customers and partners have deployed VMware on Sun successfully in many
deployments. Further details can be found at:
http://www.sun.com/vmware.
Try Solaris 10 Appliance for VMware and VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3)
software on the Sun Blade Systems with a free 60-day evaluation through
Sun's Try and Buy program.
Posted at 03:41PM Apr 15, 2008 by cbs in Sun | Comments[1]
We are already running VI3 on our Blade 6250s. These put dual quad core Xeons with 32GB RAM for little $ (we had to go Xeons to keep Vmotion compatibility with our older Dell blade hosts). Very nice. The ONLY thing we need now is an ESX driver for the blades' 10GBps Ethernet cards.
Posted by Charles Soto on April 16, 2008 at 11:57 AM PDT #