Novell is adding virtualisation technology from Virtual
Iron Software to SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. Virtual Iron's
datacentre virtualisation and management platform will be
pre-configured into the kernel that ships with the
server.
Novell said the technology would enable users to improve overall
data centre management, reducing operating costs and increasing IT
operating flexibility and responsiveness. Virtual Iron provides
datacentre virtualisation and policy-based management that is
designed to improve the flexibility of applications such as J2EE
application servers, databases and high-performance computing.
Mike Grandinetti, Virtual Iron's chief marketing officer, said,
"Transitioning the datacentre to a more dynamic virtual model is
essential to reducing the complexity and improving the
responsiveness of today's IT organisation."
The Virtual Iron technology enables the IT administrator to
group up to 16 existing processors into a single virtual server,
with scalable performance that increases for each processor
added.
The virtualisation technology can also be used to partition a
single computer to create multiple virtual servers using a fraction
of a processor for each. Users can partition hardware and combine
or divide memory, storage and network resources via the management
console, without touching physical hardware.