XenSource has had its virtualisation products endorsed
by IBM in the latter’s ServerProven certification.
The ServerProven certification is part of IBM's PartnerWorld
Program and designates products as having been enabled for IBM
systems and successfully deployed in a real-world production
environment. When deployed on IBM x86 systems, XenSource claims its
virtualisation products will enable IT departments to reduce
datacentre complexity, increase manageability and resource
utilisation, and reduce IT infrastructure costs.
XenSource products are designed for the virtualisation of
Windows and Linux in x86 server environments and are compatible
with a range of IBM servers, including IBM BladeCenter and IBM
System x, running on Windows or Linux.
Key features of XenSource include “bare-metal” Windows and Linux
performance leveraging the Xen paravirtualised architecture and
hardware virtualisation capabilities of Intel VT and AMD V-enabled
processors; automated step-by-step installers and a management
toolkit, an open source model built on the Xen Hypervisor.
The company claims that because of the open source nature of
Xen, new features are made available at a much faster pace than
proprietary virtualisation offerings or those within operating
systems projects with multi-year development cycles.
Accepting IBM’s benchmarks, anything that offers a measurable
guarantee in terms of performance, manageability and dependability
can only be a good thing, offering a way of ensuring protection for
business investment.
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