Hewlett-Packard has signed a third-party agreement to deliver
wider virtualisation to its Integrity servers.
Parallels will provide its
Parallels Virtuozzo
Containers technology to Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Integrity server customers who want to virtualise
business-critical Windows and Linux workloads.
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers has been validated to run on HP
Integrity servers, including the largest 64-processor HP Integrity
Superdome servers. This is for customers who want Windows and
Linux-based Itanium virtualisation.
"Container virtualisation is increasingly popular for
virtualising high performance, production workloads. This makes our
technology a perfect fit with HP Integrity servers," said Serguei
Beloussov, CEO of Parallels.
With Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, users can run simultaneous,
isolated workloads in virtual servers or "containers." These
containers scale to the full resources of the underlying hardware.
Dynamic workload capabilities enable users to allocate system
resources to each container on the fly.
This means HP Integrity servers can be virtualised and users can
get a higher return on investment from their hardware.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/02/11/229345/citrix-optimises-xen-server-virtualisation-offering.htm