Info-Tech Advisor - Research Note

Virtual Iron Challenges VMWare on Price

Info-Tech Advisor: Research Note

Published: June 12, 2007

The server virtualization market is going to become much more competitive in 2007 as challengers to VMware's dominance in x86 virtualization emerge. One such competitor is Palo Alto California-based Virtual Iron. Its Xen-based enterprise virtual server platform has significantly lower price points than VMware's Virtual Infrastructure 3.

Virtual Iron 3.5 Enterprise Edition

Virtual Iron 3.5 Enterprise Edition supports virtualization of both Linux and Windows servers on advanced Intel and AMD x86/x64 processors. It has support for iSCSI networked storage and has advanced management features such as:

  • LiveMigrate and LiveRecovery for high availability and for provisioning of virtual machines across host nodes by moving virtual machines from one host to another.
  • LiveCapacity for workload management and policy-automated capacity...
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