The capability, called 4-Way VMware Virtual SMP, will be released as an add-on to VMware's higher-end ESX Server software in the second half of 2005, the company said on Wednesday at its VMworld conference.
The memory-sharing feature was first introduced in the company's high-end product, ESX Server, about two years ago, said Srinivas Krishnamurti, the company's workstation software product manager. The number of independent operating systems VMware...
IBM will bundle a six-month evaluation version of VMware's ESX Server product and other software with its blade servers, the companies plan to announce on Wednesday. Other VMware software included in the promotion lets one virtual machine be paused...
Subscribers will be able to use all EMC's major projects -- Workstation, the lower-end GSX Server and the top-end ESX Server -- instead of having to pay individually for each one, said Srinivas Krishnamurti, a VMware group product manager.
Another is faster networking links among different virtual machines using an approach that will work even if a virtual machine is moved from one physical computer to another. Xen is a 'hypervisor' -- a thin layer of software that governs how...
First, because virtual machines can be moved from GSX to ESX, customers who try the former may choose to upgrade to the latter. The higher-end ESX product, by contrast, needs no host and runs below the operating system layer.