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Novell's Virtualization Partnership

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the thinking-out-of-the-box dept.

Jane Walker writes "The push for a virtual data center and utility computing continued this week as Novell announced that SuSE Linux would have support for Virtual Iron out of the box." Novell has also guaranteed that 'that all existing independent software vendor (ISV) certifications will not be affected.' From the article: "'The applications certification [component] is huge,' said Novell director of data center applications Justin Steinman. 'Customers want to know that their existing applications are not going to break when they deploy their technology [on a virtual server].'"

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  1. thank you novell by Pavel+Stratil · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When Novell bought SUSE, I thought that nothing appart from the name change would happen. Over the last months Novel turned out to be a big surprise for me. Those guys really push some inovation into the linux world. Just to remind you, there's Novell's xforms implementation, support of a large number of open source projects (i.e. Gnome), or among the current issues, the most wanted win/mac apps poll or the opening the Xgl.. pretty cool.

  2. Re:The Gambit by five18pm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How is the VMware Server? We have been using VMware workstation for many of our tests. It is a fine piece of software. Our testing is basically installing operating systems repeatedly in a hosted environment. If I had tried on a physical machine I would have been hosed long time ago.

    I am planning to move to VMware Server now that it is available for free. Let me see how that gambit goes.

  3. Re:Who's actually using "utility computing"? by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I can see how something like the Sun Grid would be used for special projects, but I'm not convinced that general-purpose utility computing is suitable for most companies in their ongoing operations.

    My existing client is trying to move to utility computing. And, they expect to save hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a decade. This is because they have over 1,200 wintel server that are, on average, only using 5% of their CPU. By moving all of the dev and test servers (and the less critical prod servers) into a virtulized environmnet, we think we can reduce their hardware footprint to about 100 wintel ervers.

    On the Unix side, they are moving to a virtualized flava (as in Flava Flav) of Unix, where they can begin to use less than 15% of each CPU (if they so desire). In other words, if we actually make this project work, it will be a huge success. Check back with me in about three years.