Fred’s Notes

There’s a new kid on the block in virtualization software, Oracle VM. I don’t know of the current prices (being Oracle, cheap will be not) or the technology behind it, but it seems to me that it will try to compete to VMware ESX or even XEN. From the news:

Oracle today announced Oracle VM, server virtualization software which supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization that is up to three times more efficient than existing products from other vendors. Key Oracle products, including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications, are certified with Oracle VM. Backed by Oracle’s world-class support organization, customers have a single point of support for their entire virtualization environments, including Linux operating system and Oracle products.

Simplified installation — with single install, patching and upgrading for both Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux.
Faster deployment — through pre-configured Virtual Machine images of Oracle Database and Oracle Enterprise Linux.
Greater efficiencies — three times more efficient than other server virtualization products.
Linux and Windows support — support for Linux and Windows guest operating systems including: Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 and 5; RHEL3, RHEL4 and RHEL5; Windows 2003, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP (on HV capable hardware).

Update: Actually, it’s a nice GUI on top of Xen Hypervisor and it will be available for download at Oracle’s site starting tomorrow. Oh well.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 10:25 am and is filed under Tech, Virtualization.