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Smarter technology for a Smarter Planet: Can an entire business be given a nervous system?
Today, instrumented devices connected by powerful service management systems are infusing intelligence into things like production equipment and supply chains, redefining the role of the infrastructure at the core of the enterprise. On a smarter planet, the datacenter is not simply the heart of IT—it’s also the central nervous system of the entire business. IBM is helping companies view their extended infrastructure not as a collection of disconnected pieces, but as an integrated system that connects the datacenter to all of the digital and physical assets of the business, creating a more dynamic infrastructure. From railway systems that can predict and schedule their own maintenance to power grids that match supply and demand, we’re already helping customers improve service, increase flexibility and reduce operating costs by as much as 50%. A smarter business needs smarter software, systems and services. Let’s build a smarter planet. ibm.com/infrastructure
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Start with Citrix XenServer™, the enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization platform — for free. Then, simply add Citrix Essentials™ for XenServer™ for the advanced management capabilities you need to maximize the scalability, resiliency and manageability of your virtualized environment.
• Streamline Accelerate application delivery; provision workloads on demand • Protect Implement cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery • Integrate Better leverage existing storage capacity and feature sets • Save Reduce license costs; consolidate servers; repurpose administrators
And if you’ve decided to go with Microsoft® Hyper-V™, you’ll want to add Citrix Essentials™ for Hyper-V™ to get advanced virtualization management capabilities for your Hyper-V and System Center environment.
Visit our Web site at www.citrix.com/XenServerVRACH and download our free white paper, Achieving the Lowest Server Virtualization TCO. And while you're there, if you haven't already, get started by downloading Citrix XenServer, for free.
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DECEMBER 2009/JANUARY 2010 | VIRTUALIZATION REVIEW | VOL. 3, NO. 1
4 Online TOC FEATURES 28 Storage Virtualization 31 Ad/Edit Index 14 The 2010 Ultimate & Management Virtualization Buyer’s Guide 29 Thin Client UPFRONT The industry’s most 8 Point comprehensive print guide to 29 Virtual Networking XenDesktop: High Performance virtualization products. and Flexibility 29 Miscellaneous 16 Application Virtualization Virtualization 8 Counterpoint VMware View: A True End-to-End Solution 16 Automation
12 Opinion 18 Business Continuity 2010: What’s Hot and What’s Not 19 Cloud Computing
COLUMNS 19 Desktop Virtualization 6 Hoard: BRUCE HOARD Mastering Management 20 Management & Optimization
32 Take 5: KEITH WARD 26 Virtualization Security Things I’ll Miss Most 27 Server Virtualization 32 COVER IMAGE BY RYAN ETTER RYAN BY IMAGE COVER
VirtualizationReview.com | Virtualization Review | December 2009/January 2010 | 3 VIRTUALIZATIONREVIEW.COM what’s online DECEMBER 2009/JANUARY 2010 ■ VOL. 3 ■ NO. 1 @virtualizationreview.com EDITORIAL STAFF
Vice President, Editorial Director Doug Barney Editor in Chief Bruce Hoard Managing Editor Wendy Gonchar Speaking out Against Associate Managing Editor Katrina Carrasco
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Server Virtualization David Strom Jon William Toigo In this special online-only opinion column, Jon William Toigo,
CEO of consultancy and research fi rm Toigo Partners LLC, ART STAFF goes against popular industry sentiment and questions the Creative Director Scott Shultz value of server-virtualization products. Writes Toigo: Art Director Brad Zerbel
“That virtualization of servers, storage and networks is inevitable should be ONLINE/DIGITAL MEDIA
taken as a given. It’s only logical that, as hardware becomes commoditized, Editor, software should scale independently of the kit … A corollary to this inevitability VirtualizationReview.com Michael Domingo Director, Online Media Becky Nagel thesis is also true. Perpetuating a tight coupling of software to hardware Site Administrator Shane Lee eventually hobbles engineers and IT administrators alike with respect to Designer Rodrigo Muñoz important things like design improvement, scaling of performance and capacity, and management. Tight coupling leads to unwieldy and proprietary stovepipe products that obfuscate heterogeneous management and drive up cost of
ownership in heterogeneous environments. In the end, IT costs too much.” President Henry Allain Vice President, Publishing Matt N. Morollo Read Toigo’s arguments and join the discussion online at Director, Marketing Michele Imgrund VirtualizationReview.com/Toigo1209. Online Marketing Director Tracy S. Cook
President & Want to know more about the Chief Executive Offi cer Neal Vitale Senior Vice President best virtualization products & Chief Financial Offi cer Richard Vitale available today? Go to Executive Vice President Michael J. Valenti VirtualizationReview.com/ Vice President, Finance & Christopher M. Coates Administration HoardA1209 to download an Vice President, Audience Abraham M. Langer Marketing & Web Operations extended PDF version of this Vice President, Information Erik A. Lindgren Technology & Web Operations issue’s cover story, “The 2010 The Ultimate Virtualization Chairman of the Board Jeff rey S. Klein Buyer’s Guide.” You’ll fi nd Hoard Facts Check out new Editor in Chief Reaching the Staff additional products, more detailed Staff may be reached via e-mail, telephone, fax, or mail. A list of editors and contact information is also available descriptions for each product Bruce Hoard’s blog at online at VirtualizationReview.com. VirtualizationReview.com/ E-mail: To e-mail any member of the staff , please use the entry, and all the information you following form: [email protected] HoardB1209. Recent topics Framingham Offi ce (weekdays, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET) need to select the best Telephone 508-875-6644; Fax 508-875-6633 discussed include the 600 Worcester Road, Suite 204, Framingham, MA 01702 virtualization tools for your Irvine Offi ce (weekdays, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. PT) possible collapse of the Telephone 949-265-1520; Fax 949-265-1528 business. Stay ahead of the game 16261 Laguna Canyon Road, Suite 130, Irvine, CA 92618 Oracle/Sun merger, the Corporate Offi ce (weekdays, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. PT) and get informed about all your Telephone 818-814-5200; Fax 818-734-1528 virtualization options, and check Citrix Ready Open Desktop 9201 Oakdale Avenue, Suite 101, Chatsworth, CA 91311 The opinions expressed within the articles and other contents out the extended PDF today. Virtualization program and herein do not necessarily express those of the publisher. multiple hypervisors.
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Smarter technology for a Smarter Planet: How to manage thousands of things you can’t touch. Today, many companies are finding out the hard way that virtual image sprawl can be just as complicated as the physical server sprawl virtualization was meant to solve. IBM can help you manage, simplify and even automate your virtual environment with a broad range of solutions designed to give you visibility and control over all of your virtual resources—servers, storage, applications, etc. So you can provision and configure resources in minutes instead of days, driving up efficiencies and setting the stage for new delivery models like cloud computing. Our open approach to virtualization has helped customers reduce capital and operating costs by up to 30% and is an essential building block of a smarter, more dynamic infrastructure. A smarter business needs smarter software, systems and services. Let’s build a smarter planet. ibm.com/virtualize IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, Smarter Planet and the planet ibm.com, the IBM logo, IBM, icon are trademarks of International Business Other product and registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. Machines Corp., service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks is at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.Web available on the © International Business Machines Corporation 2009. All rights reserved. ED NOTEHOARD
Talk about a recipe for disaster: You install Bruce Hoard this disruptive technology that touches your servers and networks, and then you realize you don’t have the means to manage it. What happens if there are major problems? How can you resolve them if you lack the necessary tools and information? Meanwhile, virtualization technology continues to improve and proliferate. The Network Instruments survey went on to note Mastering that in 2009, an estimated 27 percent of applications are sitting on virtual servers. The Management survey also predicted that number would rise to 44 percent in 2010 and 60 percent by 2011. Thomas Bittman, vice president and Just in case you haven’t caught one of my blogs, please allow me to distinguished analyst at Gartner Inc., is also introduce myself as the new editor in chief of Virtualization Review. forecasting bullish numbers. He says that the My name is Bruce Hoard, and to put bookends on my career, I installed base of virtual machines (VMs) will started out with Computerworld back in the early ’80s and was increase by a factor of 10, reaching 58 million founding editor of Network World. I then spent 20 years as a VMs by 2012. freelance writer and editor before being hired into this new role by Asked what decision makers such as CIOs Doug Barney—who obviously has an eye for talent, not to mention dislike about virtualization, Bittman cites “a craggy good looks. new layer of complexity” that requires them to Prior to taking this job, I wrote a few white papers and magazine be very careful about how they manage their articles on virtualization. But all that was really only dabbling resource pools. In his worst-case scenario, compared to what I’ve been doing in my fi rst few weeks on the job: companies that mismanage their virtualization a fl urry of vendor briefi ngs, user interviews and immersing myself installations run the risk of undoing key in all things virtual. confi guration-management and performance- It didn’t take long for me to get a handle on the importance of management processes that may have been managing and controlling virtualization environments. In fact, it defi ned—and refi ned—over the course of years. seems like almost every day a new survey drives home that idea. “All those processes have to change when I Case in point: This past summer, Network World reported on a virtualize,” he notes. “I have to change how I survey conducted by Network Instruments LLC, a vendor of do capacity planning; how I deal with speed network-analysis software tools. In this survey, 442 IT pros revealed and virtualization; how I deal with offl ine that while 75 percent of respondents were deploying virtualization, images. I have to change all my processes, so “They lacked the adequate tools, visibility or information about their it’s very disruptive.” virtual environments to troubleshoot their problems.” It is with these challenges in mind that we Entitled “Security and Trust: The Backbone of Doing Business over offer our 2010 Ultimate Virtualization Buyer’s the Internet,” this survey discovered that respondents might not have Guide, which is included in this issue. In the money required to invest in the tools they needed to manage addition to offering a slew of management tools PHOTO BY TERRY POWELL TERRY BY PHOTO their advanced environments. Why? Because 73 percent were being from a variety of vendors large and small, it asked to do more with fewer resources. Among those tightening contains a wealth of other helpful products that budgets, more than half of those polled said the reduction in fi nancial cover the virtualization market from A to Z. resources could lead to IT degradation and failures. Check it out, and let us know what you think. VR
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Smarter technology for a Smarter Planet: Thinking outside the box depends on what’s in the box. The systemic inefficiencies in many server rooms today, in terms of both energy consumption and utilization, are becoming unsustainable. A recent study found that an estimated half of all businesses experience IT outages due to power and cooling issues.1 Smarter tools like the IBM BladeCenter ® HS22 can help. It’s designed to give you greater efficiency at every level, from its highly efficient design and Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series to its advanced management software like IBM Systems Director that actively monitors and limits power consumption. All of which can add up to 93% in energy savings over the previous generation of rack servers. Learn how you can see a return on your investment in as little as three months2 at ibm.com/hs22 Systems, software and services for a smarter planet.
1Source: IDC Market Analysis #215870,Volume 1, December 2008,Worldwide Server Energy Expense 2008–2012 Forecast. 2Return on investment and power savings calculation based on 11:1 consolidation ratio scenario of 166 Intel 1U 2 socket servers to 14 BladeCenter HS22 servers and savings in energy costs, software license fees and other operating costs. Actual costs and savings will vary depending on individual customer configurations and environment. For more information, visit www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/claims. IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, BladeCenter, Smarter Planet and the planet icon are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml. Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries. © International Business Machines Corporation 2009. All rights reserved. news • trends • analysis
POINT COUNTERPOINT XenDesktop: VMware View: A True High Performance End-to-End Solution and Flexibility By Patrick Harr By Harry Labana
s our industry defi nes best practices for large- esktop virtualization is quickly changing how scale deployment of desktop virtualization, user businesses are delivering desktops to end users. Aexperience has become the proving ground for DDesktop virtualization should deliver a seamless IT and end users. XenDesktop provides advanced HDX experience for all applications and media to a range of technologies to deliver a high-defi nition experience on end users, while enabling IT to easily secure and manage any device, over any network. When comparing features, desktops. To achieve these benefi ts while meeting the VMware View lacks several capabilities that users expectations of end users requires a tightly integrated expect to see, including PC-like Flash experience, broad solution that can also provide a superior user experience. smartcard support, voice, video and webcam support, VMware View, with the PC over IP (PCoIP) protocol, VoIP softphone compatibility, bi-directional audio, WAN robust feature set, platform integration, broad ecosystem optimization support, single sign-on and 3-D professional and best ROI, provides a true end-to-end solution and the graphics capabilities to name a few. best user experience for the widest range of end users. As customers quickly fi nd out, delivery protocols are In a typical enterprise, users vary from simple task just one part of the equation. Optimizations are needed workers with a fi xed set of applications and limited across the entire delivery infrastructure. graphics requirements, to knowledge workers and Here XenDesktop comes out ahead. To prove this, Citrix power users who demand an uncompromised computing conducted internal tests to measure protocol throughput. experience. Power users utilize a range of applications (Note: Tests can easily be replicated using publicly and access to content, including rich media and graphics. available tools and WAN emulators. A WAN emulator All end users demand an uninhibited, rich experience is not needed when testing in a LAN environment.) A from their desktop environments, and in many cases load-testing tool ran a series of randomized applications they demand this from a range of devices and locations. including Microsoft Offi ce, Web content, and Flash audio and video. We ran the tests for 30 minutes or more with Foundation for Virtual Desktop Delivery no Flash acceleration, redirection or throttling on either VMware View with PCoIP technology is purpose-built product. Chart 1 shows the results. for delivering an uncompromised desktop experience across the widest range of users, tasks and locations, Chart 1. Citrix HDX vs. VMware View 3 ensuring the best user experience regardless of network conditions. It is an innovative display protocol that Protocol Throughput Results compresses, encrypts and encodes the entire computing experience at the data center and transmits it across a REMOTE DISPLAY PROTOCOL BANDWIDTH standard network to end points, which can be running Citrix HDX 233 Kbps PCoIP hardware, or using VMware View’s software- VMware View 3 820 Kbps based client. The compression algorithm adapts dynamically with existing conditions to enable the best To get a view of performance requirements to address user experience for a given network connection. professional 3-D graphics users—even over the WAN—we When network parameters change, the adaptive nature tested XenDesktop and HDX 3D against the hardware of the protocol helps by progressively refi ning the desktop version of PC over IP (PCoIP). VMware has since in an effi cient manner to maintain the optimal user released a software version of Teradici’s PCoIP. HDX 3D experience; the protocol actually senses the content being consumed 90 percent less bandwidth than hardware rendered, and prioritizes based on what’s most important PCoIP—even at the lowest performance settings (see to the end user. As a result, it addresses the demanding Chart 2, p. 10). requirements of even the highest-end power users.
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(Hint: add up the dots)
Citrix XenDesktop with VMware View
Manage desktops centrally
Personalized desktops for each user
High-definition experience over any network
Best bandwidth on LAN or WAN
Delivers VDI, streamed and shared desktops
Works with any hypervisor
If you’re considering a VDI solution, you should know that Citrix XenDesktop with high-definition HDX Technology delivers a host of benefits that other products simply can’t match — like superior performance, proven scalability, and the lowest cost per desktop. It even makes migration to Windows® 7 a snap. When it comes to these benefits, our competitors just can’t connect the dots.
Learn more about what makes Citrix XenDesktop the best VDI solution. Download the VDI Comparison Kit at www.citrix.com/XD4VRM.
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POINT COUNTERPOINT Seamless User Experience Chart 2. Citrix HDX 3D vs. Hardware VMware View includes a range of technologies to ensure PCoIP 3-D Graphics Requirements a seamless, natural user experience, even exceeding that of the traditional desktop. USB redirection simplifi es REMOTE DISPLAY PROTOCOL BANDWIDTH support for locally attached peripherals, so when plugged in to the local client, the input is automatically Citrix HDX 3D 2 Mbps mapped to the virtual desktop without user intervention. Hardware PCoIP 54 Mbps Multimedia redirection ensures top performance for the delivery of rich media by eliminating concerns related The user experience of PCoIP degraded signifi cantly as to network conditions and leveraging local computing bandwidth decreased from an open LAN to lower speeds. power for the best user experience. HDX 3D remained stable while PCoIP began to falter. At 2Mbps, PCoIP was unusable. It is logical to conclude that Platform Matters the software version of PCoIP will not perform as well as Tight integration with VMware vSphere means VMware the hardware version. PCoIP will not work in a Microsoft View users benefi t from the rich and robust feature Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environment, further set of the industry-leading virtualization platform, reducing potential total cost of ownership benefi ts. delivering high availability, fault tolerance and scalability. These capabilities, traditionally reserved for server Achieving ROI with Every Use Case infrastructures, are now extended to the desktop. To achieve strong ROI with desktop virtualization, we believe there are four factors to consider: The Ecosystem of Partners 1. On-Demand Applications: The cost and VMware’s broad partner ecosystem ensures that customers complexity of desktop management is a direct result of can deploy VMware View with their choice of components applications running on each user’s desktop. Integrating to build the best solution. Working with vendors who the capabilities of XenApp technology into XenDesktop 4 provide components ranging from PCoIP hardware end signifi cantly improves ROI by making application delivery points and other thin clients, to security, storage and an integrated part of overall desktop management. network infrastructures, means customers can implement 2. Flexible Delivery Models: VDI only serves a an end-to-end solution that delivers the right level of service subset of users. XenDesktop 4 includes FlexCast delivery to meet end-user demands. technology, allowing IT to mix-and-match delivery scenarios, which can be executed from a centrally Highest ROI managed solution. VMware View has been shown to reduce the annual 3. Network Infrastructure Costs: By optimizing cost of PC ownership by 50 percent, resulting in savings user experience at every point—endpoint, network and of $600 or more per end user. Savings result from data center—HDX provides the best user experience using signifi cant reduction in IT staff support costs and the existing network infrastructure. reduced downtime. According to research fi rm IDC, on 4. Open Architecture: XenDesktop fully supports average, customers can realize a payback period as short Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX and as 5.6 months. At $250 per seat, VMware View is also less VMware vSphere, giving customers choice. View is locked expensive than other solutions. into the VMware hypervisor platform and the required version may not match the version deployed. Complete Package Combining inadequate performance with a single, VDI- VMware View 4 provides a comprehensive solution only, locked-in architecture is not the way to improve ROI for delivering virtualized desktops and the best user and end-user satisfaction. Customers need high virtual experience for the widest range of end users. desktop performance and fl exibility that support an Together these components—the rich PCoIP protocol, increasingly distributed workforce to achieve the best robust feature set, platform integration and high ROI— ROI given the diverse requirements. Citrix XenDesktop are changing they way people deploy and interact 4 with HDX and FlexCast technologies helps customers with desktops. VR achieve this goal. VR Patrick Harr is vice president of marketing, VMware Harry Labana is CTO, Desktop Division, Citrix Systems Inc. Desktop Business Unit.
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VM Licensing can only a server that can handle that large 2010: What’s Hot get better—or at least more a workload could be a challenge.) and What’s Not understandable. It’s hard to Look for more capable hypervisors in say who has the more inscrutable the future. As an example, VMware By David Strom licensing, Microsoft or VMware. vLockstep adds high-availability There’s a growing feature gap mirroring on two different hosts. s virtualization becomes more between free and fee versions, And the Cisco Unifi ed Computing mainstream, there are many especially once you load up your System platform allows for high- Aanticipated developments and hosts with management apps, density VM confi gurations: It can advancements on the horizon. Here’s operating systems and user- handle 384GB of RAM and doesn’t a brief lay of the land, in addition to application licenses. One of the require the purchase of four CPU players you should watch for in the advantages of going with Hyper-V licenses for hypervisors, saving some coming year. running on the Enterprise version money in the long term. Better network infrastructure of Windows Server 2008 is that you Continued maturing of management, Physical-to- can have unlimited free licenses for application-virtualization Virtual (P2V) and dynamic your guest Windows VMs, which tools. This includes layering and provisioning. There are several can add up to a signifi cant savings. applications streaming in real vendors working in these areas to We can only hope that both vendors time. It also includes protection, make it easier to deploy new virtual simplify their licensing in the so you can run multiple versions machines (VMs) and complete virtual coming year. of the same app, provide better infrastructures. One newcomer to watch is LineSider.com, as it works to There’s a growing feature gap between virtualize network infrastructures. VMware’s vNetwork Distributed free and fee versions, especially Switch in vSphere can centrally once you load up your hosts with manage virtual networking features management apps, operating systems of all of its hosts and VM instances. And Novell’s PlateSpin Orchestrate and user-application licenses. continues to be one of the best ways to start, stop, migrate or clone VMs More selection on hypervisors support for offl ine users and reduce across VMware, Microsoft and Xen that are pre-installed on licensing expenses of desktop apps. environments. Microsoft is playing servers. Dell PowerEdge, HP Microsoft App-V, Symantec Endpoint catch-up with Hyper-V, and now ProLiant and IBM BladeCenter all Virtualization Suite, Citrix XenApp includes a live migration feature to offer a selection of rack-mounted and VMware ThinApp will all see big move a VM from one host to another. servers with either VMware ESX improvements in 2010. There’s a great Better VM policy-management or Citrix XenServer. A few vendors comparison chart from Sven Huisman tools. As virtualization becomes are starting to look at pre-loading of these and a few other application- more pervasive, you may need Hyper-V, too. Look for bigger and virtualization tools available at additional granularity and security better servers from these and other http://tinyurl.com/n2k7jk. to prevent employees from gaining server vendors in the coming year. As you can see, a lot is happening, so access to your infrastructure. Hypervisor scalability and look for bigger and better virtualization This is where third-party tools performance improvements. As tools in the coming year. VR can come in handy. HyTrust’s people build larger and more complex appliance can protect access to VM infrastructures, it’s nice that David Strom ([email protected]) is the hypervisor, while VMware’s the latest versions of all hypervisor the former editor in chief of Network vShield Zone appliance protects products will come with full 64- Computing, Tom’s Hardware.com guest VMs. Finally, Microsoft’s new bit goodness inside and support and DigitalLanding.com. He’s written System Center Essentials 2010 has more CPUs. (Hyper-V supports up about networking topics for more than improvements that make Hyper-V’s to 64 logical processors and 384 20 years, and his blog can be found at policy management more fl exible. concurrent VMs, although building strominator.com.
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WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH THESE GUYS? Sometimes you have to ask, “What are they thinking?” Companies need to increase ROI without being taken to the cleaners by manufacturers selling servers featuring entry-level benefits with enterprise-level pricing.
Aberdeen gets it. Businesses are in desperate need of Network Attached Storage servers that simply deliver the best bang for the buck. Look at these features and benefits:
Dell HP Aberdeen PowerVault StorageWorks AberNAS Hot-Swap Disk Drives Hardware RAID Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Built-in Replication Microsoft® WSS 2008 Models iSCSI Target Linux Storage System Models System Recovery Disk DAS Storage Expansion VMware® Ready Certified Independent OS Drive Out of Band RAID Management Available w/ 2TB Drives Warranty 3 Years 3 Years 5 Years
Who gives you the best bang for the buck? Dell HP Aberdeen PowerVault StorageWorks AberNAS NX300 X1400 163 Intel® Xeon® Processor E5504 2GHz E5504 2GHz E5504 2GHz Memory 3GB 2GB 3GB Drive Interface SATA SATA SATA Installed Capacity 2TB 2TB 2TB Rails Included Included Included Windows Storage Server 2008 $3,419 $4,635 $2,995 Linux Storage System Not Available Not Available $2,995
Prices for the above specific configurations obtained from the respective websites on Oct. 12, 2009. Intel, Intel Logo, Intel Inside, Intel Inside Logo, Pentium, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. For terms and conditions, please see www.aberdeeninc.com/abpoly/abterms.htm. vm003 800-754-3310 www.aberdeeninc.com/vm003
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THE INDUSTRY’S MOST COMPREHENSIVE PRINT GUIDE
TO VIRTUALIZATION PRODUCTS. By Bruce Hoard and Virtualization Review Staff
s the virtualization juggernaut continues to build momentum, it’s incumbent upon both current and potential virtualization users to research the market for products that fi t their specifi c needs. It’s not just all about server virtualization Aanymore. Desktop virtualization—aka Virtual Desktop Infrastructure—storage virtualization and network virtualization are just a few of the new product categories luring users with their possibilities and challenging them with their promises. In order to help you make the best virtualization choices, we have compiled and now off er this year’s version of The Ultimate Virtualization Buyer’s Guide. Putting this mother of all virtualization buyer’s guides together involved contacting and soliciting product information across 12 diff erent categories, running the gamut from Virtualization Security to Cloud Computing. In addition to including a new crop of 2010 products, we also painstakingly reviewed submissions from last year’s guide, which involved getting in touch with many vendors to get the low-down on any changes they have made to their products. We hope you fi nd this information helpful, and we look forward to off ering even more next year. Also, be sure to check out an extended PDF of the Buyer’s Guide online at VirtualizationReview.com/Hoard1209. The extended PDF contains more listings, more product information and more insights into choosing the best products for your business.
Please send me your comments at [email protected].
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Q Who is Citrix Systems? others. With XenDesktop, customers can choose from any of A We are a software and services company focused on deliver- the popular server-side virtual desktop models, including VDI, ing applications over a network and the Internet. Centraliza- blade PCs, and traditional server-based computing, as well tion, optimization and virtualization have been the focus of as client-side virtual desktop models that execute at the end Citrix product innovation, strategic acquisitions, go-to-market point. With XenDesktop, customers no longer have to bet on partnerships, and talent development for over twenty years. just one form of desktop virtualization and can instead deliver It’s why we remain fundamentally committed to our vision— the best desktop for every user, every time. a world where anyone can work and play from anywhere. Q What are the expectations for desktop virtualization? Q Citrix has been around for 20 years, what has changed? A Today’s digital workforce won’t compromise: on one hand A Years ago, mainframe computing dominated the enterprise. they demand the flexibility to work from anywhere at any time Then came distributed computing, which brought computing using any device they’d like, yet on the other hand they power, applications and flexibility out to millions of desktops demand the high definition experience that they would get in everywhere. Today, traditional distributed computing is the office. Leveraging XenDesktop, users can access their beginning to collapse under the weight of its own complexity. desktop and corporate applications from any PC, Mac, thin Citrix allows IT to evolve from distributed computing to a client or smartphone, with better reliability and higher dramatically simpler, service-oriented model. Leveraging availability than a traditional PC—all while getting a high virtualization, cloud computing, network optimization and definition multimedia experience. This enables complete on-demand collaboration, Citrix empowers IT with the workplace flexibility, business continuity and user mobility. flexibility it needs to respond to a dynamic, changing world. The introduction of Citrix XenDesktop™ 4, Citrix’s desktop Q Can you tell us about your relationship with Microsoft? virtualization solution, represents a decision on the part of A Citrix has a rich history of embracing and extending Citrix to focus on growth, capitalizing on the opportunity of Microsoft’s platform. As such, Microsoft endorses XenDesktop accelerating adoption of desktop virtualization and an as the premier desktop virtualization solution for enterprise increasingly strategic role in our customers’ business operations. and complex environments. XenDesktop 4 strengthens our partnership and product alignment by plugging into App-V, Q Is desktop virtualization the same as VDI? Remote Desktop Services, Hyper-V Server and System Center, A VDI, or “virtual desktop infrastructure”, refers to the process providing the most comprehensive solution to virtual and of running an end user desktop inside a virtual machine that physical desktops. Microsoft shares our view that desktop lives on a server in the datacenter. However, VDI is only one virtualization is broader than VDI and shares a common vision form of desktop virtualization. Most companies have a broad of user centric computing. Together, the joint solution provides diversity of users, including task workers, power users, guest the best user experience, integrated management and the workers, contractors and mobile employees. While VDI works most comprehensive and cost effective solution to service the great for some of these use cases, it’s entirely unsuitable for different user types and business drivers.
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Windows or Linux host OS, and then used to corruption problems, enhances user fl exibility by Vizioncore (the VESI.org)—Virtualization run any combination of guest Windows and and delivers faster log-ons. EcoShell is enhanced by the participation of Linux OSes at the same time on one PC. Ben- Cost: Consult vendor community members. efi ts include improvement of reaction time, Cost: Free desktop application increased productivity and the enablement of SysTrack Virtual widespread adoption. Machine Planner Cost: Contact vendor Lakeside Software Inc. 40950 Woodward Avenue MANAGEMENT & OPTIMIZATION Prism Asset Manager Bloomfi eld Hills, MI 48304 New Boundary Technologies 248-686-1700 Akorri BalancePoint 3.0 1300 Godward St. NE LakesideSoftware.com Akorri Inc. Minneapolis, MN 55413 The fi rst suite of tools that addresses the full 305 Foster St. 612-379-3805 spectrum of planning needs involved in the Littleton, MA 01460 newboundary.com adoption of desktop virtualization. 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Loop St., Ste. 1800 thinlaunch.com Houston, TX 77027 Enhances the overall value of virtualization by 713-418-5705 simplifying the deployment and implementa- netiq.com tion of virtual desktops at the user device. You can monitor, manage and report on your Thin Desktop replaces the local user interface, entire VMware virtual infrastructure—including Quest vWorkspace then locks down and monitors the user/client vCenter servers, host servers and virtual Quest Software device. This allows the administrator to gain machines—from one location.Consolidation of 10701 Parkridge Boulevard, Ste. 100 complete control over the client endpoint and data and correlation of events provides the Reston, VA 20191 the user experience. opportunity to proactively manage IT and more 703-709-9210 Cost: Consult vendor easily support business initiatives. vworkspace.com Cost: Consult vendor Aggregates application delivery and desktop ThinPrint .print deployments from any virtualization platform, Desktop Engine Cassatt Active Response blade PCs and Terminal Services/Remote ThinPrint AG Cassatt Corp. Desktop Services environments. vWorkspace 7600 Grandview Avenue 1740 Technology Drive is an enterprise-grade desktop management Denver, CO 80002 San Jose, CA 95110 solution that transforms the corporate desktop 303-487-1302 ext 2100 408-437-7602 infrastructure into an on-demand service with thinprint.com cassatt.com an optimized user experience for LAN and WAN Enables quick and easy printing when accessing An automated, dynamic server resource man- deployments. desktops remotely via RDP or ICA. When printing agement platform for Windows, Linux and Solaris Cost: $50/per concurrent user (Basic) in Citrix XenDesktop or VMware VDI environ- servers. 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PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console Raxco Software Inc. 6 Montgomery Village Avenue, Ste. 500 Sun xVM Ops Center Gaithersburg, MD 20879 Sun Microsystems Inc. VIRTUALfx 301-527-0803 18 Network Circle TDI perfectdisk.com Menlo Park, CA 94025 1600 10th St. Manages defragmentation across the enterprise 650-786-6041 Plano, TX 75074 through a single, convenient interface and sun.com 800-695-1258 provides fully customizable central manage- A highly scalable data center automation tool that tditx.com ment tools that allow system administrators enables customers to simplify the management of Logs, monitors, manages and remediates to manage defragmentation of workstations, heterogeneous IT environments and reduce costs. problems in a virtualized infrastructure. It does servers and virtual environments quickly and Sun xVM Ops Center is a key component of Sun so for VMware or XEN hypervisor systems effi ciently—making it easy to install, deploy, xVM software, the company’s open virtualization today and will add more vendor technologies as confi gure, manage and report on those and management platform. they’re more generally accepted. environments. Cost: Consult vendor Cost: Consult vendor Cost: $199.99 SysTrack Virtual Resource Manager RTO PinPoint Lakeside Software Inc. DynamicOps RTO Software Inc. 40950 Woodward Avenue 20 Mall Rd., Ste. 450 6120 Windward Pkwy. Bloomfi eld Hills, MI 48304 Burlington, MA 01803 Alpharetta, GA 30005 248-686-1700 781-328-9232 678-987-4178 LakesideSoftware.com dynamicops.com rtosoft.com Integrates many management disciplines into Simplifi es and automates virtual infrastructure An application performance monitoring solution a unique, comprehensive management console. management by providing build templates, used by enterprise IT managers and staff to The toolset seamlessly manages virtualized provisioning policies and run book automation keep applications, server infrastructures and desktops, virtualized servers, terminal servers that, together, create a repeatable process for users operating at peak effi ciency, it tracks and physical systems to provide an end-to-end the deployment, tracking and ongoing manage- application performance metrics against busi- view of the environment. It also integrates data ment of VMs. ness objectives. and information from multiple disciplines, which Cost: Consult vendor Cost: Consult vendor provides a complete view of the environment, from desktop to data center to cloud. VKernel Capacity Analyzer ScrewDrivers Cost: Contact vendor VKernel Corp. triCerat Inc. 222 International Drive, Ste. 105 10320 Little Patuxent Parkway, Ste. 200 up.time5 Portsmouth, NH 03801 Columbia, MD 21044 Uptime Software Inc. 603-610-4300 410-715-4226 555 Richmond St. vkernel.com tricerat.com W. Toronto, Ontario M4X-1V7 Canada Delivers proactive resource monitoring and A plug-and-play solution for remote desktop 416-594-4605 predictive capacity-analysis capabilities that printing from any application to any printer. uptimesoftware.com enhance VMware vCenter (VirtualCenter). ScrewDrivers is engineered for remote corporate Provides deep virtual monitoring by managing Capacity Analyzer is the only virtualization Windows application delivery environments. performance, capacity and availability of all management software that predicts resource Cost: Contact vendor. virtual technologies, down to the performance utilization trends and alerts users days in metrics of instances and the applications that advance of potential issues. SolarWinds Orion Network reside inside them. Cost: Consult vendor Performance Monitor Cost: Consult vendor SolarWinds Inc. VKernel Chargeback 3711 S. MoPac Expy. An aff ordable and easy-to-use tool that gives Austin, TX 78746 users immediate cost visibility chargeback 512-682-9300 reporting for their VMware ESX infrastructure— solarwinds.com vFoglight “who’s using what resources and how much Enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and Vizioncore Inc. it costs.” VKernel Chargeback continually resolve network performance problems and 2300 Barrington Road measures and meters actual shared resource outages. Out-of-the-box, it off ers network- Ste. 700, Hoff man Estates consumption (CPU, memory, storage, network) centric views that are designed to deliver the Chicago, IL 60169 of each VM. critical information network engineers need. 847-589-2222 Cost: Consult vendor Cost: Consult vendor vizioncore.com
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Confi guration tek-tools.com automatically discovers, strengthens, moni- assessment policies shipped with Tripwire As part of the Profi ler Suite, Profi ler provides tors and recovers all of the local, domain and Enterprise proactively assess and validate IT agentless, cross-domain visibility, management process account passwords in the enterprise. confi gurations against internal policies, compli- and intelligence from applications through serv- It helps you achieve full compliance with your ance standards and security best practices, ers, networks and storage. It provides modeling security and operational auditor’s privileged reporting on out-of-policy settings and providing scenarios that demonstrate how adding VMs account password management and shared detailed remediation guidance. impacts CPUs and describes how users can plan account password-management requirements. Cost: Consult vendor for that impact. Its view into all resources makes Cost: Consult vendor it possible to control server sprawl through Tripwire for Servers physical server consolidation and recovery of Refl ex Virtualization Tripwire for Servers lets organizations regain virtual instances that are no longer in use. Management Center (VMC) confi guration control of servers and desktop Cost: Contact vendor Refl ex Systems LLC machines by alerting IT to improper changes to 53 Perimeter Center East, Ste. 175 key system fi les, directories and registries. Virtual Service Manager Atlanta, GA 30346 Organizations manually confi gure each moni- Fortisphere Inc. 888-696-5725 tored server and desktop the way they want, 4530 Walney Road, Ste. 203 refl exsystems.com and then Tripwire for Servers agents detect any Chantilly, VA 20151 VMC integrates security, compliance, audit and changes from that desired confi guration. For 301-339-7700 management of the virtual environment by many public, private and governmental organi- fortisphere.com providing visibility, correlation, control and zations, Tripwire for Servers is a must for achieving A virtualization management solution with a automation through a single pane of glass. compliance with important regulations and unique, customer-driven approach to the opera- VMC combines complete virtual infrastructure ensuring the sensitive data that resides on tional management of virtual environments. management with VMsafe-level security to agency desktops and servers is secure. Committed to virtual data center heterogeneity, create a comprehensive management and con- Cost: Consult vendor the company off ers solutions that scale to sup- trol methodology for VMs that operate in a port complex, diverse environments. cloud environment. VPN-1 Virtual Edition (VE) Cost: Contact vendor Cost: $6,700 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. 800 Bridge Parkway vProfi ler Redwood City, CA 94065 Provides agentless, cross-domain visibility, 650-628-2031 management and intelligence. It’s the fi rst tool in checkpoint.com the market to provide full top-to-bottom visibility Shavlik NetChk Protect Check Point helps security professionals cre- into diff erent components within the virtual Shavlik Technologies LLC ate a roadmap for taking advantage of virtual- infrastructure. Small VMware environments can 2665 Long Lake Road, Ste. 400 ization while maintaining a high level of secu- use vProfi ler to immediately achieve in-depth Roseville, MN 55113 rity. VPN-1 VE for VMware enables companies capacity analysis, storage utilization analysis and 800-690-6911 to deploy the same technology used to secure bottleneck identifi cation. It also provides real- shavlik.com their networks to secure their virtual environ- time performance and availability monitoring, Shavlik NetChk Protect simplifi es and automates ments. Additionally, VPN-1 Power VSX pro- historical reporting, load balancing analysis—all critical performance and management tasks, as vides a secure platform for virtualizing VPN-1 from a Web console that deploys in minutes. well as lowering operational costs and increasing security gateways, enabling quick provision- Cost: Contact vendor visibility and control. NetChk Protect automates ing and consolidation to reduce costs. identifying and fi xing gaps in must-do tasks such Cost: Consult vendor as patch management, asset management, active protection, anti-virus and anti-spyware. VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY Cost: $40.00; volume discounts apply DirectAudit Shavlik Security Suite Centrify Corp. Shavlik Security Suite simplifi es and automates vSecurity 2.0 444 Castro Street, Ste. 1100 the most critical aspects of IT operations— Catbird Networks Inc. Mountain View, CA 94041 discovery, asset management, patch and 1800 Green Hills Road, Ste. 113 650-961-1100 confi guration management, and anti-virus and Scotts Valley, CA 95066 centrify.com anti-spyware defenses—providing powerful, 212-677-2101 Helps ensure compliance with regulatory require- certifi ed protection against the even the most catbird.com ments, perform in-depth troubleshooting and complex viruses, Trojans, rootkits and malware. Catbird’s vSecurity is an advancement in protect against insider threats for Unix and Linux Cost: $70.00; volume discounts apply VMware security, and off ers broad and systems. Its detailed logging strengthens compli- cost-eff ective security protection for virtual ance reporting and helps you spot suspicious networks of all sizes. Catbird vSecurity and activity by showing which users accessed what the OVF-compliant Catbird V-Agent virtual systems, what commands they executed and appliance bring visibility, management and what changes they made to key fi les and data. control to the virtualized data center. Cost: Consult vendor Tripwire Enterprise vSecurity is a non-invasive and comprehen- Tripwire Inc. sive service-oriented application for virtual Enterprise Random 326 SW Broadway, 3rd Floor and physical networks. Password Manager Portland, OR 97205 Cost: Consult vendor Lieberman Software Corp. 503-276-7500 1900 Avenue of the Stars, Ste. 425 tripwire.com
26 | December 2009/January 2010 | Virtualization Review | VirtualizationReview.com Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is a stand- ThinPrint .print Server Engine SERVER VIRTUALIZATION alone product that provides a reliable and ThinPrint AG optimized virtualization solution that enables 7600 Grandview Avenue AMAX Virtualization Servers organizations to improve server utilization and Denver, CO 80002 AMAX Information Technologies reduce costs. As Hyper-V Server is a dedicated 303-487-1302 1565 Reliance Way standalone product—containing only the Windows thinprint.com Fremont, CA 94539 hypervisor, Windows Server driver model and The .print Server Engine is aimed at companies 510-651-8886 virtualization components—it provides a small that use central print servers in their IT environ- amax.com footprint and minimal overhead. ments. This use of central servers signifi cantly AMAX off ers a complete line of high-performance Cost: Consult vendor reduces administrative requirements, and the virtualization servers that fully utilize VMware’s .print Server Engine ideally complements this suite of virtualization capabilities. These built- concept. Connection-oriented bandwidth to-order virtualized servers are confi gured for control, combined with a high print data com- maximized virtualization performance, higher pression of up to 98 percent, ensure extremely server utilization, increased security, high scal- Parallels Server for Mac fast print output. ability, minimized system downtime, maximum Parallels Cost: $39 per user storage, full redundancy and high failover 660 SW 39th Street, Ste. 205 capabilities. They also provide continuous data Renton, WA 98057 Veeam Reporter protection, rapid disaster and data recovery, and 425-282-6400 Veeam Software better effi ciency rates, while managing systems parallels.com 6479 Refl ections Drive, Ste. 200 in mission-critical environments. Take your Apple Xserve to the next level. Built Columbus, OH 43017 Cost: Consult vendor on Parallels’ hypervisor architecture and virtu- 614-339-8217 alization technology, Parallels Server for Mac veeam.com enables organizations to run the world’s leading Veeam Reporter automatically discovers and server applications—including Microsoft collects information about VMware Infrastruc- Exchange, Oracle Database, Microsoft ture 3 environments, their components and SharePoint—on their Apple Xservers. confi guration settings, and then provides Citrix XenServer Cost: Consult vendor comprehensive visual reports for analysis, docu- Citrix Systems Inc. mentation and decision-making support. It’s 4988 Great America Parkway Parallels Server/Virtuozzo designed for use by ESX consultants, adminis- Santa Clara, CA 95054 Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is an OS virtual- trators, system integrators and data center 408-790-8000 ization solution that lets you maximize the managers. Veeam Reporter extends the citrix.com investment in your existing server hardware. capabilities of VMware VirtualCenter Maps, and An enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization Parallels technology provides two to three produces convenient reports in multiple formats. platform that eliminates cost and complexity and times more virtual servers than hypervisor Cost: $250/socket (1 to 50 sockets) improves application management, delivery and solutions, providing greater utilization from availability. It provides free live migration; central- your infrastructure. Virtual Iron Single Server ized, multi-node management; shared storage Cost: Consult vendor Edition/Extended support; and automated P2V conversion tools. Enterprise Edition Easy to install and manage, XenServer delivers Virtual Iron Software Inc. open, powerful server virtualization for all work- 900 Chelmsford Street, Tower I, Floor 2 loads, transforming complex data centers into Lowell, MA 01851 dynamic workload-delivery centers. 978-849-1200 Cost: None Sun VirtualBox virtualiron.com Sun Microsystems Inc. A server virtualization and virtual FalconStor Continuous Data 4150 Network Circle infrastructure-management solution that off ers Protector (CDP) Santa Clara, CA 95054 comparable capabilities and performance to Virtual Appliance 888-516-9362 established off erings and is easy to deploy, FalconStor Software sun.com use and manage. By taking full advantage of 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Ste. 201 Sun VirtualBox is multi-platform virtualiza- industry standards and open source economics, Melville, NY 11747 tion software for multiple virtualized Virtual Iron dramatically reduces the cost and 631-773-4301 environments, from desktops to servers. complexity of virtualization and for the fi rst falconstor.com VirtualBox is ideal for IT professionals who time, makes production-ready capabilities avail- The CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware is a pre- need to run multiple OSes on their existing able to the mainstream market. built software app in a virtual machine. Off ering computers simultaneously. OEMs can use Cost: Consult vendor disk-based data protection, it protects physical VirtualBox as the virtualization component and virtual servers simultaneously for instant to develop countless new off erings with recovery and continuous data availability, elimi- built-in virtualization. nating data loss from corruption or failure. Cost: Free for individual use Cost: $2,000 VMware ESX Sun xVM Server VMware Inc. Sun xVM Server software delivers an easy-to- 3401 Hillview Avenue use, open source, data center-grade server Palo Alto, CA 94304 virtualization solution to virtualize and 877-486-9273 Microsoft Hyper-V manage heterogeneous workloads, including vmware.com Microsoft Windows, Red Hat and SuSE Linux, Solaris and VMware ESX and ESXi are widely deployed and 1 Microsoft Way OpenSolaris OSes. xVM Server is based on the deliver a high level of reliability and performance Redmond, WA 98052 Xen open source hypervisor. to applications. They are a core component of 425-882-8080 Cost: Consult vendor VMware vSphere, enabling companies of all microsoft.com sizes to reduce IT costs and improve fl exibility
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with server consolidation. They also decrease NetApp Data ONTAP 7G downtime and improve reliability with business NetApp continuity and disaster recovery. 495 East Java Dr. Cost: Consult vendor Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Storage Horizon 415-848-2582 Quest Software Inc. Xen netapp.com 5 Polaris Way xen.org Pools your storage resources, using breakthrough Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 The Xen hypervisor, an open source industry thin-provisioning technology. Data ONTAP 7G 949-754-8000 standard for virtualization, off ers a powerful, provides a virtualized data environment with a quest.com effi cient and secure feature set for virtualization simple interface that enables you to create virtual Off ers storage teams a unifi ed view of current of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM and other CPU archi- storage volumes, make changes quickly and and projected storage capacity usage, providing tectures. It supports a wide range of guest OSes achieve superior storage utilization. them with the insight for eff ective storage capac- including Windows, Linux, Solaris and various Cost: Consult vendor ity management that enables them to maximize versions of the BSD OSes. Support is off ered utilization of existing and future storage assets. through the large Xen developer community. NetXen NX3-4GBT Storage Horizon correlates storage devices to fi le Xen.org is hosted and maintained by Citrix. NetXen Inc., a QLogic Corp. company system usage to determine their actual use. It Cost: Free 3965 Freedom Circle, 4th Floor further provides a lifecycle-oriented method- Santa Clara, CA 95054 ology that helps users understand how much 408-330-0010 storage they need, and where to deploy it. qlogic.com Cost: Contact vendor STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION & The NX3-4GBT Quad Gigabit Ethernet PCIe 2.0 MANAGEMENT Adapter is a low-profi le PCIe 2.0 card with four Ultamus Raid Gigabit ethernet ports. It can support offl oad of Overland Storage TCP/IP protocols, signifi cantly improving 4820 Overland Avenue application throughput while reducing host CPU San Diego, CA 92123 Emprise Storage Family utilization. Advanced virtualization features 858-495-4217 Xiotech Corp. make it ideal for virtual server environments. overlandstorage.com 6455 Flying Cloud Drive Cost: Consult vendor Ultamus Raid near-line data protection applianc- Eden Prairie, MN 55344 es deliver enterprise-class features, built-in data 952-983-3000 protection and simplifi ed capacity management. xiotech.com Ultamus Raid storage arrays provide advanced Emprise 5,000 is built on patented Intelligent sanbolic features, performance and fl exibility that make Storage Element (ISE) technology and provides a IT departments as effi cient and dynamic as the balanced building block of performance, reliability Sanbolic Melio FS businesses they support. and scalability that delivers a SAN storage Sanbolic Inc. Cost: Consult vendor system with low total cost of ownership. Emprise 304 Pleasant Street, 2nd Floor 7000 system is a nested, virtualized solution Watertown, MA 02472 VessRAID based on Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) 617-833-4249 Promise Technology Inc. technology and Xiotech’s proven virtualized, sanbolic.com 580 Cottonwood Drive distributed cluster architecture. A clustered fi le system designed specifi cally for Milpitas, CA 95035 Cost: Consult vendor SAN storage environments. It provides shared 408-228-1400 access to data on a SAN from multiple servers, promise.com FalconStor Network Storage enabling high availability, horizontal scaling of VessRAID storage subsystems, formally certifi ed Server (NSS) applications, and greatly simplifi ed storage provi- for interoperability with the VMware server vir- FalconStor Software sioning and management for virtual server tualization platform, provide small and midsize 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Ste. 201 environments. Users gain extensive new capabili- businesses with a cost-eff ective way to keep Melville, NY 11747 ties to utilize industry-standard shared storage data online longer, while allowing fast access and 631-773-4301 hardware, packaged in an easy-to-use system. reliable data protection. VessRAID can handle falconstor.com Cost: Consult vendor today’s high-capacity storage requirements for Integrates storage virtualization and provisioning video surveillance, unstructured data and disk-to- across multiple disk arrays and connection disk backup, while meeting backup requirements protocols for an easy-to-use, scalable SAN necessary for business continuity. solution. From a small iSCSI virtual server lab to Cost: $1,899 for an 8-bay system; $3,099 for a an enterprise-class Fibre Channel SAN running 16-bay system Tier-1 database applications, NSS can meet the SANsymphony storage needs of your organization. DataCore Software Corp. Cost: Consult vendor 6300 NW 5th Way Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 FalconStor NSS 954-377-6000 Virtual Appliance for datacore.com vOptimizer Pro VMware Infrastructure A software-based storage virtualization solu- Vizioncore Inc. Provides a cost-eff ective, feature-rich virtual tion that optimizes storage management and 975 Weiland Road, Ste. 200 SAN solution for small and midsize businesses advances the state of business continuity and Buff alo grove, IL 60089 and remote or branch offi ces. Deployed as a disaster recovery with virtualization. It provides 847-589-2222 pre-built, pre-confi gured, totally open and a rich set of functions in software that work vizioncore.com ready-to-run software application packaged SAN-wide to enhance the speed, resiliency and vOptimizer Pro is an advanced product that fi nds with an OS in a VM, the NSS Virtual Appliance utility of all the popular disk storage manufac- and reclaims over-allocated VM storage through- brings intelligent storage virtualization and a turers. The product is centrally managed without out VMware virtual infrastructures. vOptimizer virtual SAN within reach of any organization. regard to device model or disk interfaces. Pro automates and simplifi es the process of Cost: Consult vendor Cost: Starts at $30,000 reclaiming wasted virtual storage, and
28 | December 2009/January 2010 | Virtualization Review | VirtualizationReview.com reestablishes free space in VMs running danger- Menlo Park, CA 94025 Netronome Flow Engine (NFE) ously low on storage. 877.677.7266 Acceleration Cards Cost: $299/CPU socket panologic.com Netronome Systems Inc. Pano Logic has redefi ned the delivery and 144 Emeryville Drive, Ste. 230 management of end-user computing by radi- Cranberry Township, PA 16066 cally centralizing desktop management. The 724-778-3290 THIN CLIENT all-in-one Pano System was purpose-built for netronome.com virtualization with uncompromising IT man- Family of multi-gigabit PCIe interface cards agement simplicity and end-user experience. enables the acceleration of network and security Cost: $329/client; $59/year for service applications in a highly scalable manner. and support Featuring high-performance packet processing delivered from multiple micro-engine cores, the IGEL UD2 Series NFE acceleration cards utilize several techniques IGEL Technology to improve network I/O workloads, including deep Schlachte 39/40 VIRTUAL NETWORKING packet inspection and classifi cation. Bremen 28195 Cost: $2,500 (500 units) Germany Veeam Monitor 49 0421-1769-2240 Veeam Software Network Flow Processor igel.com 6479 Refl ections Drive, Ste. 200 (NFP-32xx) The UD2 model is a small, aff ordable, energy- Columbus, OH 43017 The industry’s fi rst processor designed for effi cient hardware platform that can be VESA 614-339-8217 unifi ed computing architectures. It combines mounted on the back of a monitor. The DVI-I veeam.com high-performance network, content and secu- port supports dual monitors with an optional An easy-to-deploy, framework-independent rity processing with I/O virtualization. NFP Y-Cable and connects to common peripherals VMware monitoring solution designed to meet provides a new approach to controlling the IO, with its four USB ports. The UD2 off ers access the day-to-day needs of VMware administrators. off ering a more fl exible solution than many to all VMware-, Citrix- and Microsoft-based Built from the ground up specifi cally for the other hardware-based IOV approaches. virtualization solutions via native clients, virtual world, Veeam Monitor provides support Cost: $275 (25K units) including multimedia redirection and multimedia for troubleshooting and issue resolution, as well acceleration support (HDX and View 3.1). as trend reporting and capacity planning, making Professional Services Cost: Contact vendor it possible to proactively manage Virtual AMAX Information Technologies Infrastructure 3 (VI3) and vSphere system 1565 Reliance Way IGEL UD3 Series health and performance over the long term. Fremont, CA 94539 An aff ordable, compact, versatile mid-range Cost: $250/socket (1 to 50 sockets) 510-651-8886 hardware platform that supports all feature amax.com packages (Entry, Standard and Advanced). The Veeam nworks Management Pack As a VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) UD3 series is available with an integrated (MP) for VMware Partner, AMAX Information Technology’s highly smartcard reader and a connectivity foot that MP for VMware optimizes investments in trained and certifi ed engineers are able to off ers wireless network connectivity and an Microsoft System Center Operations Manager successfully implement complete server additional serial port for legacy peripherals. (SCOM). It provides distributed monitoring and consolidation and virtualization projects. By Cost: Contact vendor management of the VMware infrastructure working with AMAX to deploy a stable and (VI3 and vSphere), and is fully integrated into mature virtualization technology in IT infra- IGEL UD5 Series SCOM 2007. It publishes VMware confi guration, structures, users can consolidate workloads A powerful and expandable hardware platform performance, state, capacity, topology and onto fewer servers and storage devices. with a high-speed processor and graphics capa- VMware vCenter events directly into SCOM, Cost: Depends on project scope bility that can support demanding applications providing a common view across physical and or many applications running simultaneously. It virtual infrastructures. vSMP Foundation for Cluster supports the broadest set of connectivity to Cost: $450/socket (1 to 50 sockets) ScaleMP Inc. peripherals. Optionally, users can add an inte- 20863 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Ste. 275 grated smartcard reader and a connectivity foot Cupertino, CA 95014 for WiFi and a parallel port. 408-342-0330 Cost: $544 MISCELLANEOUS VIRTUALIZATION scalemp.com Provides a unique way to leverage entry-level IGEL Universal Desktop (UD) AppSense Environment systems so they increase manageability and Thin Clients Manager 8.0 performance while delivering the operational IGEL UDs let companies deliver their server- AppSense simplicity of traditional shared-memory systems. based applications anywhere, while providing an 16th Floor, 70 West 40th Street The solution is ideal for smaller compute imple- enhanced user experience, tight security, easy New York, NY 10018 mentations in which management tools and management, and a low total cost of ownership. 212-597-5500 skills may not be readily available. Each UD features many server-based protocols appsense.com Cost: From $500 per node or “Digital Services” that connect to centralized Enables personalization such as desktop look applications. Three Universal Images (Linux, and feel, shortcuts, application settings and vSMP Foundation for SMP Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 2009, printer mapping to be applied for each individual Targets customers seeking solutions for large- and Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0) come user despite being in shared environments such scale x86 systems running compute-intensive with the choice of three diff erent digital service as Microsoft’s Terminal Services or Centralized applications such as simulation, analytics and packs across a range of hardware platforms. Virtual Desktops. AppSense Environment modeling. Uses blade or rack-mounted systems Cost: $179 to $619 Manager decouples user data from the desktop and Infi niBand and is ideal for any application environment and manages this data indepen- that benefi ts from large memory, high core- Pano System dently of the desktop. count coupled with shared memory. Pano Logic Inc. Cost: $60 per user with optional 20 percent for Cost: From $500 per node 1350 Willow Road annual maintenance
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TAKE The authors. It’s been a pleasure to work with such a stellar group of writers and technologists over the past several years. A partial list includes: Tom Valovic, Beth Schultz, Chris Wolf, Greg Shields, 2 Nelson Ruest and Danielle Ruest, Scott Lowe, Rick Vanover, Drue Reeves, Reed Wilson and a host of others that I don’t have space to mention. (I don’t want this to be an Academy Awards acceptance speech.) You folks are simply the best. THINGS I’LL Thanks for making my job such a pleasure. MISS MOST Parting is such The vendors. I’ve taken hundreds of TAKE sweet sorrow. briefi ngs over the years and got to know a number of vendors quite well. It’s my opinion that innovation is greater in This is my fi nal “Take 5” virtualization than in any other fi eld of column for Virtualization IT, and that’s in large measure due to the 3 Review magazine. I’m creative folks making great hardware and software to moving on to other move this industry forward. Most vendors have been magazine pastures, and I unfailingly patient in explaining their technology to me only hope the grass is as and, in many cases, even allowing me to demo and use green there as it is here. it. Keep pushing that envelope, folks! I took on the role of founding editor of Virtualization Review a little more than two The blogs. When it comes to industry coverage, years ago. It was a somewhat crazy idea, virtualization—more than most IT arenas—is driven by starting a new print magazine in the depressed blogs. The writers do a wonderful job of giving great insights and analyses on what’s happening. While I’ll IT publishing space—especially in an area that TAKE had no print magazines in existence. But my 4 still be checking in regularly, it won’t be a daily exercise bosses had faith in the idea, and their vision anymore. Some of the blogs and bloggers I’ll miss most (and this has been rewarded. Virtualization Review is is another woefully incomplete list): Brian Madden (brianmadden. going strong, and I’ve left the magazine in the com); Scott Lowe (scottlowe.org); Alessandro Pirilli (virtualization. fantastically capable hands of Bruce Hoard, info); Everyday Virtualization (our own Rick Vanover); Yellow Bricks who’s off to a fast start. (Duncan Epping, yellow-bricks.com); and Virtually Speaking (Dan There are many things I’ll miss about Kusnetzky and Paula Rooney, blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization). covering virtualization on a day-to-day basis. Here are the fi ve chart-toppers. TAKE Just everything. Helping produce Virtualization TAKE The readers. I’ve gotten to know you Review, both in print and online, has been the most fun through my blog, your comments in I’ve had on the job in my 20 years as a journalist. The stories and your e-mails, and even met energy of the industry; the cool new products that are, you face-to-face at various shows. in many ways, inventions; the merger and acquisition You are what make this magazine 5 phase it’s going through; the battle to be “King of the worthwhile. You’ve told me what you Hill.” These are the things I’ll miss. I want to thank all of
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