The Ultimate Virtualization Project2 10/7/08 2:02 PM Page 1
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
1108vrm_COVER.v2 10/29/08 10:41 AM Page 1 November 2008 VirtualizationReview.com The Ultimate Virtualization Project2 10/7/08 2:02 PM Page 1 LEANER. MEANER. GREENER. Twentieth-century datacenters simply weren’t built to handle the demands of twenty-first century business. With these hardwired, high-density computing environments, we’ve inherited inefficiency, complexity and ever-increasing power and cooling costs. Businesses need a new approach. IBM’s New Enterprise Data Center is a vision for the highly efficient, greener-by- design, business-driven IT model you’ll need for tomorrow. This isn’t some far-off theory. IBM is already working with over 2,000 clients to help make this vision a reality. A greener world starts with greener business. Greener business starts with IBM. SYSTEMS. SOFTWARE. SERVICES. FOR A GREENER WORLD. See our Webcast about greener datacenters at ibm.com/green/datacenter IBM, the IBM logo and ibm.com are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation, registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at “Copyright and trademark information” at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml. © 2008 IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Project2 10/7/08 2:03 PM Page 2 on the 2008 BUYERS’ GUIDE The industry’s first print guide to virtualization products. By Mark Ferelli and the Virtualization Review Staff t’s a brave new IT world out there. The term “game-changer” is thrown around by companies so much that it’s lost much of its meaning, Ibut the term perfectly fits virtualization technologies. It fundamen- tally changes the way data centers operate, and the way IT pros manage their systems. Even so, virtualization is still not much more than a newborn in its devel- opment cycle. A growth spurt is starting to occur, and the vendors you’ll find on the pages of our inaugural Buyers’ Guide are supplying the vitamins. Many of these products are brand-new, and worthy of your time to investigate. We’ve broken the products down by category to make them easier to find. We’ve tried to be thorough, but we’re aware we haven’t listed every product in every category; that would require a much bigger magazine. What you’ll find, though, is a good overview of what’s available in the virtualization market. As this is our first attempt at this, we’ll undoubtedly misplace a few products. Please let me know how we can improve this guide in the future. I’m at [email protected]. —Keith Ward, editor, Virtualization Review COVER ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN ETTER VirtualizationReview.com | Virtualization Review | Buyers’ Guide 2008 | 4 Project3 8/5/08 11:12 AM Page 1 2008 BUYERS’ GUIDE availability, while enabling both servers hypervisors from Citrix, Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization and workloads to be utilized and man- Novell, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems aged more efficiently. XenServer is Inc. and others. Support is offered VMware ESX available in Express, Standard, through the large Xen developer VMware Inc. Enterprise and Platinum Editions. community. Xen.org is hosted and 3401 Hillview Ave. Cost: Express Edition is free; Standard maintained by Citrix. Palo Alto, CA 94304 Edition starts at $600 Cost: None 877-486-9273 www.vmware.com Sun xVM Server ESX is VMware’s enterprise hypervisor. Sun Microsystems Inc. In concert with VMware Infrastructure 4150 Network Circle (VI), it provides an enterprise-class Santa Clara, CA 95054 server virtualization platform. ESX is Virtual Iron Single Server 800-786-0404 only available as part of VI. ESXi, a Edition/Extended www.sun.com lower-functionality version of ESX, can Enterprise Edition Sun xVM Server software delivers an do basic server virtualization and is free. Virtual Iron Software Inc. easy-to-use, open source, datacenter- Cost: Varies, depending on configuration 900 Chelmsford Street,Tower I, Floor 2 grade server virtualization solution to Lowell, MA 01851 virtualize and manage heterogeneous 978-849-1200 workloads, including Windows, Red www.virtualiron.com Hat and SuSE Linux, Solaris and Virtual Iron offers two versions of its OpenSolaris operating systems, on Sun Microsoft Hyper-V server virtualization software: Single x86 platforms and SPARC-based Microsoft Server Edition, with limited functionality, servers. xVM Server is based on the One Microsoft Way and Extended Enterprise Edition, for Xen open source hypervisor. Redmond, WA 98052 unlimited virtual servers. The base Cost: No cost to download 425-882-8080 hypervisor is based on open source Xen. www.microsoft.com Cost: Single Server is free; Extended Hyper-V provides server virtualization Enterprise is $799 per socket for all sizes of environments. One version of Hyper-V comes free with Windows Parallels Server for Mac/ Server 2008; another version, Hyper-V Parallels Server/Virtuzzo Server, is a free, standalone version that Parallels Management & does not require Windows 2008. 660 SW 39th Street, Ste. 205 Optimization Microsoft also has Virtual Server 2005, Renton, WA 98057 which is a hosted, Type II hypervisor that 425-282-6400 Akorri BalancePoint lacks many of the enterprise features www.parallels.com Akorri Inc. and performance of Hyper-V. Parallels Server for Mac is the only server- 305 Foster St. Cost: None virtualization solution for Mac OS X. Littleton, MA 01460 Parallels Server is currently a beta 978-431-1200 product that’s more of a traditional www.akorri.com server-virtualization product. Virtuozzo BalancePoint is a new class of agentless provides OS virtualization, creating iso- management software for the virtualized Citrix XenServer lated containers on a single physical data center. It provides visibility into the Citrix Systems Inc. server and OS instance. It offers high root cause of performance issues with 4988 Great America Parkway performance, scalability and density. deep drill-down into server and storage Santa Clara, CA 95054 Cost: Parallels for Mac costs $1,248.75; resources, and the ability to understand 408-790-8921 for Virtuozzo pricing, contact company server and storage virtualization. www.citrix.com/XenServer Cost: Entry-level pricing for one unit of XenServer is an enterprise-class server Xen 5TB of storage is $7,500 virtualization system that virtualizes www.xen.org server workloads by separating them Xen is a free, open source hypervisor FactFinder from the underlying hardware. This that can be downloaded from its Web BlueStripe Software Inc. allows for faster deployment and high site. It’s the basis of many other 2501 Aerial Center Pkwy. VirtualizationReview.com | Virtualization Review | Buyers’ Guide 2008 | 6 Project3 3/5/08 1:23 PM Page 1 2008 BUYERS’ GUIDE Morrisville, NC 27560 Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Burlington, MA 01803 919-462-3660 719-686-4600 781-328-9232 www.bluestripe.com www.configuresoft.com www.dynamicops.com FactFinder is an application service- ECM for Virtualization helps organiza- Virtual Resource Manager enables the management solution that lets tions effectively manage and secure dynamic data center by automating the enterprises stage, deploy and manage virtual environments by providing enter- processes associated with provisioning, apps in virtual server environments by prise visibility, control and compliance tracking and ongoing management of providing the visibility needed to under- across an entire VMware environment. virtual servers and desktops in a multi- stand the interdependencies between It also provides a central console to view vendor environment. Virtual Resource applications and the supporting physical overall security posture. Manager accelerates IT service delivery and virtual infrastructure. Cost: Consult company while reducing operational costs. Cost: $5,000 Cost: $895 per CPU Socket IBM Systems Director Cassatt Active Response IBM Corp. eG VM Monitor Cassatt Corp. 1 New Orchard Road eG Innovations Inc. 1740 Technology Drive Armonk, NY 10504 33 Wood Ave., South, Ste. 600 San Jose, CA 95110 800-426-4968 Iselin, NJ 08830 408-437-7602 www.ibm.com 866-526-6700 www.cassatt.com IBM Systems Director 6.1 is a platform- www.eginnovations.com This software solution intelligently auto- management foundation that The eG VM Monitor, part of the eG mates the power management of servers streamlines the way physical and virtual Enterprise Suite, helps ensure optimum in the data center while pooling resources systems are managed across multisystem performance of business services that to increase the availability of apps and environments. Leveraging industry run on today’s complex virtual and phys- improve server workload management. standards, it supports multiple OSes and ical infrastructures. It supports multiple Cost: $2,500 per physical server, Data virtualization technologies across IBM virtualization technologies, and can Center Edition; $1,250 per physical server, and non-IBM platforms. IBM Systems quickly identify the root cause of any Premium Edition Director 6.1 is an easy-to-use, point-and- performance issue. click, simplified management solution. Cost: $2,000 per monitored server CiRBA Capacity Management Cost: Consult company CiRBA Inc. 45 Vogell Rd., Ste. 600 Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 3P6 Canada 905-731-0090 www.cirba.com CiRBA’s software enables IT organiza- Hyper9 tions to operate the most cost-effective Hyper9 virtualized data center possible. Only Equalizer VLB 9015 Mountain Ridge Dr., Ste. 140 CiRBA’s Placement Intelligence Coyote Point Systems Inc. Austin, TX 78759 Technology continually captures and 675 M First St. 877-949-7379 analyzes technical, business and San Jose, CA 95112 www.hyper9.com resource constraints to safely guide 408-291-5240 Hyper9 is the first search-based virtual- workloads to the right infrastructure. www.coyotepoint.com ization management solution that Cost: Consult company Equalizer VLB provides high availability provides real-time and historical data in and acceleration for VMware virtual a single intuitive interface. It simplifies servers. It lets businesses accelerate and tasks such as managing multiple vCenter ensure the availability of applications instances, capacity planning, alerting, running on VMware Infrastructure.