There has been a lot of confusion (I know that this is our fault) in what exactly Virtualization Engine is. Most of this function exists today and only a few things are new. What this is a statement by IBM that we will provide similar partitioning technology on all our eServer platforms and a coherent set of systems management tools (with a single management console) across the application operating systems which include AIX 5L, OS/400, z/OS, SUSE LINUX, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Sun Solaris.
More documentation will be made available soon at the http://www.ibm.com/eserver/about/virtualization web site. Here is a summary then of the Virtualization Engine offerings extracted from the presentation given to the analysts yesterday. Virtualization Engine Systems Technologies Examples of Key Technologies Dynamic LPAR Virtual I/O Server Integrated shared infrastructure for Blades Intelligent Resource Director (IRD) zSeries Application Assist Processor (zAAP) Clustering VLANs HiperSockets / Virtual Ethernet Multi-node Load Balancing Virtual Disks in ESS & FAStT Virtual Server Partitioning Software Partitioning z/VM on zSeries VMware on xSeries & BladeCenter Logical Partitioning LPAR on zSeries with Intelligent Resource Director LPAR on iSeries & pSeries Micro-partitioning for pSeries & iSeries *NEW* Virtualization Engine Systems Services IBM Virtualization Engine Suite for Servers Delivered as a suite Enterprise Workload Manager *NEW* Director Multiplatform *NEW* Systems provisioning IBM Grid Toolbox VE Console *NEW* IBM Virtualization Engine Suite for Storage Delivered as separate products IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller IBM TotalStorage SAN File System IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
