DoSTOR analysis of the store on October 12: The rising temperature of the virtualization technology, Cisco announced its data center virtualization plan in two weeks, IBM and Microsoft today also unveiled several new virtualization technology veil.
Let us take a look back: Cisco's virtualization will focus on network technology to expand the company not long ago to 250,000,000 U.S. dollars acquisition of Topspin Communications Inc.; IBM is committed to the company data center equipment such as storage, servers and systems management Virtualization, the virtualization technology to try to win the favor of the data center manager.
data center equipment will be tied into a large bag of virtualization is IBM's long-term plan, the new IBM also released the long-term plans. Storage virtualization is a core component of the plan, IBM is leading the conference TS7510, which is a new virtualization engine, designed to connect to Unix virtualization and server Intelx86 of tape storage. In essence, TS7510 is attached to a disk sub-system of the stent fixed server, the largest available capacity of 46TB.
here is the fundamental speed. Virtual tape system data to tape backup with the same format into the disk, but the data to disk storage will go a long way to accelerate the speed of backup and recovery.
At present, there are a number of manufacturers have now is working to develop such technology, including IBM partners. IBMTotalStorage head CharlieAndrews declined to participate in the development of the TS7510 manufacturers. He said: As this involves a lot of trade secrets, we do not want to discuss who in the end. Brbrbr We believe that competitors could not hand. In addition, IBM and NetApp now has an OEM agreement to resell the equipment storage, NetApp in April to spend at 11,000,000 U.S. dollars to buy a virtual tape library start-up companies Alacritus software company. NetApp is currently being adjusted AlacritusVTL, is expected to be the end of this year or early next year launch its own brand known as the Alacritus VTL products.
an industry source said IBM is also considering re-sale of the start-up companies Sepaton VTL technology. HP and Sepaton also has a OEM deal.
In addition to the new tape virtualization technology, IBM today is also based on the Power5 processor Unix server launch a new browser interface that can simplify virtualization deployment. In addition, IBM also revealed a number of xSeries server product line for the switch product line plans, as well as its SANVolumeController (Volume Controller) for the next version of the software – SVC3 .1.
but in the end user has not yet decided where you want to achieve virtualization, let alone whether they want to virtualization. It was also suggested that enterprises have to be extremely careful to implement the technology.
users worried about another impeding factor is the virtualization software license. However, Microsoft is now trying to WindowsServerSystem for the introduction of a new structure of permission to solve the problem. For example, code-named Longhorn version of the data center WindowsServer license in the future will allow users on a single physical server to run an unlimited number of virtual instance of the software.
Microsoft also announced a new version of its WindowsServer2003R2EnterpriseEdition details of the license, allowing users to a physical server running four virtual instances without additional software.