virtualization.info has posted an interview with Steve Wilson, "Sun xVM Server and Ops Center Q&A with Steve Wilson".Some of the key points that Steve makes in the interview are:
- Sun is a player in the virtualization space
- Sun xVM Server includes a number of datacenter-grade features borrowed from Solaris that give xVM Server a set of highly unique attributes such as predictive self healing
- xVM Server will be able to run VM files which were created for VMware's ESX Server or Microsoft's Hyper-V without modification
- xVM Ops Center is designed to manage up to thousands of servers (physical and virtual)
- xVM Ops Center will be available freely under the very liberal GNU Public License (GPL) version 3
- Sun is planning to provide the ability to use Solaris Cluster together with xVM Server for applications where true clustering is required
- Ops Center 1.0 includes support for patching of Solaris (x86 and SPARC) as well as several versions of Redhat and SuSE Linux. Windows patching support will be added in a future revision
- xVM Server includes a simple to use, self-patching system that can automatically download and install the newest patches
- xVM Ops Center will ship in the next few weeks, ahead of the first commercial release of xVM Server
- xVM Ops Center 1.0 is focused on datacenter automation and includes features such as:
- Server discovery and inventory management
- Server firmware analysis and provisioning
- Bare metal Server provisioning
- Patch management
- Monitoring
- xVM Server, and an update to xVM Ops Center to go with it, are planned for Q2 of calendar year 2008. Specific features to manage virtualized environments, include:
- Full virtual guest life cycle management
- Management of the domain 0 instance
- Monitoring, management and provisioning of Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
- Migration capabilities (Live, Regular and Cold)
- Simple single host management through direct browser access, as well as large scale multi-node management via xVM Ops Center
- Expansive resource monitoring and analysis
- Guest image storage library management
- Virtual and resource pooling
- Network virtualization and bandwidth management
- Both xVM Server and xVM Ops Center will expose API sets through WS-Management. Sun will be putting specs out for this over at http://openxvm.org shortly
- Sun xVM Ops Center at sun.com
- Steve Wilson video on YouTube (2:30)
- Steve's blog
- Sun's (beta) Wiki pages for Sun xVM
- xVM weblog at blog.sun.com
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