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VMware unmasks next-gen hypervisor

Robert Amleth

Are you bloody kidding me? 

Posted Tuesday 21st April 2009 13:24 GMT

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It appears VMware is trying to confuse the market by rebranding their products and creating more SKUs. This is crap. With Microsoft, Citrix, Xen, and Oracle offering free hypervisors, free high availability and free live migration, many of us were expecting a price drop. According to this article/press release, live migration is $2200+ per processor. WTF? Appears after years of gouging customers, VMware is responding with the finger.

Anonymous Coward

Schtop! 

Posted Tuesday 21st April 2009 13:24 GMT

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"Cloud OS"

NYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAGGHGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Jamie Kephalas

Excuse me... 

Posted Tuesday 21st April 2009 13:24 GMT

Coat

...how much?!

bye.

Wortel

@Author 

Posted Tuesday 21st April 2009 13:24 GMT

"and each VM could handle 4 MB of memory."

Don't you mean 4GB?

Tom Chiverton

Who (doesn't) check this stuff 

Posted Tuesday 21st April 2009 13:24 GMT

"ESX Server 2.X, the hypervisor could span one or two processors and each VM could handle 4 MB of memory"

4 meg !?! ITYM gig.... unless v2 *was* *really* bad !

P. Lee

silly numbers! 

Posted Tuesday 21st April 2009 16:04 GMT

Boffin

255GB in a single VM?

Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should...

Murray Hynd

interesting 

Posted Wednesday 22nd April 2009 07:41 GMT

Impressive specs, assuming you ignore the 4M/4G typo; obviously vSphere is not for a small organisation... it will be interesting to see the uptake of this

vSphere now becomes a rather large SPOF target; hope the security around the management is tight.

@Roberth Amleth: if Microsoft, Citrix, Xen, and Oracle can match this, I have no doubt they would charge as well...