Comments on: Desktop Virus Protection, Blade Virtualization & More Reorg! http://ravisblog.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2006/06/14/desktop-virus-protection-blade-virtualization-more-reorg/ Ravi, the Associate VP for ITS, discusses IT topics Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:47:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matt http://ravisblog.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2006/06/14/desktop-virus-protection-blade-virtualization-more-reorg/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Matt Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:50:23 +0000 http://ravisblog.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2006/06/14/desktop-virus-protection-blade-virtualization-more-reorg/#comment-4 In regards to virtualization and management, it might well be worth our while to investigate Xen. While not providing the full feature set of something like our dear friends at Egenera, it gives virtual servers (through software) with little performance hit (compared to something like vmware). Similar idea (in fact, Egenera mentioned they were partnering with Xen at some point, not sure if you were there then..) but free and I think I saw gui management tools. V mentioned it specifically as a tool used heavily within environments he works in, and investigations show that it seems to be quite popular for having multiple "servers" on one blade. If nothing else, I suspect it will be adopted (if it hasn't already) by more mainstream Linux resources in the near future (if it hasn't already) so it's worth watching for a special RedHat edition or what have ye if not letting us loose upon the technology ourselves. In regards to virtualization and management, it might well be worth our while to investigate Xen. While not providing the full feature set of something like our dear friends at Egenera, it gives virtual servers (through software) with little performance hit (compared to something like vmware). Similar idea (in fact, Egenera mentioned they were partnering with Xen at some point, not sure if you were there then..) but free and I think I saw gui management tools.

V mentioned it specifically as a tool used heavily within environments he works in, and investigations show that it seems to be quite popular for having multiple “servers” on one blade.

If nothing else, I suspect it will be adopted (if it hasn’t already) by more mainstream Linux resources in the near future (if it hasn’t already) so it’s worth watching for a special RedHat edition or what have ye if not letting us loose upon the technology ourselves.

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