There have been many questions raised recently about which of Sun's products will have a life after Oracle. Some of these questions are answered in the post "The Oracle VM Product Line Welcomes Sun!" by Adam Hawley, who writes, "We are tremendously excited to combine our portfolios and work side-by-side with our extremely talented Sun brethren to advance the state-of-the art in virtualization."
Catch up with what is happening in the world of Sun's xVM by reading up on Stephen Wilson's (Virtualization) blogs. In Blog 1, readers learn about What's Up with xVM – everything from releases for desktops with VirtualBox 2.2 to servers with xVM Ops Center 2.1. In Blog 2, readers find out what is meant by "Free" Hypervisor Options and how to get them, whether it is through VirtualBox or OpenSolaris.
Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart writing for The Aquarium provides a brief xVM status update on Sun's virtualization solutions, including VirtualBox, xVM Server, xVM Ops Center, Logical Domains and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and how they interrelate.
Sun is offering a free training course to assist those IT professionals who manage rapid growth, data center consolidation, and enterprise compliance. Entitled, "Getting Started with Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0," this Web-based course introduces enrollees to the features, benefits, and architecture of the xVM Ops Center and explains basic implementation procedures and technical skills training on how to configure and administer the data center management tool.
Sun xVM Ops Center offers a cost effective, centralized platform for complete physical and virtual machine management and visibility in heterogeneous environments through intelligent automation that can help to significantly lower IT costs. The launch of version 2.0 announced in late January has brought with it many new features and benefits for customers including a complete Virtual Machine lifecycle management for xVM Server, heterogeneous data center support, Virtual Machine File System (NFS/CIFS), and much more.
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