xVM Portfolio Gaining Momentum

The Sun XVM Portfolio is Gaining Significant Momentum after its Launch recently & now @ VMworld Virtualization conference, Las Vegas 2008 .

Sun XVM Portfolio consists of the 4 Products namely :

i) xVM Server

ii) xVM Ops Centre

iii) xVM Virtual Box

iv) Sun VDI


To know more about Sun xVM Portfolio of products which covers Virtualization space ranging from "Desktop to Datacenter" : Check out the video Preso on xVM Portfolio

Why two hypervisors from Sun : xVM Server & xVM Virtualbox ??

This is the question arising in mind for me & many : "Why has Sun two hypervisors? When should we use xVM server? When should we use xVM Virtualbox?"

I find this question a little bit strange. No one asks: When should we use VMware Workstation, when should we use VMware ESX, and what´s with VMware GSX ... sorry ... VMware Server.

So the difference is simple: Use xVM Virtualbox for your virtualisation needs on your desktop and use xVM Server for the virtualisation in the datacenter. It´s as simple as that. Future developments in both classes of virtualisation may give us a area where both systems are viable ways to do the job (e.g. there are plans to integrate live migration to VirtualBox), but at the moment this should give you a guideline. Of course you could use xVM Server on your desktop system and VirtualBox on your server, but that aren´t their primary use cases.

xVM Server Demo with Steve

Virtualization with Sun xVM Server - Interview and Demo with Steve Wilson , Have a look at RedmondTV for exclusive Video.