E’ passato parecchio tempo dal mio ultimo post sul blog: quell’ultimo post ribadiva la disponibilità gratuita di VMWare ESXi.
Dopo quella mossa di VMWare, anche Citrix ha pensato di dover fare qualcosa per poter guadagnare un po’ terreno nel tentativo di raggiungere la concorrenza e la mossa è stata quella di rilasciare XenServer 5 gratuitamente con tanto di tool utilissimi per la gestione di più server fisici e, soprattutto, il supporto per la migrazione delle macchine virtuali da un server fisico ad un altro.
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On 29th July 2008 VMWare announced that its hypervisor ESX is available for free download from the website.
The full press release is available here: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/esxi_pricing.html
To download the VMWare ESXi a registration is required, but after a few minutes spent typing data into the form you’ll be able to download what has been considered the flagship product from VMWare.
Probably VMWare wants to limit the ascending of Citrix (Xen Hypervisor), Sun and Microsoft: all of them are providing virtualization technologies.
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This article is written in English just to share these informations with the largest number of IT experts.
I recently decided to move the CSS Mendel Institute to a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure without buying any kind of software from VMWare but only using free products (exception: Microsoft licenses for guest OS). Prosegui la lettura…
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