[ale] RHEL 5 is out

[Jeffrey C. Lightner]

Perhaps I'm a bit of a pessimist but I'm thinking this may simply be a
precursor to M$ coming up with a way of insuring Vista ONLY works in
this virtualization model and not in others.   

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:24 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 3/15/07, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:47 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> > > For commercial stuff I'll stick with RH over Suse since at least they
> > > haven't sold out to M$.
> >
> > :-) I've sworn to never go with either of them personally.
> >
> > -Jim P.
> 
> Stirring the pot, but what do you guys think about the below part of
> the latest Novell / MS roadmap.
> 
> Copied from page 5/6 of http://www.moreinterop.com/tca-roadmap.pdf
> 
> Personally I like it a lot and it would not have come about without
> the Novell/MS contract.
> 
> +++
> Virtualization Management
> The first data center automation solutions from Novell and Microsoft
> manage compute and storage servers on behalf of applications or
> services hosted in virtual machines.
> 
> Novell Data Center Management Solutions
> The "brain" of Novell data center management is Novell ZENworks(r)
> Orchestrator. It allows for policy-based automation across
> heterogeneous environments. ZENworks Orchestrator takes a heuristic
> approach, continually learning from previous events and resource
> demands.
> 
> Virtual machine management is critical to efficiently implementing
> virtualization in the data center and achieving a solid return on
> investment. Novell ZENworks Virtual Machine Management provides the
> following heterogeneous virtual machine management capabilities:
> ? Provides lifecycle management of VMware*, Xen and Microsoft virtual machines
> ? Discovers servers for virtual machine commissioning
> ? Discovers offline and online virtual machines
> ? Provides deployment, redeployment and rollback of virtual machines
> ? Manages physical, virtual and storage compute nodes
> ? Features cluster-aware virtualization
> ? Includes policy-based dynamic workload deployment
> 
> Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
> Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (available in the
> second half of 2007) is a standalone server application that manages
> virtualized data centers running either Virtual Server or Windows
> virtualization. Virtual Machine Manager is tightly integrated in the
> System Center family of products, and together they provide
> comprehensive management of physical and virtual environments. Upon
> its release, Virtual Machine Manager will also be able to centrally
> manage Linux* guests. Organizations can use it to:
> ? Deploy Linux VMs in VHD format from the central library
> ? Configure the virtual machine parameters for Linux VMs, such as RAM
> and disk space
> ? Control the state of the virtual machine (start/stop, pause/resume
> and save/restore)
> ? Live migrate a running Linux VM from one physical host to another
> 
> Virtual Machine Manager provides IT professionals with a simple and
> cost-effective solution for consolidating underutilized physical
> servers to virtual machines. In addition, it enables rapid
> provisioning of new virtual servers, centralizes management, and takes
> advantage of standard hardware and file-level storage.
> +++
> 
> Greg