Microsoft Virtualization Products Delayed

[jasonboche]

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Hmm... with this news, I wonder if this still means Microsoft's favorite comparison of their future[/b] virtualization products are still far superior to the virtualization products VMware has available in the market today[/b].

Not so easy is it Microsoft?

Who will be the first to put 512 VMs on a 64 bit Windows host?

[chandlm · Accepted solution]

Very nice...

We had a 'demonstration' of the comparisons a few months ago which wasn't even as realistic as you mention. Our slideshow was comparing Longhorn 'someday' features with ESX 2.5.x. I found it entertaining in a way that I'm sure was not intended!

[dpomeroy]

The sad part is you know whats wrong with those slides/demo, but people in management often don't. Thats how the MS FUD machine works.

[daniel_uk]

Tell me what MS product has ever shipped to time specified?

With VI3 and other VMware products nested in IT directors (not the techies) future plans and strategys 2007 is a big year for Virtualisation and it looks like MS will miss the boat to even get a toe let alone a foot in the door!

Funny bit is they are proud of scaling a Virtual Host to a unpractical amount of guest volumes!

[jasonboche]

A co worker mentioned the other day that apparently MS put on a display of Microsoft Virtualization running on an HP Super Dome. I wonder what they were comparing that too? What wording will marketing come up with that explains MS must sit on top of Unix to run on a Super Dome?

[mreferre]

Jason,

that wouldn't certainly be Windows Virtualization / Viridian. I know HP does provide support (or will provide support) for Windows virtual machines on their Itanium box but this is an HP "hypervisor" not the Windows hypervisor. If Ken jumps in might be able to tell you more.

CERTAINLY MS is NOT looking into a Viridian port onto Itanium. This is well known.

Massimo.

[Ken_Cline]

Yep...there are two HP-specific virtualization technologies for IA64, one runs on top of HP-UX, the other is a bare-metal virtualization product. You can also run Virtuozzo on top of Win64 on IA64...and of course Xen does/will soon work on IA64 - so there are lots of options in that space, but that's not the "commodity" HW (x86 / x86-64) where VMware lives and rules.

[jasonboche]

Update for this thread:

Microsoft cuts key Longhorn virtualization features

Features would have helped it compete withVMware[/b]

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=620563

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