Microsoft Corp. on Monday released the Release Candidate for its Virtual Server 2005 software and announced that the product would ship by the end of the year in two versions: an Enterprise Edition and a Standard Edition. While the features remain the same across the two product versions, the Standard Edition will support up to four CPUs while the Enterprise Edition will support up to 32 physical CPUs.
Microsoft Offers Virtual Server 2005 Release Candidate
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Hi,
Does anybody have an idea of what sort of performance you can get out of this? (e.g., compared to running native, as well as, say VMWare 4.5).
Thanks,
Victor
I think take up of this product will play along the same lines as Citrix vs Terminal Server, with VMWare playing the role of Citrix.
VMWare is well established and well known. It has the range of management tools to go with the core virtulisation technology that make it’s product stand above the current MS offering (just as Citrix have above TS). Also, VMWare are platform agnostic (as long as its x86!) and provide support for a wide range of guest OSes.
With regard to the above post about performance, it would be interesting to see how the performance of a RH or Suse install under the MS offering compares to the same under VMWAre ESX (and then repeat the test for Server 2003). If MS want serious adoption of the product, *nix OSs have to run as fast (or faster) under their VM as they do in those from VMware.