Scalent Adds AIX Support to Virtual Operating Environment

Published: May 3, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Scalent Systems, the creator of a set of systems software for virtualizing networks of servers and storage and creating a giant resource pool for applications to play in, announced this week that it has tweaked its Virtual Operating Environment so it can now support IBM's AIX variant of Unix.

Scalent's V/OE software, at the 1.0 release, was announced in November 2005, and it initially supported Linux and Windows platforms, allowing them to be ganged up and carved up as need be by the applications that run atop those operating systems and their underlying hardware platforms. V/OE 2.0 shipped at the end of last year, and with that release Sun Microsystems's Solaris Unix variant and its underlying Sparc and X64 hardware were added to the pool. And with this week's announcement, Big Blue's AIX operating system and its System p5 servers as well as its PowerPC-based blade servers can now be added to a V/OE.

The V/OE software can manage the various virtualization environments on Linux and Windows, including XenSource's Xen and VMware's ESX Server hypervisors; support for Microsoft's Virtual Server will be added for Windows platforms at some point in the future. Solaris containers and AIX logical partitions are supported in their respective Unix environments as well.

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