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Volume 4, Number 17 -- May 2, 2007

SWsoft Offers Turnkey Virtualization Starter Pack for Linux, Windows

Published: May 2, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Server virtualization software maker SWsoft last week announced a low-cost starter pack for setting up virtual private servers on Linux and Windows servers.

At the end of March, SWsoft announced a deal that will see the company distribute its Virtuozzo virtual private server software with Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 operating system. Novell is not distributing Virtuozzo, it is the other way around--SWsoft is being given permission to distribute SLES 10 with its Virtuozzo product as a single bundle with full tech support from Novell. SLES 10, as we all know, includes an integrated Xen hypervisor that will eventually support Windows as well as Red Hat Linuxes inside virtual machine partitions as well as SLES 10 instances.

This deal from SWsoft is taking a different tack in getting Virtuozzo into customer hands. Specifically, the Virtuozzo Starter Pack is being sold for both Windows and Linux, and includes licensing for setting up four virtual private servers on a machine that has either one or two processor sockets. The starter pack also includes the VZP2V tools, which converts physical servers into virtual server instances that can be run inside Virtuozzo virtual private servers. These tools include capacity planning features to make sure the operating system and applications running on the physical server will be given the correct resources on the virtual server to deliver the same performance. The management tools also do virtual server provisioning, monitoring, backup, recovery, and cloning. And, for those customers who need to upgrade to the more scalable full version of the Virtuozzo product, SWsoft is offering an upgrade path, too.

The Virtuozzo Starter Pack is available now and costs $1,198 per physical server.

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