You probably noticed because the blogoshpere is full of it but we can’t let this event unmentioned : VMware unveiled the successor to the VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 suite : VMware vSphere 4. Just to be clear this is the name of the suite, not just “ESX 4″.

Interesting to see is that the various editions of vSphere that will become available. Check them out here : http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html . 

VMware vSphere products will be available for sale on May the 21st 2009, until then you can still buy VMware Infrastructure 3 products (dunno why you would but anyway).

Check out the official press release including product and pricing information here [http://vmware.com/company/news/releases/vsphere-launch.html].

We could put a lot of info in this post but lots of people have done that already so I thought I would provide you with a link to an article on Yellow-Bricks where Duncan is keeping a nice list of published articles.

Today Microsoft released their Hyper-V Server 2008 product. This is Microsofts attempt to compete with VMWare ESX 3i so it’s free and you want it! They say…

Microsoft is aiming at the following use cases:

• Test and Development
• Basic Server Consolidation
• Branch Office Consolidation
• Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI) Read the rest of this entry »

Citrix has released the new edition of XENServer. This version mainly focusses on High Availabilty and takes this to a new level! As told before in earlier posts Citrix has partnered up with Marathon and created a super High Available infrastructure. This infrastructure is able to create a XenApp environment that is so high available that when a physical server which hosts a virtual XenApp server dies, another server takes over the virtual machine without users losing sessions and even worse their work. There’s a very cool interview with the “Hypervisor Guru” Simon Crosby on the citrix website in which he explains the new features and high availabilty options.

With the realease of the XENServer 5.0 a new version of XENCenter is released aswell. In the first version of XENcenter a lot of small issues made the management a lot more complicated than for example in Virtual Center. With the new release of XENcenter a big step forward is made. Later on this month I’ll publish a review of XENCenter 5.0 on this Blog.