Evaluation and selection of three major virtualization management software

Evaluation and selection of three major virtualization management software

In the past, the simple application environment was just an operating system, a hardware host, and now virtualization technology can make our computers more powerful, and even make their hardware resources far beyond the actual CPU performance and capacity size.

Whether it's a server or a client, virtualization frees it from the shackles of the past, but it also leads to the management of virtualized environments. In the virtual environment, if the virtual machine can not be effectively managed, each action is different from the next, and will form a disorganized system. Similarly, data backup and server availability design are going into a vicious circle.

We hope that the manufacturers of virtualized devices can provide a unified software platform, it can control the entire architecture through built-in tools and methods, but the management of a variety of virtualized devices is completely different from one another, making this unified management tool required to have a variety of product accessories or application interfaces, Adapt and control the changes to the various virtualization devices. Below we will select some virtualization Device management platform software for evaluation, in order to evaluate the pros and cons of several software in use.

The evaluation target of virtualization management software

What we call the virtualization Device management platform comes from manufacturers of virtualized devices, such as VMware, Microsoft and XenSource (recently purchased by Citrix Systems). There is a dispute between the startup of virtualized device management software and traditional server management software.

In this article we need to test the three parts of these software, the first part we will examine VMware, Microsoft and xensource the management of these three kinds of software, the features that are focused on include their virtualization Management device platform, It is also necessary to examine the management platform that the respective vendors have configured for their virtualized devices; the second part is to compare the functions they provide; The third part is the products that the manufacturers of each virtualization device will release this year.

For the way in which the management of virtualized devices may be used, we have identified 5 areas in a broader context:

* How is the snapshot version of the virtualization device tracked?

* How to move, add, and change the hosts of virtualized devices, their customers, and their own managed applications?

* How to effectively monitor virtualization equipment and applications?

* How do users and administrators manage roles between virtualized devices?

* In any way, what information methods do we use to help us determine why a virtualized device has changed radically?

We will use these issues as a basis for our testing, testing all virtualized management products.