X86 Server Virtualization

Tenkine Server channel Since the beginning of 21st century, when VMware released its server product line, the server virtualization of the X86 architecture has evolved into a vibrant market, and in the early years, it was almost the VMware family. But in 2006, Xen released its first commercial version, and then Microsoft released Hyper-V in 2008, and there were more and more alternatives in the market. The initial server virtualization was used to reduce costs, and later, with the advent of cloud computing, the server virtualization market warmed up again. X86 architecture ...

As we all know, in recent years x86 server has been more and more widely used in various occasions, from file servers, Web servers to mail servers to large database servers, virtualization integration, especially in this year's Intel E7 series processor release, but also set off a wave of upsurge, Pointed at the Enterprise key application market Overlord-minicomputer. The IDC Global Server Research report shows that by the end of 2010, x86 servers exceeded 95% of global server shipments and nearly 60% of global server turnover. Market segments, in recent years, 4-way and 8-way service ...

"Tenkine Server channel February 26 News" October 2012, IBM launched the Trina plan, relying on the plan to launch the day of the application server, the Trina application server inherits the Power server technology high RAS characteristics, and has a more prominent economic and open source advantage. IBM launches the Trina plan to provide an alternative x86 solution for enterprise users. The market thinks that X86+linux distributed + Open source architecture is synonymous with flexibility and low cost, while Power+aix commercial + centralized architecture is the most stable and safe ...

With the extensive deployment of multi-core systems, clusters, grids and even cloud computing in recent years, virtualization technology has become more and more advantageous in business applications, not only reducing it costs, but also enhancing system security and reliability, and the concept of virtualization has gradually deepened into people's daily work and life. Aiming at the x86 platform, this paper first gives the basic concept and classification of virtualization technology, then expounds the realization principle and challenge of pure software virtualization, and finally introduces ...

"Tenkine Server channel July 21" Gartner recently released its Magic Quadrant for x86 server virtualization this year, and VMware and Microsoft continue to dominate the open source solution. 　　The Gartner Magic Quadrant is focused solely on the commercial support version of the hypervisor-whether it is open source or closed, and ignores the wide range of pure open source options available today. VMware continues to hold considerable market share and utilizes its ESXi hypervisor with vsphere and vcenter ...

Chinese enterprises in the largest number of small and medium-sized enterprises, faced with a shortage of money, and the reality of lack of manpower. 　　Faced with the development of enterprises have to put into IT systems but not very strong financial backing, not fully equipped with the IT operation of the team, so can not endlessly expand the hardware environment, can not be exhaustive on the line all the needs of the IT system how to do? Server virtualization technology can be a lifeline. Virtualization is a trend, server virtualization can quickly achieve ROI, is currently the most prevalent and most widely deployed virtualization technology. ...

Virtualization technology, like cloud computing, is a hot spot in the IT world, but unlike cloud computing, which is only a few years old, virtualization has half a century of history. From the start of mainframes, to minicomputer or unixhttp://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13995.html "> server virtualization, to today's x86 server virtualization, is also a more than 10-year history, VMware established since 1998 in the server virtualization market for a long time ...

Is the so-called "world trend, a long time must be divided, long time will be combined", the enterprise's IT architecture development also experienced a long evolution, from the initial mainframe era after the minicomputer dominated for a moment, now the development of cloud computing has injected new vitality into the enterprise's IT architecture. The implementation of cloud computing can support IT systems to respond more quickly to business changes and development, and to quickly implement new business processes based on new business requirements. In terms of architecture, cloud computing concentrates the underlying computing resources into a pool of infrastructure resources and provides it to users in a flexible multi-tenant way, while shortening the deployment cycle ...

Server virtualization is a technology that consolidates x86 servers and improves efficiency. Any enterprise with more than one physical server should have its own virtualization strategy for deploying a highly virtualized x86 server platform. Currently, enterprise users have embraced virtualization and are beginning to prioritize deployment scenarios. More than half of the x86 workloads have been virtualized, with Gartner predicting that by 2016 China's 70% X86 Enterprise Servers will be virtualized. Avoid vendor abduction deploy multiple management processes ...

In the Fortune 100, each member is a customer of VMware, even the competitor Microsoft. But according to Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant series of reports, VMware is no longer the only lead vendor in the x86 virtualization marketplace. Last year, VMware was the only leader, with a wide gap in its competitors. But according to a Gartner survey last week, Microsoft and Citrix and VMware are both in the lead manufacturer's list. Gartner says ...