Virtualization

Management

BMC (acquired ProactiveNet Analytics) 

CiRBA

eG Innovations

Integrien

Netuitive

Nimsoft (acquired Indicative Software) 

Novel (acquired PlateSpin)

Perfman (The Information Systems Manager Inc.)

Uptime Software

Virtual Instruments

Presentation, Desktop and Application Virtualization

Altiris

• Software Virtualization Solution

Apple

• Boot Camp (boot either OS X or Windows on an Intel-based Mac)

AppStream

Brocade

• Tapestry Application Resource Manager

Ceedo Technologies

• Ceedo Enterprise
• Ceedo Personal

Cisco (TopSpin)

• VFrame

Citrix (bought XenSource)

• Ardence
• Presentation Server

ClearCube

• Hardware
• Software

Desktone

• vDesktop

EasyVMX (creates VM to run in VMware Player)

Endeavors

• AppExpress
• StreamFlow

Gladinet

• Cloud Desktop

Jaluna Inc.

• OSware (article)

KACE

• Virtual Kontainers (Computers In Motion acquisition – Virtual Browser Kontainers, Virtual Data Kontainers)
• Virtual KBOX Systems Management Appliances (V-KBOX 1100, 1200)
• Virtual KBOX Systems Deployment Appliances (V-KBOX 2100, 2200)

· includes K-BOX Virtual Remote Appliance

Kidaro (acquired by Microsoft)

• Managed Workspace
• ToGo (USB)

Hyperic

• HQ

InstallFree

• MiniBridge
• Bridge
• Desktop

Leostream

• P>V Direct
• Virtual Desktop Connection Broker

Marathon Technologies

• everRun FT HA

Microsoft

• Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
• Application Virtualization (App-V; was SoftGrid)

NEC

• Virtual PC Center (VPPC)

PlateSpin

• PowerConvert
• PowerRecon

Propero

• workSpace

Qlusters

• openQRM

Qumranet (acquired by Red Hat)

• Solid ICE

rPath

• rBuilder

Sentillion

• vThere

Symantec VERITAS Server Foundation Suite

• VERITAS Application Director (Ejasent

UpScale)

• VERITAS Configuration Manager (Relicore Clarity

)

• VERITAS Provisioning Manager (Jareva OpForce)
• VERITAS Patch Manager (LiveState)

Terracotta

ToutVirtual

• VirtualIQ Pro
• Provision IQ

Trango Virtual Processors (acquired by VMware – Mobile Virtualization Platform)

Trigence

• AE

Trustware

• BufferZone (security)

Wyse Technology

• Thin Computing

VDIworks

• Virtual Desktop Platform

Virtual Bridges

• Win4VDI VERDE (Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment); consolidate desktops on Linux and Solaris servers
• Win4Solaris (Windows on Solaris)
• Win4BSD (Windows on FreeBSD and PC-BSD)
• Win4Lin (Windows on Linux)

Server Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Acronis

• True Image Virtual Edition
• Full Circle (P2P/P2V/V2P/V2V) (article)

Amazon

• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Appistry (previously Tsunami Research, a grid vendor)

• Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF), Community Edition

BMC Software

• BladeLogic (acquired by BMC Software)
• Applications Release Manager
• Operations Manager
• Orchestration Manager
• RealOps (Acquired by BMC Software)

Boomi

• SaaS Integrator - on demand integrator for any application

CA

• Advanced Systems Management (manages VMware, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Sun, VERITAS, Red Hat)

Cassatt

• Active Response

CiRBA

• Placement Intelligence Technology

Cloudkick

• cloud interoperability - heterogeneous management and migration

Cohesive Flexible Technologies

• Elastic Server On Demand (custom application stacks, built from components, virtualization-ready, deploy to a cloud)

DataSynapse

• GridServer
• FabricServer
• Federator

Egenera

• PAN Manager
• BladeFrame

Enigmatec

• Management System
• Virtual Orchestrator

Enomaly

• Elastic Computing Platform (virtual cloud infrastructure)

FastScale

• Composer Suite
• Article

Fusion Dynamic

• DynamicOE

Grid Systems

• Fura Enterprise (Commercial and Open Editions)
• Fura in the Cloud

HP

• Virtual Server Environment

IBM

• The Research Hypervisor (rHype)
• Live Partition Mobility (p570 with POWER6)
• Blue Cloud (“Internet OS”)
• RESERVOIR (Resources and SERvices Virtualization without Barriers… technologies to access Blue Cloud)

Kazeon (GRC support for VMs)

• Information Server
• Information Center

Memopal (online backup)

• Cloud Storage Platform

• Cloud Search

Microsoft

• Blog
• Virtual PC (supported guests) à free
• Virtual Server (Connectix) (R2 SP1 1Q07 uses Intel/AMD Virtualization Assists) à free
• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (“Viridian”)
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 (free, standalone)
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (“Carmine”)

· VMM 2007 Workgroup Edition

· Azure Services Platform (“Project Red Dog”) (articles: 1, 2)

NetIQ

• Operational VMware Management
• AppManager ResponseTime for Microsoft Windows
• Analysis Center
• Secure Configuration Manager
• Security Manager
• Third Brigade Deep Security

Opalis Software

• Integration Server

Optena

• OpenEMS

Optinuity

• Oasis

Oracle

• VM

Parallels (an SWsoft company)

• Workstation / Desktop for Mac (run multiple OSs on an Intel-based Mac without rebooting)
• Server / Enterprise Server
• Compressor Workstation / Server

PHD Technologies Inc.

• esXpress (backup/restore and DR for Virtual Infrastructure 3)

Platform Computing

• Load Sharing Facility
• Enterprise Grid Orchestrator
• VM Orchestrator

Red Hat

• Appliance Operating System (AOS)

RingCube

• MojoPac (portable)

Scalent Systems

• Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE)

Stonesoft

• StoneGate Virtual Firewall/VPN appliances

Sun / Oracle

• Dynamic System Domains
• Logical Domains
• Solaris Containers Blueprint
• VirtualBox (supports OVF)

Surgient

• Virtualization Control Server Platform
• Virtual Lab Applications: VQMS (testing), VTMS (training), VDMS (demos)

SWsoft (now Parallels)

• Virtuozzo (based on OpenVZ)
• OpenVZ (open source) with live migration

Twilio

• cloud telephony - build and scale the voice applications

Veeam

• Backup & Replication
• Many other products

Virtual Iron / Oracle

• Server Virtualization
• Virtual Infrastructure Management
• Server-Hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (with Provision Networks Virtual Access Broker)
• Free Single Server Virtualization

VirtualLogix

• VLX (RTOS/Linux/Unix)

Virtual Machine Creator (for VMPlayer but uses QEMU)

Virtualization Security

• Altor Networks, Blue Lane, Catbird, Montego Networks, StillSecure

Vizioncore (suite of products to safeguard and optimize virtual environments)

VMManager (create VMs to run inside Vmware Player)

VMToolkit (Convert VMWare VMDK to Microsoft VHD)

VMware (red = free)
Data Center
Virtual Datacenter OS (VDC-OS)	VMware Infrastructure (VI) Editions: ESXi, Foundation, Standard, Enterprise
Hypervisors (run on hardware)	ESX, ESXi; note: ESX has a CLI (“Service Console”); ESXi has a Remote CLI
ESX Boot Instructions	PXE Boot, USB Boot
Virtual Machine Monitors (run on OS)	VMware Server; VMware Tools; Legacy: GSX Server; Scripting API, Programming API
Application vServices	http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/application.html
Availability	VMotion, Storage VMotion, HA (restart VM), Fault Tolerance (failover VM using vLockstep technology), Consolidated Backup, VMware Data Recovery
Security	VMsafe
Scalability	Virtual SMP
Infrastructure vServices	http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/infastructure.html
vCompute	Distributed Resource Scheduler, VMmark (benchmark), VMDirect
vNetwork	Distributed Virtual Switch, Network VMotion
vStorage	VMFS, vStorage Thin Provisioning, Linked Clones (store VMs as deltas from golden copy), vStorage APIs
Cloud vServices	http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/cloud-vservices
vCenter Server (was VirtualCenter)	http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/vc/
Management vServices	http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/simplified_management.html
Application Management	AppSpeed, B-hive Conductor
Infrastructure Management	Lifecycle Manager, Lab Manager, Stage Manager, Update Manager, Site Recovery Manager, VI Toolkit, Capacity Planner, vCenter Server, Host Profiles, Linked Mode, ConfigControl, Orchestrator, CapacityIQ, Chargeback
End-to-End Management	Converter (P2V Assistant, VM Importer), VMware APIs/SDKs, VMware Studio, VMware Ready
VirtualCenter for VMware Server	http://www.vmware.com/products/server/vc.html
Desktop
Enterprise	First step of vClient initiative to deliver “universal clients”
View 3 (includes what was VDI)	Enterprise Edition includes VI3 and View Manager 3; Premier Edition adds View Composer and ThinApp
View Manager 3 (was VDM)	Connects authorized users to virtual desktops; Unified Access, Virtual Printing, Multimedia Redirection
View Composer	Centralized desktop provisioning and update in a storage- and time-efficient manner using Linked Clones
ThinApp (application virtualization)	Package and run applications without installation
Offline Desktop (client virtualization)	Synchs virtual and physical desktops using check out/in; unified management of desktops
ACE	Provision rights-managed, self-policing assured computing environments to PC, unmanaged desktop, USB
Technical
Workstation	Create and run multiple VMs on your desktop-laptop
Consumer
Fusion	Run multiple OSs on an Intel-based Mac without rebooting
Player	Run appliances or VMs created by VMware, Microsoft, or Symantec LiveState Recovery disks
Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP)	Software embedded on a mobile phone to decouple the applications and data from the underlying hardware
Other links
Blogs	http://blogs.vmware.com
Compatibility Guides	http://www.vmware.com/resources/guides.html
Compliance Checker for VMware ESX	http://www.configuresoft.com/virtualizationville-compliance-checker.aspx
Licensing	http://www.vmware.com/support/licensing.html
Podcasts	http://www.vmware.com/resources/podcasts/
Publications	http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/
Technical Resources	http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/
Virtual Appliance Marketplace	http://www.vmware.com/appliances/
Virtualization Development Center (login)	https://www.vmdev.net/ (Community Source, I/O Vendor Partner, Academic, SDK, SRM, DME)
White Papers	http://www.vmware.com/solutions/whitepapers.html
Converter Support:	Generation 1: not supported Generation 2: ESX 1.0/1.1, GSX 1.x Generation 3: Workstation 3.x, ESX 1.5, GSX 2.x Generation 4: Workstation 4.x, ESX 2.x, GSX 3.x Generation 5: Workstation 5.x, ESX 3.x, Server 1.x, Player 1.x

XenSource

• Xen (OS support)
• Xen FAQ
• Xen Wiki
• Xen 3.0
• XenExpress
• XenServer
• XenEnterprise

XTS

• Configuration Report Generator (free, works with XenApp 4.x)
• Introspect for XenApp

Yahoo!

· Traffic Server (app server for cloud services)

· Hadoop

Zuora

• cloud commerce - subscription billing and recurring payments

Other

• Kernel-based Virtual Machine for Linux (KVM) / QEMU / Q
• User-mode Linux

I/O Virtualization

NextIO

· ExpressConnect

Neterion

· Xframe V-NIC

QLogic (was NetXen)

· Intelligent Ethernet Adapters

3Leaf Systems

· Dyanamic Data Center (Server/ASIC/Software)

Xsigo

· I/O Director (1 cable from server to director, share physical network cards in director; server uses virtual NICs/HBAs)

· I/O Modules (1/10 GbE, FC, InfiniBand connectivity in I/O Director)

· Expansion Switch (connects more servers to I/O Director)

Solarflare Communications 

· Solarstorm (10GbE NIC)

Hardware assists

Intel

• Virtualization Technology (Intel VT ß “Vanderpool” and “Silvervale”)
• Enterprise Blade Server Family
• Intel Deployment Manager by VERITAS OpForce
• Technologies and Trends
• Standards (and here)

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

• Virtualization Technology (AMD-V ß “Pacifica”)

Organizations/Standards/References

libvirt: The Virtualization API

DMTF

• Open Cloud Standards Incubator
• System Virtualization, Partitioning, and Clustering (SVPC) Work Group
• Virtualization Management Initiative (VMAN)

· Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) and here and here

· System Virtualization Profile and other specifications

SNIA

• Cloud Storage TWG
• Hypervisor Storage Interfaces (HSI) TWG

Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK)

UC Berkeley paper, "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing"

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

• Working Definition of Cloud Computing
• Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB)DoD Cloud Computing Security Challenges
• Information Technology Laboratory Perspectives on Cloud Computing and Standards

The Open Cloud Manifesto (related blog post)

An introduction to virtualization

Comparison of virtual machines

Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements

• x86 has no execution mode to trap privileged instructions so such code is dynamically recompiled

Cloud Computing Expo

Open Cirrus

privatecloud.com

Terminology

Hypervisors (software that creates virtual hardware than runs directly on physical hardware)

Paravirtualization (similar but not identical emulation of underlying hardware; guest OS is aware it is running in a VM)

Parallel Virtual Machine (network of heterogeneous machines used as a single distributed parallel processor)

32-bit:

• x86 (aka IA-32)

64-bit:

• x86-64 (aka x64): AMD64, Intel64 (ß EM64T ß IA-32e ß Clackamas Technology)
• IA-64

Virtualization TCO Calculators

Technical Architecture Solutions TCO Calculator (worksheet)

VMware TCO Calculator (web-based)

Articles

Container-Based OS Virtualization

Hardware Virtualization: the Nuts & Bolts

Intel Core i7 processor

Everything you need to know about your PC’s processor

Virtualization Predictions