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September 10 -- (WEB HOST INSDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Soon to release its xVM Server, Sun Microsystems (sun.com) has released the source code for its hypervisor-based virtualization products and has also expanded its collaboration with Microsoft, becoming a member of its server certification program, making it easier to integrate and interoperate its programs with Sun's xVM suite of cross-platform virtualization products.
According to Sun's announcement earlier this week, by making its code available through the open source community OpenVM.org (openvm.org) and cooperating with virtualization competitor Microsoft, Sun hopes to make its xVM Server software an open, flexible and data center-grade hypervisor. It will work with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and prior versions.
The arrangement will also benefit both Microsoft and Sun customers because it will strengthen interoperability and create a joint support experience for virtual infrastructure deployments.
"Sun is committed to offering interoperability with Microsoft's products, so that our mutual customers can run their choice of operating systems on any virtualization platform on Windows-compatible x64 servers from Sun," Sun Microsystems xVM division vice president Steve Wilson said in a statement. "From the desktop to the datacenter, Sun offers a broad portfolio of products ideal for virtualization. By collaborating with Microsoft, we are delivering on the promise of cross-platform virtualization and most importantly, helping customers reap the full benefits of their virtualization investments."
Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program will also help offer Sun and Microsoft customers the Solaris Operating System as a certified guest on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Sun, in turn, is expanding its Microsoft support by providing Sun Ray thin client to let customers access Windows as a guest OS running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
"Interoperability is an important requirement for customers to adopt virtualization for their data centers and desktops," said Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing within Microsoft's Server and Tools Business. "Together with Sun, we are equally committed to ensuring Windows Server runs well on Sun's virtualization products and that the same is true for the Solaris operating system running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V."
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