XenSource and XenEnterprise 3.2 Beta

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Mar 12, 20071 min

It looks as though XenSource has announced a beta availability of XenEnterprise 3.2. Roger Klorese, Senior Director of Product and Solutions Marketing at XenSource, announced on his blog site that in spite of a minor revision change, this product update is far from "minor". There are literally hundreds of enhancements, both large and small. They list the following new features and capabilities: Support for new g

It looks as though XenSource has announced a beta availability of XenEnterprise 3.2. Roger Klorese, Senior Director of Product and Solutions Marketing at XenSource, announced on his blog site that in spite of a minor revision change, this product update is far from “minor”. There are literally hundreds of enhancements, both large and small.

They list the following new features and capabilities:

  • Support for new guests (Windows 2000 Server SP4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1)

  • Improved support for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP guests:

    • Support for SMP XenVMs (with up to 4 vCPUs)

    • Suspend/resume support

    • Greater than 2GB of guest RAM

    • Signed drivers with WHQL certification
  • Resource controls for CPU, network and disk bandwidth for prioritization of co-resident guests

  • Serviceability enhancements

  • Basic iSCSI SAN support

  • VLAN trunk support for virtual bridges

  • CPU, memory, disk and network resource control

With these and other enhancements, XenEnterprise becomes an even better choice than before, and XenSource brings their product more in line with many of the features offered in VMware’s ESX Server platform.

You can download the beta version, here.