Upset about Delayed Viridian Features? SWsoft Says Try Virtuozzo

If you are upset about Microsoft postponing certain features from its Viridian hypervisor, SWsoft suggests you stick with the Windows host platform but that you take a look at Virtuozzo.

Concerned about support? SWsoft said they are a Gold certified partner with Microsoft, and they work closely together to support customers on the Windows platform. And SWsoft is backed by 24-hour, 7-day support from Microsoft for customers operating Windows-based applications within Virtuzzo virtual environments.

Still not sure? Ilya Baimetov, Director of Technology at SWsoft, offers a few reasons on his Blog why you might want to give Virtuozzo a try if you are waiting on certain features from Viridian. He writes:

1. Virtuozzo has always had dynamic resource allocation – you can change how much memory, CPU power, disk space and quite a few of other parameters of a VE (virtual environment) on the fly, in real time. No other server virtualization technology – not VMware ESX, not XEN – support dynamic resource management.

2. On Linux, Virtuozzo does live VE migration without SAN or any other shared storage, and we’re making very good progress in implementing the same capability on Windows. Look for that to be delivered soon.

3. Virtuozzo supports as many CPU cores (or any other resource) as the host OS supports. And for those who need real scalability, Virtuozzo supports Itanium. Again, no other server virtualization technology scales nearly as well. Virtuozzo supports any number of CPUs, any amount of memory or disk space, any number of devices – on the host and in the guests. And there is no performance penalty. When an application in a guest is using 8 CPUs, it does it with the native efficiency of the underlying OS. As for VMware ESX, if you ran any heavy workload in a VM with 4 virtual CPUs, you know the difference very well, especially if you had few more VMs on the same machine.

You can find out more information about Virtuozzo, here.