More on the Virtualization News from This Week

Richard Adhikari of InternetNews has a round-up of the virtualization news that came out of Microsoft this week, including the forthcoming Hyper-V Server 2008. Richard mentioned the Live Migration demo that was done for the announcement in Bellevue yesterday:

Live migration, which involves moving a virtual machine from one physical server to another while its running, has been one area in which Microsoft is playing catch-up. VMware has offered live migration since 2004, while Citrix-owned XenSource, supplier of the open source Xen hypervisor, has done so since last year. The next version of the Microsoft Hyper-V server will have the live migration capabilities, Microsoft said.

Also of note is the fact that VMware's annual VMWorld festival takes places in Vegas (baby, Vegas) next week. We'll be scanning ServerWatch for news from Amy Newman, the site's managing editor, who will be in Vegas reporting on the conference.