HP - New competition for vmware?
"HP also announced that HP Integrity Virtual Machines, which allows multiple operating system instances to share a single CPU as well as I/O resources, is expected to be available later this year for HP-UX 11i. Support for Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 as well as Linux is planned for 2006. "
Looks like some interesting stuff.
Here's the info on their virtualization stuff to-date (be sure to watch their movies):
http://www.hp.com/go/vse
They've been doing it for a while with their own stuff, but the multi-os looks like they're going to put a (small) dent in the vmware esx market. I'm sure it will not be something that small companies can afford... which is what is very nice about ESX (runs on inexpsensive x86 servers)... I wonder what an entry level start on HP's solution would run. The two server setup I'm using at my day-job ran about $80k... that was for 3 dell servers (one of them is a cold spare) a 2tb san, a HP Gig-E switch and the vmware licensing... Anyone know what it might cost to get started w/ HP Virtualization?

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