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Virtual appliance fundamentally changes the way software is delivered, configured, and managed. But the power behind virtual appliances lies in the ability to freely share them among different hypervisors. Discover a standard solution for virtual appliance interoperability called the Open Virtualization Format.

Active Memory Sharing on POWER6

Posted by: Rocky

Tagged in: virtualization

Rocky
Active Memory Sharing  (AMS) is an enhancement to IBM's PowerVM virtualization technology available on the POWER6 platform. This article describes how to configured Active Memory Sharing on AIX. It also touches on performance considerations with AMS and gives you a better understand of how AMS interacts with the virtual memory.

See how the toolkit for Open Virtualization Format standard (OVF), an open, secure, portable, efficient, and extensible format can help you package and distribute the software you want to run on virtual machines.

The battleground has shifted from the Operating System to the hypervisor, and Linux has a clear role to play. One of the most important modern innovations of Linux is its transformation into a hypervisor. Learn how KVM and Lguest paly an important role in this trend.

 


Who has better virtualization, HP-UX, Solaris, or AIX?

Posted by: Rocky

Tagged in: virtualization , UNIX , System Admin , Sun , Linux , IBM , HP

Rocky

Why is virtualization so important? The short answer is that virtualization enables businesses to lower their technology Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), while increasing their Return on Investment (ROI). What do the top UNIX vendors have to offer with respect to virtualization? Find out what virtualization is more scalable. Here's a look at HP's Virtual Server Environment (VSE), Sun's xVM, and IBM's PowerVM.

 


Google docs Linux - MS license Survey...!
Try my survey if you have a moment.
Note, due to alot of comments and feedback about additional items, the Survey has grown,  amazingly, hundreds of responses and 
dozens of new questions, as suggested by viewers.
Also, Put on fsdaily.com and it's getting some attention !
See what people are saying about this...very interesting.
Thanks!
jds

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