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From the News Desk
Wednesday, 5. December 2007
Sun Finalizes Date for Ops Center Release
Sun announced the pricing, availability and further details of the xVM Ops Center virtualization management software it unveiled last month at the Oracle OpenWorld conference.
Sun will begin uploading Ops Center-related source code to the site OpenxVM.org starting Dec. 10, and expects to release the first commercial version on Jan. 8. The company plans to release Ops Center under the open-source GPLv3 license.
The first version of Ops Center includes patch management capabilities, via the company's Sun Connection tool, as well as its N1 Systems Manager provisioning tool. The management software can support up to 5,000 server nodes, said Sun, which previewed its server virtualization technology plans at Oracle Corp.'s OpenWorld 2007 conference in San Francisco last month.
"As xVM becomes available, Ops Center will take on management of the virtual part" of the data center as well, said Steve Wilson, VP of xVM.
Annual subscription prices for Ops Center, with technical support and remote customer service built in, will range from USD 100 to USD 350 per server.
Sun also is offering a broader subscription plan for USD 10,000; that offering, known as Satellite Server, includes on-site installation and training in addition to the software and basic support.
Sun xVM Ops Center is designed to reduce datacenter management complexity by combining a range of lifecycle management functionality into an all-in-one tool. The idea, Sun said, is to simplify discovery, monitoring, operating system provisioning, comprehensive updates and patch management, firmware updates, and hardware management from power up to production in cross-platform Linux and Solaris Operating System-based x86 and Sparc environments.
Sun is not phased by the fact that VMware is already well established with 55 percent of x86 server virtualization market. In addition, open source Xen is available as a freely available alternative. It's still early in the wave of virtualization sweeping through enterprises and Sun believes alternatives to VMware will gain a share of the market.
Sun will begin uploading Ops Center-related source code to the site OpenxVM.org starting Dec. 10, and expects to release the first commercial version on Jan. 8. The company plans to release Ops Center under the open-source GPLv3 license.
The first version of Ops Center includes patch management capabilities, via the company's Sun Connection tool, as well as its N1 Systems Manager provisioning tool. The management software can support up to 5,000 server nodes, said Sun, which previewed its server virtualization technology plans at Oracle Corp.'s OpenWorld 2007 conference in San Francisco last month.
"As xVM becomes available, Ops Center will take on management of the virtual part" of the data center as well, said Steve Wilson, VP of xVM.
Annual subscription prices for Ops Center, with technical support and remote customer service built in, will range from USD 100 to USD 350 per server.
Sun also is offering a broader subscription plan for USD 10,000; that offering, known as Satellite Server, includes on-site installation and training in addition to the software and basic support.
Sun xVM Ops Center is designed to reduce datacenter management complexity by combining a range of lifecycle management functionality into an all-in-one tool. The idea, Sun said, is to simplify discovery, monitoring, operating system provisioning, comprehensive updates and patch management, firmware updates, and hardware management from power up to production in cross-platform Linux and Solaris Operating System-based x86 and Sparc environments.
Sun is not phased by the fact that VMware is already well established with 55 percent of x86 server virtualization market. In addition, open source Xen is available as a freely available alternative. It's still early in the wave of virtualization sweeping through enterprises and Sun believes alternatives to VMware will gain a share of the market.
