Thoughts on Altiris and VMWare - Are these two competing architectures?
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OK, honestly now. I do not believe that competing architectures is always that big of a deal. Heck, in many cases it can be beneficial for the consumer down the road. As to how all of this will work out with Altiris and VMWare, well, I guess we will have to wait and see.
Altiris:
Using Altiris/HP RDP the concept s to automate the build process and script each process so that it is:
* Automatic, as much as possible
* Modularised, in that each separate step is done independentlyWhat this enables is that you can switch Hardware and you would only need to change the “drivers” section of script, everything else should be able to remain as it is
VMWare:
Can be run as a host on Windows Server or Linux O/S, or in the case of ESX Server be run on “bare metal”. VMWare then is capable of running multiple Virtual Hardware emulators, where Hard Disks are effectively flat files and the BIOS is just an XML Config File. [Read the rest]
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Tom Simpson
August 28th, 2007
at 6:30pm
ESX on bare metal? Ha that is a laugh. It is running a modified Redhat Kernel. Xen is a better product, IMHO, it actually integrates with the OS, and Novell has now release a driver pack for Windows so that you can have Windows run without modification to the guest OS. I think it is a matter of time before ESX is on the way out, once they decide they don’t want to open the code to comply with the GPL. And why would somone wa nt to rely on windows on the host side, besides in a small at home testing environment.
I can get a Redhat or Suse XEN server cluster up and running in less time than it takes to setup any ESX cluster AND troubleshoot the problems it causes on networks, arp storms and other broadcast issues, from recent (with version 3.0) experience I think it still has a long way to go, it needs a lot of work.
Plus they ship XEN with the distro’s now, so you don’t have to download it/buy it from someone else, when you buy support, they support it with the OS, so you have one source to go to for tech support, and not have to deal with Vmware.
http://www.xensource.com
http://www.novell.com