VMware is not the only vendor pushing this approach, as evidenced by Novell's acquisition of disaster recovery specialist PlateSpin yesterday for $205 million. Stonesoft is set to unveil a series of virtual appliances for security and management of VMware this week.
VMware also fleshed out its automation strategy at VMworld Europe, announcing its Lifecycle Manager product. Based on technology from VMware's acquisition of automation startup Dunes last year, Lifecycle Manager automates the approval, provisioning, updating, and retirement of virtual machines.
Pricing for Site Recovery Manager and Lifecycle Manager has not yet been released although VMware says that the products will be available in the second quarter of this year.
Embedded virtualization
In a clear shot across the bows of virtualization rival XenSource, VMware will now embed its flagship ESX 3i hypervisor on servers from HP, IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens, and Dell.
First up is Fujitsu-Siemens, which revealed today that ESX 3i is already shipping on its Primergy servers. Fujitsu and VMware say that the deal, aimed specifically at small and medium-sized firms, enables users to begin using virtualization as soon as the server is booted.
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