Last week VMware updated its disaster recovery solution Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to version 4.0.1.1 (build 236215). The new version is primarily for bug fixing and features enhancements. There are no new capabilities. Yellow Bricks published the complete list. This version of SRM supports storage replication adapters from: 3PAR (just acquired by CA) Compellent Dell | EqualLogic EMC (for CLARiiON, Symmetrix, Celerra and RecoverPoint) FalconStor Fujitsu Hitachi HP (for EVA, LeftHand and XP) IBM (for DS, SVC ad XIV) LSI NEC NetApp (both NAS and SAN products) Sun (acquired by Oracle)

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Oracle just released its first updated for VirtualBox after the acquisition of Sun . The list of bugs corrected in version 3.1.4 is long but there are no new features . An interesting thing is that the company decided to change the default behavior of the engine: now VirtualBox tries to leverage hardware virtualisation acceleration by default, and this includes both VPDI and nested paging, provided by Intel VT-x and AMD-V RVI enhancements.

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A couple of weeks ago Citrix announced a new partnership with Novell on virtualisation. The deal includes two parts. The first one is focused on providing joint technical support to those customers that run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a XenServer guest OS. The second one grants the use of Platespin Recon for Citrix and its Solutions Advisors partners. While Novell could be considered a Citrix competitor because of its implementation of Xen, the reality is that, at the moment, Citrix has no interest in competing with anybody at the hypervisor layer.

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Now that both Virtual Iron and Sun acquisitions are complete , Oracle owns three hypervisors, a couple of virtualisation-friendly enterprise management consoles and a connection broker. What the company is missing is everything else around the hypervisor, from capacity planning to VMs backup. Oracle may decide to own the missing pieces, trying to rival the impressive VMware portfolio, or work to build a reach ecosystem, trying to convince several third parties to become virtualisation partners. And while it’s true that the VMware aggressive expansion is pushing its partners in new directions, most vendors are mostly looking for deals with Microsoft or Citrix. For these firms, focusing the limited R&D resources on Oracle VM is a risky move considering its scarce adoption after more than two years on the market.

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Lanamark today announced that they are working with Oracle to enable partners to use Lanamark Suite to perform capacity planning and deliver enterprise-class desktop and server virtualisation solutions based on Oracle VM across x86/x64 and SPARC architectures. As part of this effort, Lanamark has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork as a Gold level partner. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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Just in case you missed it, XenServer is now open source. It’s confirmed by the Citrix CTO of virtualisation and Management division Simon Crosby , who answered a question about this topic on virtualisation.info. Citrix XenServer is a commercial implementation of the Xen open source hypervisor, as much as Oracle VM Server and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Xen. XenSource, the company which sponsored the Xen project in its early days and that developed XenServer, has been acquired by Citrix in August 2007 for $500M . Citrix first decided to give away XenServer for free (February 2009) and then announced its plan to release it as open source (October 2009).

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Leostream announces today a new minor version for its Connection Broker that arrives over five months after the 6.2 release. In this update the company introduces a number of new features: support for the open source version of Xen (the one released by Xen.org) support for Sun Secure Global Desktop technology support for Ericom Blaze (which comes from the technology partnership signed in November 2009) a web client to access virtual desktops over HTTP/S connections control over the remote desktop protocol used by remote clients when multiple protocols are available a more granular set of roles and permissions that separate end users and administrators rights While every feature above is welcome, the most interesting one is the support for Sun SDG. Th e Oracle acquisition of Sun , and its declared intention to continue investing in the existing virtualisation portfolio, is translating into new opportunities for those vendors that are struggling to compete with VMware in its own domain. And competing against VMware View can be pretty hard these days.

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With a very brief note, The Xen.org community announces that Xen reached the Release Candidate status and so it’s near its general availability, expected before the end of Q1 2010 . There’s a long list of reasons to wait for Xen 4.0. One of them is the support for the software switch called Open Virtual Switch that will compete with the Cisco Nexus 1000V. More importantly, the availability of Xen 4.0 may trigger a major launch of Oracle in the virtualisation space (assuming its acquisition of Sun will be ever approved) and clarify its strategy against VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. In the same way, it will be extremely interesting to see how Citrix will enhance the Xen 4.0 codebase to make XenServer more competitive

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In December 2007 the founder of Virtual Iron ( acquired by Oracle in May 2009), Alex Vasilevsky , left his company to form a new venture with Dan McCall , former board advisor at Reflex Security ( now Reflex Systems ). The new startup, fueled by Highland Capital Partners and Flybridge Capital Partners funds, came out the stealth mode in September 2008 and released the first semi-public beta of his flagship product, NxTop, in July 2009 . NxTop is one of the first client hypervisors to hit the market and one of the few that doesn’t require Intel vPro as mandatory hardware feature (both VMware and Citrix client hypervisors seems to need it to work). Based on Xen, NxTop is sold as a new and more efficient platform to manage the PC lifecycle, so it’s not in direct competition with the upcoming VMware Client virtualisation Platform (CVP) and the Citrix XenClient , which are meant to offer offline VDI capabilities. Fast forward to mid-December 2009: Virtual Computer releases NxTop 1.2.

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VMware recently lost its Regional Director for UK and Ireland: Chris Hammans . Hammans spent six years and a half at VMware and now moved to the virtualisation startup Pano Logic as their EMEA Managing Director. CRN informs that VMware replaced him with Mark Newton . Newton previous positions include one at the distributor IBS and one in BMC, but most importantly he comes from Oracle, where he spent six years as Vice President of Sales.

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