Virtualization platforms
Gold Award:
XenServer Enterprise Edition 4.0
- An updated Xen bare metal hypervisor that supports native 32- or 64-bit x86 operating system.
- The new live-migration feature XenMotion, which combines enterprise-level functionality and ease of use, because it can be manually started from the GUI and manually or programmatically managed through XenAPI.
- The scalable XenCenter, a virtual infrastructure management suite, which provides interfaces for VM creation and lifecycle management, and a Windows user interface.
Among others, these features are standard on the Windows- and Linux-friendly XenServer Enterprise 4.0, which retails for $1,599 for an annual subscription license per dual-socket server. The price is $2,499 for a perpetual license per dual-socket server.