Thread: Oracle Kills Virtual Iron

Oracle kills Virtual Iron-ware • The Register

While many people raved that Virtual Iron was cool software I gave it a wide bearth as I was always wary that it never seemed to achieve the same level of visibility in the virtualisation marketplace that XenSource and VMWare had. XenSource at least had the key Xen people who were always mentioned when virtualisation came up in the press.

Perhaps an undeserved death but the market can be harsh.

Oh, this is not going to be fun.

What is the last release from Virtual Iron?

I have VirtualIronInstall4516.exe which is yet to be installed, is this the latest?

Virtual Iron - True Server Virtualization for Everyone

Originally Posted by xtraordinary

Virtual Iron - True Server Virtualization for Everyone

Thanks,

They even killed the download Virtual Iron open source modified software Virtual Iron

Rather glad we forecast it's death and decommissioned our Virtual Iron based platform in favour on our own based on open source Xen...

When I looked at VI and Xen some 18 months ago they looked utter shite compared to VMware.

It cost shit loads to license but it just works.... 18 months in a production environment without hiccup. Just rolling out VSphere 4 in the next few months.

Would be interested to see where Xen is now since Citrix came along.

Originally Posted by TIOUK

We run VI and sold it too, the management layer had some great tricks, shame about the buyout. Oracle just want you to sell their products. I talked to a UK Partner Development Exec and she just said "You can download Ocacle VM free and sell Oracle support and middleware".

Didn't know Oracle had a VM, something to try before buying VMware I guess.

Originally Posted by LeaUK

So what's the plan then? Move to VMware or Citrix?

VMware is apparently granting 40% discount for ex-Virtual Iron customers but it's still too expensive...haven't looked at the Citrix alternative yet, so best I do I guess..

Lea

It is expensive but honestly it's well worth the money. VMware really does just work... and when it doesn't their support is fantastic.

Lea - you can do XenMotion (XenServer equivalent of VMotion), and iSCSI all in the free xenserver, you just have to activate it once every 12 months by filling in a form with some basic details...

I'm not quite sure what the difference between Live motion and Live Migration in your list is though (in XenServer, XenMotion is also known as Live migration)?