Sun xVM Ops Center released

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-02/sunflash.20080219.1.xml

SANTA CLARA, CA February 19, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), today announced general availability of Sun xVM Ops Center, an easy-to-use, highly scalable datacenter automation tool that enables customers to simplify the management of heterogeneous IT environments and reduce costs. Sun xVM Ops Center is a key component of Sun xVM software, the company’s open virtualization and management platform. To join the OpenxVM.org community, go to: http://openxvm.org/.

As companies move to virtualize their datacenters, the management of servers, network and storage is becoming increasingly complex. From a single console, Sun xVM Ops Center enables customers to simplify the management of all assets, regardless of the operating system or hardware platform on which they run. The management console automates time consuming, routine system administration tasks, such as: firmware updates, bare-metal operating-system provisioning, and patching and updating - making it easier for users to manage thousands of IT assets simultaneously. As part of the company’s ongoing commitment to the open source community, Sun has released updates to the source code used to build Sun xVM Ops Center to the OpenxVM.org community under the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3).

Very cool, it will be interesting to see what benefits in terms of management and automation the new Sun virtualization tools bring. Anything Sun and the other vendors can do to aid in the automation and management of the virtual infrastructure has to be a good thing. I’ll need to take a look.