Sun has put out its promised xVM Ops Center, the 1.0 widgetry that will be used to manage its Xen-based xVM Server, its prospective contribution to the industry’s lengthening virtualization caravan when xVM come out this summer.
While it waits for the bare-metal hypervisor, Ops Center can amuse itself managing physical data centers. At least ones that are made of Solaris-, Red Hat- and SUSE-based Sparc and x86 machines.
Ops Center is something of a retread, a combination of what Sun used to call N1 System Manager and the patch management widgetry it got a while back when it acquired Israeli-based Aduva.
xVM marketing director Oren Teich, however, says Ops Center ain’t just recycled technology. Nope, its skills have been updated. Apparently Sun fussed with the back-end architecture and added a new user interface.
