Quoting from CRN:
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In a phone interview before his presentation at EMC Technology Summit Monday, Raghu Raghuram, vice president of VMware’s Platform Products, claimed the company’s forthcoming platform upgrade and new consolidation add-on will deliver the most advanced virtualization capabilities in the market.He said ESX3’s four-way SMP support as well as VirtualCenter2’s new Distributed Resources Manager (DRS) and Distributed Availability Service (DAS) are far ahead of Microsoft’s planned Virtual Server Manager.
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“Full details of the product aren’t out yet but what the customers buys from VMware is the full solution — bare metal virtualization plus virtual machine management plus VMotion plus P-to-V [physical-to-virtual] migration. It’s the full suite that matters, not any one single component,” said VMware’s Raghuram. “It looks like Microsoft will have basic management that allows you to stop and start a VM and there seem to be a lot of products like that…
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