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    Fastest, Most Secure Infrastructure

    Virtualization Software

    Virtualization with Xen 3.0 Increases Server Utilization


    Enterprises are embracing server virtualization, enabling Streamline Today’s Enterprise Server Environments
    them to increase their server utilization, consolidate servers, Xen 3.0 now supports up to 32-way SMP virtualized
    and dramatically reduce complexity and overall total cost of guests, with an ability to “hot plug” CPUs to ensure best
    ownership. The Xen 3.0 hypervisor is the fastest and most use of available resources, and an ability to dynamically
    secure infrastructure virtualization software available today, relocate a running guest from one server to another,
    enabling every server in a Linux environment to support enabling IT managers to optimally place workload on their
    multiple virtual servers each with resource guarantees to available resources. It also offers support for two new
    ensure that its application layer SLA is met. addressing modes for servers with large address spaces:
    Physical Address Extension (PAE) allows 32-bit servers to
    Open Standard Hypervisor Supported by Leading address more than 4 GB memory, and 64-bit addressing
    Enterprise Vendors for up to 8 TB of memory.
    Xen 3.0 is an open source technology, the result of a
    tremendous community effort, with contributions to date Paravirtualization Provides High Security with
    from over 150 developers world wide, and more than 20 Near-Native Performance
    major enterprise infrastructure vendors, as well as the Xen technology’s paravirtualization technology is
    OSDL and ten top tier universities. Major backers of the widely acknowledged as the fastest and most secure
    Xen hypervisor include Intel, AMD, Dell, Egenera, HP, virtualization software in the industry. Xen 3.0 offers
    IBM, Mellanox, NetApp, Novell, Red Hat, Sun, Veritas, near-native performance for virtual servers, with up to
    and Voltaire. ten times less overhead than proprietary virtualization
    software, and benchmarked overhead of well under 5%
    Virtualize All Operating Systems with Support for in most cases compared to 35% or higher overhead for
    Intel VT Hardware Virtualization
    ®
    non-paravirtualized virtualization technologies.
    Xen 3.0 is the industry’s first virtualization infrastructure
    software to support Intel Virtualzation Technology The Xen hypervisor’s paravirtualization technology
    (VT), which allows virtualized servers to run natively on avoids the need to dynamically patch the operating
    the processor. This enables the hypervisor to exploit system of a running virtual server – a slow and insecure
    hardware acceleration for CPU and memory virtualization technique used in today’s proprietary x86 virtualization
    and is key to Xen technology’s ability to virtualize all products – cutting virtualization overhead and increasing
    operating systems. performance. This enables virtual servers to run

    Xen 3.0 Virtualizes Server Environments, Enabling Server Consolidation

    Xen 3.0 Data Sheet V06012006


    In Paravirtualization, Guest OS and Hypervisor Collaborate to Achieve Optimal Performance

    natively, at full processor speed, while Xen technology Improve Business Continuity and
    guarantees precise control of per-virtual server CPU, Streamline the Application Lifecycle
    memory and I/O resources. Paravirtualized guests Xen 3.0 provides business continuity and high
    running on Xen technology typically incur between 0.1 availability through dynamic provisioning, allowing
    percent and 3.5 percent overhead for virtualization, applications to be migrated in cases of server failure
    up to 10 times less than today’s proprietary software to a backup pool of server resources with less than
    virtualization products. The Xen hypervisor’s I/O model 100 ms migration time. It also enables IT managers to
    re-uses standard Linux device drivers, ensuring superb streamline the application lifecycle, enabling seamless
    device support and minimizing certification headaches. migration of applications from test and development
    to data center environments by moving them from one
    virtual server to another.

    Technical Specifications
    • Enterprise Linux guest operating systems supported: Red Hat- • S upports up to 32-way, 32 bit SMP guests
    Enterprise Linux 3.5, 4.1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.2; • Physical Address Extension (PAE) support for 32 bit servers
    Also Fedora Core 4, CentOS 4, SUSE Open Linux 10, Debian with up to 64GB memory
    and others • Live virtual server relocation in typically less than 100 ms
    • Intel VT-x support

    For a list of supported hardware, visit www.xensource.com

    About XenSource™, Inc. XenSource™, Inc. develops enterprise-grade virtualization solutions based on the industry’s
    fastest and most secure server virtualization technology, the open source Xen™ hypervisor. Founded and run by the orig-
    inal Xen™ development team, XenSource™ products allow enterprises to realize the TCO savings that result from server
    consolidation, increased utilization, and reduced complexity in the datacenter. Find out more at www.xensource.com

    Delivering the Power of Xen


    XenSource, Inc. 2300 Geng Road Suite 250
    Palo Alto, California 94303 USA

    +1 650 798-5900 [email protected]


    www.xensource.com

    Copyright © 2005-2006 XenSource, Inc. All rights reserved. Xen 3.0 Data Sheet V06012006

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