A l’occasion de VMworld 2008, j’ai écrit un petit papier de blog en anglais expliquant que VMware est loin d’avoir globalement validé ESX Server dans le cadre du Server Virtualization Validation Program de Microsoft (SVVP). Ce sur quoi Microsoft et ses “partenaires” ont été très discrets est le fait que le SVVP n’est pas une [...]

I recently wrote in a post that VMware still has a very limited set of configurations officially validated under Microsoft’s Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). VMware has clarified its position (see comments in my previous post and VMware’s Kenon Owens’ Blog), but Microsoft doesn’t seem to care. I had a talk yesterday in Paris with Zane Adam, [...]

You now probably have heard about Microsoft’s SVVP (Server Virtualization Validation Program) under which Microsoft provides support for its server products running on third-party hypervisors. You also have probably heard that VMware ESX Server, XenServer or Suse Linux are now supported under this scheme (that’s what we originaly wrote after talking with the various providers). [...]