Xen.org, the home of the open source Xen® hypervisor, today
announced the availability of Xen 4.0, the most advanced open
source hypervisor software available. The release is the collective
effort of a global development team representing more than 50
leading technology vendors, universities, and virtualization
experts. Leveraging the latest network cards optimized for
virtualization, Xen 4.0 provides users substantial performance and
scalability gains for any level of enterprise or cloud application
workload.
Xen 4.0 adds significant memory and security optimizations that
will drive virtualization infrastructure to an entirely new class
of performance. As a result, virtualization is made suitable for
all workloads, even network intensive and high performance
computing applications that would have previously experienced
compromised performance on any hypervisor. Xen 4.0 enables
virtualization to be deployed ubiquitously, across every server in
a datacenter, bringing ease of management, secure architecture,
high availability, agility and efficiency to all applications.
Ian Pratt, founder and chairman of Xen.org
“The explosion of cloud computing in the industry and increasing
demands from enterprise customers are the driving force behind the
continued technology advancement of the Xen community. The Xen
hypervisor already powers most of the world’s largest clouds and
our customer base expects the Xen community to set the pace in
virtualization infrastructure. Xen 4.0 delivers on these
expectations.”
Simon Crosby, CTO, Datacenter and Cloud Division, Citrix
Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) (Xen Advisory Board Member)
“Xen has become the most scalable and secure hypervisor in the
industry, running the largest clouds with the best price
performance while enabling customers to differentiate above the
line. The new advancements in Xen 4.0 will bring cloud and
virtualization to new levels, and Citrix is dedicated to applying
them across our entire stack - from desktop virtualization to cloud
computing.”
Doug Fisher, vice president of the Software and Services
Group and general manager of the Systems Software Division, Intel
Corporation (Xen Advisory Board Member)
“Intel has been a committed and active contributor to the Xen
project since its inception. By taking advantage of advanced
features in the Intel® Xeon® architecture to provide server high
availability, power efficiency and hardware assisted
virtualization; delivering SRIOV to improve both bare metal
network and storage performance; and supporting multiple cores to
achieve increased virtual machine density, we see Xen 4.0 being an
outstanding release for the Xen community.”
Chiseki Sagawa, President of Service Oriented Platform
Strategy & Development Office, Fujitsu Limited (Xen Advisory
Board Member)
“The release of Xen 4.0 is truly exciting news to Fujitsu.
Combining the reliability and security enhancements of the new
release and Fujitsu's commitment to open source based cloud
computing, we are confident that we can bring yet an even higher
level of benefits to our cloud computing customers.”
Carlos Montero-Luque, vice president of Business and Product
Management, Novell (Xen Advisory Board Member)
“As the first enterprise Linux vendor to ship and support the
Xen hypervisor, Novell is pleased to bring Xen 4.0 to market within
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. With its impressive performance
and scalability improvements, Xen 4.0 will allow Novell
customers to achieve high consolidation ratios and significant
cost savings for even the most mission-critical
workloads. This release is a major step toward
enabling fully dynamic and flexible data centers and
clouds, supporting Novell's strategy to deliver leading
intelligent workload management solutions. We look forward to
shipping Xen 4.0 in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1
this quarter.”
Wim Coekarts, senior vice president of Linux and
Virtualization Engineering, Oracle (Xen Advisory Board
Member)
“As a long-time member of the Xen Advisory Board, Oracle is
committed to enhancing the enterprise features in Xen with every
release. With features like ‘tmem’ that allow for significant
memory advancements and improved virtual machine consolidation,
Oracle’s contributions continue to deliver on the scalability and
stability needed for enterprise applications when deployed in a
virtual environment.”
Iehisa “Ike” Nakamura, president and CEO, VA Linux Japan (Xen
Advisory Board Member)
“The new functionality of Xen 4.0 Hypervisor represents an
excellent opportunity to support our clients. As a Xen.org advisory
board member, VA Linux is pleased to be involved in the I/O
performance improvement of this latest version. We expect that Xen
4.0 Hypervisor will be a significant advancement for the enterprise
and cloud. VA Linux continues to deliver high-quality consulting
services for the Xen virtualization technology in Japan.”
Key Facts and Highlights
- Fault Tolerance - Xen 4.0
now supports live transactional synchronization of VM states
between physical servers as a basic component, enabling
administrators to guarantee a high degree of service reliability
without requiring additional software solutions.
- High Availability
- Xen 4.0 leverages the advanced reliability, availability
and serviceability (RAS) features in new Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron
processors.
- Netchannel2 - Xen 4.0’s
NetChannel2 takes full advantage of significant advancements in
networking hardware such as SMART NICs with multi-queue and SR-IOV
functionality, which provides virtualization infrastructure with
superior data processing capabilities.
- Blktap2 - A new virtual
hard disk (VHD) implementation in Xen 4.0 delivers high performance
VM snapshots and cloning features as well as the ability to do live
virtual disk snapshots without stopping a VM process.
- PVOps Domain 0 - Xen 4.0
is the first release from Xen.org to formally support PVOps in the
Domain0 (Dom0) Linux kernel; this new kernel option allows
administrators access to the most recent devices supported by the
Linux kernel.
- Memory Enhancements - New
algorithms, such as Transcendent Memory and Page Sharing have been
introduced in Xen 4.0 to enhance the performance and capabilities
of the hypervisor memory operations.
- A full list of features can be
found on the Xen Community web site
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Availability
Xen 4.0 is available for immediate download from the Xen
community site: http://www.xen.org.
Developers interested in learning more about the open source
Xen.org community and its technologies are invited to attend Xen
Summit North America at AMD on April 28-29, 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA.
Registration is $235 for the two day event. Please visit
http://www.regonline.com/xen_summit_amd for more information.
About The Xen Project and Xen.org
Xen.org is the home of the open source Xen hypervisor, a fast,
secure industry standard code base for operating system
virtualization. Founded and led by Ian Pratt, the community
benefits from the contributions of senior engineers from leading
hardware, software, and security vendors. Xen.org is run for the
benefit of the community by the Xen Project Advisory Board, which
is drawn from leading contributors to the project. For more
information, visit www.xen.org.
Forward-Looking Statements Disclosure
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pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this
release, including without limitation statements made by
representatives of contributors to Xen.org, do not constitute
guarantees of future performance. Investors in contributors to
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are not strictly historical statements, involve risks that could
cause actual results to differ materially, including risks
associated with the demand for cloud services, the uncertainty
inherent in developing cutting-edge technology, the failure to
coordinate and manage contributions to Xen.org, competition from
alternative cloud infrastructure providers, the voluntary nature of
contributions to Xen.org, the level of resources made available to
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