Mandriva and the OpenVZ project have announced that the OpenVZ
operating system virtualization software will be included as part
of the Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0.
OpenVZ is operating system level server virtualization software
technology, built on Linux, which creates isolated, secure virtual
environments on a single physical server – enabling greater
server utilization and superior availability with fewer performance
penalties. The virtual servers ensure that applications do not
conflict and can be re-booted independently.
Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0 is the foundation for a stable and
cost-effective open source infrastructure for organizations
building on Linux.
“The OpenVZ technology is a perfect match for our next Mandriva
Corporate Server release 4.0. It provides our customers with a
proven virtualization layer to deliver flexible and efficient
solutions. We are pleased to offer OpenVZ as a standard component
in the Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0 toolbox to simplify production
management and maximize hardware usage,” said David Barth, CTO at
Mandriva.
“Embedding the OpenVZ technology directly into the Mandriva
kernel will give Mandriva customers unparalleled virtualization
functionality,” said Kir Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ project.
“We’re very pleased to work with Mandriva and make our technology
widely available via the popular Linux distribution.”
“OpenVZ is also an excellent open source project. By making it
available more widely and easily as part of Mandriva Linux, we hope
to widen the user community and help improve the integration of
virtualization technologies into a standard Linux kernel,” added
Klara Mika, ISV Manager at Mandriva.
With the power of modern CPUs from both Intel and AMD (including
the latest dual-core offerings), hardware is often under utilized.
With virtualization technology, the server can effectively be split
into many small ones, each running its tasks so that the whole
server is utilized more efficiently.