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23
VMWare Has Very Limited SVVP Support From Microsoft Right Now
ByI was looking over RSS feeds and found a question by Scott Lowe that was referencing a blog from LeMagIT called “The Ugly Secrets of Microsoft SVVP. It appears that VMWare ESX is only Microsoft SVVP (Server Virtualization Validation Program) certified for Windows 2008 on an x86 Opteron 4 CPU, 4GB of RAM machine. If you check the Microsoft site, that is what is listed under VMWare.
Compare that with Citrix XenServer 5 from the same site, they show Opterons and Xeon x86 and x64 architectures, 8 CPU’s and 30GB RAM. Additionally, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Cisco have some SVVP certifications. There may be more that are not posted, but that is what is listed currently on the Microsoft site.
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September 24th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
VMware has sent some guidance to their sales team about this which I was asked to post here as clarification:
http://dantedog29.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-deal-with-svvp.html
Basically, we initially tested and certified up to 4 GB VMs (not ESX Servers, but the Virtual Machines) running the x86 version of Windows Server 2008 and below on Opteron Processors. We will have more, just check point 5 in their response.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Thanks dantedog29 for clearing that up more. It was causing some confusion.