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Mon 9 Jul 2007
Release date of VMware Server 2.0 in mid-September
By Michael Pietroforte | 2 Comments | Permalink | Trackback | Previous | NextVirtualization.info reports that there will be a session about VMware Infrastructure VMware Server 2.0 at VMware World 2007 where they also will discuss some of the new features of VMware Server 2.
There is a fair chance that VMware might at least announce the release date of VMware Server 2.0. Since the current version number is just 1, it should be a major release. My biggest hope is that it will support VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) on Windows hosts. In my view, this is the only major advantage of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 over VMware Server 1. Without VSS support for VMware Server, we will most likely move sooner or later to Microsoft’s Virtualization solution.
I’m still waiting for a public beta of WSV (formerly known as Veridian).
Even though they cut a few features back, i still think it will be a lot better than VS2005R2SP1.
As far as I know, MS will release a beta of Windows Server Virtualization only when Windows Server 2008 RTM comes out which will not be before the end of this year.