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Citrix' Project Kensho To Create Hypervisor-Independent Application Workloads

Delivering Open Virtual Machine Formation Tools that Will Let ISVs Create Hypervisor-independent Application Workloads
By Maureen O'Gara
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July 24, 2008 11:30 AM EDT
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Citrix on Tuesday announced Project Kensho, which is supposed to deliver Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) tools that will let ISVs and enterprise IT folk create portable hypervisor-independent enterprise application workloads that should run across XenServer, Hyper-V and VMware ESX virtual environments.

Citrix is expecting to have a free technical preview for download in September.

OVF is a Distributed Management Task Force standard, originally co-authored by Citrix and VMware, with contributions from Dell, HP, IBM and Microsoft, and Kensho should package up a complete application workload as a secure, portable, pre-configured open standard virtual appliance.

Citrix claims it will solve a “multitude” of interoperability issues between virtualization platforms and automate the provisioning and management of applications rather than just virtual machines.

Users will be able to move workloads around.

XenServer includes APIs that allow any DMTF-compliant management tools – like Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager – to manage it.

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