VMware Too Slow And Expensive

Friday, 23 June 2006 by Michel Roth

VMware's virtualisation software, which leads the market by a considerable margin and is fast becoming the platform for server consolidation projects, is too resource hungry, too slow and too expensive, according to the boss of a much smaller virtualisation company.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft which sells virtualisation product Virtuozzo, has slammed the virtualisation industry's standard-bearer, saying that Virtuozzo's OS shim-style virtualisation is better than VMware's all round, in that customers can fit more virtual machines (VMs) into a server, and that it's easier to manage and so costs less to run.

Beloussov, who claimed that analysts report Virtuozzo as second on enterprise's product short-lists behind VMware, said that VMware's primary product, ESX Server, is too expensive in terms both of total cost of ownership and of hardware. This is because of the way that ESX Server works, reckoned Beloussov

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