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Commercializing Xen

Simon Crosby, XenSource

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Large Market Opportunity

Xen plays here

Source: "Disruptive Innovation and the Adoption of On- Demand and Utility Computing in the Server Market", IDC, March 2004

“Virtualization is the key enabler for dynamic Service Level Automation.”

• IDC

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Virtualization Markets Today

Utility computing still largely unaddressed Inadequate performance for large-scale production deployments

VMWare Microsoft Virtual Server

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Xen Can Deliver New Efficiencies

• An Open Source, best of breed Xen frees platform vendors from

“Software Jail”

• Liberates applications from physical platform dependency
• Dramatic savings in OpEx in the enterprise
• New opportunities for systems management, software distribution,

licensing, fault management etc

• Ubiquitous, free hypervisor frees stack $ for all players

Xen Linux

XP

Solaris

Hardware innovation independent of the OS High performance, ubiquity-enabled, free hypervisor liberates stack $ Software innovation independent of the hardware

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Commercialization of Xen

 Free distribution of Xen  Continued open, “code rules” development of the world’s best hypervisor  A healthy ecosystem of vendors whose solutions are based on Xen  Unequivocal customer benefit using Xen, in $ terms  Stable interfaces & APIs that enable multiple vendors to compete  Stable, high quality, trusted code  Subversion of the Open Source process  “Proprietary” Xen flavors  “Copying” Xen in closed source  Virtualization market domination by any one player  A “Xen as an implementation of a standard” - the code is the standard, standards will evolve from our collective work on Xen

What do we mean by Commercialization of Xen?

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The Role of Standards

• Need to avoid excessive standardization during a

fast-moving technology development process

• Standards-based interfaces are required, eg for

– Managing the hypervisor – Security (authentication etc) – Provisioning of Virtual Machines

• But there will be multiple standards eg: WS-

MAN/CIM, DMTF, PCI SIG etc, so what is needed first is an open, stable set of APIs

• Implementation must precede standardization
• Good lessons from attempts to “Standardize

Embedded Linux” in the ELC

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More on Standards

• Caveat on APIs - an API is not “the standard” - the

code is

• A “non Xen” proprietary hypervisor that presents the

same “APIs” as Xen is not Xen

• Any notion of certifiable “compliance” should include

stability, quality, reliability measures

• APIs don’t define complex runtime semantics
• Standards don’t prevent fragmentation
• Any attempt to “standardize a hypervisor” would be
• verly ambitious - remember “OSF Unix”

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The Role of XenSource

• Lead the Xen Open Source project

– Code rules, unbiased selection of best technical solutions – Interface to kernel.org

• Host the community

– Regular Xen Summits – (future) Xen Users’ Summits; Xen Developer Summits – Host developer site and tools

• “One Xen”: build the Xen community, drive toward

ubiquity, create the level playing field

• Work with the Linux distributions to ensure that Xen

meets distro requirements

• Work with partners to ensure that Xen is tested and

“Commercial Grade”

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Win-Win with Xen

• Xen is the enabler of a new model for

enterprise infrastructure

• XenSource will be the standard bearer for

the drive towards ubiquity of Xen

– Xen will always be the best hypervisor – It will always be Open Source – There will be only one Xen

• Ubiquitous deployment of Xen will deliver

dramatic benefits to all players

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Speakers

Bruce Jones, IBM “IBM’s Plans and Vision for Xen” Tom Christian, HP “Future Standards for Virtual Environments” Simon Crosby, XenSource “Win-win with Xen: Driving to Ubiquity” Q&A and discussion

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Represented Commercial Interests

System System & Solution Vendors Solution Vendors Platforms & Infrastructure Platforms & Infrastructure Infrastructure Software Infrastructure Software

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