Manufacturers agree to bundle VMWare ESX 3i

VMWARE REACHES OUT
At its VMworld Europe 2008 conference going on this week on the sunny
shores of Cannes, France, VMware announced a handful of agreements
that will have it bundling its ESX 3i Hypervisor with several of the
top server vendors.
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Within 60 days, you can reasonably expect to see VMware's server
virtualization layer bundled with the latest server units from IBM,
Dell, HP and Fujitsu Siemens. "Customers can now get VMware
pre-integrated and pre-configured for the hardware platform of their
choice for immediate standalone server consolidation," said VMware's
president and CEO Diane Greene in a prepared statement.

Besides spreading the word and the hypervisor, having the servers
from those VMware partners bundled with VMware ESX 3i hypervisor
will also serve to keep the door open for customers who might be
interested in upgrading to the complete VMware Infrastructure 3
suite. The ESX 3i hypervisor itself is based on VMware's core
virtualization technology. It boasts the smallest footprint at 32MB,
and is also the only completely OS-independent platform out there.