VMware responds to their ongoing customer demands for more Linux support. For those of you who have wondered if or when VMware will port their enterprise Virtual Infrastructure products to Linux platforms, well the time for those possibilities has finally arrived.
As the company prepares to unleash a vast array of new technologies with their new virtualization platform, they haven’t overlooked the fact that customers want to see VMware enterprise products running on Linux. As Dr. Steven Herrod, CTO and SVP of R&D of VMware, mentioned last week at VMworld Europe 2009, the step towards addressing this major request is that VMware will soon support the installation of vCenter 2.5 on top of Linux. Beyond this (and the cool part!) is that VMware will also release Appliance versions of vCenter 2.5 which will run on Windows or Linux. The technology preview of the Appliance version of vCenter 2.5 on Linux is now available for download at the beta community site.
Here is a first look at a screenshot of vCenter 2.5 on Linux. It’s real!
