Virtual Iron was certainly not a big player like VMware or Citrixin the virtualisation market, but the company did hold a great deal of promise. In the acquisition announcement, Oracle described Virtual Iron as a “leading provider of server virtualisation management software. However a little over a month after it acquired Virtual Iron Oracle has decided to kill the Virtual Iron business and keep only the technology, according to a report in The Register.
Whilst things looked remarkably bleak for Virtual Iron customers VMware today announced that it is offering existing Virtual Iron customers an easy way to migrate their Virtual Iron deployments to VMware vSphere 4, the industry’s leading virtualisation platform.
For those Virtual Iron customers who have a current license and support contract VMware is offering a good discount off the list prices on the following products:
- VMware vSphere 4 Advanced Edition, VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Plus Edition, VMware vCenter Server Foundation and VMware vCenter Server Standard
- Support and subscription (SnS) on VMware vSphere 4 Advanced Edition, VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Plus Edition, VMware vCenter Server Foundation and VMware vCenter Server Standard
Proof of a current Virtual Iron license and support contract will be required to qualify for the VMware offer. Promotional pricing is limited to the number of Virtual Iron licenses supported by a current support agreement. The offer is valid through September 30, 2009.
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