Bluebear Kodiak
Just been having a little look at a product called Kodiak by a company called BlueBear
It’s a hypervisor-agnostic, cross platform virtualisation management tool which currently supports ESX but they have plans to support Citrix XenServer very soon and Windows Hyper V in due course. The best thing about it is its going to be free.
This could be very good for small businesses looking to get into virtualisation without inccuring the usual costs. a couple of ESX 3.5i servers and BlueBear Kodiak and you’ve got yourself a nice little setup. Graphically it looks stunning and they appear to be suggesting that it will be a lot faster and more fluid than the clunky virtual center interface we’ve all come to know and … well love, only because there is no alternative.
You can see some screenshots at the link below
http://www.bluebearllc.net/kodiak/screenshots/
I’ve put my name down for a beta key as I’d like to look at it a bit more in depth, when / if I get it and have had a look I’ll post back to give some feedback.
