I got a great response from my rapid fire Q&A post earlier this week, so I thought I would do another round today.

These come from the recent webcast we did with IDC.

Does Virtual Iron provide NFS support from the managed server? Can the virtual server be residing on an NFS mount?
Virtual servers can mount NFS volumes or boot from NFS in the same way as physical servers. Virtual Iron supports booting from NFS.

Can you have the virtualization hypervisor on local disk or only boot-on-SAN?
Virtual Iron currently supports booting the virtualization services from CDROM or PXE boot from the network directly from the management server. You do not need to install Virtualization Services.

Is there a consolidated backup functionality?
There are a number of ways to achieve backup outside of the virtual server. Please see our blog entry on this.

Can you mix Linux and Windows VM's on the same physical server?
Yes

64 bit support? Vista Support? Windows Server 2007 support?
We support 32 bit Windows XP and 2003 and 64 bit RHEL 4 and SLES 9. We will announce support for other operating systems over the coming quarters.

Criteria based workload migration support?
The LiveCapacity policy monitors resource utilization and when utilization exceeds a set amount, uses LiveMigration to load balance the data center.

Integration into existing systems management infrastructures, ie. IBM Director, HP Insight, Microsoft MOM?
We are evaluating the market demand for external management infrastructure.