Sendmail today announced that their Sentrion Virtual Message Processor (MPV) has passed VMware’s evaluation and is now ‘VMware Ready’.
For those of you not familiar with Sentrion MP and MPV, it is a commercial version of the popular open source Message Transfer Agent (MTA), Sendmail. Sentrion MPV is a virtualized version of Sentrion MP, which has been around for quite some time. Since Sentrion MP is a hardware appliance, adding a virtualized appliance makes a whole lot of sense.
In addition to routing emails, Sentrion also includes Spam and Virus filtering, as well as DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM).
Given that the target market is enterprises, this is not a lightweight product. The Virtual Appliance requires almost 4GB of RAM and runs on top of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.3. While there is no minimum CPU specification mentioned, the lowest-level hardware appliance (MP 351) runs on Quad-core Xeon so it is probably a fair assumption that his Virtual Appliance will require something similar.
Pricing wise, the Virtual Appliance runs at $13.00 per user. For more details about the appliance, visit Sentrion MPV at VMware Marketplace.
