On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 13:37 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Rainer Duffner wrote:
On a small scale, running VMware ESX3i or VMware-server is perfectly possible.
There seems to be a lot of fanboy affinity around ESXi -
No, the hypervisor in a virtualized environment is an absolutely critical component; there is no room at all for fanboys. VMware is a well established solution [+50% customer satisfaction, Citrix at ~30%; and +50% vs. ~20% marketshare. VMware is the only virtualization solution to have increased its market share in the last year.] With something this central do an organizations architecture it pays to be risk-averse; and migrating between solutions is a miserable experience.
and with the fact that its 'available' off the shelf, zero cost up front. however to make it do anything you still need to buy into vmware tools.
This statement is false; I have several stand-alone ESXi boxes running. There are no commercial products required for a working setup; the commercial components provide motion, consolidated backed and the centralized management console [which is crap anyway].
I dont see how that is a lot more of a technology lockdown than Xen or KVM.