Guy Boisvert wrote:
Le 2013-06-27 10:39, Reindl Harald a écrit :
Am 27.06.2013 16:26, schrieb Guy Boisvert:
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these days someone buys a HP Pro Liant with a vSphere license
Eh. Don't care for HP Proliant. Too complicated, and mirrored memory?
or install VMware ESXi in the free version and install his operating systems on top of it which is a scaleable solution and can be upgraded to a cluster with HA, SAN storages whatever without ever re-install the guest systems
but you get what you paied for...............
I kicked out VMWare and their "Windoze" tools i hate (i know that now they offer a VM with command line tools). I'm not saying VMWare is not good though, it's just i hate their tools. On top of that, it can cost a lot of money. But they have the features!
They always had command line - the old version was a modified version of RHEL 3.
I moved to KVM and i'd say i like it a lot. I'm planning to test OpenStack.
For storage, big names (3Par, Netapp, etc) offer nice things but it is rather expensive. I'm testing iSCSI servers with DRDB, STONITH, etc.
Have you looked at large RAID boxes? We have several JetStores from AC&NC - expensive, but maybe less than the big names. The recent one has 42 2TB drives....
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