On 12/19/10 9:33 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Stephen Harrislists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:12:09PM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Ross Walkerrswwalker@gmail.com wrote:
There is XenServer from Citrix and I think there is a community version too.
-Ross
I'd welcome your opinion. I did a bunch of integration with CentOS/RHEL 4 with the older, open source Xen utilities.
This is slightly out of date now, but I evalauted a few virtualization systems, including XenServer: http://sweh.spuddy.org/Essays/Virtualization_options.html
Now, *that* is what reviews should be like. Clear side by side comparisons on the performance, features, and missing bits you need to do yourself, very useful. It is a bit out of date: I hope you get a chance to try the same tests with CentOS 6.
But the ESXi version isn't exactly fair to someone who would deploy on the hardware intended. Also, the restriction to 1 CPU isn't built-in - there's a place where you select the number of CPUs you will use when you are registering for the free license. I don't know what the actual maximum is, but it is at least 2 with a fairly large number of cores.