Bo Lynch sent a missive on 2010-02-05:
On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:02 am, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Thanks for any info.
Here is a comparison of VMware ESXi and Server notice that server doesn't cost money.
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/faqs.html
both are proprietary there are a lot of good FOSS alternatives such:
KVM (require a modern hardware) Xen (need a patched kernel: available in centos repos) OpenVZ (need a patched kernel: available in openvz repos, mainly for VPS but personalty i use it)
HTH
-- Athmane Madjoudj
Does anyone have any experience with KVM or OpenVZ? If I can stick to something that is not proprietary that would be great. I didn't realize there were so many options. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Bo
OpenVZ is containerisation and not virtualisation and therefore limits the os running to a minor version of the base os. If you need to have say Centos4, Centos5, Solaris 10, Windows on the same box then this is not for you.