On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote: >>> I was thinking about implementing Xen for our school district. Now >>> that >>> I'm hearing all of this I guess I need to look at something else. >>> What does everyone recommend? >>> Thanks >> How much money do you have? >> What (how many systems, what do they do?) do you actually want to >> virtualize? >> Are you going to be around your school for the next couple of years? >> ;-) >> On a small scale, running VMware ESX3i > > I'd recommend the ESX3i if your server count is low (thus you won't > need > Virtual Center, which is not free). VMware works amazingly well, is > going to be around for the forseeable future, has excellent vendor > support, and a HUGE community of users. And installation/setup is > akin > to falling off the proverbial log. I second that. Plus you can buy into Virtual Center/Foundation later and have your existing ESXi hosts merged into the management framework as they are and gain VMotion, HA, DR, VDI, etc. -Ross