Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > 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 If I cared about any of that boo-haa-haa I'd not be using Open Source or CentOS. > something this central do an organizations architecture it pays to be > risk-averse; and migrating between solutions is a miserable experience. Depends on what you are doing and how much you know about it, I've recently helped migrate a 50 node ( real hardware ) platform from VMware to Xen, the total effort was about 2 days onsite, and downtime was 8 minutes. >> 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]. How do you actually connect to the ESXi instance to setup a new VM and manage existing ones ? - KB