On 12/19/10 9:33 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Stephen Harris<lists at 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 Walker<rswwalker at 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 This is slightly out of date now, but I evalauted a few virtualization 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 It is a bit out of date: I hope you get a 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com