[CentOS] Clustering

On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:55 am, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Bo Lynch wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>
> Philosophically, I don't see how running on ESXi virtualization is any
> more or
> less proprietary than running on IBM (Dell, etc.) hardware  directly.
> Unless
> you are just being pedantic about it, the main thing to consider is
> whether or
> not you could move your application elsewhere easily if you had to live
> without
> the unique proprietary features of any platform.  And you can, if you pay
> attention to how things work.  In fact there is some standardization being
> done
> in the virtual containers, and I'd assume VMware is a leader in that.
>
> --
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com

You make a valid point. Thanks