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