On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:02 am, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: >> Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? >> Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have >> to. >> Thanks for any info. > > Here is a comparison of VMware ESXi and Server notice that server > doesn't cost money. > > http://www.vmware.com/products/server/faqs.html > > both are proprietary > there are a lot of good FOSS alternatives such: > > KVM (require a modern hardware) > Xen (need a patched kernel: available in centos repos) > OpenVZ (need a patched kernel: available in openvz repos, mainly for > VPS but personalty i use it) > > HTH > > -- > Athmane Madjoudj 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