[CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?
Ross Walker
rswwalker at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 15:57:16 UTC 2010
On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote:
> On 6/28/2010 7:59 AM, guillaume wrote:
>> Why would one use vmware Server 2.x when ESXi is available free of
>> charge, stable, small footprint, ... ?
>
> I've thought about it, but it's not really the right thing for us.
>
> Our VM host has some special hardware in it, driven by custom software
> which runs just fine in the host OS, but which doesn't work through
> virtualization because VMware doesn't know about this class of hardware.
>
> This server is idle much of the time, so it made sense to give it
> secondary duty as a VM host. To switch to ESXi, we'd have to bring up a
> separate server (wasteful) and let the current one go back to being idle
> much of the time (doubly wasteful).
Then give VirtualBox a whirl.
Fully supported, works and some say performs better then VMware Server.
-Ross
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