[CentOS] Virtualization of a production environment

Wed May 14 19:15:57 UTC 2014
Dan Hyatt <dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu>

I need to virtualize a server, but this needs to be stable enough for 
production.
What are the advantages/disadvantages of the different hypervisers with 
CENTOS

ESXi  (vmware)
XEN
KVM

Primarily I will be running Centos6.4  there may or may not be a windows 
server.
I need stability as this will be production.
I will not need the equivalent of V Motion,
but would like to be able to do a physical to virtual
would like the capability of snapshots
and to be able to backup as files on storage (I cannot do boot from SAN, 
but this will be SAN attached).

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  Thanks,
Dan