This is just my opinion: Disregard VMWare and use a Linux based hypervisor with Xen. You can use either PV (paravirtualized) or HVM (hardware virtualized) guests on the same hypervisor.
My typical hypervisor setup is Debian Jessie AMD64 and the latest Xen. Xen is what powers Amazon EC2 and a bunch of other services. It has a learning curve but is very much worth it. Everything is free, whether GPL, Apache or BSD licensed. On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a free version of VMWare? What are limitations vs paid? How > do you manage containers? Does it support software raid? Does it > have scheduled backup capabilities? How does it compare to Proxmox? > > I have a few linux centos servers: directadmin, email, DNS, speedtest, > mysql database and box running lots of perl scripts to monitor my > network. Would like to move them all to data center on one box and a > second box there to shove backups on. >
