On Dec 18, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote: > On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: >> The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for >> longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. > > VMware wants more people to get hooked on vSphere, so their 'suggested' > VMware GSX^H^H^HServer replacement is vSphere Hypervisor, aka ESXi Free > Edition. If you have suitable hardware you will get better performance with > ESXi, but to get any of the more advanced functionality will require $$$ and > vCenter Server. > > I have been looking at transitioning from VI3 (vCenter Server 2.5 and ESX > 3.5) to something else; the price of vSphere 4 is simply too large to > justify, and, while I have a valid license for vCenter Server Standard 4, I > don't for ESX4 (it is a long story, and involves some rather precise timing > of a difference in purchase and support dates for our original VI3 purchase, > done in two phases). If I had a valid license for the full vSphere 4, I'm > still not sure I'd run it, as the vCenter Server hardware requirements are > steep. > > So I'm very seriously considering transitioning from VI3 to CentOS 6 KVM; for > my situation it might be doable, but I have a lot to learn about KVM before I > can think about it. Well, and CentOS 6 has to be out, too. I use many of > the more advanced VI3 features, including vMotion, that means I really have > to be careful. I'd want to cluster the hosts and have shared storage on my > three onsite EMC Clariions. I'd like to 'RAID' the shared storage between > two Clariions, actually, which ESX won't do, AFAIK. So a learning curve is > up ahead Q1 or Q2 2011.....
There is XenServer from Citrix and I think there is a community version too. -Ross _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
