Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> writes: >> I'm considering moving some of my services into virtual hosts, but >> I've never used VMware before. Perhaps one of you could be kind enough >> to explain their products to me? Specifically I'm interested in: >> * Being able to migrate a VM between hosts for High Availability >> * Clustering VMs on both 32 bit and 64 bit hardware. >> * Managing the whole shebang from a single workstation. >> * Have mostly FreeBSD and some Ubuntu and MS Windows VMs. > > They keep changing their product line, but this is how I remember it - > - $150 VMWare Workstation - if your host OS is Windows XP or Vista > - $0 VMWare Server - if your host OS is Windows Server (2003 or > 2008), or enterprise linux (RHEL, Suse, etc) > - $80 VMWare Fusion - same as workstation, but for mac > - $xxx VMWare ESX - Like Server, with a million more tools and > features. For true enterprise. > If you want to do a live migration from one head to another, you require > ESX.
The thing that always turns me off vmware, is that to use ESX/ESXi, you need a management server. Which must be a windows server, and must be backed by an oracle DB. I'm a pretty small shop, and those two requirements are non-starters for me. If those aren't a big deal to you, then looking there makes a lot of sense. Annoyingly, VMware changes the name and structure of their enterprise product every release, but I've generally had good experiences on the phone with them. seph _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
