Sanga,

Have you tried ProxMox? http://www.proxmox.com

Free, open-source, centralized management, dead-simple clustering, shared 
storage, live migration, KVM, OpenVZ, Debian-based, etc.

I use it and highly recommend it :)

Regards,
Kyle

----- Original message -----
> Opensource is a bit of a stretch. If you create an account on their site
> you can test some of their products and see if it is as advertised. My
> company is close to switching to the paid version since we have more
> than 30 ESXi servers and need centralized management and clustering
> capabilities. This is where the paid version shines. After crossing the
> 20 server threshold it makes sense to upgrade
> 
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Tim Schofield <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I hadn't realised that Vmware was open source like Centos and Red
> > Hat are. Its a long time since I looked at its license. Thanks for the
> > clarification :)
> > 
> > On 1 June 2011 21:32, sanga collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Ok in that light i would compare its 'Free-ness' as similar to how
> > > CentOs
> > is
> > > the free version of Redhat linux :)
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Tim Schofield <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On 1 June 2011 20:07, sanga collins <[email protected]>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > I dont get whats so complicated about free.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Well its complicated because in the English language it has two
> > > > entirely different meanings. Most languages don't have that
> > > > complexity.
> > > > 
> > > > There is free as in Linux, and free as in no charge. This being a
> > > > mailing list I was referring to free as in Linux.
> > > > 
> > > > Tim
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