Thank you all for the great information. So far, the crowd-sourcing looks like this:
Everybody prefers the Bare-Metal approach, vs running a VM on top of Windows or Linux. Most everybody likes ESXi. A few people are trying Hyper-V. XenServer only had one response. Thank you very much for the information. I think I'm going to compare ESXi, Hyper-V and XenServer (when 5.5 comes out next week). Just think, a few years ago I'd be looking at a large pile of cash in order to get serious with this stuff. Thank goodness for competition! --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Clayton Doige [mailto:clayton.do...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:13:48 -0700 Subject: Re: Free Server Virtualization Options: VMware Server, ESXi, XenServer, Hyper-V, and others... > Hi all, jumping in this thread a little late. Xen Server rocks, used it for > a year now (even got CCA'd on it), easy to use, full enterprise features, > stable, expandable, all sorts, and then there is also the fact that you can > run EverRun VM on top of it. Take two Xen Servers, install EverRun and the > VM's you want, EverRun mirrors the VM's across the two servers = no down > time or data loss due to hardware or host failure. > > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jan09/01-09MarathonPR.mspx > > 2009/6/12 Jonathan Link <jonathan.l...@gmail.com> > > > Yeah, that didn't come out right. > > Without VC or a SAN, the process doesn't to seem to be any harder than > > ESXi. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Jonathan Link > <jonathan.l...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> I may not have played with HyperV very much, but I didn't find moving > VM's > >> to be any easier than with ESXi. > >> Of course with a SAN and/or VirtualCenter moving VM's is fairly trivial. > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> No to VMWare server. > >>> > >>> Qualified yes to ESXi - it's damned painful if you have to move VMs > >>> between machines, and getting SSH running is not terribly intuitive, > >>> but it's definitely doable. > >>> > >>> Sun has a virtualization product called VirtualBox, but I don't know > >>> its licensing status or capabilities, and there's also Virtual Iron, > >>> which I've heard good things about but haven't used, and also don't > >>> know the licensing for. > >>> > >>> This is a decent place to start looking: > >>> > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_virtualization > >>> > >>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 14:15, Matthew W. Ross<mr...@ephrataschools.org> > >>> wrote: > >>> > Greetings, List. > >>> > > >>> > There are so many available Virtual Server solutions available now, > and > >>> it's time for us to look at moving from our current VMWare 1.0 server > >>> solution. As our budget has been greatly reduced, we are currently > looking > >>> at the free products: > >>> > > >>> > VMWare Server 2.0 > >>> > ESXi > >>> > XenServer > >>> > Hyper-V > >>> > Any others I've missed. > >>> > > >>> > I'm wondering if anybody can vouch for or against any of these > >>> products, and express any useful experiences you've had. > >>> > > >>> > Thanks all, > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > --Matt Ross > >>> > Ephrata School District > >>> > > >>> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >>> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Clayton > clay...@alsipius.com > http://alsipius.com > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
