[gentoo-user] Xen vs Citrix XenServer

2012-01-01 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I'm looking into virtualizing my servers (all 3 of them), and am a little confused as to the differences between Xen and XenServer... First - I want to use a bare metal hypervisor that supports the following: 1. Can be installed on a USB FLASH drive (I have some Dell Poweredge 2970

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen vs Citrix XenServer

2012-01-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-01 11:18 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Anyway, looking for any pointers from anyone currently running either of the two... Also, anyone running ESXi... Do the open-vm-tools support the latest version of ESXi (5)? How do you know which versions of ESXi are

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen vs Citrix XenServer

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, I'm looking into virtualizing my servers (all 3 of them), and am a little confused as to the differences between Xen and XenServer... Think of it as a bit like the difference between Linux and a Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen vs Citrix XenServer

2012-01-01 Thread Tanstaafl
Thanks for your response Michael... On 2012-01-01 11:51 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: While I haven't played with XenServer, I have played with its open-source clone, XCP, and was very annoyed by it. I'd rather run a Gentoo dom0. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen vs Citrix XenServer

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Thanks for your response Michael... On 2012-01-01 11:51 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: While I haven't played with XenServer, I have played with its

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen vs Citrix XenServer

2012-01-01 Thread Felix Kuperjans
On 2012-01-01 18:40, Tanstaafl wrote: Thanks for your response Michael... On 2012-01-01 11:51 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: While I haven't played with XenServer, I have played with its open-source clone, XCP, and was very annoyed