Honestly. If you don't want to spend the time dealing with open source issues and vendor compatibility just use ESXi. I guarantee it will basically be a set and forget system for you. If you spend ~$300 you can get a vsphere essentials kit which would include vcenter licensing (centralized management of all ESXi hosts), 6 cpu sockets and support for a year.
Your time has to be worth more than $300 setting up an open source solution like proxmox, ovirt, xenserver, etc. etc. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Vlad Sedov <[email protected]> wrote: > oVirt is another alternative. > Completely open source, and backed by Redhat. Arguably more mature > development-wise than proxmox.. no freemium stuff, and can be controlled > via shell and web interface. It has remote vm console, backup, clustering > and all the other junk a decent hypervisor should have. > > I've been running a mix of linux and windows vm's for a few months, and > haven't run into too much trouble. > > Vlad > > On 12/28/2015 10:32 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: > > See, this is why I run proxmox though. Debian host, zfs, PV and hvm, plus > just about every feature I need in my environment... With a webUI. Do I > have to have the webUI? Absolutely not, but it is efficient for my needs. > On Dec 28, 2015 10:29 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is just my opinion: Disregard VMWare and use a Linux based >> hypervisor with Xen. You can use either PV (paravirtualized) or HVM >> (hardware virtualized) guests on the same hypervisor. >> >> My typical hypervisor setup is Debian Jessie AMD64 and the latest Xen. >> >> Xen is what powers Amazon EC2 and a bunch of other services. It has a >> learning curve but is very much worth it. Everything is free, whether GPL, >> Apache or BSD licensed. >> >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Matt <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Is there a free version of VMWare? What are limitations vs paid? How >>> do you manage containers? Does it support software raid? Does it >>> have scheduled backup capabilities? How does it compare to Proxmox? >>> >>> I have a few linux centos servers: directadmin, email, DNS, speedtest, >>> mysql database and box running lots of perl scripts to monitor my >>> network. Would like to move them all to data center on one box and a >>> second box there to shove backups on. >>> >> >> >
