If you think you are going to spend more time learning ESXi vs any other product I think you'll be surprised.
The rest of those things like dedupe, compression, design storage etc apply to any virtualization in general and has nothing to do with the product you use. Just to give a frame of reference I manage about 100 ESXi nodes, 8 vCenters across 4 data centers almost 20TB of ram in everything. On top of that we run a 2000 seat VDI environment using View. The time I've spent with Prox, Xen, Hyper-v has always lead me back to VMware as long as you have the money. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > You make this statement like there aren't things to learn about > non-open-source products, which is a pretty silly argument IMO. > > Knowing when to dedupe, what compression to use, design storage > strategy, optimizing IO for throughput vs latency vs price, vs bulk > storage, best performance settings for different types of hosts / > services... similar things to learn between products. > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Ryan Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > > See, this is always my problem when these types of threads come up. Sure, > > Xen is free, as long as you spend the hours and hours it takes to learn > the > > system and maintain it. Your time isn't free. I don't know how much time > you > > have to dink around with your hypervisor but my time can definitely be > > better spent anywhere else. Large companies use this technology because > with > > their team of engineers on staff to maintain and evolve it it gets them > the > > flexibility they need to run their services. Your small business running > 6 > > vm's doesn't need this. > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 8:29 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. > >> > >> > > >
