Look into Proxmox (www.proxmox.com). It uses KVM so has a solid stability reputation and has a web UI much like ESXi so it's ridiculously simple to use. I've got it deployed at two sites and have experienced absolutely zero problems. The hosts run a variety of Windows / Linux and Unix VM's. As far as storage goes you should consider using a SAN (or high end NAS) and move away from Software RAID5, especially if your intended use of the VM would be in a production environment.
/.j forwardbase solutions On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Andrew Robinson <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > > Sorry I guess I should have been a bit more clear, I just forget the > proper terms at the moment :) ESXI would be the host running the various > different VM's, or I would be running another os (say scientific Linux) > with virtual box on top of it, running the VM's. I'm trying to get a sense > of the preferred way of doing things. > > -----Original message----- > *From:* Anand Singh <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday 17th September 2013 14:36 > *To:* CLUG General <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [clug-talk] Virtualized Server Question > > Hi Andrew, > > If you're looking for an open source alternative to ESXi, it's not > Virtualbox. Even running headless, it's not in the same league for server > performance (nor was it designed to be). Look at KVM or Xen instead. I've > got about a dozen of those Supermicro servers running at various sites. > Despite my ambitions to go open source, they're all running ESXi. > > Anand. > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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