You can get commercial support for Xen as well. We use Vmware for virtualization on the Windows side (on RHEL Hosts) and have consolidated a little over 400 servers. On the Solaris side we make use of Ldom's and zones, and for linux I've done a proof of concept with openvz (although we would probably use virtuozzo for the commercial support since I work for a very large company) I'm a big fan of openvz and zones since you don't have the extra overhead of multiple kernels, and in many cases you don't need to do so. (Consolidating dev and uat onto one box for example). Virtualization is a great way to get more out of your hardware and is in wide production use.
Justin n Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:42 am, Sharninder wrote: >> >> Has anyone tried running some kind of virtualization >> software in production on a Linux server and is there >> any feedback, comments, suggestions, benchmarks? >> > > Yes, I've used xen and vmware and both have served me equally well. > Use vmware if you want the commercial support in a heavily loaded data > center. Use xen if you can handle the support yourself or can depend > on the community. In performance both are compareable and currently, > IMO, vmware has a lead in providing better management features with > the VI3 line. If you're looking to install a virtualisation software > on top of a linux distro, then your choice is between vmware > workstation or a xen patched kernel. > > There are other virtualisation solutions also including kvm, lguest > all of which should serve you well for the usual test cases. In the > end your choice would depend on your use case and requirements. > > Regards, > Sharninder > > Disclaimer: I work for vmware. > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
