Doug Fairobent wrote:
I am currently trying to convince the management at my company to launch a
server consolidation project using Linux on VM. All of the Intel
programmers (who vastly outnumber me) are touting VMware as the server
consolidation solution. Does anyone know of an analysis or study that
compares the merits of VM to VMware? I hope to find some sort of
ammunition I can use to promote Linux on VM. Thanks.
At the low-mid range end, it's very hard to beat the flexibility
of VMware. ESX server does well, though costly of efficiently
managing many guests and now has provision for moving entire machines
from host to host while still live (weird... and obviously not
completely bulletproof).
VMware does have limitations though, which is why it may not
be suitable on the high end. Maximum processor support is
just for duallies for example. There's also a maxium memory
limit as well that's pretty low (2G?).
I guess it all depends on what you're consolidating. Web servers...
VMware ESX may be a good choice (shoot you'd could get by with
GSX or Workstation even). If you need lots of processing muscle
in your guests or need large amounts of memory, then VMware is
probably not what you want right now.
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