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On Mar 15, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Gary Thornock <[email protected]> wrote: >> What's your favorite VM Server thingamajig? Why? What else might you >> recommend? How do you manage it? > > ESXi is nice, but you've already noticed some limitations there. > > Have you considered (the free version of) Citrix XenServer? It's been > a couple of years since I used that one, but I remember it being able > to do pretty much everything that the free ESXi did, and including some > of the expensive vSphere features too (things like live migration > between physical servers). > KVM does live migration quite well, usually misses a single ping. I have used xen and KVM quite a bit, and I used to be sold on xen until I learned my way around KVM. It is *much* better from an admin standpoint and generally just works, without some of the more esoteric methods that xen used, plus KVM has decent support for windows. I don't think you can do better for a free product, and it gives the expensive ones a run for their money. -Steve /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
