On 03/15/2013 03:27 PM, Steve Alligood wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > 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. > */ > I'm with Steve here, KVM is the way to go, give it a couple more years, and it could seriously hamper VMWare in the market. with virt-manager and the virsh shell, KVM just rocks.
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