What about RedHat's KVM-based solution (called "RedHat Enterprise
Virtualization" I believe) ? Have you considered that as an alternative to
VMware?
Matt
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>From: Derek J. Balling <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 1:16 PM
>Subject: [lopsa-tech] VMware ESX -> XenServer Enterprise Migrations
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>So, I'm sure most VMWare administrators have seen the hubbub with the new
>vSphere 5 licensing. The royal screwup that THAT is would be a topic for a
>different thread (probably in a different forum, since most VMware admins I
>know can't talk about it for more than 10 seconds without spewing into
>make-a-sailor-blush levels of profanity). Suffice to say that even with an
>existing SnS agreement, VMware's going to ask me to buy 1.5x more licenses if
>I want to upgrade to 5, just to make use of my existing hardware. And I've got
>it a lot better than some folks I know looking at 4-5x reinvestment in
>licenses.
>
>But, all that being said, it's led us to consider the alternatives. Being a
>Linux-only shop, Hyper-V was basically right-out, but XenServer Enterprise
>looked like a pretty good contender.
>
>Has anyone here done an ESX->XenServer migration before? Tips? Tricks?
>Gotchas? Tools that you used that you said "Holy crap that made everything
>easy!"?
>
>Cheers,
>D
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