Last time I checked they did not support snapshots on a running VM and that was a issue at least for us other than that (which may not even be true anymore) it looked very promising
Paul On Jul 22, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Matthias Birkner <[email protected]> wrote: > What about RedHat's KVM-based solution (called "RedHat Enterprise > Virtualization" I believe) ? Have you considered that as an alternative to > VMware? > > Matt > > =========================================================== > "If they are the pillars of our community, > We better keep a sharp eye on the roof." > =========================================================== > 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 > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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