[olug] XEN

[Craig Wolf]

Good information to say the least.  I am, and have been for a long time, the OS advocate here.  I am finally making headway into things I have been preaching for 4 years (OO.o, virtual servers, Linux, SAN's) and just want to start down the right road because changing direction here is like getting blood from a mummy.  8)

So, what you are saying is that XEN on that hardware WON'T do 2 Win Client and a Linux Client??

Craig Wolf
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>>> Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> 10/8/2008 >>>
If you ask me ESX would be the way to go.

2 reasons:

a) ESX will run unmodified guests on hardware Xen won't. ie I've got a
dual 2.8GHz Xeon setup with 8GB RAM that will make a decent ESX host,
but on the same hardware Xen will limit me to Xen-aware Linux and *BSD
guests

b) Especially in a business setting you gotta worry about your
successors... it's easier to find people who know a lot about ESX/ESXi
than it is Xen

The big downside with ESX/ESXi is it is really really really picky about
ethernet and RAID controllers.

'probably not what Craig was asking for though ;)

Curtis LaMasters wrote:
> On the other side of the fence, I have about 2 years of VMware ESX/ESXi
> experience and 6 months or so on Citrix Xensource.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us 
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