[Charlug] Suggestion for Virtualizing Server software

[Matt Jones]

For cheap(free as in beer)/ease of use I would say VMWare Server 1.x.  The
Xen and other virtualization offerings are catching up with the management
tools, but VMWare is a good deal easier just starting out.  VMWare Server is
especially nice if you need to convert physical machines as they provide
VMWare Converter Starter Edition.  If you are going to be doing a serious
amount of work and don't mind paying for it then there are management tools
for all virtualization products that you have suggested, although I still
think VMWare has a head start.  ESX with live migration is nice if you have
a storage area network to back it up.
Xen is more comparable to the enterprise VMWare offerings as far as
performance and you can do some nice things with Xen's paravirtualization if
you really want to dig in to it.  If you are up for the enterprise offerings
VMWare costs about double that of its competitors per socket.

Matt

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:05 AM, David Simmons <dave at dgnal.net> wrote:

> application will be web-servers.....along the lines of Xen, OpenVZ,
> VMWare......what's a good setup to use?  anyone else been down this road?
>
> Thanks - Dave
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