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mconnors
6-Apr-09 7:06am
...also, would price make you give up functionality, and how much?
rbirongjr
6-Apr-09 1:12pm
Why does everyone omit XenServer?
Anony206
23-Apr-09 11:05am
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VMWare has a major advantage - no new hardware required. Microsoft/Xen/KVM/VirtualBox/....? All require hardware current hardware with VT enabled processor.
ESX/ESXi runs on ANY processor - I've got 3&4 year old servers running dual core AMD's 275's and it works great. Don't buy new servers - buy a small SAN & parts for your existing hardware. Hitachi & Dell both have SAS+Dual controller iSCSI in the less than $10k space - toss in some RAM & NICs and you're done! If a server dies, start up the VM's on a different server and move on. You'll save a huge amount of money on service contracts - Next Business Day is fine - saving over $1,000 per new server added to the pool.
ESX/ESXi runs on ANY processor - I've got 3&4 year old servers running dual core AMD's 275's and it works great. Don't buy new servers - buy a small SAN & parts for your existing hardware. Hitachi & Dell both have SAS+Dual controller iSCSI in the less than $10k space - toss in some RAM & NICs and you're done! If a server dies, start up the VM's on a different server and move on. You'll save a huge amount of money on service contracts - Next Business Day is fine - saving over $1,000 per new server added to the pool.
David Marshall
25-Apr-09 5:49pm
Unless you want to run vSphere 4. New hardware, here you come! Unless of course you already have 64-bit hardware with virtualization extensions. In which case, you are safe with Xen, Hyper-V and vSphere.
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