[olug] XEN

[Phil Brutsche]

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