Are you leaning towards VMWare or Xenserver?<br><br>Currently I run a number of Xenserver deployments running on HP C class blades and using HP MSA1500 SANs for shared storage this allows for xenmotion(moving VMs between physical servers with no downtime). Overall I have been very happy with Xenserver I have been using it since release 4.0 and it has come a huge way in the past year to the current version 5.0. <br>
<br>Xenserver makes it very easy to vlan tag interfaces on VMs giving you the ability to host multiple customers on the same hardware and keep them unaware of each other.<br><br>One of Xenservers short comes when you virtualize all the servers at a SMB is tradionally backups were done with a directly attached tape back up and there is no provision in xenserver for it.<br>
<br>What kind of enviroment are you looking to virtualize? I could probably give more appropriate advice/suggestions knowing that. <br><br>Justin Elze<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Brad Bartram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad.bartram@gmail.com">brad.bartram@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm interested in this whole virtualization of servers and services trend that's been on going for quite a while. I've worked with it on workstations and in the traditional host - guest configurations to gain access to non-native applications - you know, user-level stuff. I'm interested in it on the server side of things though. I've read the marketing propaganda and seen the vendor white papers and all the trade news-vertisements, but I'm interested in hearing some real world opinions.<br>
<br>I know some of you have opinions on it. So what's the good, the bad, the shortcomings, and the strengths? Are there any things I should look out for or things I should consider in planning out hardware purchases and such?<br>
<br>Thanks<br><font color="#888888"><br>Brad<br>
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