[Cialug] VM Server

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Personally i'd use XenServer. But that's because at work i administer 
several XenServer pools and so am quite familiar with it. The free 
version of XenServer 6.2 has almost full functionality (previous 
versions were artificially restricted to convince people to pay). The 
two things is lacks are that you can't apply patches using the console 
GUI (have to do that on the command line), and you can't call tech 
support and expect a useful response. (Which is *not* meant to imply 
that they will have a useful response even if you have a support 
contract.)

I guess overall i'd have to say use what you are familiar with, unless 
what you are familiar with has deficiencies that bother you and you want 
to try something new. If you want to try something new, i suggest 
looking at XenServer.

On 2014-01-18 at 12:54:49 David Champion wrote:
> I'm planning to upgrade my co-located server, a good old Dell SC1425
> I've been running for years, with a Dell PE2950, and run a Virtual
> Machine server. The VM's will be running Linux.
> 
> I'm quite familiar with VMWare. I've run VirtualBox on the desktop for
> testing OS's, and I've just started playing around with KVM. Haven't
> run Xen.
> 
> Of all of these, I'm kind of leaning towards KVM at the moment. It
> seems really easy to set up, and you can manage your vm's from the
> command line, i.e. I can ssh in from my tablet and restart a VM if
> something crashes.
> 
> Anyone have any input on what they'd run for a VM Server?
> 
> -dc
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