Re: Most Popular Virtualization

mark_smith <bhuta.darshan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hey Guys, I was wondering, if you could suggest when to use KVM
virtualization, Xen and VMWare. Which one do you think is the most
popular among the various virtualization offerings in the market.
Appreciate your help folks. Thanks.

I've got a VMware ESX cluster that's been running over a year and I've
just set up a couple KVM servers.

VMware ESX works well, but it's pricey and it requires a Windows system
for Virtual Center. Vmotion is handy, when it works, but I've had
problems moving systems due to unexpected dependencies.

I found KVM/QEMU/virt-manager easy to set up and use.

If you need fancy stuff like the equivalent of Vmotion, you'll probably
need Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. It's cheaper than VMware ESX, I
think. Haven't used it, myself.

-Dave
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