Vista - Server Virtualization

Hey Folks - We need your help. We were hoping, we could gain from your
experience with implementing server virtualization. When should we be
using Red Hat Virtualization, Citrix Virtualization, Xen
Virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization, Oracle Virtualization and
VMWare. I will be very interested in learning from your first hand
experience. I will also like to know, under what situations is one
virtualization preferred over the other. - Thanks for your help

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:53:46 -0700 (PDT), mark_smith wrote:
That's a pretty broad set of questions and without knowing what your needs
are or what your environment looks like, pretty much impossible to answer
definitively. Sounds like what you really need is a consulting engagement.

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Very hard question to answer. In our case we looked at our available
hardware that we could use to test the various virtualization solutions. In
some case, Xen and the others that use Xen the hardware requirements to use
the product prevented us from testing them. As a result they were dropped
from our list of choices. We then looked at the learning curve, we're about
99.9% windows server with the 0.1% being appliances running some flavor of
linux. VMWare ESX fell off the list as a result of this.

Basically, that left us with VMWare Server and Microsoft Virtual Server to
work with. We then looked at support and decided that with Microsoft if we
had a problem we already had a Gold Support agreement in place, and we
wouldn't have to worry about the finger pointing between VMWare and
Microsoft if something didn't work or broke.

This is a very simple look at our thought process, but in general what we
found while testing was that all the products worked well, and in most cases
we didn't see anything that said one product was better then another. We
also see MS VS having an upgrade path that continues to support our goals,
while we're not confident that VMWare will even be around in 5 years. Having
said that we see EMC taking the reins away from Green as a good move for
VMWare and they are starting to realize that they aren't the only player in
town. I'm hoping that some of their 3rd party solution providers start
porting their stuff over to support MS and the other virtual solutions.

One thing we liked about VMware Server 1.6 that we wished MS VS had was USB
support. We have some small license applications that would be perfect for
virtualization except for the usb dongle they require. The AnywhereUSB
solutions work in some cases, but require additional hardware to be
purchased and maintained.
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