[COLUG] Linux on VMware

[Duane]

Scott Merrill wrote:
> Duane wrote:
>> Steve Roggenkamp wrote:
>>> My company, OCLC, has recently started to make significant use of Linux
>>> on VMware.  We now have dozens of Linux servers running on VMware VI 3. 
>>> I'm looking for others with significant number of servers to exchange
>>> experience, best practices, etc.  Perhaps get together for lunch for
>>> discussions.
>> If you don't mind me asking, I'm curious as to the reasoning for going
>> with VMware.
> 
>>From a business perspective, it can be nice to have a company to call
> when seeking support, as opposed to trawling through support forum
> message postings.
> 
> VMWare also offers VMotion through their VirtualCenter product, which
> allows you to move a running virtual machine between physical hosts.
> That's a fairly big advantage for services for which downtime is
> intolerable.

Perhaps my original question was worded well enough, but I'm currently
looking into deploying Xen and I'm interested in the advantages of
VMware over Xen.

With the respect to the above comments, both features/options are
available from Citrix (Citrix bought out XenSource) but I'm not sure at
what cost.

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 Duane

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