(August 4, 2009 at 8:53 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: Yes, that was my impression as well. Only the companies decision was to go with VMware so I had to follow suit. Had it been up to me I would have chosen Xenserver, at least my tests show the hypervisor to be at least as fast and as solid as ESXi, and you get a lot more features for free.
Yeah part of the reason I feel I have to go ESXi ... they use ESX in the company so there are similarities between the products and I am a VMWare certified.
Truth is ... had I not already configured several machines on the system (a 2008 DC, a 2003 F&P with about 700GB data and an XP client) I could probably swap but now I'm kinda committed ... I could still change my mind coz the system hasn't gone "live" yet (i.e. hasn't replaced my physical server) but I have to absolutely make my mind up soon. I guess what I would really like is a second similarly configured system to play with and perhaps migrate systems to ... it wouldn't be cheap (would cost me at least a new 1TB drive and 4Gb IBM server memory ... reckon that would be the minimum I could get away with) but it would be doable.
Kyu
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