[colug-432] virtualization, clouds, and infrastructure

[Mike Warfe]

I've been using Citrix XenServer since Oracle purchased VirtualIron a few
years back. Citrix does offer a freemium version that includes
live migration and can use iSCSI, FC, and or NFS backends to pool several
servers together. We use bonded GigE with Equallogic for our backend. The
downside of Citrix is that the management application is Windows only but I
believe they are going to a web application soon. They also provide cmd
tools and scripting. VMware is obviously the gold standard but Citrix gets
the job done and is much cheaper.



On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Stephen Potter <spp at unixsa.net> wrote:

> On 12/16/2010 10:40 AM, Scott Merrill wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Angelo McComis<angelo at mccomis.com>
>  wrote:
> >> Agree 1000% on your approach... Linux does bonded/LACP very well, but if
> you
> >> can afford 10GigE, you're probably not huddled around a camp stove
> figuring
> >> out how to pay for VMware, right?
> > 10g Ethernet is in the realm of the financially feasible. It suddenly
> > becomes a tough choice to decide between VMware or 10gE. If you can't
> > have both, which will provide the best infrastructure investment for
> > the business needs?
>
> I would suggest in most cases it would probably be the investment in
> VMware.  10G will come down in price, and it can be added after the fact
> pretty easily - put switches/blades in place, put NICs in servers,
> connect, done.  VMware is much more difficult to retrofit and costs
> extra hardware in the short term as well.  If you're considering using a
> different virtualization solution, that's a different question entirely.
>
> -spp
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