[GRLUG] Virtual OS in Linux

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:33 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:20 -0500, Colin Vallance wrote:
> > Has anyone use VMWare ESXi in production yet?  I've got a few boxes  
> > running Ubuntu with VMWare server but I'm wondering what "real world"  
> > differences are.  I've also been tasked with proposing a method to use  
> > VMWare to sell my company's product so ESXi knowledge would be great. 
> Effectively: paid support from VMware. And a control console and other
> manageable tasks and migration tools which is part of that "paid
> support"
> Worth the money if you need it, which only you (or your company) can
> determine that.

Performance, especially of I/O, is dramatically improved with ESX over
vmware-server.  We ran vmware-server in production for over a year:  it
works, but it manages snapshots badly and I/O performance is pretty bad.

ESX3i being free I'd never use vmware-server again.