willay
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Just out of interest, what is everyone using at work/home?
Normally the choices come down to
VMware
HyperV
Proxmox
Is there a reason why you are using it? is it something I havent listed above? please share your experiences.
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John
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VMware.
ESXi is excellent for a free product.
I've not used HyperV much but can't see iti being as stable as esx is.
Never used proxmox.
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VrsTurbo
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vmware and hyper v. Use hyper v in some large scale goverment projects
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Nismo
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I use parallels on osx.
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ed
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Parallels on OSX.
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Whittie
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VMware, and tbh i've never had to use anything else so can't comment on others.
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Planty02
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vmware all the way.
Not forgetting Citrix Xenserver though. Had a play with that a while ago but was put off by poor p2v tools. The tools have since been improved but our infrastructure is already vmware based.
xenserver has one major advantage over vmware and that is that the free version allows you to see multiple hosts in one console (ie like vmware vcentre) whereas each host under esxi has to be managed individually
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Dom
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ESXi and Virtualbox for dev purposes.
Wouldn't mind trialling Xen at some point; got plenty of Xen/OpenVZ VPS hosting boxes though.
[Edited on 25-01-2012 by Dom]
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Sam
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VirtualBox, because it's free.
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Rob_Quads
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We are starting to use VMWare quite a bit on our systems.
We also use Dynamic LPARs a lot on AIX.
We use VMWare because its very very good and have some great enterprise features like being able to move a vm from one piece of hardware to another without a single dropped ping!
Its also got very good support and is very established.
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VrsTurbo
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if you need any help on vm. im a vcp5
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Richie
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We also use ESX right the way through our business, built another 20 ESX hosts yesterday with 4.1 U2. Going to be fun with storage though - first time using an Hitachi VSP
We have a couple of cheeky Hyper-V boxes but that's only because we've told people off for under utilising a high spec server and try and talk them into ESX, and it's usually the only compromise.
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Wrighty
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vmware at both places iv worked, dunno why...as an engineer i just inherit shiz to work on which sucks
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Aaron
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Virtualbox for Msi package creation
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
Virtualbox for Msi package creation
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Daniel_Corsa
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VM Ware
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pow
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Virtual Server 2005 then HyperV, I use VirtualBox on my laptop as it supports x64 VM's
HyperV is a lovely bit of kit, so user friendly and flexable IMO
[Edited on 28-01-2012 by pow]
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ENB
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Everyone seems to love VMWare.
We use Parallels and Proxmox (cause it's free).
And VirtualBox for testing purposes.
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Dom
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I found desktop VMWare quite 'bloaty' for simple Windows/Linux VMs and Virtualbox appears (haven't done any serious comparisons) to be the better performer. Although VMWare handles OSX a lot lot better though.
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