thecoffeeguy
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greetings my friends.
As the title states, I am exploring other options outside of ESXi to meet some of my requirements. A little background info first:
Been running ESXi in my home lab for almost 2 years now. Works fine. Biggest complaint is lack of a web interface which is one major reason that I am looking at alternatives.
My home virtual lab is 100% for work. I do a lot of testing of stuff within my VM's. Flexibility, options are all key things i need in my lab.
As my lab continues to grow my need for more running VM's, more networking options is growing. That said, I am looking to add the following to my home lab:
-more bare metal physical nodes that i can cluster together.
-the ability to vmotion VM's around.
-the ability to vstorage as well would be nice, but not a requirement.
-web interface is critical for me.
Like I said before, whats important to me is what goes on within those VM's. Lots of testing, debugging as well as network test (how stuff reacts across different networks, vlans, DMZ's etc.)
That is where ESXi is falling short and need some suggestions.
I have been doing a lot of research lately on this and have read up on the following and am hoping to get some suggestions/recommendations:
-openstack
-Xen
-Linux KVM
-virtmanager/ovirt
-proxmox
I should mention, I am very much a command line junkie. A lot of my VM's i do testing in are running Linux and Solaris (solaris zones as well) so I am not afraid of the CLI.
I am also going to add some type of NAS to my lab to serve up storage to my nodes as well as act as a backup (plus, I want to test out CEPH...sounds super awesome).
So thats my situation here.
Based on my requirements and what I listed above, any suggsetions or recommendations?
Any other items I should consider that I may have missed?
Really appreciate the help here.
Looking forward to your replies.
Cheers,
TCG
As the title states, I am exploring other options outside of ESXi to meet some of my requirements. A little background info first:
Been running ESXi in my home lab for almost 2 years now. Works fine. Biggest complaint is lack of a web interface which is one major reason that I am looking at alternatives.
My home virtual lab is 100% for work. I do a lot of testing of stuff within my VM's. Flexibility, options are all key things i need in my lab.
As my lab continues to grow my need for more running VM's, more networking options is growing. That said, I am looking to add the following to my home lab:
-more bare metal physical nodes that i can cluster together.
-the ability to vmotion VM's around.
-the ability to vstorage as well would be nice, but not a requirement.
-web interface is critical for me.
Like I said before, whats important to me is what goes on within those VM's. Lots of testing, debugging as well as network test (how stuff reacts across different networks, vlans, DMZ's etc.)
That is where ESXi is falling short and need some suggestions.
I have been doing a lot of research lately on this and have read up on the following and am hoping to get some suggestions/recommendations:
-openstack
-Xen
-Linux KVM
-virtmanager/ovirt
-proxmox
I should mention, I am very much a command line junkie. A lot of my VM's i do testing in are running Linux and Solaris (solaris zones as well) so I am not afraid of the CLI.
I am also going to add some type of NAS to my lab to serve up storage to my nodes as well as act as a backup (plus, I want to test out CEPH...sounds super awesome).
So thats my situation here.
Based on my requirements and what I listed above, any suggsetions or recommendations?
Any other items I should consider that I may have missed?
Really appreciate the help here.
Looking forward to your replies.
Cheers,
TCG