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Question for IT guys

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Draugauth

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I'm looking to get back into the IT world after a break of a few years. Seeing as Virtualization is the "hot thing" now, I would like to get an idea as to which Virtualization OS I should go with. Well the top 2 as I will have a small system handling cloud services as well as a few other things.

Only ones I know of from reading the forums and googling are.

VMwares ESXi
MS Hyper-V
Xen VM
Redhat KVM
Oracle's VM server

btw the main VOS server will be a
Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 Ivy Bridge
ASUS P8B WS
NORCO RPC-4224
32GB of ram
HPT RocketRaid 3560
and working up to 24 3TB WD Reds in a R60 configuration.

Thanks in Advance ;)

PS I also have an Intel Pro/1000 MT Dual port nic that I want to use in it.
 
It is safe to say that VMware is the top dog for now and likely for a while, so that is where I'd concentrate my efforts.

Check the VMware HCL to see if your hardware is supported. BTW, you can use VMware Workstation or Fusion to virtualize ESXi regardless of your current hardware.
 
Go with both Hyper-V and ESXi...

There is no reason that you can't learn and become familiar with both. If you choose just one then you are limiting yourself.
 
learning the basics of ESXi shouldn't take too long and I think you can run nested VMs/hypervisors with everything else. I would run ESXi on the bare metal and then setup VMs to test out hte other hypervisors. Mainly because the vsphere client is pretty easy to learn and quick to get up and running and provides a visual gui to get started. I think all the others take more time to learn and get setup. Hyper-V is windows, so you mainly have to learn the windows specific requirements and the others require that linux background and then each specific syntax/terminology. So depending on how comfortable you are with each OS, each hypervisor might be easier/harder.

You could also look at it based on certs/credentials you can get with each hypervisor. look at what it costs to get VMware, MS, Citrix, Red Hat certified for each hypervisor and check out hte job markets for them. VMWare is the most common, but that may mean there's more qualified people and lower pay...
Course, if you look at cloud services for virtualization, you would look at OpenStack or CloudStack which is more Xenserver based...
 
Awesome thank you guys for all the info. I'll probably run ESXi on the new server I am building and Xen on the old one then. That way the old one can handle cloud services while the new one will handle the rest including playing with the nested Hyper-V's as well.
 
Question. Does EXSi allow for larger than 2TB partitions? I only ask because my raid is a 4TB partition currently. If it doesn't I will need to migrate the stuff over.
 
Draugauth said:
Question. Does EXSi allow for larger than 2TB partitions? I only ask because my raid is a 4TB partition currently. If it doesn't I will need to migrate the stuff over.
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VMFS does as of v5. It's up to ~60 TB now.

VIper GTS
 
Viper GTS said:
VMFS does as of v5. It's up to ~60 TB now.

VIper GTS
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64TB, and we support (as much as one can) running nested hypervisors for testing. I have a Xen and Hyper-V setup to do testing against for that nested :)
 
Learn ESXi and HyperV. Xen is last on the short list.

Oh and supplement with strong Linux and Power Shell knowledge.
 
Well ordered the memory today and hopefully tomorrow I will be able to order the rest of the hardware that I still need. Again I want to thank all of you for your help in this.
 
You can't use all of the enterprise features without having a full lab including shared storage and a managed switch. The basics are about the same with each. I'd take a look at ESXi, Hyper-V, XEN, and KVM for servers and look at Virtual Box, and VMWare Workstation for your desktop. After you get the basics down, you can pick one to go into further detail and work on the next step of setting up shared storage, vlans, etc.
 
Draugauth said:
Question. Does EXSi allow for larger than 2TB partitions? I only ask because my raid is a 4TB partition currently. If it doesn't I will need to migrate the stuff over.
Click to expand...

Viper GTS said:
VMFS does as of v5. It's up to ~60 TB now.

VIper GTS
Click to expand...

VMDKs still have a 2TB - 512B limit though, which if you're trying to migrate a 4TB partition over, you'll need to either split it up or span vmdks.
 
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