Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

[Ira Abramov]

Quoting Lior Okman, from the post of Wed, 04 Mar:
> Ira Abramov wrote:
>
>> This is what I need for the clients. Both are good at windows, only
>> starting out in Linux. Both need something that's not too techie and CLI to
>> manage. ESXi has been the automatic no-brainer choice, but with
>> XenServer being free I'll need to ask the Lazyweb...
>>   
> There's also Proxmox Virtual Environment (  
> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page ) , which provide an OpenVZ and  
> KVM hybrid solution, which a very usable web interface. A lot easier to  
> install IMO than ESXi.

Quoting Oron Peled, from the post of Wed, 04 Mar:
> 1. You forgot KVM. If you have modern CPU (e.g: Intel from Core-2 Duo
> and up or an equivalent AMD [don't remember their spec]) you can get a
> Free solution with pretty good performance.

I've been waiting for KVM to hit the prime-time for a while, I remember
Mulix told me a year ago it's "Xen done the right way" and it should be
my first step into the world of FOSS virtualizations, however I'm
looking at the market, and it seems between EC2 and Academic grids - I
see Xen has become the de-facto standard for now. I may love playing
with it on my own servers, but I'm much more conservative in what I
offer clients. I don't want them left with a system only 10 people in
the country know how to handle if excrement occurs.

However, I admit Qumranet's SolidICE sounds pretty sweet "on paper".
Anyone using it in production? their site is not very detailed, there's
no trial version that I can find from either them or from RHAT. Also, So
far all posts and articles I saw comparing hypervisors picked Citrix
against VMware, occasionally mentioning M$. None give KVM/Qumranet,
OpenVZ and the rest even the tiniest mention. 

know anyone using it in production at least, and are they professionally
happy with it?

thanks,
Ira.

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