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VM / Hypervisor

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  • VMware ESXi
  • Proxmox
  • XCP-ng
  • vSphere
  • oVirt (RHEV)
  • Xen
    • XEN PROJECT
      • Open source, free, no corporate support
    • XenServer =⇒ Citrix Hypervisor
      • XenServer is an enterprise-class, cloud-proven, virtualization platform that delivers all of the critical features needed for any server and datacenter virtualization implementation.
      • XenServer is a Linux distribution that is based on the Xen hypervisor, the Linux kernel, and the CentOS Linux distribution and user tools.
      • free version is limited
      • windows management client
    • XCP-ng
      • (+) Nice Windows GUI Tool XCP-ng Center
      • (-) No WEB UI
      • (+) Xen Orchestra independent Web GUI: centralised management tool. Capable to manage multiple locations, moving VMs between locations.
        • delta backups, continuous replication
      • (-) Thin provisioning only on local EXT3/4 fs, NFS, File, XOSAN (VDI files)
        • Block based devices only with THICK provisioning (local LVM, iSCSI, HBA)
      • (-) experimental ZFS
  • Proxmox
    • (+) simple
    • virtualization
      • (+) KVM virtualization
      • (+) native support for LXC
      • (-) no docker support
    • (+) Debian based - possible to do lots of unsupported things from OS
    • (+) run on any HW
    • (+) GPU/PCI passthrough
    • (+) Clustering - one web interface to manage multiple nodes (but not separate locations)
    • (+) CEPH, NFS, CIFS
    • (+) ZFS
    • (+) working memory ballooning
    • (+) KSM