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VM / Hypervisor
Terms
- Hypervisors
- KVM
- Hyper-V
- ESXi
- OpenVZ
- KSM - Kernel Samepage Merging
Choice
- VMware ESXi
- Proxmox
- XCP-ng
- vSphere
- oVirt (RHEV)
- Xen
- XenServer - free version is limited
- XCP-ng
- (+) Nice Windows GUI Tool XCP-ng Center
- (+) Web UI based mangement: Xen Orchestra
- (-) 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
- virtualization
- (+) KVM virtualization
- (+) light LXC
- (-) no docker support
- (+) Debian based - possible to do lots of unsupported things from OS
- (+) Clustering
- (+) CEPH
- (+) ZFS
- (+) working memory ballooning
- (+) KSM