Virtualization of Server Xen or VMware

[Cecil]

Hi.

Once again my company is moving to smaller offices which now means I have to condense all our existing servers into one visualized server due to the lack of floor space in the new office location. It also give me a good reason to start deleting old document which is hogging up our severs.

Now because of the usual circumstances my budget zero, so I'm going to have to use an existing server to do my Visualization on which is an HP ML 350 G5 12GB RAM and 477GB Disk Space. What Virtual Machine software would you recommended: Citrix Xen or VMWare? Or is there an other alternative.

Our production system is not a high transactional database so disk IO performance is not a high factor.

Most of our OS are running Linux RedHat or Centos.

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Given "budget zero", you could look at Oracle's VirtualBox; the price is right.

 

[Cecil]

Rob. You know what.. Ive just been playing about with virtual box this morning and I installed both windows 8 and ubuntu as virtual machines and it working nicely. I was looking at a steel box solution.