Citrix Xen vs VMWare ESXi

[Chandler, Scott]

I can't address your Xen vs ESXi question but don't rule out VMWare Server (not ESX or ESXi). It's a free download that you run on top of your installation of Linux (or Windows). The OS and the hypervisor are (sort of) independent, making it much easier to load other packages and to control the host OS. Another big advantage, if you run VMWare Workstation, you can build VMs on your workstation and copy them onto the server with no conversion (workstations VMs must be converted before moving them over to ESX/ESXi).

Since the underlying OS in ESX/ESXi is designed to support only virtualization, it's more efficient but I have a very lightweight text only SuSE build (no graphical interface) which comes close in efficiency. I'll be happy to send a copy of my build process off list if you're interested in giving it a try.

Scott

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From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Dave Peters
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:29 PM
To: discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
Subject: Citrix Xen vs VMWare ESXi

I have used VMWare ESXi and install few servers for developemnt, but never try Citrix Xen.
I don't know how stable it is on Citrix Xen. Can anyone tell me the different between Citrix Xen and VMware ESXi?

Thanks.
DP