Re: [Xen-users] Xen (SLES) vs VMWare Enterprise Plus and Essentials Plus

[James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Russ,

I appreciate the response. I agree with your perspective whole 
completely. Unfortunately I'm not confident that type of argument will 
be enough to sway those that are pushing for the move.
Thanks again!
James


On 1/17/2014 9:33 AM, Russell Pavlicek wrote:
> James,
>
> As an old Open Source advocate and former service delivery person for cloud 
> software which included VMware in the stack, I tend to pause when people say 
> they want to migrate to VMware.
>
> VMware has a distinct view of the cloud and, in my experience, their actions frequently 
> push users toward that view.  I have been working with cloud-like technologies since 
> before the term "cloud" was coined, and I believe it is far too early to hitch 
> one's wagon to any one corporate cloud horse.  Many of the most interesting cloud 
> technologies are coming out of the Open Source world (look at CloudStack, OpenStack, and 
> others), not from individual proprietary vendors.
>
> If I were an end user looking toward cloud (now or in the future), I would pick 
> a neutral Open Source hypervisor dedicated toward making itself useful in 
> whatever cloud which might appear on the horizon.  I would not want a closed 
> source hypervisor which would always fit best in that vendor's view of the 
> cloud, especially when many of the best cloud innovations are coming from 
> outside of that company.
>
> The choice is yours, but I would be examining other options.
>
> These opinions are mine alone, not that of Xen Project or my employer.
>
> Russ Pavlicek
>
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> Subject: [Xen-users] Xen (SLES) vs VMWare Enterprise Plus and Essentials Plus
>
> Our company currently uses Xen on SLES11. Many people are pushing for
> VMWare. I've done some searching, including this matrix here:
> http://www.virtualizationmatrix.com/matrix.php?category_search=all&free_based=1
>
> This matrix doesn't specifically cover xen/sles11 but does have Redhat
> and XenServer, which are comparable. We also currently use a third party
> application for central management of all servers, which provides HA, as
> well as granular administrator assignments for support people, among
> other things.
>
> If cost was not a factor, are there any technical real reasons to NOT go
> with VMWare vSphere? For example, using Enterprise Plus at the data
> center and Essentials Plus at remote facilities. As far as I know VMWare
> does not have a central management feature, where you can manage the
> whole environment from one point, but I've heard that's coming?
>
> I was hoping to hear from the experts on this list that have experience
> with both. I honestly love my xen environment, at the same time, it does
> have shortcomings, that I'm guessing VMWare would cover a lot better,
> such as snapshots.
>
> Anyway, if anyone is willing to comment I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
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