The version of Xen sold by Citrix works well for this. There were Windows driver issues back when I started with it, but I think those are resolved now. If you're planning to automate the system with puppet or chef, I think you'll get the best results with Xen. If you want to do it manually, you might find VirtualBox to be more user friendly. It can be challenging to do complicated networking with that system, but once it's up it tends to be rather easy to manage. -Josh On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > Guys, > > My day job is looking for a good VM lead and I thought of you. Well, ok, I thought you could get me some good leads. > > We're looking into an alternative to VMWare vSphere 5, one that will run under whatever OS (we're not sold to Windows for our base configuration) and will support any OS on top of it (BSD, Linux, Windows, etc.). > > Links to whitepapers and pricing (if applicable) would also be appreciated. We're going to utilize most of this machine to run various video surveillance solutions but will also reserve some smaller slices for our network communications (DNS, DHCP, ipTables, Nagios, etc.). > > Thanks! > > -- > Ryan > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list