Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:44:10 +0100 From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualization manager suggestions Message-ID: <20111130224410.3f056d20@dijkstra> In-Reply-To: <130D0A6D-0975-4D58-B3A0-433E1D07610F@d3photography.com> References: <130D0A6D-0975-4D58-B3A0-433E1D07610F@d3photography.com>
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:57:12 -0600 Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.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_______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" You might consider having a look at KVM on OpenIndiana, the Illumos based OpenSolaris "distro". Another thought could be the Joyent cloud computing flavour of KVM on Illumos/OpenSolaris, SmartOS. Positive about such a setup is that you could enjoy the storage flexibility of ZFS. Cheers, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1
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