Citrix has a free version of Xen that's pretty incredible.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote:

> We're  using the 60-day trial of ESXi 5 right now.
>
> I need to get it licensed. And it's quite stable so I haven't had to think
> about it lately.
>
>
> On Mar 21, 2012, at 7:46, B-o-B Bob De Mars <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 11/30/2011 2:02 PM, Ryan Coleman cried from the depths of the abyss:
> >
> > Hi Ryan,
> >
> > I was curious if you decided on a VM, and how is it working out?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >> We are not using anything at the moment. It's for showing our customers
> what we have for software... and frankly a couple of the video programs
> don't play well with others.
> >>
> >> On Nov 30, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Mr. B-o-B wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 11/30/2011 8:54 AM, Ryan Coleman cried from the depths of the abyss:
> >>>> 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.).
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Ryan.  I am curious to know if you are using VMware now&  don't
> like or want to use the latest ESXi 5, or is this something new for the
> company?
> >>>
> >>> I am refurbing a recently decommissioned HP ml370 G5, and I was
> planning/thinking actually about giving vShpere 5 a try.
> >>>
> >>> Just curious what the motivation behind this is.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Bob
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Linux / Unix System Administrator

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