[BlueOnyx:08613] Re: XenServer

[Colin Jack]

Hi Jeff,

> Could I recommend you take a peak at Oracle VM - they have just released
> version 3.0.
> 
> It's free to download (full enterprise stack) - if you want updates you'll need to
> pay around £400 per year for a dual socket server. If you have servers with
> more than two sockets it's double. Might sound expensive but you can load 2TB
> (yes Terrabytes) of RAM into a OVM host and still not pay any more than the
> base £800 per year price there are no extras.
> 
> It's good for Linux and Windows, and runs XEN 4.0.
> 
> Oracle acquired Virtual Iron a few years ago, so much of the VI 'goodness' has
> finally ended up in OVM 3.0.
> 

Sounds interesting - I will take a look. How seamless is the HA?

Regards

Colin