select best virtualization platfrom for DirectAdmin

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nango

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Hi
I'm searching about virtualization for DA and found many hypervisor for this.
This VMs are in 2 category: dedicated/share resources

Dedicated resources like:
Citrix XenServer
MS-HyperV
ESXI

Shared resources:
OpenVZ

If you have any experience about them please help to select best for DA VPS. goal is more than 10 DA on any HP servers with 2 x Quad core + 16GB Memory.
 
hyper-v runs like **** with most linux os's so I definitely wouldnt use that. Xen or esxi are both fine.
 
Well scsi actually i do use Hyper-V for a customer and it work pretty well on linux aswell with CentOS (not with Ubuntu, with that it suck)... the only main thing to do is set Legacy Network Adapter instead the standard that it use once a new VM is created.

But, for sure there are better (less expensive) solutions out there :)

Regards
 
The pointed-to post is very old. Can you clarify that the license now allows the free version of ESXI to be used to sell VPS solutions?

Thanks.

Jeff
 
So now I guess those of us using vmware have been put on notice that we may be out of compliance with the EULA.

I read the first link through page two, when I got exhausted.

Okay for me, because I don't use vmware. I'm likely going to start using KVM; open source software generally doesn't have this sort of problem.

Note in the links the confusion, and the complaints because no-one representing the company would post a clarification.

They're probably not allowed to. Just this morning I was trying to get my rep at my bank to clarify some terms in their contract for accepting credit cards using their merchant account service. I asked some specific questions. His response was that the answers were all in the paperwork he'd sent me. I asked him to clarify some of them. He told me he wasn't allowed to do that, and that if I needed clarification, I should ask my attorney to review the paperwork.

As most of us realize, attorney opinions differ, judges differ, courts differ, and I'm happy enough with my current provider that I don't need to save a few hundred dollars a year by switching to a provider with a contract I don't understand and can't easily get clarified. Especially with a three year minimum contract and a $500 cancellation fee.

So I'm keeping the merchant account I've got. (If you're having problems picking a merchant account provider you trust, and want further information, email me and I'll tell you whom I use, and why.)

And I'm sticking with KVM.

:)

Jeff
 
We are running OpenVZ for years. The container performance is nearly native.
However, the vzkernel is not always updated (align) with the mainstream one.
(i.e. now the mainstream is RHEL 6.5 / 5.10 , the vzkernel is still in development to rebase to 6.5 / 5.10 at the moment)
 
I've recently decided to try Proxmox, and I've had it installed from ISO to a new sysem at the datacenter. 3 1TB drives for hardware RAID1 with hot swap, 48 GB memory, twelve total cores.

A good summary of Proxmox and it's features can be found here (zdnet.com).

Jeff
 
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