I remember VMware since 1999 until today. Great software, overall the best platform, even today. Now, times have changed. Being overtaxed by VMware in the data center one has to look for alternatives.

Throw it all over me, throw in the few. We have the XEN, Hyper-V and emerging KVM.

In basic we have the ~80-90 percent Widows with some RHEL and SLES thrown in the mix, the others are quite absent (or not v-candidates) in the enterprise. This leaves with a simple conclusion that the XEN, Hyper-V and KVM trio have good run in the specific rather than in the overall run – with a price mark closer to affordable.

As a technical guy I feel sadness.

In my rationale I’ll suggest to put certain offloads to XEN for performance (X->H-V waiting (?)), Use Hyper-V for all other offloads. Watch the KVM space, watch every space.