Posts by Mubes 2 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Dec 2009
There's not too much love for XenServer being shown here, which is a bit of a shame. Take a look. Recent license changes make it free in all configs (you pay for support) and its really quite powerful, especially in comparison with the free-version-limits that some other products have... Xen itself is the basis of lots of virtual machine resellers' infrastructure, but was late to the party with a small marketing budget in comparison with the bigger players out there.
....the best kept open secret I've seen in a while. £400 for 4TB of storage INCLUDING drives. OK, so you get to put it together yourself and the drives aren't hot-swap, but that's hardly a big inconvenience for the target market for this type of device. The stock (EDS) firmware won't set the world alight either, but that can easily be replaced with WHS or Linux -- with the blessing of Intel, who sell this as a system builders box (hell, they even do a version without the firmware in the first place, for exactly that reason).
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