From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 19:44:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA471065675 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:44:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cjr@cruwe.de) Received: from cruwe.de (cruwe.de [188.40.164.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 034A68FC15 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:44:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cruwe.de (unknown [127.0.0.4]) by cruwe.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF7928AFF for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by cruwe.de (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 8062528AFE; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:44:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.cruwe.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from dijkstra (p5B37A1B7.dip.t-dialin.net [91.55.161.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by cruwe.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 22FC528AF9 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:44:15 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:44:10 +0100 From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111130224410.3f056d20@dijkstra> In-Reply-To: <130D0A6D-0975-4D58-B3A0-433E1D07610F@d3photography.com> References: <130D0A6D-0975-4D58-B3A0-433E1D07610F@d3photography.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV on mail.cruwe.de using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: Virtualization manager suggestions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:44:20 -0000 On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:57:12 -0600 Ryan Coleman wrote: > 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.). > > Thanks! > > -- > Ryan_______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" You might consider having a look at KVM on OpenIndiana, the Illumos based OpenSolaris "distro". Another thought could be the Joyent cloud computing flavour of KVM on Illumos/OpenSolaris, SmartOS. Positive about such a setup is that you could enjoy the storage flexibility of ZFS. Cheers, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1