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Originally Posted by quix  It all depends on how you want to use VMWare.
If you're an IT guy in a company that houses a lot of servers and you want to virtualize them, then VMWare is a great product. You will need to purchase a powerhouse server to run multiple VMs simultaneously. I've got HP DL585 servers here with 64GB of ram. Each of them run 12 virtual machines. You will also need a SAN. EMC is not as good as some others. |
That's crap. EMC is the global leader in production storage. They have Centera, CLARiiON, Celerra, and Symmetrix flavors all suited for different needs. Best of all, they have innovative management and optimization software that incorporates all of these flavors seamlessly(Email Extender).
There is a reason every fortune 500 company has a Symmetrix SAN in their data center.
Don't get me wrong, the products are not cheap, comparatively, but they are very valuable. Some companies and some IT budgets are just not in the EMC spectrum with their Storage technologies(we want to have four 9s, but we have 20k budget.) EMC just doesn't have a 20GB device you can hang in your rack to use ad-hoc/magically. But we do have software that can turn such a device into an enterprise BURA product or storage tool.
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Originally Posted by quix I prefer Equallogic. Dell just recently bought them out and their hardware/configuration is second to none in my opinion. VMWare also has lots of helpful tools that make things easier. Their VM Converter has been flawless so far. I've converted over 20 Windows Servers to VMs in the last few months and everything's working just fine 
On the other hand, if you're thinking of doing something at home, then you might want to look into the VMWare Workstation product to play around with OSes. There are several open source alternatives that you might want to give a shot. However, if you plan on purchasing a virtualization product... I recommend VMWare and VMWare only. Virtuozzo and others and not as up to par and stability is always a concern.
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MS Virtual PC and Virtual Server also work too, and they're pretty intuitive/good. For legitimate virtualization, stick with a VMWare product; for ****ing about and *testing* things, you can get away with the other solutions.
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PS - HP-9000 and Eq-PSs and other storage devices work. They're not bad, they're just not the EMC gold standard.
PPS - While I work for EMC, I'm an IT Consultant OUTSIDE of the EMC Product space so I have and do recommend non EMC products too. I do SharePoint.