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On Dec 27, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Charlot, Firmin wrote: > Is there anyone who has taken the leap and virtualized some or all > their production boxes and if so any advice/pitfalls/benefits that > you could provide would be greatly appreciated? What are you using > for your Host server(s) (Open-Source, VMware or Microsoft Virtual > Server). It depends on how much you want to virtualize. I am in charge of a small system in Residence Life and will be deploying a VMWare server (running on Suse Linux) to virtualize about a half dozen or so hosts. I was originally planning on using XEN but it became too much of a headache, and I found that VMWare(even just the free version of VMWare server) offered nice management features that XEN didn't have. I know for a fact that the University of Notre Dame relies heavily on VMWare to manage/support quite a few production services. Which is one reason I am less skittish about using it for my own production stuff. --Ray