Hoping to bring back the weekly polls as they seemed to be pretty engaging. Here’s a new one for you all -
Which VM Hypervisor do you prefer for running virtual servers? Can be at home for a hobby, on a rented dedi for some productivity, or on your owned machines for your business.
Can select multiple if you use a mix-match for various purposes.
Proxmox has worked well for me in production for just around 4 years now. I’m very comfortable with it and rarely go looking for new solutions if something is working.
If I grab another box for testing at home I’ll probably throw XCP-ng on it, but again no real reason to move.
Pretty bummed about OpenVZ dying off. I really like it, as long as it’s running on bare metal in my control.
Each to their own, but personally the eol excites me as there’s some hosts I really like using it and I’m hoping it will encourage them to switch to KVM.
Proxmox on my dedis, ESXi at home (next iteration will be proxmox) I look after a couple of hyper-v baremetal servers for customers and we have them at work and ESXi seems to be moving into legacy corner. Desktop wise I feel torn between hyper-v and virtual box, but normally settle on virtual box
I fell in love with OpenNebula, the UI is so clean and it seems to work really well. Shame there is no good billing integration, would make a perfect KVM hosting panel.
I tried OpenNebula and indeed the UI is very slick, but it didn’t seem to work very well out of the box. The different “drivers” for different storage backends also look a bit cumbersome and not well integrated into the UI.
Some of the features I need: increasing disk size, snapshots, etc didn’t work too well either, so my final impression is that it seems a very powerful and flexible platform but it may require some investment in configuration and fine tuning.