Anyone here using linux KVM on a production server? How does

>>57200332
> KVM
Not really, we stick to OpenVZ/LXC.
> How does it hold up compared to vmware or Hyper-v?
KVM is a hypervisor too, so the performance shouldn't differ from MS or VMWare solutions.

>>57200332
>Anyone here using linux KVM on a production server?
Yes
>How does it hold up compared to vmware or Hyper-v?
It's free as in freedom as opposed to non-free as in slavery. Also it just works.

>>57200332
Are you asking for the user/customer or administrative side?

What I can tell you from 3 years uni tech support is that administering vmware is a bunch of shit. Yes it's reliable when it works, but configuration is a mess: configuring SAN storage is terrible, getting useful metrics ("which VM causes all this lag right now") is pretty much impossible, shared directories for storing your server ISOs is just a big wtf

I've *used* a bunch of openvz and kvm servers myself over the last year, not administered, so far everything's good (except all those limitations on openvz VMs obviously, but they are cheap)

>>57200673
>Are you asking for the user/customer or administrative side?

Administrative - but from someone that isn't concerned about live migrations. I just need to be able to isolate vms to a port and ensure they'll run happily without too much fucking around

>>57200332
bank IT here, it werks, i don't have to get off my lazy ass about 90% of the time so its gud

>>57200761
Well that's actually a great review.

(You do mean that you're scripting things right?)

Using Proxmox which uses KVM as an hypervisor on production servers.
Its really stable and easy to manage.
I dont see a reason in buying the windows shit for doing that.