ProxMox: The High-Performance Virtualization Server for the Rest of Us | Linux Today

ProxMox: The High-Performance Virtualization Server for the Rest of Us

Written By
JP
Jason Perlow
Jun 25, 2008

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Perlow
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“What sounds like a cross between a Ferengi mating practice and
an OREO cookie clone, but is actually the latest and greatest in
Open Source turnkey virtualization servers? It’s the ProxMox
Virtual Environment, a new open source project that has been flying
under the hypervisor radar, but may pose a serious challenge to the
established leaders such as VMWare ESX, Citrix XenServer and
Microsoft’s fledgling Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, if it manages to
get past its weird name and establishes critical mass.

“ProxMox isn’t anything new, at least in terms of the technology
it packages together–the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor
and OpenVZ virtual containers…”

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JP

Jason Perlow

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