It’s that time again,

every once in a while there is a need to re-evaluate the current technology and workflow you are using.

Last week we spent some time in virtualization mode. Most of you know we have been a long time fan of Proxmox as our Virtual Machine server of choice mix’s with our Untangle firewall/router it was a great mix for many years. However, Proxmox has been pushing a subscription base nagging model around every corner even with their community edition version which is only as good as they're declining community. 

We hate seeing this with companies, but things happen. 

With that being said, we explored many free Virtualization servers over the last week with our criteria. Our criteria are just the start line are not the end all to all. What’s really important is its stability, efficiency and resource use of guest VMs along with the ease of management cross platform.

Our criteria

• Bare metal virtualization
• Multi-server management
• Hardware assisted virtualization & Paravirtualization
• X86 & x64 Architecture
• Live VM migration
• Live storage
• Large list of supported guest Operating systems
• Web-management