This is pretty big news. I've known some small businesses that have had a need to virtualize, but didn't want to get into everything KVM/OpenVZ, etc entailed. The VMware Essentials bundle (I believe that is what it is called) made decent inroads in this arena, but with everything all the enterprise features being free, I will probably have to start recommending this.
I have been looking into breaking in to a specialized segment of lower-end hosting (VPS, etc) and was looking to base my platform on VMware (rather than OpenVZ/KVM which seems to be the norm) but I am going to take a serious look at this now.
I'm excited to try building the platform around XenServer, and excited to contribute to the project as well -- I hope we see a lot of contributions now that this is open-source. I would love to see a Linux or OS X version of the management client, which is wholly possible now.
I'm installing a test instance of 6.2 now (within ESXi, ironically) to play around with it!
I have been looking into breaking in to a specialized segment of lower-end hosting (VPS, etc) and was looking to base my platform on VMware (rather than OpenVZ/KVM which seems to be the norm) but I am going to take a serious look at this now.
I'm excited to try building the platform around XenServer, and excited to contribute to the project as well -- I hope we see a lot of contributions now that this is open-source. I would love to see a Linux or OS X version of the management client, which is wholly possible now.
I'm installing a test instance of 6.2 now (within ESXi, ironically) to play around with it!