Dear All,

I have One PowerEdge 1750 with 4 GB RAM & 72GBX3 HardDrive with 3.x Dual Xeon processor 32bit.

I have installed ESX Server but it was expire after 60 Days,

Please Tell me what is the Best Open Virtualization Server to install on it as a Host operating System.i want to Run on Asterisk Voip Server,One 2003 Server and One XP Machine and one IPCOP as a firewall,All will be guest operating system.

Please tell me What is the Best Virtulization server give good performance to my Guest Machines and easy to configure and and all thigns.

Waiting for acknowledgment.

thanks.

https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=esxi&lp=1

This is the link for the free version of vmware esxi. You have to run vmware 3.5 since you only have a 32 bit processor. 4.0 requires 64-bit hardware

i have installed ESXI 3.5 and its the free edition version but with some little bit limited options .

But i am getting a good experience on virtulization .

First of all, you need to check the hardware compatibility of the server with the virtualization solution.
As well, the PE 1750 are old piece of kit so you have to check the virtualization mode for the CPU in the BIOS as I do not think the BIOS support it.
Another thing to take care is to have the latest version of the BIOS installed as I remember we had some PSOD (Pink Screen Of Death) on ESXi 3.5 until we upgraded the BIOS.


If you have no background with virtualization, I would say the following:

Quick to have set up but less flexible, and a quicker learning curve: VMWare ESX
A bit longer to set up, more flexible and a longer learning curve: Xen

I do not have tried KVM, but it seems it is a really nice piece of software (that is the reason why Red Hat acquired them...)

HTH.
Gael

I have a few quibbles with xen and would only recommend it for production servers server consolidation, not experimentation.
VirtualBox is getting a lot of good press these days