Hi All,

I have been working over for past three years in linux .My organisation had offered me a opportunity to work on either vmware are san storage .I does int have enough knowledge of both these technology.Can anyone help me which of these works on purely works on linux either vmware are san storage.Which has lots of scope in future to come (vmware are san)

can anyone can give ur valuable suggestion who have been working on these technology like vmware and san storage

Not sure what the question really is.

What exactly means "move to antoher platform"? What is the existing one? Do you plan to virtualize your existing linux boxes or are you looking for another hypervisor than kvm or Xen to get your existing linux virtual machines running? could you please redefine "vmware and san storage" ? Are you looking for a virtualization solution supporting san? This can also be done using kvm/xen.

A little bit more information will be very, very helpful.

Thanks for ur reply .
But my questions is learning of which of these two technology helps linux admin either Vmware are San storage .Most of vmware administrator are of windows based rather than linux .But i heard vmware works on linux console.I just want to know learning of these technologies help linux admin a good carrer growth.

Hello,

I think you're either confused about the technologies you mention or you're confusing us with your explanation of your question. I imagine, from your last post, that you want to know which of the two mentioned, VMWare or SAN storage 'helps' Linux admins. The answer is both since they're two different things, one is a virtualization platform and the other one a storage solution. What do you mean when you say that most VMWare administrators are 'Windows based'? VMWare is a virtualization platform that gives you the opportunity to install a variety of guest operating systems on virtual machines. There's no 'exclusivity' for Windows. I work for a pretty big company here in Spain and we have about 1200 VMs running on VMWare and about 85% are some flavor of Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, ...). If you want to learn the technologies then you'll have to learn both since they are complementary (or can be) and not the same.

The more verbose you are in your question description, the more dedicated answers you'll get.

Kind regards,

Eric

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Thanks for ur reply ..Ur reply really helped me

Hi,

You're welcome, if you need more clarification feel free to ask.

Kind regards,

Eric

Hi EricTRA,
Last three years i have been working on platform such as web server administrator (Apache,tomcat,mysql,oracle,jboss) .But when i attended few interveiw they are experting to well versed in these technology such as are else . whether with linux one cannot proceed his carrer ahead,Whether its compulsary a linux admin should well versed in these technology to have a good carrer ahead.

I think part of the confusion is that you keep using 'are' when you should use 'or'. I'm assuming English is not your native language.
eg
'are else ' should read 'or else '

In any case, choosing whether to extend your knowledge towards SANs or VMs is up to you; they are not competing technologies.

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