Anyone used the VMWare vsphere solution? I was looking into that, but also wanted to look into my own HA solution. Just wondering if anyone had some opinions on that.

can you elaborate on what exactly you need in your setup?

What I am looking at is providing a HA virtual environment. Currently I have separate servers each doing their own task. I have 3 buildings total all connected with fiber. I want to be able to ultimately provide a stack of HA virtual boxes in 2 different locations so I have some serious HA. So basically each location can provide its own HA, but at the same time if I lose a connection to a building then that building can function on it own until I get the connection back up. Vsphere is beyond our budget with the economy and all right now since we are a small private school.

Have you considered RHEV? You can get a free 60 day evaluation at http://www.redhat.com/breakfree/ and the costs are much lower than vsphere, with the HA functionality built into the product and not tiered

Awesome I have not, I will check that out thanks