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 ===== Choice ===== ===== Choice =====
   * [[https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/acerfi/what_is_the_most_appropriate_hypervisor_ecosystem/|What is the most appropriate "hypervisor" ecosystem for a home lab?]]   * [[https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/acerfi/what_is_the_most_appropriate_hypervisor_ecosystem/|What is the most appropriate "hypervisor" ecosystem for a home lab?]]
-  * +  * [[https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/d9shck/xcpng_vs_proxmox/|XCP-NG vs. Proxmox?]]
  
 +  * [[https://www.ijstr.org/final-print/mar2018/Comparative-Analysis-Of-Proxmox-Ve-And-Xenserver-As-Type-1-Open-Source-Based-Hypervisors-.pdf|Comparative Analysis Of Proxmox VE And Xenserver As Type 1 Open Source Based Hypervisors]]
  
   * VMware ESXi   * VMware ESXi
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   * oVirt (RHEV)   * oVirt (RHEV)
   * Xen   * Xen
-    * XenServer - free version is limited+    * [[https://xenproject.org/|XEN PROJECT]] 
 +      * Open source, free, no corporate support 
 +    * [[https://xenserver.org/|XenServer]] ==> Citrix Hypervisor 
 +      * XenServer is an enterprise-class, cloud-proven, virtualization platform that delivers all of the critical features needed for any server and datacenter virtualization implementation.  
 +      * XenServer is a Linux distribution that is based on the Xen hypervisor, the Linux kernel, and the CentOS Linux distribution and user tools. 
 +      * free version is limited 
 +      * windows management client
     * XCP-ng     * XCP-ng
-      * (+) Nice Windows GUI Tool XCP-ng Center +      * (+) Nice **Windows** GUI Tool XCP-ng Center 
-      * (+) Web UI based mangement: Xen Orchestra+      * (-) No WEB UI 
 +      * (+) Xen Orchestra independent Web GUI: centralised management tool. Capable to manage multiple locations, moving VMs between locations. 
 +        * delta backups, continuous replication
       * (-) Thin provisioning only on local EXT3/4 fs, NFS, File, XOSAN (VDI files)       * (-) Thin provisioning only on local EXT3/4 fs, NFS, File, XOSAN (VDI files)
         * Block based devices only with THICK provisioning (local LVM, iSCSI, HBA)         * Block based devices only with THICK provisioning (local LVM, iSCSI, HBA)
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   * Proxmox   * Proxmox
 +    * (+) simple
     * virtualization     * virtualization
       * (+) KVM virtualization       * (+) KVM virtualization
-      * (+) light LXC+      * (+) native support for LXC
       * (-) no docker support       * (-) no docker support
     * (+) Debian based - possible to do lots of unsupported things from OS     * (+) Debian based - possible to do lots of unsupported things from OS
-    * (+) Clustering +    * (+) run on any HW 
-    * (+) CEPH+    * (+) GPU/PCI passthrough 
 +    * (+) Clustering - one web interface to manage multiple nodes (but not separate locations) 
 +    * (+) CEPH, NFS, CIFS
     * (+) ZFS     * (+) ZFS
     * (+) working memory ballooning     * (+) working memory ballooning
     * (+) KSM     * (+) KSM