[Nottingham] Decent alternatives to VMWare vSphere?

[Callum Massey]

On 30.12.2015 17:51, Jason Irwin wrote:
> Subject says it all really.
>
> Requirements:
>   Single node (host+guests) VM server.
>   Won't be doing huge amounts of processing on it, but it will be 
> nice
> to compartmentalise everything (primarily KVM, don't think containers
> will suit).
>   A web interface to make managing guests easy would be a big plus
> failing that, GUI client will do.
>
> Hardware:
>   HP dc7900 with E8500 Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 230GB HDD, 1TB HDD
>   So not exactly a powerhouse!
>
> oVirt looks like it will demand too many resources.
> Kimchi seemed interesting, but won't install on to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>
> Proxmox any good?

Proxmox is very good, sounds exactly like what you want, though you 
won't be able to run much on a machine like that regardless.