XenServer vs VMware Infrastructure

Question

Does anyone have experience of comparing Xen Server 5 and VMWare Infrastructure 3. I\'m planning a virtualization project and looking at the Enterprise edition of both. They bot

Answer 1

1) Is there any significant performance differences? XenServer is native 64 bit and uses paravirtualization, so its faster. If you think in XenApp os TS workloads, you will be able to put about 50% more users per server

2) Does either package have any security risks or vulnerabilities. XS has no know security issues, and as it´s hypervisor is smaller qith no legacy code, XS 4.0 had only 4 updates or fixes in one year, while VMware had one per week.

3) The Xen Server SDK seems easier to understand than VMware SDK. Anyone have any experience of both and can compare? Is either SDK lacking in any respect? Not used SDK, but AFAIK it´s simple to use and more open than VMWare, besides that you have an powerful CLI and PowerShell.

4) Any comments on the client side tools? To me they both seem pretty equivalent, but is there anything lacking from either one? XenServer is simpler and has no need of an Management Server

... And... its cheaper