Virtual Iron has just imploded. The company that I banked on for virtualizing our small but still significant for us data center. Right now I cannot say how much Oracle blows. Why would you buy a company and then pretty much right away kill the product line.
Now I’m stuck in a little bit of a situation. I have a third server at our data center that I wanted to virtualize and now I have an inhability to buy VI licenses to cover it. That really suck that I’m going to have to split virtual technologies, even if it is only temporary. The worst part is that even though I hate Oracle for doing what they did. The most cost effective thing right now would be to adopt the Oracle VM solution in its current form and then wait for the upgrade to move over my exisitin VI machines.
VMware is out of the question becasue of the expense involved. Microsoft is a real contendor, but can be expensive also if I want the management piece. Especially because the management part needs to be running on a server 08 X64 operating system. My current VI management server is older and would not be compatible.
I’ll need to do a little more investigating, but in the mean time I’ll just sit here and be bitter at Oracle.