ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us

What sounds like a cross between a Ferengi mating practice and an  OREO cookie clone, but is actually the latest and greatest in Open Source turnkey virtualization servers? It’s the ProxMox Virtual Environment,  a new open source project that has been flying under the hypervisor radar, but may pose a serious challenge to the established leaders such as VMWare ESX, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft’s fledgling Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, if it manages to get past its weird name and establishes critical mass. ProxMox isn’t anything new, at least in terms of the technology it packages together — the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM)  hypervisor and OpenVZ virtual containers. KVM, which is integrated into the upstream Linux kernel, and supports live migration…

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