Hello Community
I am currently running a few CentOS 5.x hosts with VMware Server 1.x hosting various guests like CentOS VMs, legacy Netware servers and some Windows machines.
Now I need to set up new hosts with CentOS 6.x to take advantage of some of the fancy stuff that comes with this new major release (especially things like SSD handling and BTRFS).
However, VMware Server 1.x won't install on CentOS 6 and so, this combination is not an option.
VMware Server 2.x (even if it would work what I don't know) is a no-go as I don't like the web based administation at all and would really like to have an administration tool like VMware Console, that used to be the admin tool for Server 1.x.
I wouldn't mind of spending some money for it, so it doesn't need to be free (commercial environment), but thousands of bucks sure are not in the budget for it.
However, the numerous VMware products seem like a total mess to me (sorry...) and even worse, they all seem to be somewhat bloated.
What do I choose nowadays, if VMware Server 1.x was exactly the thing I need, without all the bells and whistles, that later products come with, but if possible with a platform independent (Linux+Win) admin tool?
Isn't there any "light weight server grade virtualization product" from VMware anymore, that just brings the needed core functionality and runs on modern linux hosts?
I have already evaluated VirtualBox and KVM and got both working, however, I used VMware now for over a decade so at least I wanted to ask the community for recommendations before switching to a completely different virtualization platform.
Thank's for your hints!