What virtual machine software for fail-over and snapshots?

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Published on 2011-02-25T21:07:48Z Indexed on 2011/02/25 23:27 UTC
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We're looking to virtualize a few machines with the hope that we can:

a) Take "snapshots" of a machine to use as backups

b) Implement a system where if the software/hardware fails, we can quickly and easily load up an recent snapshot on new hardware and replace the failed machine with a new one.

As always, cost is a concern- there's only 3 or 4 servers we're going to do this with, so we don't want to drop $50,000 on this.

I'm confused by all of the different virtual machine offerings. Which one is does what I want, and does it easily?

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