So I am having a bit of an argument with a colleage. He thinks it is perfectly okay for our smallish outfit to use nothing but Linux + Libvirt + KVM to manage "one-off" needs like hosting backup ...

anyone have any good pointers for hand-rolling this? I have a bunch of VMs on a linux+zfs host I want to move to another linux+zfs host. I can do it by hand but figured I might as well get to grips ...

In recent years, hardware virtualization has become commonplace in the computing industry and more available to end users. The idea behind it is a noble one. Why invest in allocating more server ...