text_combined: kevin brennan jpqascwkfikbredsquaredcom hi looking moving physical servers xen perhaps already running virtualised servers comment part headache moving virtualisation would migration existing servers paravirtualised machine lots existing services nicely setup would cleaner move one go rather taking service individually migrating tools help move complete physical server virtual server easily currently different flavours red hat clones another question ease backup restore without using shared storage understand using sanwan pretty much stop start different physical server without sanwan server 1 local raid array running virtual hosts abc server 2 local raid subnet running def easy stop move 1 2 question choice linux flavour domain 0 much difference makes management easiest best evaluate total cost ownership experiences thx kb fri 08 aug 2008 032346 0000 ilug existing servers xen virtualisation