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What were you testing and what version Xen?
Whatever was the latest from Xen at the time, it was 6 months ago now. Actually we were using a Beta of the next version as I recall.
We were testing it for virtualisation of less busy servers, particularly dev boxes. It simply didn't have the features ESX did and despite their marketing about how lightweight the hypervisor is, it's slower even in their own tests. Price difference wasn't enough to concern ourselves with so ESX was better in every respect, added to the fact our backup software and SAN vendors explicitly support ESX.