Hey all,
I've finally decided to upgrade my WHS v1 installation, and decided simply to move to WHS 2011 + Stablebits DrivePool (which should make Drashna happy -- yes, somebody is acknowledging that WHS is not dead 
). I almost decided on Windows Server Essentials, but it seems like overkill for my needs.
Anyway, I do need to also run Linux, to get netatalk for backing up my Mac. The coLinux solution available on this site works great, but transfer speeds are fairly low due to how coLinux schedules processor time so I would like to instead virtualize an actual Linux installation.
So my question is, which is a better choice: using something like ESXi or Hyper-V Server to virtualize both WHS 2011 and, say, Ubuntu... or installing WHS 2011 directly and running Ubuntu inside something like Virtualbox? As far as DrivePool goes, I'm not sure how much of a factor that will be -- since it runs in the Windows side I will guess that Ubuntu will need to access the drive pool as a share instead of directly (performance hit from that?).
How would you guys arrange this? The Linux side won't need much CPU, it will remain largely idle until a Time Machine backup kicks in... so maybe Virtualbox would be fine? I just know how slow it is to run Windows inside VMWare Workstation, so I was thinking perhaps a hypervisor would be more efficient. My CPU is a Core i3-540, which does support VT-x.
Thanks for your help!