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We use VKBOXs for disaster recovery, and I've worked with them quite a bit. The speed of the VM is going to depend on the hardware on which it is running. You have to keep in mind that the host OS is going to eat up some resources. We use VMware ESXi on hardware similar to the KBOX device, and the VMs run substantially slower. To give you an example of speed, the last server upgrade took about 30 minutes on our hardware KBOX and about 4 hours on our VKBOXs.

If you have plenty of hardware power, then you should be able to get the VM running as fast or faster than the standard K1000 device. As far as functionality goes, there is absolutely no difference between the VK1000 and the K1000.

ive been using VM since the begining and have no problems whatsoever, again it really does depend on the hardware your VM's are on, going by that metric updates to our VM take about 30 mins.

Has anyone succesfully migrated from Physical to Virtual with a K1000? We're running VSphere on ESX at my company and I'd be interested in this. I think we'd have plenty of resources to make it run fast if not faster than the physical K1000, but I'm not sure how to go about obtaining a VK1000 image.

Contact Dell KACE sales about the Virtual K1000
http://www.kace.com/about/contact.php