What is particularly interesting is that they are not limiting the scalability of the free version, from their web site:
4-Way Virtual SMP. Enable a single virtual machine to use up to four physical processors simultaneously. VMware ESXi extends this unique feature from two to four processors. With 4-way Virtual SMP even the most processor intensive software applications like databases and messaging servers can be virtualized.
64GB RAM for virtual machines. Run the most memory-intensive workloads in virtual machines with a memory limit extended to 64GB.
Support for powerful physical server systems. Take advantage of very large server systems with up to 32 logical CPUs and 256GB RAM for large scale server consolidation and DR projects.
Support for up to 128 powered-on virtual machines. Take advantage of very large server systems for enterprise-class server consolidation and containment with support for up to 128 powered powered on virtual machines on a single server.
I wonder if Citrix will respond by opening up the RAM limits on XEN Express???
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N.
(602) 432-8649
steveg@thinclient.net
From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:58 AM
To: THIN; windows2000@freelists.org; vista@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] VMware ESXi now available (Free)
You can now download the new free VMWare ESXi Hypervisor.
See
https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/login.php?eval=esxi&t=1
VMWare's press release on this is here:
http://vmware.com/company/news/releases/esxi_pricing.html
Jim Kenzig
Blog: http://www.techblink.com
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