[THIN] Re: VMware ESXi now available (Free)

Thanks Dave.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Dave Mishchenko <Dave.Mishchenko@agresso.com> wrote:

The get starting guide on the ESXi documentation page is a good place to start - http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vi_pages/vi_pubs_35_3i_i.html.  You might also want to check if your hardware will work with ESXi – see the HCL on that page.  The people on VMware's forums are pretty helpful too - http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vi/esxi3.5.

 

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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Minero, Hector B CIV NSWCDD, K55
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:30 PM

To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMware ESXi now available (Free)

 

Exactly in the same boat.

We just bought a server and were planning on using the free VMWare server, but now with the ESXi being offered for free I can probably use that, right?

Can anyone recommend a good document/site on how to deploy ESXi?

 

Thanks,

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Hector Minero
NSWCDD K55

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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Harry Singh
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:10 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMware ESXi now available (Free)

I'm pretty new to VMware ESX, i've really only used the free server versions. I could use a little quick primer ??

To my understanding, i take a clean box, no OS installed, and boot this clean server with ESXi and setup networking paramters and such. Then from my management stations, or VI client, i installthe VMware client management package and manage this server from my workstation ? How would i go about installing new OS's to this server? As far as licensing, would it be per user or per server ? Does ESX support vlanning inside the VM host ?

Thanks everyone

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Steve Greenberg <steveg@thinclient.net> wrote:

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. Scottsdale Rd D8453

Scottsdale, AZ 85266

(602) 432-8649

www.thinclient.net

steveg@thinclient.net

 

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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