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

Smart move.  They need to offer up the best free product to keep their market share up and hope people will invest in VC and additional add-on features.  Not limiting the core hypervisor is a way to get everyone involved.  I might be doing a few ESXi installs real soon now that it's free.  I was recommending 2 copies of VI3 Foundation Pack but the people weren't to hot to spending close to $3000.  Now they can do it free and still get the core benefits.  Can't beat it.

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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:01 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMware ESXi now available (Free)

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