[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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  What is particularly interesting is that they are not limiting the
> scalability of the free version, from their web site:
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> *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.
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> *64GB RAM for virtual machines.*  Run the most memory-intensive workloads
> in virtual machines with a memory limit extended to 64GB.
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> *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.
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> *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.
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> I wonder if Citrix will respond by opening up the RAM limits on XEN
> Express???
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> *Steve Greenberg*
>
> Thin Client Computing
>
> 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
>
> Scottsdale, AZ 85266
>
> *(602) 432-8649*
>
> www.thinclient.net
>
> *steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx*
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Jim Kenzig
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:58 AM
> *To:* THIN; windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; vista@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] VMware ESXi now available (Free)
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> You can now download the new free VMWare ESXi Hypervisor.
> See
> https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/login.php?eval=esxi&t=1
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> VMWare's press release on this is here:
> http://vmware.com/company/news/releases/esxi_pricing.html
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>
> Jim Kenzig
> Blog: http://www.techblink.com
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