[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 

        -----Original Message-----
        From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harry Singh
        Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:10 PM
        To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <http://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)

                 

                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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