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

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

_______________________________ 
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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