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Re: [PLUG] IT: VMware ESXi Available For Free Starting Today
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It seems that nothing really comes for free :-)
On Jul 28, 2008, at 5:49 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
> JP Vossen wrote:
>> http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/07/28/1742222.shtml
>> IT: VMware ESXi Available For Free Starting Today
>> Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 28, @02:52PM
>> from the free-always-sounds-better dept.
>> Operating Systems
>> Mierdaan writes "VMware's bare-metal hypervisor is available for free
>> starting today. ESXi, which can either be installed or run from an
>> embedded device available in certain servers, has a 32MB footprint
>> and
>> gives small businesses an easy way to get into the virtualization
>> world,
>> with easy upgrade paths to enterprise-level features such as (H)igh
>> (A)vailability and (D)istributed (R)esource (S)cheduler. ESXi runs on
>> most any hardware with a server-class disk controller, and previously
>> retailed for $495. VMware is obviously shooting to prevent
>> Microsoft's
>> Hyper-V technology from gaining a foothold in the marketplace."
>> http://vmware.com/company/news/releases/esxi_pricing.html
>
> Test install on a PE750
> = Failed! "Unable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESX
> Server 3i 3.5.0 image to."
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9192
> "There isn’t a single system, whether it be a PC or an entry-level
> server which use embedded SATA2 RAID chipsets that will work with
> ESX 3i
> or ESX 3.5 out of the box. If you boot ESX 3i on any of these systems,
> you’ll be presented with a message that no suitable storage device
> has
> been found. Doh! Game Over, man."
> [...]
> "Once ESX 3i is running, you then test its connectivity using a web
> browser on a client Windows-based machine (XP, Vista or Server) and
> you
> can download the VMWare Infrastructure Client 2.5 over the web. Unlike
> VMWare’s other free virtualization solution, VMWare Server 2.0 ESX 3i
> doesn’t currently support VMWare Virtual Infrastructure Web Access, so
> management is limited to Windows systems only."
> [...]
> "There is a “gotcha” here, however. Without purchasing a license to
> VirtualCenter, VMotion and HA/DRS (in which case you are getting into
> the thousands of dollars) you won’t be able to use any of the advanced
> features such as live migration, clustering and high availability."
> [...]
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Get:
> http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_systems_guide.pdf'
> http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_io_guide.pdf
>
>
> Bummer,
> JP
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> "Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on
> software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and
> implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's
> Law.
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