If you've got extra storage on your ESX hosts that isn't being used (very common) then you should try out OpenFiler or LeftHand Virtual San Appliance. You can very quickly turn that storage into a NAS or cheap SAN respectively.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Derek J. Balling <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Neil Neely wrote: > > ESXi vs ESX is something to explore as well - ESXi gives you an > > appliance shell, ESX gives you a regular shell and is basically RHEL > > 3 so you can muck with it a bit more. ESXi wasn't an option when we > > deployed, but I believe it would have been a viable option for > > us(with relevant enterprise licenses added to it). I intend to > > maintain a dual environment down the road - one with servers managed > > in vCenter with all the clustering goodness, and another pool of > > ESXi boxes with local storage for services that have different > > requirements. > > Consider using ESXi everywhere. You can always just apply your > enterprise licenses to ESXi hosts, giving them all the enterprise > functionality. HOWEVER, the sweet thing about ESXi is it can be > purchased "embedded", usually for $(n<100) per host. So, in our case, > for example, we order HP blades with "ESXi Embedded Standalone", and > inside the blade, sitting on an internal thumbdrive, is a tiny version > of the free ESXi environment. We just reconfigure its license so it > points to our license server and it gets a full-blown enterprise > license. > > The advantage here is that -- in most peoples' ESX environments -- > they don't need local storage, they're using a SAN/NAS for their VM > storage. Why pay to spin up media in blades or pizza-boxes that is > going to waste? > > It's a heckuvalot cheaper to power a thumbdrive or other embedded- > media (your vendor's method may vary) than it is to spin the 10KRPM > platters on 1-2 boot drives. > > And as we all know, power is pretty much the biggest recurring cost > any of us have these days.... > > D > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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