There are a few diffs not relevant actually that account for the smaller size. But if your not using a san and have shared storage with the intent to vmotion your golden! Its limited to two procs so you may run out of processor. 20 vm's is by no means a small load, not to say it cant be done. Given the right hardware and resources its trivial. Watch disk IO, in my experience that (besides ram) is what limitation I have run into almost always first.
Given vmware's time on the market, their product is super polished. I have had a good chunk of experience with the others, especially the xen based ones including the open source xen version and none have an interface as good this. It's a real steal for free! There is no supported cli except for the lame rcli but there is an unobtrusive fix for that to get ssh access which IMHO is a must. Then again, Update 2 was released as free and I haven't installed it yet. They might have done something about that:) jlc From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESX/ESXi So it is all I need to consolidate my servers, and I don't need Infrastructure 3.0....right? Joe Heaton ________________________________ From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESX/ESXi No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1577 - Release Date: 7/28/2008 6:55 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
