Sorry I should have been more specific. Out of the box it does not do any of those features. You have to PAY to get them. That would be upgrading to Enterprise ESXi. But stating that it does not support it was a misnomer. My apologies.
I consider it to be the equivalent of 2003 Std 32 bit vs 2003 Enterprise. 2003 Enterprise 32 bit will support 8 gig ram, standard wont. You have to upgrade to it in order for it to work. I classified them as 2 different products. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 8:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion "ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servr..." Oh it sure does! ________________________________ From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servers, etc. basically it's the essentials of ESX..Just virtualization and nothing of the advanced feature sets that the full (Paid) versions of ESX allow. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Simple and concise! Thanks... Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _____ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare Product Confusion 1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _____ From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _____ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
