Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-14 Thread j m g
Well for the VMotion to work as described you also need to use SAN, the LUN's need to be visible to all the esx servers in the farm to get the true benefits. But depending on your budget, if you are looking to do esx server farms hopefully you're using SAN. One thing I've seen folks do

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-13 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: Stan Zaske [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:03 AM Subject: Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free Glad to hear you're content but Microsoft will destroy open source/free any way

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-13 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 08:03 AM 13/04/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The scary part is at any moment, Microsoft could press a few control buttons and destroy Microsoft Windows on any computer in the world that is online, or all of them, unless you have a third party firewall that keeps Microsoft out. Yeah.

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-13 Thread CW
Because we know that doing something like this would never attract the interests of state attorney generals. -Original message- From: Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:42:42 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-13 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:42 AM Subject: Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free Yeah. Because Bill is planning on becoming the Evil

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-13 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:52 AM 4/13/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: We all know that from time to time somebody will toss a monkey wrench into some very important and valuable machinery. Like the fact that this will not run on a Intel Itanium machine. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH,

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-13 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: :: At 08:03 AM 13/04/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ::: The scary part is at any moment, Microsoft could press a few control ::: buttons and destroy Microsoft Windows on any computer in the world ::: that is online, or all of them, unless you have a third party :::

RE: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-13 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free Well... 1. VMware started it by offering GSX for free. 2. MS still has nothing to compare to ESX server. ESX is all I would ever use in a (virtual) production environment. Greg - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-13 Thread Greg Sevart
, April 12, 2006 9:28 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free Well... 1. VMware started it by offering GSX for free. 2. MS still has nothing to compare to ESX server. ESX is all I would ever use in a (virtual) production environment. Greg - Original Message

RE: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-13 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free Yes and I imagine so, however, your usage of only severely underappreciates the value of being able to run directly on the hardware. Not only are the performance and scalability enhancements very significant, but the ease of patch

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-13 Thread Ben Ruset
ESX supports clustering VM's, so if a single ESX box goes down, the VM stays up and the host load gets transferred to another ESX server. Also, if you had a bunch of ESX servers you can dynamically distribute VM's across the entire server farm. The only hardware requirement to running ESX is

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-12 Thread Stan Zaske
Free? Only until MS drives VMWare out of business! Chris Reeves wrote: While they contend not in response to VMWare, etc. its still the same end result: the product has been made free of charge for use.

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-12 Thread Greg Sevart
Subject: Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free Free? Only until MS drives VMWare out of business! Chris Reeves wrote: While they contend not in response to VMWare, etc. it's still the same end result: the product has been made free of charge for use. http://www.microsoft.com

Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free

2006-04-12 Thread Stan Zaske
server. ESX is all I would ever use in a (virtual) production environment. Greg - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske To: The Hardware List Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free Free? Only until MS drives VMWare out of business