RE: [SA-list] Virtualisation

2007-12-03 Thread Mark Perry
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: 03 December 2007 10:30 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] Virtualisation I thought that ESX was Linux based while the VMWare server was Windows based. So I guess that the tools are different. Also the big question is th

RE: [SA-list] Virtualisation

2007-12-03 Thread Dirk Bulinckx
Behalf Of Mark Perry Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 11:21 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] Virtualisation We use the cheap and cheerful Vmware Server Edition ;0) It would be useful to have alerts for the state of Virtual Machines, Vmware has many programs that can be

RE: [SA-list] Virtualisation

2007-12-03 Thread Mark Perry
We use the cheap and cheerful Vmware Server Edition ;0) It would be useful to have alerts for the state of Virtual Machines, Vmware has many programs that can be run on the command line, if my understanding is correct Vmware console is mostly a wrapper for these utilities. I believe that ESX has

Re: [SA-list] Virtualisation

2007-12-03 Thread ian . gray
About to embark on a major virtualisation project. Solution not definite at the moment, but most likely to be VMWare (considering MS and Virtuozzo too). _ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 Ad eundum quo n

Re: [SA-list] Virtualisation

2007-11-30 Thread Salvador Manzo
VMWare Server currently, looking to move to ESX soon. > -Original Message- > From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dirk Bulinckx > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:51 PM > To: Servers Alive Discussion List > Subject: [SA-list] Virtualisation > > Jus

RE: [SA-list] Virtualisation

2007-11-30 Thread Davidson, Gene
5 ea. VMWare 3.0 servers, 2 ea. VMWare server and 2 ea. Microsoft VS. -Original Message- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:50 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] Virtualisation Jus

RE: [SA-list] Virtualisation

2007-11-30 Thread Wuichner, Eric
We use VM ESX 2.x and 3.x supporting about 280 guests over 12 or so hosts. Useful stuff. Eric -Original Message- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:51 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA

RE: [SA-list] Virtualisation

2007-11-30 Thread Busalacchi, Eric
We have gone to large ESX in all of our production and QA environments. Eric -Original Message- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:50 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] Virtualisat

RE: [SA-list] Virtualisation

2007-11-30 Thread Steven Hay
Dirk, we use VMWare ESX, we currently have 5 of these servers. -Original Message- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: November 30, 2007 12:50 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] Virtualisation Just wanted to se

RE: [SA-list] Virtualisation

2007-11-30 Thread Dave . Ashe
We have around 70 virtual machines that we are using with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 SP1. We use SA to monitor the uptime/availability of those machines since we have users located all around the world that uses those machines. We just do simple PING checks on them for now and we have not en