Erik Ableson wrote: > Uhhh - for an unmanaged server you can use ESXi for free. Identical > server functionality, just requires licenses if you need multiserver > features (ie vMotion)
How does ESXi w/o vMotion, vSphere, and vCenter server stack up against VMWare Server? My impression was that you need these other pieces to make such an infrastructure useful? > > Cordialement, > > Erik Ableson > > On 8 nov. 2009, at 19:12, Tim Cook <t...@cook.ms <mailto:t...@cook.ms>> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Joe Auty <j...@netmusician.org >> <mailto:j...@netmusician.org>> wrote: >> >> Tim Cook wrote: >>> >>> >>> It appears that one can get more in the way of features out >>> of VMWare Server for free than with ESX, which is seemingly >>> a hook into buying more VMWare stuff. >>> >>> I've never looked at Sun xVM, in fact I didn't know it even >>> existed, but I do now. Thank you, I will research this some >>> more! >>> >>> The only other variable, I guess, is the future of said >>> technologies given the Oracle takeover? There has been much >>> discussion on how this impacts ZFS, but I'll have to learn >>> how xVM might be affected, if at all. >>> >>> >>> Quite frankly, I wouldn't let that stop you. Even if Oracle >>> were to pull the plug on xVM entirely (not likely), you could >>> very easily just move the VM's back over to *insert your >>> favorite flavor of Linux* or Citrix Xen. Including Unbreakable >>> Linux (Oracle's version of RHEL). >>> >> >> I remember now why Xen was a no-go from when I last tested it. I >> rely on the 64 bit version of FreeBSD for most of my VM guest >> machines, and FreeBSD only supports running as domU on i386 >> systems. This is a monkey wrench! >> >> Sorry, just thinking outloud here... >> >> >> >> I have no idea what it supports right now. I can't even find a >> decent support matrix. Quite frankly, I would (and do) just use a >> separate server for the fileserver than the vm box. You can get >> 64bit cpu's with 4GB of ram for awfully cheap nowadays. That should >> be more than enough for most home workloads. >> >> --Tim >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org <mailto:zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org j...@netmusician.org
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