On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:12 AM, seph wrote: > The thing that always turns me off vmware, is that to use ESX/ESXi, > you > need a management server. Which must be a windows server, and must be > backed by an oracle DB.
FUD. - You do not need a management server The only thing you really need a management server for is if you want to do more "enterprise" grade stuff (VMotion, moving VMs automatically from one host to another, etc.). If you just want the virtualization aspects, ESXi is a great solution with no management server needed (indeed, I've recently deployed a dozen ESXi hosts which have no management server at all... the aforementioned "web farm" ESX hosts). And I would wager that a lot of "small shops" probably don't need the enterprise feature set. - You do not need Oracle DB In the previous iteration of VirtualCenter (and, as I understand it, in the newly released version as well), it comes with a "MS SQL Lite" install which is capable of handling most small shops' needs. Or you can backend it with a full MS SQL Server as well. There's also talk that there will soon be a Linux version of the management server as well, which I would presume will probably speak MySQL... But that's just speculative right now until something is officially announced. Cheers, D _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
