Vmware's datacenter products are phenominal. I manage a full infrastructure of esx servers, certified vcp, and gosh this stuff saves our rear. Cranking machines out is a breeze with vcenter. When I move to a Chicago datacenter from Dallas I am going esxi for game/web hosting. Can host a crapload of game servers and other stuff then. Great products.
On Feb 13, 2009, at 2:36 AM, J T <[email protected]> wrote: > I was setting up ESXi at work. Its pretty kick ass, I love that fact > that it > supports 802.1Q VLAN Tagging. > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Rick Payton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> While I hardly do anything really intense, on one host I run separate >> VM's for: >> >> Microsoft Search Server w/ SQL Server 2005 (off topic: this product >> is >> GREAT) >> Symantec Endpoint Protection (off topic: this product SUCKS - we're >> moving to NOD32 soon) >> Exchange 2003 >> Realtime backup server >> 1 of 2 Active Directory servers >> >> Ok, the AD server doesn't really count but it's just one more thing >> on >> there. There's no way I could've ran all this on the same box under >> vmware server. >> >> /me pets his esxi boxes. Again, srcds/hlds runs awesome in an esx/ >> esxi >> vm, at least under linux. I've yet to run it under Windows. >> >> OT: re-arrange ESXi and you get .. SEXi ... Which it is. >> >> -mauirixxx >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chad Austin >> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:05 PM >> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds] VMware Advise >> >> I managed to get it set up under ESXI and while running an >> application >> on another VM that previously severly degraded the game servers, >> there >> is no longer any negative affect. The servers run great. >> >> Karl Weckstrom wrote: >>> [Snip] >>> >>> PS: Karl, I actually found your instructions on setting up ESXi with >>> FreeNAS and iSCSI last week when I tackled that very subject here at >>> work - it was a very interesting read. I really think you can expand >>> on it that though, if you ever get time :P >>> >>> [/Snip] >>> >>> Mauirixxx, >>> >>> Sorry, I missed this the first time around until someone else >>> asked me >> about FreeNAS/ESX/ESXi and iSCSI and mentioned your post. >>> >>> Anyway, sure - i'm always down for nerdspeak, Grab me via email or >>> via >> IM sometime... But for what it's worth, FreeNAS is a dog compared to >> OpenFiler for Cheap iSCSI :) Our entire infrastructure at >> TrashedGamers.com is built on ESXI & VI3, and we can do pretty much >> everything with openfiler twice as fast than with FreeNAS (even the >> exotic stuff like vmotion/storage vmotion). >>> >>> The only reason I kept plugging away at FreeNAS and ESXI was because >> everywhere I read, people said it couldn't be done because of how >> it was >> implemented in bsd. While i'm an aging Unix guy at heart, there's no >> question that Openfiler (which is based on rpath linux) is way >> faster. >>> >>> As for anyone else on this list, if you've ever considered doing a >>> full bare-metal esxi + iscsi implementation , I'll be more than >>> happy >>> to help anyone out. It's pretty amazing how much stuff you can do >>> with >> >>> the lowly q6600 CPU :) >>> >>> -Karl >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>> archives, >> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > > > -- > --------- > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
