On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:14 PM, shakeel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > what are the minimum hardware requirements for VMware ESX 3.5 as I want to > install this on a workstation. > > > Yes, of course VMware has their own published installation requirements and very long lists of supported hardware. Those requirements and lists can be found at the following links: - ESX Server 3.x Systems Compatibility Guide<http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_systems_guide.pdf> - ESX Server 3.x I/O Compatibility Guide<http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_io_guide.pdf> - ESX Server 3.x Storage/SAN Compatibility Guide<http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_san_guide.pdf> - ESX Server 3.x Backup Software Compatibility Guide<http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_backup_guide.pdf> Unlike most other Enterprise server products, VMware even goes so far as to specify the brand and model of server that you can install VMware ESX on. For example, the lowest model of Dell server that VMware supports is a Dell 1850. That server would also have to have either local SCSI drives (SAS - SCSI attached storage) or a SAN adaptor. Besides specifying the server brand & model, VMware has brand & model requirements for all hardware that will go into that server - Disk, Disk adaptor, and network adaptor. Just like when specing out any production server, for any production environment you will need to take into account the "4 food groups" of infrastructure servers- CPU, RAM, DISK, and NETWORK. Your production server will need plenty of all 4 of these things to run the enterprise applications you will place on it. However, you also much follow the VMware published installation requirements for any production server to ensure reliability and make sure you can get support from VMware. -- Ashwin R. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
