ESXi will run on white boxes and desktops. I have run it on a Dell
Optiplex 620 and there is a whole community of folks running it on
whiteboxes.
Google esx white box
Particularly the link - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/98225
Lots of people are running esx and ESXi on cheap hardware.
al
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From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi
The basic differences between the two free products - Hyper-V Server
2008 (hereafter HVS08) vs. ESXi , are:
ESXi has specific requirements on server and storage hardware. Those
requirements are far more restrictive than HVS08 - for example you won't
be able to run ESXi on a white box or desktop. HVS08 will run on any
hardware with driver support for Windows 2008.
HVS08 requires 64-bit and Intel-VT or AMD-V CPU support. ESXi can run
on older server platforms that predate those features.
ESXi allows over-subscription of memory. That means you could run two
VMs allocated 4 GB each on a machine with less than 8 GB. HVS08 has
almost as much RAM overhead as running it under Windows Server 2008 Core
- so you would need about 9 GB to run two 4GB VMs.
Carl
From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi
Hi folks,
I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months,
and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some
of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit
more, and might have more comments.
I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other
paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at
virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front
end machines that "hook" to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these
web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look
into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies
on a virtual server that are allowed.
I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN
involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software
necessary (maybe need some more RAM).
My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two?
I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has
comments on that, please let me know.
Thanks.
Mark
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