In addition. Most of the objects exposed in the VI API leveraged by PowerShell functionality is read only and therefore extremely limited in ESXi. It will only do reporting and that is pretty much it.
ref: http://halr9000.com/article/612 Steven Peck On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ESXi wouldn't even try to install on my ECS NFORCE6M-A(3.0) w/Phenom 9600. > Told me the system wasn't recognized less than 2 minutes after booting the > CD. > > HVS08, no problem. > > Maybe ESXi will run on specific cheap hardware, but Hyper-V will run on ANY > cheap hardware that supports Vista 64-bit and virtual extensions. > > Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:10 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi > > 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 > -- > Al Lilianstrom > CD/LSC/CSI/CSG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 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 > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
