Well, I'm asking as I'm in the position where I may need to install ESXi now to get some functionality in place, but not have the money for VC/ESX full until next fiscal year.
________________________________ From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No. You can license it with the same functionality pretty much but as I said if you buy a full license then why wouldn't you use the full product. To use ESX you need to install ESX. To use ESXI you need to install ESXI. They are two different products From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Can you move from ESXi to full ESX without having to rebuild the VM host? ________________________________ From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Those features are part of Virtual Centre. So you can use the ESXi embedded or installable version and purchase a foundation license file which provides a VC agent. Hence you can manage the host with Virtual Center etc etc. Mind you you cant use Vmotion unless you buy an Enterprise license and I don't know why you would ever do that and not use the full version anyway. Greg From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servers, etc. basically it's the essentials of ESX..Just virtualization and nothing of the advanced feature sets that the full (Paid) versions of ESX allow. From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Simple and concise! Thanks... Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _____ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare Product Confusion 1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _____ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
