You may also want to look at PowerShell to help you automate reporting if you go this route as well. A great introductory article can be found here:
http://www.vmguru.com/index.php/articles-mainmenu-62/scripting/74-getting-started-with-powershell-and-powergui-in-your-virtual-infrastructure Some limitations seem to apply. http://halr9000.com/article/612 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry I should have been more specific. Out of the box it does not do any > of those features. You have to PAY to get them. That would be upgrading to > Enterprise ESXi. But stating that it does not support it was a misnomer. > My apologies. > > I consider it to be the equivalent of 2003 Std 32 bit vs 2003 Enterprise. > 2003 Enterprise 32 bit will support 8 gig ram, standard wont. You have to > upgrade to it in order for it to work. I classified them as 2 different > products. > > > > From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 8:32 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion > > > > "ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servr..." > > Oh it sure does! > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:17 PM > 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/> ~
