If you allow your ESX and ESXi servers to see the same storage, moving a virtual is as simple as removing it from inventory on one host and adding it on the other.
I do this routinely. -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Free Server Virtualization Options: VMware Server, ESXi, XenServer, Hyper-V, and others... Well, you may have to define "damned painful". With not too much effort/googling you can xfer files directly between ESXi hosts. I recently moved my exchange server from one ESXi host to another.. although it took a couple hours, it sure beat the alternatives... -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:23 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Free Server Virtualization Options: VMware Server, ESXi, > XenServer, Hyper-V, and others... > > No to VMWare server. > > Qualified yes to ESXi - it's damned painful if you have to move VMs > between machines, and getting SSH running is not terribly intuitive, > but it's definitely doable. > > Sun has a virtualization product called VirtualBox, but I don't know > its licensing status or capabilities, and there's also Virtual Iron, > which I've heard good things about but haven't used, and also don't > know the licensing for. > > This is a decent place to start looking: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_virtualization > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 14:15, Matthew W. > Ross<[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, List. > > > > There are so many available Virtual Server solutions available now, > and it's time for us to look at moving from our current VMWare 1.0 > server solution. As our budget has been greatly reduced, we are > currently looking at the free products: > > > > VMWare Server 2.0 > > ESXi > > XenServer > > Hyper-V > > Any others I've missed. > > > > I'm wondering if anybody can vouch for or against any of these > products, and express any useful experiences you've had. > > > > Thanks all, > > > > > > --Matt Ross > > Ephrata School District > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterpris�������� ~ > > > > > > ~ 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/> ~
