I understand... we have a set of blades with FC storage running ESX here at work. We VMotion live servers and move storage live all the time.
I'm just pointing out for those just getting in to the virtualization game, that "painful" with ESXi can be as simple as a file copy. Prior to virtualization, that process would likely have been a nuke-and-repave.... -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 9:08 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Free Server Virtualization Options: VMware Server, ESXi, > XenServer, Hyper-V, and others... > > 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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
