Hardware agnosticism is one of the best benefits. I love ESXi dearly.
Consider this: 2x redundant DNS servers, 2x redundant mail servers, 2x
redundant file servers.... A decent DMZ buildout for a small office.
With ESXi you can do that in 2U of rack space and have complete physical
redundancy. Without, you need 6 boxes, several of which will be
underutilized. Balanced properly, you can more efficiently use
resources, EG a RAM hungry service, an I/O thrasher, and a CPU cruncher
can all play nicely together.
Plus, cloning a box is a simple operation taking very little effort.
SHAMELESS PLUG(combined with SHAMELESS PUN!): I wrote an article on my
blog about this a few weeks back. It's here:
http://www.bensbrowning.com/2008/12/06/benefits-of-virtualization/
~Ben
Stephen wrote:
I was actually helping someone plan a business model on this idea, you
have a server in place as part of a paid IT contract it would cover a
loaner server fro just this scenario so your data could be move
imported and running as is in a minimal amount of timew while the
ahrdware as checked diagnosed and brought back up online..
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Stephen <[email protected]> wrote:
My sell on it is VMware ESXi will allow you to load your dead server
on any other machine running ESXi wich is free so your dead server can
be up and running in 15-20 min instead of 2-4 days depending on how
long it takes to get failed hardware working again.
i sold a number fo them that way very easily
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Bryan O'Neal
<[email protected]> wrote:
I am a huge fan of VMware! I use it often, but outside my fathers
engineering company I can not seem to convince many small businesses to use
it. However, I honestly believe virtualization is on of the greatest things
I have seen develop over the last 10 years and I am exited to see where the
next ten will lead us.
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Austin
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