[gentoo-dev] OffTopic: VMWare ESX

2005-05-04 Thread John Mylchreest
Hi All, Apologies for posting my question to such lists, but it hits the exact audience I'm after a response from :) Does anyone at work run Vmware ESX Server? If so, could they please get in touch with me so that I might talk about experiences? Regards, John -- Role:Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] OffTopic: VMWare ESX

2005-05-04 Thread Omkhar Arasaratnam
John Mylchreest wrote: Hi All, Apologies for posting my question to such lists, but it hits the exact audience I'm after a response from :) Does anyone at work run Vmware ESX Server? If so, could they please get in touch with me so that I might talk about experiences? Regards, John John,

Re: [gentoo-dev] OffTopic: VMWare ESX

2005-05-04 Thread John Mylchreest
Unfortunately it has to be vmware. Xen is excellent fro many things, but this ESX server is considerably different to most things. Anyways, aside from that the choice of product has been made. Just not the decision to go with it. So that's what this is for. Some real life feedback. On Wed,

Re: [gentoo-dev] OffTopic: VMWare ESX

2005-05-04 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
log that can get lost if the server hardware crashes. Matt --- Original Message--- To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: John Mylchreest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5/04/2005 2:16PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] OffTopic: VMWare ESX Hi there, thanks for getting back to me. basically, What I

Re: [gentoo-dev] OffTopic: VMWare ESX

2005-05-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: There are also some serious performance issues with I/O. Xen is a much better way to go in the long run. See Did you read his post that said that wasn't an option? I hope not, because it would be annoying if you posted