Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> writes:
> 2009/3/20 Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>:
>> Ben Donohue <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> yes i know it not FOSS. However I think that he wanted something
>>> simple to manage with FOSS as preferred.
>>>
>>> However you are incorrect about the "and only available on Windows
>>> with the dot-net platform". I said that it runs on bare metal.
>>
>> Sorry, but I seem to have failed to communicate: the *MANAGEMENT* tools
>> for ESXi are only available on Windows; they are distinct from the
>> software, to which you here refer.
>
> Which is instant fail in my book :(
>
> It's annoying enough that there's no VMware server client for Mac OS,
> but to restrict VM access to Windows boxes defeats a big benefit of
> virtualisation entirely.
In defence of ESXi, which we considered deploying at work, you can do a
reasonable amount of management using Unix-available[1] command line
tools, or the built-in console.
You can also, obviously, use any VM-hosted remote access mechanism, so
console access may only be a short term requirement.
The things we couldn't work out how to do without Windows were to create
new virtual machines or to edit them, without jumping through hoops to
get ssh access to the management slice, and to view performance metrics
without having to find third party software and/or hack the management
slice.
>>> FOSS stands for Free open source software doesn't it? So the only
>>> problem is that it's not open source. But it's free and uses Linux as
>>> an installer.
>>
>> The free in that refers to "free of restriction", not "free of cost".
>
> Yep exactly.
Over the years I have very much come to agree with the view that RMS
should have selected a different word when naming the free software
movement.
Of course, with sufficiently good vision of the future to know that
would be a problem he should also have made a killing at the races... ;)
Regards,
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] Linux and MacOS-X, at least. Guess which platforms we also have at
work, eh?
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
