Hi all,
I thought I'd do a quick post about esxi which as you probably know is the free version of the vmware hypervisor.
I thought I'd give it a go and see what it was like. Firstly I knocked up a spare machine at work to try it out on, I burned the esxi disk and plumbed it into the machine (a fairly standard dell gx520 if your wondering). The installation quite literally took about 2 minutes to install the hypervisor. I pointed my main pc's browser at the hypervisors ip and there you get the option to download and install the infrastructure client.
Once you have downloaded the client you can use that to manage the esxi sever, do things like create new vm's view them in a console and a ton of other stuff. Let's just say I am now completely converted to esxi. For a freebie its a fantastic programme and vmware also provide other great tools too. For example I downloaded the converter tool (again free) and have so far converted a opensuse vm and my physical secondary domain controller (without any downtime).
I had an inkling of how good vmware esx was cause we use it on our branch office at work, but this is fantastic and it just reaffirms to me that anyone in it should be grabbing virtualisation exposure where ever they can.
The most obvious and normally major business point for virtualisation is cutting costs, less physical servers required, less cost on bare metal, aircon and electricity and datacentre space. But there are other bonuses too which include the ability to store template servers, so your boss walks in and says right we need 5 windows server for appx how long will it take to build them and to get them live. Err about an hour you say. Boss wonders off thinking great this will make us look fab as you don't need to buy 5x servers at 2 grand a pop and you feel good as you don't have to unpack and install 5 weighty servers. There are tons of other reasons why to virtulise but I'm going back to my desk to play with esxi.
Tata.
Kind Regards
Dale Scriven (MBCS,MCDST,MCP,A+, DSE Assessor, ITIL V3 F)
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2 comments:
hello
did you run in to any errors during the instalation on a gsx520.
The installation doesnt see any media to write on.
regards
Michel
No I had no errors at all during installation, it just installed quite happily. I suppose if yours maybe has a slightly different chipset for some reason you should be able to use openfiler on another pc to create iscsi luns for your VM's
Dale
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