[ietf79-tech] vmWare (apologies for the wide distribution, but I couldn't remember who all were the vmware wizzes)

[Joel Jaeggli]

esxi 4.1 will do everything you need.

just wack it on the bare metal and everything should be cool, up until
4.1 turning on ssh required a bit of hackery, now it's just an option in
the web interface.

On 11/22/10 3:00 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> So, I am finally buying myself a server that will support  
> virtualization properly and wanted to give vmware a whirl (previously  
> I have done Xen and similar) so that I have more clue, but, being a  
> complete vmware newbie wanted to get some help / advice from the list  
> as to what I need to do / get / etc.
> 
> Basically this is going to be for a single machine (I don't need to be  
> able to move instances around, don't need HA, etc.) and I'll be  
> installing Ubuntu on it and using it as a mail / webserver. I'd also  
> like to be able to spin up a few guest instances, for testing things,  
> when I need to lend someone a shell, etc. Noit sure what other info  
> folk might want to help me decide this :-)
> 
> VMware vSphere Hypervisor (which includes VMware ESXi and vSphere  
> Client is a free download) -- am I missing something obvious or will  
> this do everything that I need?
> If not, what is the cheapest vmware solution that will?
> 
> I tried figuring this all out from vmwares site, but got lost in a  
> pile of 4 color glossies, all with similar (but subtly different)  
> marketing material and acronyms.
> 
> Mahna mahna,
> W
> 
> --
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> restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand  
> Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.
>      -- Terry Pratchett
> 
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