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

[Warren Kumari]

And do I *need* to use windows for anything, or do you think I'll manage to make everything work without the windows client GUI bit?

W

Warren Kumari
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On Nov 22, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> --
>> I once absend-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a  
>> restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand  
>> Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.
>>     -- Terry Pratchett
>> 
>> 
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