[cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free

[Michael Thompson]

I just meant as a platform to install the VMWare on.

I have VMServer (free version) running on Server 2008.  I'm running 08
because I have 4Gb or RAM and XP wasn't acknowledging all my memory (which
kinda pissed me off a LOT). 

My thought is to install Linux as a base OS (less overhead resources meaning
more available for my VMWare).  Not to mention, Vista and 2008 don't like
NVidia chipset MoBo hardware.  They're intel bigots.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:31 PM
To: Michael Thompson
Cc: Carter, Bill; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net; ccie_voice at onlinestudylist.com
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free

You don't need to know Linux...

The installation is quite easy... just next a lot (add IPs and
stuff...) and then after it completes it will tell you to open a web
browser and then install the infrastructure 3 client.then you can do
VMWare stuff...

Personally, I think Workstation is more suitable for our needs (I am
running Workstation 6) and I have CCM 4.1/IPCC a Unity 4 box, a CUCM
6.1 box and Unity 7 box, plus an XP VM for stuff...



Jonathan

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Michael Thompson
<mthompson729 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bummer, I was hoping that they relaxed that a little so I could get rid of
> the Microsoft overhead of my server.
>
> Don't know enough about Linux to install on that.  May have to learn
Ubuntu.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:08 PM
> To: Michael Thompson
> Cc: Carter, Bill; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net;
ccie_voice at onlinestudylist.com
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free
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> you need a server from the hardware compatibility list...
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> Jonathan
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> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Michael Thompson
> <mthompson729 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Has  anyone played with installing it on generic hardware though?
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>> My problem with ESX is that I tried to install it on my commercial NVidia
>> chipset based MoBo and it bombed.
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>> MT
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>> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Carter, Bill
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:42 AM
>> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net; ccie_voice at onlinestudylist.com
>> Subject: [cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free
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>> http://www.vmware.com/download/esxi/
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