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

[Jonathan Charles]

You can get a DL 380 G3 for like $300 on ebay

Just a word to the wise, ESX is not a lightweight application... it
needs an insane amount of memory (32 or 64GB is a good start) and LOTS
of processing space... I tried it on a DL380 G3 with 8GB of RAM and
dual 2.4Ghz Xeons and it could barely run a single CCM 4.1 VM (and it
was crawling... phones would take 30-45 seconds to get dial tone when
they went offhook).





Jonathan

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Carter, Bill <bcarter at sentinel.com> wrote:
> ESXi installation just bombed on a MCS-7815i-3.0. The IBM X306 server is
> not in the hardware compatibility list.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:39 AM
> 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
>
> Yeah, that won't work, ESX is very hardware specific
>
> Just a side note, because I see this misunderstanding a lot.
>
> On a 32-bit OS, you have a 32-bit memory address space, which equates
> to roughly 4 billion address locations (about 4GB of RAM supported),
> however, Windows allocates a nice sized chunk to I/O and other
> stuff...
>
> If you want to recognize more than about 3.5GB, you need to run a
> 64-bit OS (I am running 64-bit Vista with no problems (except the
> silly CIsco VPN client doesn't work)...
>
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Michael Thompson
> <mthompson729 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>> -----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
>>>
>>> you need a server from the hardware compatibility list...
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My problem with ESX is that I tried to install it on my commercial
> NVidia
>>>> chipset based MoBo and it bombed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> MT
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.vmware.com/download/esxi/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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