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

[Matthew Loraditch]

We don't have ESX that we use for Cisco testing but we regularly setup clients with Dell 2950s with dual quad cores, 16GBs of ram and around 600GBs of hard drive space and they can smoothly run a DC/File Server, Exchange, Terminal Server and others for usually a total or 4 or 5 VMs
Not sure if that helps anyone or not, but just thought I'd throw it out there


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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Michael Thompson
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:46 PM
To: 'Jonathan Charles'; 'Carter, Bill'
Cc: ccie_voice at onlinestudylist.com; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free

I thought the big draw of ESX is light weight and manageability for server
clusters.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:45 PM
To: Carter, Bill
Cc: Michael Thompson; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net;
ccie_voice at onlinestudylist.com
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free

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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