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

[Jason Aarons (US)]

The lack of a 64-bit Cisco VPN Client (we don't do SSL VPNs for
AnyConnect) is frustrating.  How hard is to port 32-bit to 64-bit code
when others like Nortel/Checkpoint are did it long ago.  Instead I run
Virtual PC with XP for 32-bit Cisco VPN client when needed.

Once CallManager starts exceeding 4GB RAM I can see Cisco porting
application to 64-bit.

One 64-bit Windows 2003 R2 domain controller can carry the same load as
multiple 32-bit Windows 2003 R2 domain controllers.

You could get more users per cluster with fewer servers with 64-bit
applications.

I bet within ten years (July 30, 2018) a Quad Core by Sixteen (64
processors) becomes cost effective/common for data centers. What will be
after 64-bit?

-----Original Message-----
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 12:42 PM
To: Jonathan Charles; Michael Thompson
Cc: ccie_voice at onlinestudylist.com; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free

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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