Quicksearch
Navigation
Events
Trusted Ad
Blower Door Test
Luftdichtigkeitsmessung für Gebäude Raum Hamburg ab 160 € excl. MwSt
www.m-tectum.de
Luftdichtigkeitsmessung für Gebäude Raum Hamburg ab 160 € excl. MwSt
www.m-tectum.de
Kategorien
About this blog- Apple
- iPhone
- Aviation
- Bahn
- Begriffe des Lebens
- Blogosphere
- Braindump
- Business Travel
- CANBOX
- CeBIT
- CEC
- Computing
- del.icio.us
- Fundsache
- General
- i hate sundays
- Kochen
- Mindfuck
- Movies
- Music
- On Benchmarketing
- Persoenliches Pech
- Photographie
- policy of ...
- Privacy
- Recommended Blogs
- Security
- Solaris
- Strange Days
- Sun
- suncec2007
- suncec2008
- Technology
- The IT Business
- Toolbox
- Travel
- Work
VMware announces free ESX - or: The gorilla effect?
Wednesday, July 23. 2008
VMware announced a free version of their ESX server product. Well, this may be an effect of the 500 pound gorillas entering the business. Sun will announce xVM soon, Microsofts developed Hyper-V ... thus the market for it´s hypervisor may get narrow. At the end, the auxillary tools earn VMwares money, thus giving away the hypervisor is a clever move.
Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp
in The IT Business
at
07:28
| Comments (3)
| Trackbacks (0)
View as PDF: This entry | This month | Full blog
View as PDF: This entry | This month | Full blog
Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry
No Trackbacks
Comments
Display comments as
(Linear | Threaded)
And not a single SUN Server is certified for ESXi (installable/embedded) 
ESXi seems to be dependent on the storage subsystem of the server whereas regular ESX it does not matter. I installed ESXi on some Dell servers and noticed that the hypervisor was able to communicate with the IPMI / BMC for environmental information and was able to pull raid controller information from the server. ESXi Was also aware of the exact model of server and its service tag during the install. While this is a "cute" feature it should not be a limiting factor for the product.
It is possible that VMware is trying to not "cheapen" their product by allowing it to be installed on desktop grade hardware. One nasty catch though is the License seems to be limited to 2 CPU's.
ESXi seems to be more of a "gateway drug" for customers to get a sample of how much more usable ESX is over standard VMware Server. Your first hit of ESX crack is free and then your hooked. When you start hitting the 2 CPU barrier many shops will cave and throw cash at VMware.
Sun has the same approach with their x86 line of products. Once you deal with Sun Service vs IBM HP or Dell you suddenly want to fill your data center full of their equipment.
It is possible that VMware is trying to not "cheapen" their product by allowing it to be installed on desktop grade hardware. One nasty catch though is the License seems to be limited to 2 CPU's.
ESXi seems to be more of a "gateway drug" for customers to get a sample of how much more usable ESX is over standard VMware Server. Your first hit of ESX crack is free and then your hooked. When you start hitting the 2 CPU barrier many shops will cave and throw cash at VMware.
Sun has the same approach with their x86 line of products. Once you deal with Sun Service vs IBM HP or Dell you suddenly want to fill your data center full of their equipment.
The LKSF book
The book with the consolidated Less known Solaris Tutorials is available for download here
Web 2.0
Contact
Networking
open.bc
LinkedIn
Facebook
My photos
- mail: joerg@c0t0d0s0.org
- icq: 144000169
- Me, myself and I
- openBC
- My del.icio.us
- c0t0d0s0@twitter
- c0t0d0s0@last.fm
- wiki@c0t0d0s0
- Amazon Wishlist
Networking
open.bc
My photos
Syndication
Comments
about Hardware teaser: SPARC Enterprise T3120
Fri, 21.11.2008 10:24
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/ community/arc/caselog/2008/685 /materials/tenaya-onepage-txt/
Fri, 21.11.2008 10:24
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/ community/arc/caselog/2008/685 /materials/tenaya-onepage-txt/
about Hardware teaser: SPARC Enterprise T3120
Fri, 21.11.2008 07:35
I will not disclose anything m ore than that
Fri, 21.11.2008 07:35
I will not disclose anything m ore than that
about Less Known Solaris features: Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit - Part 11: Mirrored boot disks
Fri, 21.11.2008 03:08
We have X4600s which have four 146GB HDDs in them. We want t he first two as mirrored root disks and the other two [...]
Fri, 21.11.2008 03:08
We have X4600s which have four 146GB HDDs in them. We want t he first two as mirrored root disks and the other two [...]
about Hardware teaser: SPARC Enterprise T3120
Thu, 20.11.2008 20:21
Tenaja will be an interesting product that will be on the ma rket in a few months, just sta y tuned
Thu, 20.11.2008 20:21
Tenaja will be an interesting product that will be on the ma rket in a few months, just sta y tuned
Getaggte Artikel
AMD Apple avs Bahn Blogging Blogosphere braindump Business Travel CeBIT cec cec2006 CMT del.icio.us deutsch dtrace fliegen Fundsache General Hamburg IBM i hate sundays Intel iscsi jumpstart Links Linux lksf Mindfuck Movies Music Musik Niagara Opensolaris Opteron Photographie policy of ... Politik Security Solaris storage Sun suncec2007 sunw t1 The IT Business Ultrasparc ultrasparc t1 Wirtschaft Work ZFS
Blog Administration
Buttons
