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Cool. What do you use? Workstation or Esxi? I have 3 clusters on Esxi 3.5 & administrate them with Virtual Center 2.5 - Had 7 Windows Servers 2003 & 2 XP's on them. Currently testing Esxi 5 with 2 clusters & running 5 Windows 2008 servers & 1 Win 7. On I also have Workstation 8 on my lappy, testing Exchange server 2007 & 2010.
In one of the cases we have VMware Enterprise Edition in two Cisco Unified Computing System's for a local newspaper, therefore 6 VM's for their various purposes. VM cases are always 
as they always have a good margin+value for us.
as they always have a good margin+value for us.
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Anytime
We basically design and sell the solution including all software licenses and hardware to our customer. Virtualisation is great, wonderful usage of the resources. And it's very good to see that more and more people are recognising this, vMotion and DRS are some features that customers have been specifically asking us nowadays.
DRS, vMotion & vMotion Storage are really exciting technologies. What hardware solutions do you use for that? I tested Openfiler (Linux based NAS, SAN & Iscsi) but it was just too damn slow.
VMware has come a long way since but it has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to the free basic offering since VirtualBox is way better than VMware Play (the free version). But when it comes to enterprise solutions then VMware is the king.
VirtualBox is actually better for day to day testing.
VMware comes into it's own when you install it directly on the host (Esxi versions) bypassing an extra host OS and saving resources. They have a tiny footprint but require an extra server to run the administration. Advantage is you that can cluster as many servers as you wish. All the resources are pooled together (DRS) & redundancy is well sorted (vMotion - you can move a VM from host to host without shutting it down & vMotion Storage - does same for storage). Not to mention HA (High Availability) - When a server crashes then the VM's running on it are restarted on the available resources minimising downtimes.
VMware has come a long way since but it has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to the free basic offering since VirtualBox is way better than VMware Play (the free version). But when it comes to enterprise solutions then VMware is the king.
VirtualBox is actually better for day to day testing.
VMware comes into it's own when you install it directly on the host (Esxi versions) bypassing an extra host OS and saving resources. They have a tiny footprint but require an extra server to run the administration. Advantage is you that can cluster as many servers as you wish. All the resources are pooled together (DRS) & redundancy is well sorted (vMotion - you can move a VM from host to host without shutting it down & vMotion Storage - does same for storage). Not to mention HA (High Availability) - When a server crashes then the VM's running on it are restarted on the available resources minimising downtimes.
