You know that you can get a free license for the base functionality of ESXi, correct? You'll need to pay, though if you want any of the advances features like vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, HA, etc. - Erik On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 9:38, Ryan Coleman wrote: > We're using the 60-day trial of ESXi 5 right now. > > I need to get it licensed. And it's quite stable so I haven't had to think about it lately. > > > On Mar 21, 2012, at 7:46, B-o-B Bob De Mars <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 11/30/2011 2:02 PM, Ryan Coleman cried from the depths of the abyss: > > > > Hi Ryan, > > > > I was curious if you decided on a VM, and how is it working out? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Bob > > > > > We are not using anything at the moment. It's for showing our customers what we have for software... and frankly a couple of the video programs don't play well with others. > > > > > > On Nov 30, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Mr. B-o-B wrote: > > > > > > > On 11/30/2011 8:54 AM, Ryan Coleman cried from the depths of the abyss: > > > > > Guys, > > > > > > > > > > My day job is looking for a good VM lead and I thought of you. Well, > > > > > ok, I thought you could get me some good leads. > > > > > > > > > > We're looking into an alternative to VMWare vSphere 5, one that will > > > > > run under whatever OS (we're not sold to Windows for our base > > > > > configuration) and will support any OS on top of it (BSD, Linux, > > > > > Windows, etc.). > > > > > > > > > > Links to whitepapers and pricing (if applicable) would also be > > > > > appreciated. We're going to utilize most of this machine to run > > > > > various video surveillance solutions but will also reserve some > > > > > smaller slices for our network communications (DNS, DHCP, ipTables, > > > > > Nagios, etc.). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Ryan. I am curious to know if you are using VMware now& don't like or want to use the latest ESXi 5, or is this something new for the company? > > > > > > > > I am refurbing a recently decommissioned HP ml370 G5, and I was planning/thinking actually about giving vShpere 5 a try. > > > > > > > > Just curious what the motivation behind this is. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120321/96f9c2a4/attachment-0001.html>