2011/3/27 Drew <drew.kay@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Any experience with the free "VMware vSphere Hypervisor"?. (It was
>> formerly known as "VMware ESXi Single Server" or "free ESXi".)
>>
>> http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html
>>
>> I would need a tutorial about that... For example, does that run without
>> a host OS? Can it be managed only via Win clients? Issues with CentOS
>> 4/5 guests (all my systems are currently CentOS 4/5).
>
> vSphere ESX(i) is good product. It runs on bare metal so there is no
> OS underneath it. ESX has a linux based environment that sort of runs
> at the hypervisor level that people use for basic admin but VMware is
> trying to phase that out as most everything you can do with ESX's
> "console" can be done through ESXi's API's and the remote CLI.
>
> Only downside to the free version is certain API's are unavailable and
> if you need those features you may have to go to a paid version.
Biggest problem in free esxi is that it lacks backup vcb api, so full
image backups are almost impossible under free esxi host ..
--
Eero
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