ESXi

February 10, 2010 | 8 comments

Humorous take on a reference to small footprint hypervisor advantages -- not from VMware.

February 2, 2010 | 2 comments

Win up to $2500 in the VMware ESXi Scripting Contest!

January 12, 2010 | 11 comments

HP Blades incorporate an SD slot that can be used to easily deploy VMware ESXi from flash. Take a look.

November 3, 2009 | 38 comments

Microsoft stretches the truth when claiming that VMware adds an additional layer to your architecture. The fact is, Hyper-V relies on its own instance of Windows and requires more instances for running apps.

August 28, 2009 | 15 comments

While completely unsupported, it is possible to build a small 64MB flash drive that will boot and run VMware ESXi 4.

August 27, 2009 | 20 comments

Although VMware ESXi 4 requires a 1GB flash device to install, the core hypervisor functionality is fully contained in less than 60MB. Most of the remaining space is for a downloadable vSphere Client or simply unused.

August 19, 2009 | 9 comments

If your server OEM supports it, you might be able to get the free Hyper-V Server R2 to boot from a flash drive someday. VMware ESXi supports this feature today.

August 13, 2009 | 13 comments

VMware ESXi runs great from a USB flash drive and it is easy to prepare a batch of drives for your servers without leaving the comfort of your desk -- by creating them with VMware Workstation.

February 4, 2009 | No comments

VMware recently announced the new VMware ESXi Management Kit.  If you have up to three free ESXi servers deployed and would like to manage them with vCenter Server, this is a great opportunity.  Available until April 30 for $995. The kit includes: VMware vCenter Server Foundation vCenter Agents for 3 ESXi hosts (2 CPU sockets each host) 1 year [...]

January 9, 2009 | 2 comments

By design, System Center Virtual Machine Manager copies ISO CD/DVD images to managed hosts instead of sharing. For VMware ESX it uses SFTP. For ESXi, it fails.

November 5, 2008 | 8 comments

Initially, Hyper-V Server was sort of a mystery.  Some kind of “bare metal hypervisor” that “is not Windows” sounded peculiar.  Details were scarce.  Some thought it would be like ESXi, a small-footprint design that can be embedded in a server via flash memory.  As you know, it turned out to be nothing more than Windows [...]

October 1, 2008 | 4 comments

Now that Microsoft has released the much-hyped Hyper-V Server, it’s a good time to take a look at the steps you would need to go through to configure iSCSI LUNs. As you can see in this video, it is incredibly complex.  ESXi, on the other hand, walks you through without a lot of fuss.  VMware is [...]

October 1, 2008 | 1 comment

I took a look at the Hyper-V installation process to see how it compares with ESXi and decided to install it on Server Core, since that has been touted by Microsoft as the preferred and recommended way of deploying Hyper-V.  Well, after significant research and learning, I was able to distill the process down to [...]

October 1, 2008 | No comments

Recently I was catching up with an old friend of mine who has worked in technology for many years and has used the free hosted virtualization products like VMware Server and Virtual PC.  He asked me about the new free ESXi and was wondering what the difference was and what OS it runs on.  I [...]