Reply to: VMware vSphere Hypervisor

[stek]

Which in turn is pants compared to a zSeries (I've run over 500 zLinux instances under zVM on one although the record is somewhere nearer 30,000)

I can get 20 AIX partitions on my p505! Well, 19, need a VIO, which is actually AIX 6.1 underneath....

[darmstadt]

I think OVS might be better for the server SM has in mind, it being VirtualBox wrapped up in a Type 1 Hypervisor.

All of this is pants compared to a proper pSeries tho....

Which in turn is pants compared to a zSeries (I've run over 500 zLinux instances under zVM on one although the record is somewhere nearer 30,000)

[stek]

If you're not stuck on VMWare then Oracle's VirtualBox might make a good alternative, I use it for development installations and have found it to be pretty stable. Don't know what it's like for, say web applications etc though.

Boo

I think OVS might be better for the server SM has in mind, it being VirtualBox wrapped up in a Type 1 Hypervisor.

All of this is pants compared to a proper pSeries tho....

[Boo]

I want to run VMWare on a server, so I can create two or three virtual machines, does anyone use the free offering from VMWare? Not thinking anything special, bog standard server with maybe 8 or 16gb ram, a couple of NIC's and a few Raided HDD's. I assume its gonna be better to have one drive for the ESXi install and a minimum of two for VM's?

If you're not stuck on VMWare then Oracle's VirtualBox might make a good alternative, I use it for development installations and have found it to be pretty stable. Don't know what it's like for, say web applications etc though.

Boo

[ThomserveBAS]

I use the free version of ESXi on my home servers - one HP ML110 with quad core Xeon processor and 16GB RAM and the other a HP MicroServer with 8GB of RAM. Both run off USB sticks for the VMWare Hypervisor and the VM storage is on SSD.

There is VM that VMWare provide that gives you remote access to your VM's that I've used before (VIM I think it's called) which takes away some of the pain of using the Windows client - I haven't used it in a while so I can't remember if you can fully manage the host using the web interface or if it's for light management.

There's also a couple of great iOS apps for controlling VMWare ESXi - I use iVMControl which isn't cheap but does the job well.

[garethevans1986]

And an electricity meter that spins round so fast it smokes
Nice rig!

It isn't that bad actually. Well atleast the wife is complaining yet!

[bobspud]

I've got mine hooked up to a remote ethernet power switch, just log in via ssh to my iMac, telnet to device and power stuff up. Even powered down with just ALOM or FSP running they're sucking a fair bit of juice. This gadget turns 'em off completely, apart from switch, homeplug and HMC obviously!

Except it's my first time away since setting it up and I've forgotten what ip I gave it!

I am going to have to build a new rig this year as I want a proper openstack installation and devstacks not man enough

[stek]

I've got mine hooked up to a remote ethernet power switch, just log in via ssh to my iMac, telnet to device and power stuff up. Even powered down with just ALOM or FSP running they're sucking a fair bit of juice. This gadget turns 'em off completely, apart from switch, homeplug and HMC obviously!

Except it's my first time away since setting it up and I've forgotten what ip I gave it!

[bobspud]

VMWare ESXi is awesome, free one is fine for running "throw away" virtual machines.

I've got 2 x HP DL585s (4x Quad Core Opteron, 64Gb RAM) + 16 Bay Fibre Array with 4 x 2Tb disks in...all in a nice Dell 24U Rack

GE

And an electricity meter that spins round so fast it smokes
Nice rig!

[bobspud]

It's also worth noting that Microsoft have now released a free hyper-v 2012 version to compete with VMware.

Getting Started with the FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 #hyperv #virtualization #itpro - IT Pros ROCK! at Microsoft - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

[garethevans1986]

VMWare ESXi is awesome, free one is fine for running "throw away" virtual machines.

I've got 2 x HP DL585s (4x Quad Core Opteron, 64Gb RAM) + 16 Bay Fibre Array with 4 x 2Tb disks in...all in a nice Dell 24U Rack

GE

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You mean you are using a paid version of ESX, or you are running a Windows VM on your Mac to access the vSphere Client (which is what i am doing)

windows vm on mac to access the client. (heck you only use it once in a while when changing machines around).

[stek]

VMware vSphere Hypervisor

You mean you are using a paid version of ESX, or you are running a Windows VM on your Mac to access the vSphere Client (which is what i am doing)

You need the Vcenter server 5.1 thing, not free as far as I know and it's a total kludge for mac access, google around for all the faffing needed to frig it to work.

Or put Oracle OVS on it though that's not much better but it is free. Web based interface so will work on a Mac.

[SimonMac]

Yes max is 1cpu and 32gb from memory so make sure you pick the right i7.

That's what parallels is for or if you're a cheapstake virtualbox.

I'll dig up the order and tell you what I bought.

You mean you are using a paid version of ESX, or you are running a Windows VM on your Mac to access the vSphere Client (which is what i am doing)

[eek]

order was

Asrock ASR-Z77-PRO4-M
Intel BX80637I73770 - Intel Core i7 (3770) 3.4GHz Quad Core
Processor 8MB L3 Cache 5GT/s Bus Speed (Boxed)
2x Corsair CMV16GX3M2A1600C11 - Corsair Value Select 16GB
(2 x 8GB) Memory Kit 1600MHz DDR3 240pin DIMM Non-ECC)

The motherboard is important many don't give you everything you need. From memory this one just worked.