VMware vSphere Hypervisor

[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!

[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]

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

[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!

[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.

[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

[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....

[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]

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....