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
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