On 11/30/2011 2:02 PM, Ryan Coleman cried from the depths of the abyss:

Hi Ryan,

I was curious if you decided on a VM, and how is it working out?

Thanks!

Bob

> 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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