We're using the 60-day trial of ESXi 5 right now. I need to get it licensed. And it's quite stable so I haven't had to think about it lately. On Mar 21, 2012, at 7:46, B-o-B Bob De Mars <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list