Citrix has a free version of Xen that's pretty incredible. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Ben Lutgens Linux / Unix System Administrator Three of your friends throw up after eating chicken salad. Do you think: "I should find more robust friends" or "we should check that refrigerator"? -- Donald Becker, on vortex-bug, suspecting a network-wide problem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120321/a39be7e4/attachment.html>