On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 14:33 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
No, the hypervisor in a virtualized environment is an absolutely critical component; there is no room at all for fanboys. VMware is a well established solution [+50% customer satisfaction, Citrix at ~30%; and +50% vs. ~20% marketshare. VMware is the only virtualization solution to have increased its market share in the last year.] With
If I cared about any of that boo-haa-haa I'd not be using Open Source or CentOS.
It doesn't make sense not to care about such things as they have real bearing on the viability of a product/project. And customer satisfaction does mean something. I do care about such things (they are not the ONLY things) and they are reasons *to use* Open Source and, particularly, CentOS.
and with the fact that its 'available' off the shelf, zero cost up front. however to make it do anything you still need to buy into vmware tools.
This statement is false; I have several stand-alone ESXi boxes running. There are no commercial products required for a working setup; the commercial components provide motion, consolidated backed and the centralized management console [which is crap anyway].
How do you actually connect to the ESXi instance to setup a new VM and manage existing ones ?
You use the VIC client, which does not require the VIC server but can connect directly to any ESX/ESXi host. After you install ESXi you navigate to the box with a web browser and there is a link to download VIC directly from the host.