On 3/1/07, Jay Lee <jlee at pbu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:11:26PM -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: > ESX is a "lighter-weight" solution (in that it runs on the bare-metal > rather than requiring a host OS that sucks up resources. It of course is > the most expensive solution but IMHO, it's worth every penny. ESX is the > only virtualization option I would care to put production workloads on. > Not totally acurate. All VMWare servers (including ESX) are customized versions of RedHat Enterprise linux.