[CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?
Benjamin Franz
jfranz at freerun.com
Mon Jun 28 17:39:08 UTC 2010
On 06/28/2010 10:15 AM, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 6-28-2010 6:34 AM Whit Blauvelt spake the following:
>
>> If you look on their site, they clearly specify that they do not offer a
>> paid support option for VMware Server, that it's community supported only.
>> Does that seem like an attitude towards a product they plan to update?
>>
>> Whit
>>
> That just looks like they don't want to support something they give away...
>
They give away ESXi, too, so that argument is pretty weak. The
difference is that ESXi is directly tied to their other tracks and
support. VM Server has always been pretty 'standalone'. Not so good if
your business models is convincing people to buy all the pretty add ons.
They more-or-less abrogated their own lifecycle guidelines with VM
Server by declaring that 'General' support for it only includes
'Technical Guidance' until EOL (there-by skipping directly to their
lowest level of support - which is pretty much 'Google it and look in
the forums').
At this point VM Server is in the 'if it breaks you get to keep all the
pieces' mode.
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Benjamin Franz
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