Why would one use vmware Server 2.x when ESXi is available free of charge, stable, small footprint, ... ? We have about 60 vmware machines here, about 20 of them already converted to ESXi and running fine. I would never think about going back to Server 2.x or even GSX, especially when using veeam as a central management console. http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/ http://www.veeam.com/esxi-monitoring-free.html Am 28.06.2010 um 15:45 schrieb Brian Mathis: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> > wrote: >> On 6/25/2010 8:33 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: >>> - VMware Server seems like it's EOL, even though vmware hasn't >>> specifically said so yet >> >> Given that there are known serious bugs in 2.0.2[*] and that >> release is >> now 8 months old, that seems plausible to me. But another plausible >> explanation is that they've decided to throw all their effort at a >> 3.0 >> release. >> >> Do you have any hard evidence that would help me decide between these >> two possibilities? >> >> [*] glibc change with EL 5.4+ crashes server, creeping CPU time bug >> mentioned elsewhere in this thread, web UI buggier than Brazil in the >> rainy season... > > > Here is the support lifecycle page: > http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle/general/index.html#policy_server > See the footnote under the "VMware Server" section. > > Maybe there's a 3.0 in the works, but the general feeling is that they > have abandoned the product. There have been no updates allowing the > console to work in Firefox 3.6, no fixes to the hostd crash (glibc > problem), nor any fixes to the creeping CPU problem. These are all > major issues that would normally be addressed in any product a company > would expect to keep around. > > All of these things together do not leave one with a good feeling > about the product. Additionally, the way they are handling this has > made me feel less confident in VMware as a company, and instead of > looking at their paid products I have started looking at the > alternatives. If they just came right out and said they were not > supporting it any longer, that would be preferable to what they are > doing now. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos