2011/3/27 Drew <drew.kay at gmail.com>: >> Any experience with the free "VMware vSphere Hypervisor"?. (It was >> formerly known as "VMware ESXi Single Server" or "free ESXi".) >> >> http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html >> >> I would need a tutorial about that... For example, does that run without >> a host OS? Can it be managed only via Win clients? Issues with CentOS >> 4/5 guests (all my systems are currently CentOS 4/5). > > vSphere ESX(i) is good product. It runs on bare metal so there is no > OS underneath it. ESX has a linux based environment that sort of runs > at the hypervisor level that people use for basic admin but VMware is > trying to phase that out as most everything you can do with ESX's > "console" can be done through ESXi's API's and the remote CLI. > > Only downside to the free version is certain API's are unavailable and > if you need those features you may have to go to a paid version. Biggest problem in free esxi is that it lacks backup vcb api, so full image backups are almost impossible under free esxi host .. -- Eero