VMware ESXi Goes Free — Hmmm…

VMware announced today that ESXi is now free.

Virtualize processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines with VMware ESXi, an enterprise-class hypervisor with a thin 32 MB footprint for added security and reliability.

My current (also free) VMware Server machine at work is running Windows Server 2003 x64. You can bet it has a

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Living and Learning with XP: Imaging and Licensing

For almost a year now, I’ve been using VMware’s Converter in a most useful way at work: As employees move on to other pastures I use Converter to make a virtual machine “image” of their desktop. That way, if it turns out they left something on their machine that was important it isn’t lost forever

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VMware Server FTW!

(yeah, virtualization is still on my mind)

I resurrected an “old” database server this week. It’s rocking a pair of hyper-threaded Xeon (3.0 Ghz), 4 GB and 6×300 GB drives (and a spiffy RAID controller) in a 2U case. Dusted it off and dropped a fresh install of Win2k3 and now it is my primary VMware

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