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Upgraded to VMware ESXi

This week I had the pleasure of advancing my “virtualization program” at work. I also got a chance to install and configure my first “real” production VMware ESXi 4.0 server. Not my first, but the first one that isn’t educational and will really get used at the office.

ESXi is what is called a “bare metal

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VMware Upgrade Policy Disappoints

I’m miffed. Darned close to full snit, actually.

A month and a half ago I bought VMware Workstation 6.5. The sale was just too good to pass up and I had a 30 day trial winding down. The timing was perfect and I was glad to make the purchase.

Shortly after that I ran into a bug.

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Final Post on That VMware Server on Windows 2008 Server Core Thing

I built a Server 2008 box and tried the install that I’ve been babbling about.

Failed.

VMware Server 2 on Win 2k8 Server Core – Part 2

Last week I rambled out the following:

Why not run VMware Server 2 on Windows 2008 Server Core? Core is lean and mean with no GUI and would free up more resources to be used by my VM clients. I’m reasonably certain it’ll run on the hardware, I’m just not sure if it’ll host VMware Server

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VMware Server 2 on Windows 2008 Server Core?

You know how when you have a possibly zany idea you first do some web searches to see if anyone has already done it? That’s where I’m at with this one… problem is that I haven’t found anyone who’s done it yet!

I currently run VMware Server 2.0 on an older server. It all works OK,

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