I learned the hard way that even if you can install a 64-bit OS on a computer, it doesn’t not necessarily mean that you can run guests in ESXi in 64-bit.
Essentially on an Intel Platform, it has to support EMT64 and VT(and the motherboard has to support it). For AMD, you need Rev D AMD64 [...]
If using vmkfstool to convert your VMWare Server’s vmdk file to an ESX or ESXi file is not as convenient as it could be, you’ve got an alternative you can run inside of windows to do the same thing.
In VMWare Server 2.0 (RC or beta at this point), there’s a nice command line tool to [...]
As a followup to my prior post on VMWare ESXi being free now, I’ve taken the plunge and changed over my home servers from VMWare Server 1.0 to ESX 3.5i. The biggest thought was for performance and just something new to play with.
The first step was to see if I could get it installed on [...]
VMWare, in what is apparently is a move to better compete with Microsoft’s Hyper-V, is giving aware ESXi for free!
http://vmware.com/company/news/releases/esxi_pricing.html
Granted, the HCL for it isn’t the longest. But i’ve read as long as you don’t use IDE Hard Disks (SATA seems to be okay) for the storage system, it will install on many other types of [...]
