Comments on: Creating a cluster of physical machines to run virtual machines http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/creating-a-cluster-of-physical-machines-to-run-virtual-machines/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:19:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: virtualaleph http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/creating-a-cluster-of-physical-machines-to-run-virtual-machines/#comment-57998 virtualaleph Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:30:07 +0000 #comment-57998 with ESXi you’ll get all the power of ESX without management and enterprise feature:
what kinda datacenter you’ll have? It’s a production datacenter or test and dev?
If it’s production I’ll suggest you to have a full Vmware ESX 3.5 Enterprise: you’ll pay for what you get.
HA will restart your VMs if one host fails
DRS will balance your resources usage but, if you’re not very busy and you have a little of experience, you can balance it by yourself.
hth
cheers
Manlio
My virtualization Blog

]]> By: kevinnoreen http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/creating-a-cluster-of-physical-machines-to-run-virtual-machines/#comment-57710 kevinnoreen Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:53:37 +0000 #comment-57710 ESXi would be a good choice for the hypervisor for creating the virtual machine infrastructure for running multiple VMs on your physical servers. However, much of the management capabilities for items such as vMotion require the more expensive Enterprise versions.

I would begin with ESXi which also gives you a 60 day trial period of the Enterprise functionality. You will then be able to determine if the Enterprise pieces are required for your environment.

]]> By: kgdirect http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/creating-a-cluster-of-physical-machines-to-run-virtual-machines/#comment-57629 kgdirect Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:11:56 +0000 #comment-57629 I’m trying to stay on the cheap side with this…. How about accomplishing this with ESXi?

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