VMWare ESXi and Vsphere licenses

[m1ddy]

ESXi is the free hypervisor that VMWare offer. ESX is the full version with all the bells and whistles, vmotion etc. ESXi can do this but only for 60 days I believe. Then it just defaults back to the basic hypervisor, which for testing etc is perfectly fine.

 

vSphere is the new client released with vmwares 4.0 products I think. VI3 is the last generation equivelent.

[DMcCoy]

ESXi is the free hypervisor that VMWare offer. ESX is the full version with all the bells and whistles, vmotion etc. ESXi can do this but only for 60 days I believe. Then it just defaults back to the basic hypervisor, which for testing etc is perfectly fine.

 

vSphere is the new client released with vmwares 4.0 products I think. VI3 is the last generation equivelent.

 

ESXi effectively IS ESX without the Linux Console. They have the virtually the same features, apart from missing serial port virtualisation on ESXi.

 

ESXi is not cut down in any way, features for both versions are dependent on the license you obtain, there is only a free version of ESXi however.

[Ignatius]

OK guys. It looks like I'll be getting my hands on ESXi with vSphere. I just need to sort the hardware now.

[somabc]

No, because thats not the 'vSphere Web Access', dont worry its not enabled by default. On your esx4 host run:

 

service vmware-webAccess start

 

you'll get a 'VMware server' view of the host where you can manage the VMs and view consoles by going to https://ip.ip.ip.ip/ui. You'll need to modify the service (chkconfig --level 345 vmware-webAccess on) if you want it to enable this 'full-er' web access on boot.

 

Does this work on esxi 4? I ran service vmware-webAccess start but that gives

 

-ash: service: not found

[Theblacksheep]

Does this work on esxi 4? I ran service vmware-webAccess start but that gives

 

ahhhh, its not in 'i'... I didnt know that. GRRR

 

VMware Self-Service- VMware ESX and ESXi 4.0 Comparison

Edited November 3, 2009 by Theblacksheep

[m1ddy]

Another question. I have an SGE Airtight networks virtual appliance in the form of various .vmdk / .nvram / .vmsn / .vmem files. How do I go about getting this up and running as a virtual machine. When creating a virtual machine you obv get the option to select which OS it is running. I believe this appliance runs on redhat. However, I do not know which version and when you power on the VM its obviously going to look for something to boot from. Not too sure how I go about it. Anyone done something along the same lines before?

[farmeunit]

For a management tool that is FREE, you might check out BlueBear > Kodiak. It's still in development I think.

 

I haven't used but saw it on an episode of Hak5. Not sure how it matches features with vSphere, but maybe worth a shot when released.

Edited November 3, 2009 by farmeunit
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