Re: Anyone using HP Microserver as vmware ESX Server?

[Rob Iles <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Kyle.

There is a free windows client for it - though I can't remember what it was
called - - uninstalled it when the server went bang.  Perhaps it was an
evaluation version, but I don't remember that being the case.....

Rob

On 13 March 2011 23:33, Kyle Gordon <kyle@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> On 13/03/11 21:16, Rob Iles wrote:
> >
> > One thing I was disappointed with - - and this is probably
showing my
> > ignorance - - I expected to be able to attach a keyboard,
mouse& monitor
> to
> > the ESXi Server, and "use" on / more of the OS's it
hosted. Couldn't do
> so
> > - had to RDP/VNC into the guest OS's for any interaction. Not a
*huge*
> > problem, but would have been nice not to need another pc/laptop
as a
> > "client". (If I missed something obvious, and it is
possible, I'd love to
> > know how!).
> >
> > Rob
> That's normal for ESX/ESXi. You have to connect in with a client in
> order to do anything remotely useful. You can always use the CLI for
> basic management, but that's all. The client is vSphere, and I believe
> you need to pay for it. There is no Linux client either, even though
> there's rumoured to be one in use internally within VMware.
>
> If you want to have a moderately useful host OS, go with VirtualBox or
> KVM. If you want a less useful host OS and a free client, go with XEN.
>
> Personally I've found VirtualBox with phpVirtualBox to be fantastic
for
> home use. I keep the VMware live migration and shared storage
wrangling
> for work.
>
> Kyle
>
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>
>



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