My experience with this has been painful but ESXi requires that you have a Windows machine to manage the instances via its Windows only client app. I agree, virtualbox is a much better product within enterprise class corps for a small (1 core per vm) model than vmWare ESXi is by far. May 2009, 01:50 Primary OS: Ubuntu 8.10 VBox Version: OSE Debian Guest OSses: Win XP, Ubuntu 8.10 Still praying that VirtualBox will at some point bring out something to counter ESXi olivernz Posts: 7 Joined: 4. This stuff is server grade and only plays nice on very limited hardware (but that is then officially supported).īut for desktop virtualisation there's nothing better than VirtualBox! Read the VMware website carefully to what it does and doesn't do! Be very careful using Desktop PCs for ESXi. You won't be thanked on the long run.but.Īlso be aware that you'll probably spend lots of $$$ for extra products.

Don't try and get VirtualBox to work for you. You also have to spend serious ammounts of $$$ for any function above the basic Hypervisor. Don't get me wrong, i hate quite a few functions of ESXi (like Windows only HUD!!!). In a business currounding I'd only use ESXi because there is just no other product around that can get so many servers virtualised so easily with so many functions. That machine cannot be used for anything else.ī) There is extensions to do anything from backing-up to running globally distributed cloud datacentres. There is no GUI on a server running ESXi.

Don't know if this is still current but VirtualBox is the equivalent of VMware Workstation NOT EXS(i).Ī) ESXi is a OS in it's own right.

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