[GRLUG] VMWare ESXi Was: Raid, LVM, and Cheap Storage

[Bruce Smith]

>> I've consolidated servers with high resource requirements. :)  So far
>> I'm nothing but impressed regarding performance; part because even
>> "busy" servers spend a fair amount of time idle and current servers have
>> *8* cores...
>>
> It sounds great but I had a difficult time on their website in even
> determining what it runs on. From what I can gather it's extraordinarily
> picky about what it runs on. What good is a product that seems to run on
> three different machines? (Ok, I'm exaggerating but really the hardware
> requirements seem way too selective.) It sounds like you need a brand
> new server from only certain manufacturers and it had better have one of
> a very few CPU's, very few different NICs, etc.

Those are the machines that are officially supported, but it does run
on other servers.  Unless you plan on purchasing a support contract,
it costs nothing to try running ESXi on other hardware and see what
happens.

 - BS