Hardware agnosticism is one of the best benefits. I love ESXi dearly.
Consider this: 2x redundant DNS servers, 2x redundant mail servers, 2x
redundant file servers.... A decent DMZ buildout for a small office.
With ESXi you can do that in 2U of rack space and have complete physical
redundancy. Without, you need 6 boxes, several of which will be
underutilized. Balanced properly, you can more efficiently use
resources, EG a RAM hungry service, an I/O thrasher, and a CPU cruncher
can all play nicely together.
Plus, cloning a box is a simple operation taking very little effort.
SHAMELESS PLUG(combined with SHAMELESS PUN!): I wrote an article on my
blog about this a few weeks back. It's here:
http://www.bensbrowning.com/2008/12/06/benefits-of-virtualization/
~Ben
Stephen wrote:
> I was actually helping someone plan a business model on this idea, you
> have a server in place as part of a paid IT contract it would cover a
> loaner server fro just this scenario so your data could be move
> imported and running as is in a minimal amount of timew while the
> ahrdware as checked diagnosed and brought back up online..
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My sell on it is VMware ESXi will allow you to load your dead server
>> on any other machine running ESXi wich is free so your dead server can
>> be up and running in 15-20 min instead of 2-4 days depending on how
>> long it takes to get failed hardware working again.
>>
>> i sold a number fo them that way very easily
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Bryan O'Neal
>> <boneal@cornerstonehome.com> wrote:
>>> I am a huge fan of VMware! I use it often, but outside my fathers
>>> engineering company I can not seem to convince many small businesses to use
>>> it. However, I honestly believe virtualization is on of the greatest things
>>> I have seen develop over the last 10 years and I am exited to see where the
>>> next ten will lead us.
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of JD
>>> Austin
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:11 PM
>> --
>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>
>
>
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Linux Systems Architect and Administrator
http://www.bensbrowning.com/
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