{"id":649,"date":"2009-08-31T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2009-08-31T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:37:43","slug":"vmware-esxi-and-vmware-vsphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/vmware-esxi-and-vmware-vsphere\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare ESXi and VMWare vSphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the first glance VMWare ESXi is the right way to go for VM stuffs, but later on once I found out vSphere is actually not free, I got hit, after I reimaged the Vista box and turned it to a dedicated VM box.<\/p>\n

After going through various sources, I decided to stay with ESXi for a while, because:<\/p>\n

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  1. It will be free to me for 60 days (well, another 58 days indeed)<\/li>\n
  2. Xen is not that easy to be setup as I can see, need to learn more<\/li>\n
  3. VMWare Go just announced today and I will take a try later on to see how it works<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So far, running 6 VMs on a dual-core\/3G mem machine is acceptable, I’m going to launch more tests on this box and will remove my VMs on Virtual box soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At the first glance VMWare ESXi is the right way to go for VM stuffs, but later on once I found out vSphere is actually not free, I got hit, after I reimaged the Vista box and turned it to a dedicated VM box. After going through various sources, I decided to stay with ESXi […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,13,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}