Comments on: VMWare Vcenter/ESX 5.5 https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/02/20/vmware-vcenteresx-5-5/ Fun with Virtualization Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/02/20/vmware-vcenteresx-5-5/comment-page-1/#comment-54890 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 02:40:41 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3848#comment-54890 In reply to anon.

I’m a big fan of proxmox/ve, but at the same time openstack includes KVM so there is also that for larger installations.

KVM is the kernel accelerated Qemu on Linux, which is nice. I’ve just inherited a project that is deep in VMWare, and that is why I’m loading it nested. Also they are using a VM to provide storage (wtf?) so I’d want a sandbox before even dreaming of messing with production.

]]> By: anon https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/02/20/vmware-vcenteresx-5-5/comment-page-1/#comment-54884 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:21:53 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3848#comment-54884 What’s worse about the version 10 thing is that (as far as I can tell) VMware doesn’t provide that web interface without vSphere, and they don’t provide that with the “free” ESXi licence.

Might be the start of a switch to Xenserver (although it still needs Windows for its management app) and Proxmox as it seems like VMware is starting to tighten the screws on the freeloaders who just run a server or two for fun and couldn’t possibly afford a commercial licence, even if they wanted one.

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