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Comment on To ESXi or not to ESXi? That’s the question… by Advancing The Foundation For Cloud Computing | vKnowledge.NL

Advancing The Foundation For Cloud Computing | vKnowledge.NL — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:22:08 +0000

[...] eventually will need to upgrade to ESXi. Not a bad thing as I already explained in an earlier post here. For more information on how to migrate to ESXi, look at this whitepaper written by [...]

Comment on vCloud Express: Easy, pay-as-you-go IaaS by If it’s for real, vCloud Express is VMware acknowledging the Internet – These Things Matter To Me

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:52:16 +0000

[...] plain English: Today VMware outlined a service where you can pay a 3rd party host your VMware guests. They also released an API that would make it [...]

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What’s the deal with Cloud Computing? | vKnowledge.NL — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:46:23 +0000

[...] as such). It’ll be a paradigm shift in the world of IT as we know it. But as I explained in an earlier post: we still have a long way to go before it’ll be mainstream. Cloud Computing is the come together [...]

Comment on To ESXi or not to ESXi? That’s the question… by martijn

martijn — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:07:58 +0000

Mike DiPetrello docummented a lot about booting ESXi with PXE and automate the installation (http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/2008/11/howto-pxe-boot-esxi.html). Still in a large corporate environment it wouldn’t be my recommended choice.

Also have been thinking about using something like Veeam Configurator. But also a lot of hassle to get that to work.

In my opinion VMware should provide some kind of deployment tool in vCenter for ESXi (and ESX) to auto-configure and add the server to the vSphere.

Comment on To ESXi or not to ESXi? That’s the question… by MartijnL

MartijnL — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:00:41 +0000

I have been asking myself the same question and regarding the centralized deployment I was wondering if ESXi embedded + configuring via Powershell scripts would give enough of a speed increase in deployment for ESXi vs. wide scale ESX deployment via EDA or similar tools to make it an alternative for larger deployments?