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Hi Eric,<br>
<br>
Chad will have his own reasons.<br>
<br>
But when I was still at Mettler Toledo they used VMware.<br>
This was probably around 1996<br>
I bought VMware Workstation and used it on my work laptop, while
contracting back to M-T<br>
<br>
In 2003 we bought an academic version 3.2 for the library. Later a free
upgrade to 4.0<br>
<br>
Over the years VMware improved their products and began offering free
versions, such as VMware Player.<br>
Many pre-built virtual machines started to become available.<br>
NIMA is one I mention every so often.<br>
<br>
At some point they offered VMware Server 1 then 2 so it was natural to
upgrade.<br>
Then came the free ESXi so again it seemed an obvious upgrade<br>
(Free is good)<br>
<br>
The product has been very stable, we have used it for many years with
excellent results.<br>
The company has been around for years, has 7,100 employees, stock is
towards 'strong buy'.<br>
<br>
And I don't know anything about the Ubuntu Version. Didn't even know it
was available<br>
<br>
Oh yes, I think Chad learned about VMware from me, way back when. :)<br>
<br>
Bob<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">R. W. (Bob) Neeper Cell: (740)-407-3572
Community Library
44 Burrer Dr.
Sunbury, Oh 43074
Tel: (740)-965-3901</pre>
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Eric Maynard wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTim9Tk66ttJVLBzW0mJQ4snp6SJR3p5ls9NsGrxa@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Bob/Chad,
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<div>I'm probably not as knowledgeable on this as I could(should) be,
so please forgive if I am asking the obvious to someone who is, but I
was curious why you chose VMWare over say something like Ubunutu
Server's visualization capability?</div>
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Eric Maynard<br>
Head of Information Technology,<br>
Holmes County District Public Library<br>
Millersburg, OH 44654<br>
Email [<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:emaynard@holmeslib.org">emaynard@holmeslib.org</a>]<br>
Phone [330.674.5972 x.224]<br>
Fax [330.674.1938] <br>
<br>
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently"<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Bob Neeper <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:neeperro@oplin.org">neeperro@oplin.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">REF:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/"
target="_blank">http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/</a><br>
<br>
System was a beefed up Windows 64bit server running VMware to manage 7<br>
to 9 virtual servers.<br>
As part of an upgrade, Windows was to be replaced by ESXi (free version)<br>
<br>
Last weekend Chad (Level 9 Networks) began the server upgrade.<br>
Short version:<br>
Backed up everything<br>
Broke the existing raid into 2 pairs of mirrored drives<br>
Added a 2TB drive (1 more still to add)<br>
Reformatted main drives, installed ESXi<br>
Restored the virtual servers<br>
<br>
System performance has noticeably improved !!<br>
Some examples:<br>
Backup to tape shaved 30 minutes of the circulation server backup<br>
openSUSE Education (children's dept.) thin clients response greatly<br>
improved<br>
External response from our websites and PAC greatly improved. Internal<br>
too, of course.<br>
vSphere client to manage the virtual machines has some nicer features<br>
<br>
Probably the main reason for improvement was removing the Windows
overhead.<br>
ESXi is dedicated to run virtual machines, Windows is not.<br>
Changing the raid may have contributed also<br>
<br>
There are just a few items left to complete in this phase before we<br>
continue to the next.<br>
<br>
--<br>
R. W. (Bob) Neeper Cell: (740)-407-3572<br>
Community Library<br>
44 Burrer Dr.<br>
Sunbury, Oh 43074<br>
Tel: (740)-965-3901<br>
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