Ok to start im sorta new to esx products but im very familiar with vmware server. What i would like to do is install esxi on one of the 4 physical machines that i have, preferrably my dl360 g3. If anyone could help me with this and let me know if its possible since ive looked around online and have found where some people have mentioned that they have done this and some say that it wouldnt work?
My hardware is listed below
1. DL380 2x xeon 2.8g / 2g memory / iLO
2. DL380 1x xeon 2.4g / 1g memory / iLO
3. DL360 2x xeon 2.8g / 4g memory / iLO
4. Custom - 1x xeon dual core 2.4g with virtualization tech / 4g memory / P5M2-E motherboard with sata raid and a addonics sata card / dual gigabit nics. (not really looking to use this since it has all of my storage on it, about 2TB in Raid 5, ive been told i cant give access to a physical partition)
Like i said i would prefer it to be on server #3 or even #4 as long as i can have a vm with dual nics bound to seperate physical nics on the host. I'm looking to do this pretty soon if possible. As far as my overall setup right now i have a 2003 - DC/GC/DNS/DHCP/Anti-virus/Backup server/print server, another 2003- DC/GC/DNS/RRAS/WSUS/file server/Exchange 2003 server (this server will be gone shortly as im upgrading to exchange 2007 and moving up to 2003x64 member server) i also have a 2003 - Webserver/WSS/RRAS (in place to replace the other with exchange)/VMware Server/ server, and also a 2003 - mssql/mysql/ip pbx/.
I'm looking to move some of those other roles onto seperate machines and since im taking down the 2003 exchange box i dont want wsus and the other stuff on it so i want to bring a few other vm's up for those services.
Just in case someone asks, all of these machines have gigabit networking and i have a gigabit dell switch.
My hardware is listed below
1. DL380 2x xeon 2.8g / 2g memory / iLO
2. DL380 1x xeon 2.4g / 1g memory / iLO
3. DL360 2x xeon 2.8g / 4g memory / iLO
4. Custom - 1x xeon dual core 2.4g with virtualization tech / 4g memory / P5M2-E motherboard with sata raid and a addonics sata card / dual gigabit nics. (not really looking to use this since it has all of my storage on it, about 2TB in Raid 5, ive been told i cant give access to a physical partition)
Like i said i would prefer it to be on server #3 or even #4 as long as i can have a vm with dual nics bound to seperate physical nics on the host. I'm looking to do this pretty soon if possible. As far as my overall setup right now i have a 2003 - DC/GC/DNS/DHCP/Anti-virus/Backup server/print server, another 2003- DC/GC/DNS/RRAS/WSUS/file server/Exchange 2003 server (this server will be gone shortly as im upgrading to exchange 2007 and moving up to 2003x64 member server) i also have a 2003 - Webserver/WSS/RRAS (in place to replace the other with exchange)/VMware Server/ server, and also a 2003 - mssql/mysql/ip pbx/.
I'm looking to move some of those other roles onto seperate machines and since im taking down the 2003 exchange box i dont want wsus and the other stuff on it so i want to bring a few other vm's up for those services.
Just in case someone asks, all of these machines have gigabit networking and i have a gigabit dell switch.