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jim44
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Contrast of Esxi with Workstation v6.5

I am trying to understand the difference of Esxi and Wks v6.5, is Esxi an O/S or does it run on an O/S?

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jbruelasdgo
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ESX is a bare-metal hypervisor, that means it does not have Windows or Linux below

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Jose

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Workstation 6.5 needs the Windows Operating System to run. It gets it's device drivers from Windows.

ESXi is a hypervisor and does not need an operating system to get it's drivers from. It has its own and communicates directly with the bare metal devices install on the motherboard.

The difference is better performance from ESXi.

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Then is Esx an O/S? such that there is no Windows or Linux installed as a base for Esx to run on?

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jbruelasdgo
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ESX is a bare-metal hypervisor, that means it does not have Windows or Linux below

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Jose

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There is no base Windows or Linux installed for ESXi to run on. ESXi is referred to as a Hypervisor rather than an generally calling it an OS simply because a Hypervisor purpose is different than a standard OS, but from the standpoint of being installed directly on the hardware rather than on top of an OS you can think of it as an OS.

ESXi and ESX are designed primarily to run on server class hardware in datacenters and server rooms. They have a specific list (but long list) of hardware that they are supported to run on rather than running on as generic a set of hardware as regular OSes are designed for. They are designed to meet the needs of managing backoffice application server VMs to support an office environment.

Workstation is designed to run on an individual users workstation to manage VMs generally only being used by that one user. It is designed to run on top of the OS and allow other applications to be run on the workstation at the same time.

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Thanks. I have Wks v6.5 on Vista(ugh!!) with vm's of Linux and XP on my laptop. I was thinking of trying Esx on a Workstation to simply learn. Any suggestions?

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jbruelasdgo
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yes, you will need a VT or AMD-V processor to achieve the installation of ESX/ESXi on Workstation

for the procedures check this:

http://knowledge.xtravirt.com/white-papers/esx-3x.html

hope it points you out in the right direction

Jose

Jose B Ruelas http://aservir.wordpress.com
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