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kkumar
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ESX OR ESXi

Hello,

I would like to know which should be my choice if given to choose between ESX4.0 and ESXi 4.0.

Keeping the cost aside, looking at the Reliability and Managebility which platform should I choose and some basic justifiation.

By the way currently I am using ESX 3.5 and planning to upgrade.

Anybody who can guide me to the right version..?

Regards

KKumar

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ESXi35
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Hi Kumar

I would say there is no much difference between ESX and ESX i interms of reliability and Manageability.

Now that VMWARE along with the OEM partners provide ESX i which is equally good as ESX.

If you look deeply on to the technology, Hypervisor remains the same and the features remains the same.

Only difference is the option to have a official service console which is available in ESX where you can run few commands.

But with ESX i, you still can do most of the commands with RCLI.

Finally, to answer your question, I would say that there is no much difference between ESX and ESX i w,r,t Reliability and Manageability.

You shall do the cost calculation and get the best fit for you !

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AntonVZhbankov
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It doesn't really matter what are you using - ESX or ESXi, both supports full set of functions.

If you're service console fan - install ESX, if you want to run it from flash disk - ESXi.


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AndreTheGiant
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See also:

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dquintana
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Today, i prefer ESX.

A lot of agents - if you need to be creative Smiley Happy - in the future vmware goes to one hypervisor, the name will be ESXi and the ESX goes to disappear.

But today ESXi not complete my requeriments.




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Josh26
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ESX will be phased out at some point, so if you'd like to follow the future the place to look is ESXi.

Realistically, every "flexibility" based reason for requiring ESX is about needing enough rope to hang yourself.

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