[itdiscuss] New VMware Package: Three ESXServers&VirtualCenterfor $3K

Mon Oct 29 09:49:30 EDT 2007

While VMotion is a great feature, if I had a choice between ESX w/out
VMotion and Server, I would choose ESX every time.  It's worth the
money!  

ESX provides a custom OS built specifically for VMware.  I would far
prefer that over an OS running VMware on top for reasons of Performance
and Robustness.

-- 
John Dolan 
Principal Consultant 
Viant Solutions 
mailto:JohnD at viantsolutions.com 
Office:  678.889.6089 x101 

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of blloyd at buskercom.com
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 6:49 AM
To: discuss at itdiscuss.org
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] New VMware Package: Three
ESXServers&VirtualCenterfor $3K

I'm with Jason.  If you don't have VMotion, then why buy the SMB
package?  Just use VMWare server.  If you don't want to use the Windows
version, then use the Linux version.  Without VMotion ESX doesn't have a
lot of appeal.

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Jason Powell
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 12:47 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] New VMware Package: Three ESX
Servers&VirtualCenterfor $3K

No vmotion = no sale for us J

The new SMB packages don't include vmotion unless you pick the $15k
option L

Jason Powell
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Granger Community Church
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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Dan Barber
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 12:25 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] New VMware Package: Three ESX
Servers&VirtualCenter for $3K

The word I have from VMware is that they don't know about discounts at
this point. There are not non-profit discounts; only academic at this
time. However, there may not be any on this package since it is already
totally discounted (from basically $15k down to $3k).

Here is the link, as requested. 
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/smb/whats_new.html

You will note that the packages and prices are listed as MSRP, so
through a VAR they will probably be less, though how much is unknown at
this time. Availability is slated for November, according to my
conversations with VMware directly. So for the entry level, support is
max of $750/year, which is awesome.

Again, for most of us, 3 hosts is probably enough to run your whole
virtualized infrastructure. We don't virtualize our storage and our back
system, but we do everything else. So we have a total of 5 physical
servers right now, but 20+ servers overall. Again, my caveat; still in
development. We are going live at the end of November.

So really, if you wanted to, you could buy SANmelody fairly
inexpensively and a couple of hosts, and redo your whole infrastructure
for what a typical SAN costs, for us small shops out there.

Also, I used VMware Converter to move our my VMs I had previously on
VMware Server. It worked fantastically. One trick in doing so is to
resize the drives to the minimum (the amount of data currently stored on
the drive) before you move it, and then expand the drives using
vmkfstools -x and diskpart.exe (in windows) and you will save a lot of
time moving serves with very large drives.

So, anyway, that's a small plug for VMware. I would recommend you
contact VMware for a trial if you are interested. If you have never
setup VMware ESX 3 before, it can be difficult, but once it is going, it
is rock solid. Feel free to contact me directly with any questions...I
have been using VMware since 2002.

DAN BARBER

Network Administrator

Kirk of the Hills, PCA

dbarber at kirkofthehills.org

314.484.6939

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Jason Powell
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:57 AM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] New VMware Package: Three ESX Servers
&VirtualCenter for $3K

Steve,

Are there any non-profit/charity discounts available on VMware products?

Jason Powell
IT Director
Granger Community Church
630 E. University Drive
Granger, IN 46530
574.243.3506, x305 * jpowell at gccwired.com * GCCwired.com
http://jpowell.blogs.com <http://jpowell.blogs.com/>  - yup, I've got a
blog 

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:25 AM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] New VMware Package: Three ESX Servers &
VirtualCenter for $3K

Hey everybody,

It's been a long time since I have posted to this group, but I'm curious
of something.  I work for EMC who owns 86% of VMWare as you all may
know.  I'm curious, if I could put this together, if those in the
surrounding Atlanta area would be interested in having a "lunch 'n'
learn" around VMWare and see if there is anyway that my contact within
EMC could help you all with VMWare. 

If you are interested, please let me know and I will try and put this
together.

As well, seeing as a lot of our business is storage and my company is
moving further and further into the SOHO space I would be glad to do
something around that as well.

Let me know.

Thanks, Steve

On 10/27/07, Jeffrey Thompson <jthompsonic at gmail.com> wrote: 

Does the $3,000 include support?  What is the annual support cost?
Three ESX Servers is a good place to start.  Is the VirtualCenter only
limitation supporting three ESX Servers?  The VirtualCenter is a nice
full featured system for monitoring and managing the datacenter.  I
think I'll also take a closer look at this.  Can  you post a URL for
this?  Thanks and I appreciate if you continue to pass along any new 

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Jeffrey Thompson <mailto:jthompsonic at gmail.com>
POBOX 536, Suwanee, GA, 30024
770-234-8509

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