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  I'm just about to start evaluating some software myself, the 3 main ones I've heard of are Veeam, PHD Vir... : Haxim
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    Vmware Essentials is quite reasonable. something like 500US. That gives you the basic features of VCentre... : millakazuya
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      I'll have to look into it, we've got 5 blades running free ESXi and one running ESX and managing them all... : Haxim
      • Essentials Kit is about $500 US and Essentials Kit Plus is about $3000 US. The Essentials Kit Plus con... : millakazuya
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    PHD Virtual Backup is what I was talking about I believe (Esxpress) : millakazuya
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      From website : 'VMware ESXi PHD Virtual continues to extend our product family to meet the expanding n... : millakazuya
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        A few people I've talked to swear by vRanger (I'm looking at this or possibly vReplicator for offsite HA ... : Haxim
        • Just looking at their site. Some cool tools! : millakazuya
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          I'm trying to convert VM's from VMware Server 2 to ESXi. I'm getting alot of failures. : millakazuya
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            How are you converting them? I've seen some reccomendations that it's just easiest to install VMware conv... : Haxim
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              I've tried it, it sometimes works but sometimes have random errors. Also, most are linux and I don't ... : millakazuya
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                Have you tried just copying the *.VMX and *.VMDK files to the ESXi host, and then right clicking on the V... : oD1Nz
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                  Interesting, are they compatible. I guess I haven't tried this, although its difficult to have ESXi acces... : millakazuya
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                    You mean aside from just using the datastore browser to upload? I take it if you've got some linux gue... : oD1Nz
                    • Gonna have a play now. : millakazuya
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                      FFS, I forgot about the upload to Datastore option, i thought it was locked in Vsphere mode (only open in... : millakazuya
                      • Been trying to set up NFS Unix servers on out VM server 2 windows server, wasted some time :) : millakazuya
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  Some questions I've had about this kind of stuff. First, why put everything in VMs? Doesn't it increas... : Robotic Puppy Eater
  • For us it boils down to a few things There really isn't much overhead using a hypervisor like ESX (run... : Haxim
  • Well there are many benefits. I went to a Vm conference recently and was blown away but the stuff that th... : millakazuya
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    I've probably gone a bit over the question you asked. I was mainyl refering to virtualising everything, b... : millakazuya
    • Meant to say on One of those servers .... : millakazuya
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    They're not always better. It's kind of in a fad mode right now, or at least it seems to be. Our test e... : Halen
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      Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm sure it depends on the exact circumstances, like most things. Was mo... : Robotic Puppy Eater
      • Hypervisors on lower-cost and midrange server hardware is relatively new (compared to some things) and gr... : Halen
  • I'm working on a vsphere buildout. We have a lot of idle horsepower, which translates into hosting bills... : foo
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  I use veeam to backup my two ESXi serveren - Works great, although the Veeam License was more expensive t... : bundy
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    How much is it? : millakazuya
    • List price is $599 per CPU socket I think. : Haxim
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  legato and backup exec both have agents you can install to do backups of your servers. However, I've onl... : beastrabban
  • Agents to install on a Host or a management server? (or just a vm?) : millakazuya