On 10/26/07, Matt Rowley  wrote:

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> > Some but not all. If you buy a Dell 2950 quad and load it up with 8

> > Gig. You can spend 0 on an ESX 3i license and run  10 - 15 512 MB

> > OpenBSD single processor VMs.  The difference here is that you can

> > max out the duty cycle on the box where as a single OS running on the

> > same Iron won't do that.  For ESX it's designed for you to max out

> > the hardware

>

> I think you're off on price by almost an order of magnitude (ESX runs

> about k per CPU socket, iirc).

> I don't disagree with your point, though; virtualizing under-utilized

> hardware can save you money and electricity.

>

> --Matt

03, 2007   |   2

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The upcoming major update in VMware Infrastructure 3.x, called 3.5, and new ESX

Server 3iwill

be available to general public in December 2007,

virtualization.info has learned. An official announcement is expected next

week.
virtualization already broke the

newsabout

new features and enhancements that will appear in VI

3.5, including ESX Server 3i integration into servers from popular OEMs like

Dell, IBM, HP. But the biggest news emerges only now: *VMware will also sell

ESX Server 3i as stand-alone product, with support for SATA storage devices,

at less than $500*.