Yesterday, VMWare announced one of their products, VMWare ESXi, will be provide for free later next week.
Very interesting for whom want test, learn and work on a bare-metal virtualization software, hypervisor, for free.
This is a little bit different than VMWare Server, but also make a more robust and perfomant system. The main difference is about host OS, VMWare Server need one whereas VMWare ESXi don't need it - it's bootable -, however it required a dedicated machine.
A test should come soon here.
Enjoy,
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Where is the link to the announcement? Looks like it costs over $1000 USD right now...are you sure they're going to give it away? Seems like an odd move that would piss off the guys that pay $1000 for it today. Remember the issues Apple had when lowering the prices on iPhones?!
Looks like VMWare is working on a reimbursment plan for those who purchased in July: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/VMwares-ESXi-Hypervisor-for-Free/
Coming from a French IT newspaper, Le Monde Informatique :
http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-vmware-propose-gratuitement-une-nouvelle-version-de-son-hyperviseur-esxi-26616.html
But the link given previously is well.
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