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    Hypervisor recommendation

    Regarding software mirroring, is it possible to get ESXi to mirror VMDKs on your behalf? Sounds like a reasonable and easily implemented feature to have. The other option would be to manually create two equally sized VMDKs (on different disks) and get the guest OS to mirror instead, but I...
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    Hypervisor recommendation

    Okay. So when I come around to creating the VMDK, what's the best way to transfer my existing data? Assuming I still have it on another disk I mean? The only way I can think of is over the network which will take hours. Is there an local environment in which I can see both the native disk and...
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    Hypervisor recommendation

    Okay. I'm convinced. Thanks for all the help! I'll keep the thread updated on my progress.
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    Hypervisor recommendation

    Thanks for the elaboration. Essentially I'm just a commitment-phobe; getting all that data into a VMDK residing on a VMFS drive is a non-trivial task and I'll probably only want to do it once I know I'll be sticking with VMWare. Of course I can do that at a later date, after I'm more...
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    Hypervisor recommendation

    Perhaps it's worth expanding on the drive requirement a bit more. I won't be swapping it in and out frequently, and certainly not on a "hot swap" basis. The extra disc will be used to host files to share (media etc) as well as backups of other machines, so I just figured that it makes sense...
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    Hypervisor recommendation

    Thanks guys. So my options are: 1) ESXi and try to get RDM working 2) Hyper-V Server and try to get Ubuntu working 3) Win2008 + Hyper-V, use the native host as my Win7 box (and so remove the need for any RDM) and still try to get Ubuntu working. Thanks for all the help. I'd welcome more...
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    Hypervisor recommendation

    Thanks sybreeder. Does ESXi allow me to allow a single VM direct access to a harddisk?
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    Hypervisor recommendation

    Thanks - I kind of suspected that and will be upgrading! Any advice on the other questions?
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    Hypervisor recommendation

    Hi all, I just bought a HP Microserver, which I understand many are using to play around with virtualisation. For those who don't know it's based on a 1.3Ghz dual-core Athlon II Neo N36L processor. It comes with a 250GB disk and 1GB ram. I will be adding my own second 2.5TB disk. I wish to...
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