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A Few VMWare Questions

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I am considering using VMWare for a small server I will be installing for a company. They need to run SQL server for a legacy app for a couple users to access at a time and I would like to create a Windows 2000 server virtual machine for that. The "main" server OS will be Windows server 2003R2.

I would also like to put a couple windows XP virtual machines on it for users to remote into from other offices etc.

I have used VMWare server before and get the whole concept behind that. I was considering using ESXi as I like the idea behind it but have a few questions:

1)How does UPS shutdown software work? I believe you can map USB ports at least in VMWare server, can you do something similar in ESXi? Basically, so the server will be triggered to shutdown if the UPS battery is getting low.

2)With ESXi, don't you lose a lot of functionality for hardware management? For example, Dell requires Openmanage for some of their functions such as resizing a RAID array etc. (can't do it through the bios at least not with my 2950) How do you deal with that?

So, would I be better off installing Server 2003 R2 as the host OS and then use VMWare server or should I use ESXi and virtualize all of the operating systems?

Thanks.
 
1) You cannot give USB ports from the host machine to a VM in ESXi. I would sugggest using Workstation over Server, as it is a more robust platform, and you get support

2) ESXi would not be a good fit if you require hardware level access through s common API. ESXi will abstract the hardware layer from the VM, except in certain circumstances, such as vWWNs thourgh NPiV. You should use server or workstation, and I would gain suggest workstation

3) You've answered your own question: server if you think you cna handle it all, workstation if you want support without having to pay for it.
 
So what do most people do for UPS comm with ESXi? Are you then required to use a UPS that can communicate over the network to initiate a shutdown?
 
rosco said:
So what do most people do for UPS comm with ESXi? Are you then required to use a UPS that can communicate over the network to initiate a shutdown?
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A generator.

Or, a system that can communicate with the UPS combined with a bunch of manually written scripts and ESX Classic with autostart turned on and tweaked a bit.
 
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