[dba-Tech] Ram Usage

Mark Breen marklbreen at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 10:10:58 CDT 2011


Hi Gustav,

A few things to report since Friday night.

I downloaded and installed vSphere on to bare metal.  Whole process took not
more than 15 mins.
I used a program named UnBootin to create a bootable USB Stick from the ISO
image so I do not have to mess around with old fashioned CDs.  UnBootin
works really great.
I have registered and requested an licence key from VMware and have recieved
it, but I have not entered it yet, because for some reason, I only requested
1 and I am anxious not to waste it in case I struggle to get another.
 Having said that, I can apply with a different email and I suppose they
will just give me another few.

You can read all about the free vShpere
here<http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html>

When I enter the key, and if it works, I will let you know.

Once I did the 15 mins to get the image, make a bootable USB from the ISO
and then boot the machine, I installed it all on a little AMD Phenon II quad
core machine I happpen to have here.  The dos type screen just has a few
settings to set your network values.  It can do nothing else.  The next step
is to download and install the Vmware client tools which are amazing.

Once I did that I kicked off three VM's (Ubuntu, XP and Win7), told VMWare
to allocate 4 GB each, and powered them up (My little AMD box only has 4 gb
in total) but VMware can dynamically allocate the RAM - really cool stuff.

I have some more playing to do with it, but for now, I am shocked at how
good it is and would never again consider playing with Virtual PC or Win2k8
and its HyperV.

BTW, I am trying to learn a little about Linux as well at the moment, Natty
Narwhal !

Mark





On 16 September 2011 23:07, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Mark
>
> OK, but that is trialware only, right?
>
> /gustav
>
> >>> marklbreen at gmail.com 16-09-2011 23:52 >>>
> Hello Gustav,
>
> Sorry for the delay, I have been struggling with Win 7 and restore points
> for 48 hours. Sometimes I hate Microsoft.
>
> The link for free vShpere is
> https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/index.php?p=free-esxi5&lp=default
>
> I like the idea of installing it in the usb and booting from that.  No
> messing with CDs of disks.
>
> I have not installed it yet, but hope to do so soon
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 16 September 2011 08:49, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
>
> > Hi Stuart
> >
> > That's my impression too. Mark, where did you locate the free VMware
> > vSPhere?
> >
> > Bare bones VMs (ESXi) _are_ restricted to running on certified
> components.
> > A compatibility list can be found at the VMware site. For that same
> reason
> > we refrained from using the ESXi and use Windows 2003/8 64-bit as host
> OS.
> >
> > /gustav
> >
> >
> > >>> stuart at lexacorp.com.pg 15-09-2011 20:01 >>>
> > A couple of points.
> > AFAIK, vSPhere os commercial and doesn't have a free version.
> > Bare bones VMs are usually restricted to running on certified components,
> > you can't normally
> > run them on comsumer workstations.
> >
> > --
> > Stuart
> >
> >
> > On 15 Sep 2011 at 9:16, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> >
> > > I'm growing dizzy with all these alternatives. I currently have
> > > downloaded and installed VMPlayer. Perhaps I ought to have gone with
> > > VM vSphere instead? I do like the concept of a bare-metal-build, that
> > > would seem the obvious way to go: VM is the bottom layer, atop which
> > > resides all my other installations. But first I think I'll need to
> > > beef up my RAM. I am suffering the limits of a mere 3GB of RAM at the
> > > moment. I really need to kick that up.
> > >
> > > A.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Mark
> > > >
> > > > What is "VMWare vSphere free version"?
> > > > We use the free VMware Server extensively, it even runs the two DCs.
> > > >
> > > > At workstations with Win7, we use the free XP Mode for running old
> > > > apps. It works very well too.
> > > >
> > > > /gustav
>
>
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