Tech: VMware ESX 3.5 vs ESXi 3.5

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Posted by Alessandro Perilli | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | 6 Comments

By now the whole virtualization world should be aware that VMware took the big step of releasing its flagship hypervisor as a free product: ESXi 3.5.

Despite that, maybe not everybody knows that this free platform has some limitations compared to the fully-featured ESX 3.5.
To clarify the things VMware published a new knowledge base article with a valuable comparison matrix.

Please note that this table is only focused on the virtualization host capabilities and doesn’t consider all the features that VirtualCenter can bring in. This avoid any confusion that previous comparison (for example ESXi stand-alone vs ESX+VC) could imply.

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6 Comments

Anonymous Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:35:00 PM

Did you notice, that at the bottom table in this KB article, it says that ESXi has no VCB?
How else could you back it up otherwise (no COS- no agent)??

Anonymous Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:53:00 PM

VCB is actually one of the least popular ways of backing up VMs. Most people use third party software such as ESX Ranger from Vizioncore, or snapshots on the storage system.

Anonymous Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:07:00 PM

VCB is fully functional with ESXi.

esXpress and Vizioncore do not currently work or support ESXi

Anonymous Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:22:00 PM

"VCB is fully functional with ESXi"

Just not the free version of ESX3i.

No Update Manager either.

Yuck.

Anonymous Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:16:00 PM

Update Manager doesn't come with the regular ESX 3.5 either. It's a Virtualcenter feature. It does have Infrastructure Update, a GUI tool for upgrading ESX 3i hosts and that is free.

Anonymous Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:44:00 AM

VCB comes with A licensing package. That is why it will not work with the base free product. 3i is like HyperV. You can get the virtualization free but to get any cool features you buy the licensable packages along with Vcenter.

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