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To be honest, it depends on your investment level, &nbsp;for ESX to be really useful IE, HA (high availability) DRS (Dynamic Resourse Utilistation) you will need a SAN infrastructure (FC, NAS, or iSCSI)<br />
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however the total costs can still be justified in decreased downtime caused by hardware issues, if a ESX host fails the Hosted guests will start on another server in the ESX Cluster (HA) &nbsp;if a ESX host starts to get over utilisied DRS will automatically move the running machine to a less utilised Host server.<br />
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sagiEDoc has already mentioned the improved utilisation of underlying hardware. &nbsp;and a reduction in power costs by reducing the physical machine footprint, this also has the benefit of reducing racking requirements and ACU costs.<br />
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pricing is licensed per 2 CPU (note that this is physical CPU not Cores, therefore a Dual Quad Core Machine costs the same from a VMware point of veiw as a dual pentium pro. machine) &nbsp;
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To be honest, it depends on your investment level,  for ESX to be really useful IE, HA (high availability) DRS (Dynamic Resourse Utilistation) you will need a SAN infrastructure (FC, NAS, or iSCSI)

however the total costs can still be justified in decreased downtime caused by hardware issues, if a ESX host fails the Hosted guests will start on another server in the ESX Cluster (HA)  if a ESX host starts to get over utilisied DRS will automatically move the running machine to a less utilised Host server.

sagiEDoc has already mentioned the improved utilisation of underlying hardware.  and a reduction in power costs by reducing the physical machine footprint, this also has the benefit of reducing racking requirements and ACU costs.

pricing is licensed per 2 CPU (note that this is physical CPU not Cores, therefore a Dual Quad Core Machine costs the same from a VMware point of veiw as a dual pentium pro. machine)  

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hi<br />
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I need to know what are the advantages of having VMware esx server over a normal server. and dis advantages of having a normal server. <br />
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i need a report to be made for my manager. if someone can help me that world be great.<br />
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kiran<br />
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hi

I need to know what are the advantages of having VMware esx server over a normal server. and dis advantages of having a normal server. 

i need a report to be made for my manager. if someone can help me that world be great.

kiran
 


Advantages of having an esx server

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Windows Server 2003

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