Posts by Ramesh Dharan

Jerry Yang - Slugworth to Google's Willy Wonka

Yahoo! does run a shuttle service

I don't work there, so I have no idea how extensive it is, but Yahoo! does run a shuttle service, at least from San Francisco to Sunnyvale.

VMware slashes ESXi price to zero

Re: "Free" almost meaningless: priced increased in rest of solution

[Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at VMware, but opinions I express are my own and not necessarily those of my employer etc. etc.]

> It has to be emphasized that it is only the "3i"

> embedded version that has been made free

> and that version requires both the expensive

> Virtual Infrastructure and VirtualCenter software to work

This is simply not true. There are no such "requirements" for 3i, or 3.5. Out of the box, 3i ships with a simple web interface and the dedicated VI Client. If you want the advanced multi-host management features (VMotion, DRS, HA), then yeah, you have to buy VirtualCenter. This holds true whether you're talking about 3i or 3.5.

The major difference between 3.5 and 3i is the removal of the service console. It's not *crippled* in any way.