[ale] VMware ESX Server Alternative

[dragon at atlantacon.org (Drag0n)]

	If your reqirement is not windows XP, and just some applications that
run under XP (wine, win4lin, etc) you can always look at the thinclient
side of the house. PXES ( http://pxes.sourceforge.net ) has a
configuration as a server that can run from a small boot image and use
all the drive space for a user environment. Set up vncserver and the
users can run anything they need from the single box. 

Drag0n
dragon at atlantacon.org


On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 11:43 -0500, Nick Travis wrote:
> I'm looking to implement a VMware ESX server, but I wanted to know if
> anyone had any other suggestions, what I need to do is run about 6-8
> windows desktops(2000 and XP) on one server.  I'm not worried about
> the horsepower on the server.  It's got quad 3ghz processors and 12gb
> of ram.  Each of the virtual machines will have a good amount of
> network traffic, but will have very little interaction with the hard
> drives.  If the test works out it will be rolled out to 10 machines or
> so at which point the licensing become pretty expensive.  Anyone have
> any experience with something like this?
> 
> Nick
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