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I just got done over Christmas transitioning all but one of my servers(a DC) to ESX and Backup Exec. I have a primary and backup node and can share information on this if anyone is interested. The licensing costs reduction alone is extremely appealing as well as the heat and physical server replacement costs. VmWare is definitely amazing. I'm running 7 servers and barely touching processing, ram, and disk space available. Feel free to ask me anything about my setup. -----Original Message----- From: Ryan M. Finn [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 11:53 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] VMware We (Residential and Hospitality Services, Information Services) use VMware pretty heavily. We'd be more than happy to share our experiences. Also, in line with what was mentioned about Windows Server Enterprise licensing, Windows Server Datacenter licenses (which are per processor) are under $300 from CStore and allow unlimited Windows Server Guest OS installs. Ryan M. Finn Systems Administrator Residential and Hospitality Services Michigan State University -----Original Message----- From: Oscar Castaneda [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 11:17 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MSUNAG] VMware In an effort to simplify some complicated scenarios, we want to start to use VMware. It goes a little like a blind exercise because we have only some basic understanding of how it works: we created a few virtual machines using VM Player, and I had been reading all I can find about it. I am considering now moving things one notch up. Since most of the VMware products are still apparently high priced, I thought that I would like to start using VMware Workstation to manage my few existent virtual machines and see what I can do with it so perhaps down the road I can sell the idea to my management. Who has experience with VMware software? Does it make sense to get Workstation and start using it? Did you buy the big software pieces? any words of wise advise? oscar -- Oscar Castaņeda Global Observatory for Ecosystem Services Michigan State University