I have couple of x32 Xeon based servers sitting in my Lab, i'd like them to turn into something more handy and powerful. That's because i started to research about how to combine and bind them in a Virtual machine like a Cloud Computing environment.
VMware offers what i'm looking for but there is some problems with my x32 based CPUs. VMware only supports 32bit servers with ESXi 3.5 without a license, however my servers are not supported that version of ESXi, my servers supported by ESX 3.x.x which are license required, so i had to give up and go with VMware Server 2.0 and it fits well nad i gotta say my RHEL5 OS can compute with ESXi's memory comsumption with a good way.
Then i tried out ESXi 4.0 in a x64 server, actually i created a cluster with 2 servers and put a vCenter one of my Windows XP PCs, it worked as charmed. You can manage your servers one by one via vSphere Client, or as i've done, you install a vCenter and connect it via vSphere Client and manage all the host server from there.
I'll update this post
Typhoon Master
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