Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Sep 2007 14:17 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft is stepping up the pressure on virtualization leader VMware on the management tools front, releasing its System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 product to manufacturing. The software maker also plans to support some third-party virtualization software, including VMware and open-source Xen, in the next version of the product.
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2005-07-10
ESX and Lean are not the two words I would use together.
Source: http://www.vmweekly.com/news/20070618/2/
Cutting ESX down to fit into firmware is not an insignificant task, a source said. As it stands, a default installation of ESX 3.0.1, VMware's shipping product, consumes about 8 GB of space on a system, across several file systems. But VMware's plans call for ESX Lite to consume orders of magnitude less space – as little as a of couple of megabytes, one source said.
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Now compare this to upcoming windows server 2008 with built in hypervisor - the server core with no GUI tools would take approximately 2 GB space.