This post is more than 5 years old
13 Posts
0
2833
April 29th, 2009 10:00
VMWare ESXi HyperVisor & Physical Server on Same Box?
Hi:
Can we also run a "physical server" when running VMWare's Hypervisor ESX3i, or does it takeover the machine so all servers must be virtual machines?
Thank you,
BaliBob
No Events found!
JOHNADCO
2 Intern
•
847 Posts
1
April 29th, 2009 15:00
The product is not ESX3i, I think it's called VMware server?
It runs on a windows server and should work as you desire.
Dev Mgr
4 Operator
•
9.3K Posts
1
April 30th, 2009 07:00
VMware server does run on top of a regular OS (it's available for Windows and Linux), but it's not as efficient as a hypervisor.
ESX/ESXi is a hypervisor that would prevent you from running an OS on the physical hardware.
The closest things to a combination of the 2 are either Windows 2008 with Hyper-V or Linux with a Xen kernel.