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On 07.07.2010, at 23:24, Henrik Hudson wrote:
> One caveat is that ESX / ESXi are very picky about their hardware
> and pretty much won't run on anything but server class devices
> (mobo, NICs and CPU are the big ones).

Yes, I'm aware of that. We have entry level, but ESXi compatible, HP and =
IBM servers.

> VMware still has their VMware
> Server (software) solution, but it's slowly being phased out. Also,
> it's against the EULA to use ESXi for commercial / reseller
> purposes and ESX isn't cheap.

Oh, wasn't aware about the ESXi EULA... will check, thank you.

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