OK, some of my previous posts mentioned we were installing VMware for DR purposes, as well as the usual benefits of virtualization. After working with VirtualCenter and ESX servers for a few months, I have reached a conclusion.
If you like Microsoft because it just works and you don’t have to get into every single detail, you will NOT like VMware. If you like to dig into every setting and maybe sometimes reinvent the wheel, and are a little familiar with Linux, you will like VMware.
Disclaimer: my exchange server is currently down because it apparently, sometime, on another ESX server had snapshots turned on. They are not currently on, but the link and old files are still there and are required to boot the server (but it won’t boot because there is no disk space left). So VMware has apparently kept this setting, and I have a mess of files I can try and go through to look for settings and try to pull an answer out of……. At this point I wish this was an MS virtual server. Every setting is stored in one file (in plain text!), all of the data is stored in a single VHD. Nothing complicated!
