Musings of a sys admin
Vmware plans
So i laid in bed last night thinking about how to visualize Esx and came up with a rough idea of what i might try. First the spare serves i have will get windows xp Mo it. After that i will install Vmware server Mo it and try sticking Esx on that also with openfiler for Iscsi access. Hopefully that will give of something to work with and them i can stick virtual center on a laptop or similar. If that gets of anywhere then ilk do a big blog on it.
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