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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

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Posted 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.
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Posted 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.