[ngw] ESXI 3.5 vs ESXi 4.0 (multi posted)

[Peter Van Lone]

you simply need 3.5 update ... 4 or 5 ... I think.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Tommy Mikkelsen <tm at itq.dk> wrote:

>  I run 64bit VM's on ESXI 3.5 ?
>
> /Tommy
>
>
> >>> On 23. april 2010 at 23:42, Danita Zanre <dzanre.ngwlist at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>   I of course can use whatever I want because I'm not a big company, so I
> use ESXi 3.5 on a my 32 bit server, and it works very well. On my 64bit
> server, I'm worried that ESXi 4.0 will not work, but I need 64 bit VMs
> (thanks Novell <heehee>), so I'm running Server 2.0 on that for the 64 bit
> VMs. So, my take is that unless you need to actually have 64 bit VMs for
> something, 3.5 has been perfectly fine for my needs, which aren't as great
> as many large companies, but greater than most of my small company clients.
>
> Danita
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Joe Acquisto <joe.acquisto at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Certainly there is enough experience and options on these lists to
>> comment.
>>
>> Wondering if the "real world" performance difference, if any, between
>> ESXi 3.5 (32 bit) and 4.0 (64 bit) is worth having to go hunt up an
>> "approved" 64 bit machine?
>>
>> Guest performance, of primary interest.
>>
>> I have several older servers that accept (and seem to run) 3.5, but,
>> sigh, none that accept an install of 4.0.
>>
>> joea
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