[Info-vax] Proliant DL380 Gen10 s for sale

[Andy Burns]

Grant Taylor wrote:

> My experience is that said manageability features really only come into play 
> when you are managing across multiple physical (ESXi) hosts.
> 
> Meaning if you have a single physical (ESXi) host, chances are quite good that 
> you won't miss anything.

I agree viciously, but you won't get the benefit of being able to live migrate 
guests between hosts, to allow e.g. host updates without downtime, or load 
balancing.

> That being said, as soon as you want to do things across multiple physical 
> (ESXi) hosts, you will quickly appreciate what vSphere / vCenter can provide.
> 
> I'll throw out there that VMware has some small business licensing that has been 
> compelling for some people I know.  E.g. vSphere / vCenter to manage three 
> physical (ESXi) hosts.

I forget what the 'starter' licencing options are, nowadays you could probably 
get a good bang for buck starting with just a couple of high core-count servers, 
but a decade or more ago, cores per socket was low, so you needed more servers 
and soon got into enterprise prices.