<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Larry, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I see by the message thread you have been able to enter your evaluation code & get the <span id="misspell-0" class="">ESX</span>/<span id="misspell-1" class="">ESXi</span> instance to run in perpetuity. <br></div><div><br></div><div>As a VMware Technical Support Engineer, I take calls from many customers who run into issues just because they did not read the documentation, in particular, the best practices. I can assure you & the entire audience here that doing so is well worth your time. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The VMware Server 2 product (which has versions that install upon Linux & Windows) is still free & available. It is decent for evaluation & testing. If you have a production environment, I highly recommend the vSphere ESX/ESXi product
line. The ' i ' version is the direction of development & version 5 has just been released. <br></div><div><br></div><div>On consulting ... as someone who did IT consulting for 10+ years, I highly recommend _not_ going with the lowest bidder. That old adage applies -- you get what you pay for. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark G. Harvey</div><div>Technical Support Engineer</div><div>Global Support Services - Federal</div><div>VMware, Inc. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Just made publicly available ... <br><br>This is the Free <span id="misspell-2" class="">Hypervisor</span> of version 5.0 -- note: there are 200+ improvements / changes as compared to the previous version. <br><a href="http://www.vmware.com/go/get-free-esxi" target="_blank">http://www.vmware.com/go/get-free-esxi</a><br><br><span id="misspell-3" class="">VMware</span><span id="misspell-4" class="">vSphere</span>
Documentation<br><a href="https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html" target="_blank">https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html</a><br><br><span id="misspell-5" class="">VMware</span><span id="misspell-6" class="">vSphere</span> 5 Documentation<br><a href="http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp" target="_blank">http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp</a><br><br>Technical Publications Video Library<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/VMwareTechPubs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/VMwareTechPubs</a><br><span></span></div> <div><br><span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Larry Sawyer <lsawyer@scsdenver.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> '<span id="misspell-7" class="">CLUE's</span> mailing list' <clue@cluedenver.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 25, 2011 3:55 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [clue] Looking for Someone to help me setup a Linux server with <span id="misspell-8" class="">VM's</span><br></font><br><div id="yiv147668057"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="yiv147668057WordSection1"><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Hello to all,</span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Here is a possible 2 day project post for any experienced Linux <span id="misspell-9" class="">VM</span> users out there.</span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Here’s the situation:</span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Upon a friends recommendation, I recently installed <span id="misspell-10" class="">VMWare</span> (<span id="misspell-11" class="">OpenSource</span>) on a production server at a fairly large training facility here in Denver. It was explained to me that <span id="misspell-12" class="">VMWare</span>’s <span id="misspell-13" class="">OpenSource</span> version was free. Now I’m receiving an error that states my Evaluation License is About to Expire. <span id="misspell-14" class="">VM</span>’s will cease to work after 38 days. Does anyone know if there is a “Free” <span id="misspell-15" class="">OpenSource</span> <span id="misspell-16" class="">VMWare</span> program out there (Pirated <span id="misspell-17" class="">Doesn</span>’t Count), or a fix for this? </span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">If a fix is not found, then I’ll need assistance setting up a Linux <span id="misspell-18" class="">VM</span> server (Don’t care much about which <span id="misspell-19" class="">distro</span>) from the ground up. The alternative is, I’ll have to go with what I know and install MS Server 2008 <span id="misspell-20" class="">Hypervisor</span>. You guys don’t want that to happen, right? </span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Since this is one of my favorite clients, an experienced individual is required. They’ll
need to walk me through setting up the server and the <span id="misspell-21" class="">VM</span>’s until completion. This is time sensitive (about 1 week), and the job goes to the lowest bidder with the most experience that can get it done (<span id="misspell-22" class="">onsite</span>) within an acceptable time frame. Anyone interested, give me a call. </span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Best regards,</span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Larry Sawyer</span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">IT Consultant</span></i></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"><span id="misspell-23" class="">SCSDenver</span>.com <span id="misspell-24" class="">LLC</span></span></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">cell: (720) 338-6516</span></i></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:LSawyer@SCSDenver.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:LSawyer@SCSDenver.com">LSawyer@SCSDenver.com</a></span></i></div><div class="yiv147668057MsoNormal"><i><span
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