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ESX Server 3i With SATA Support Will Sell For Less Than $500

Friday, 05 October 2007 by Michel Roth

In my humble opinion there's always been a tremendous demand (especially the last few years) to be able to use VMware ESX in conjunction with SATA drives. Until now this was not possible or if it was it took a tremendous amount of fiddling. I also know that VMware has very good reasons not to support SATA on ESX, the main reason being that they did not want to endanger the stability and performance experience that is so important to ESX. Nevertheless VMware failed to supply a market that did not care as much about that (SMBs and smaller) which is a bad thing.

But rejoice: the much hyped VMware ESX 3i will support SATA storage and will go for under $500! Since ESX 3i is very small one could even use an USB stick to run ESX 3i of your bulky SATA empowered Desktop to do ESX every once in while (I'm talking home computing here). I for one would love to try it out.

This information came from an Virtualization.info blog entry VMware Infrastructure 3.5 and ESX Server 3i to be available since December 2007 with new prices and editions. Be sure to check it out.