Running ESXi within AWS via Ravello Systems
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hi this is Keith Towser from virtualized geek.com with a walk through a Rebello's new solution in which they offer nested ESX I within Amazon and Google compute if you remember a few months ago maybe almost a year ago I did a review of ravello in general which allows you to upload your vm day vmdk files from either your lab or production network within their system and then they offer another level of abstraction and run those VMS within at the time AWS go cuckoo cute and HP's
cloud they've since dropped HP's cloud and has and i'm assuming focused mainly on AWS and Google compute but they've added a new wrinkle to kind of their solution which is a really cool feature they'll allow you to run nested esxi now so they're emulating AMD v and intel VT cpu extensions to allow you to run method VMs as you would in like VMware Workstation of esxi itself so i created a pretty basic lab vSphere savvy spear six lab within which i install three ESXi hosts in
a windows vcenter today they only support Windows vcenter and not the least 4-6 dot for V spear six auto windows vcenter or not the vcenter appliance and i'm looking for it to them solving the technical challenges around that solution what's really cool about this is that you can leverage a lot of the labs that like william lamb has done on virtually ghetto and which I you can do you know V San and pretty much almost any lap you can do a vmware workstation or esxi you
can do it with in Ravello so this basic cluster that I created each one of these esxi host has four virtual CPUs 8gig of ram and a hundred gig of storage the windows server has a public IP address a total of 260 get storage because I'm using it for a NFS server for my esxi host as well and this whole setup cost me a dollar fifty an hour is pretty impressive the boot time and performance is roughly acceptable vcenter is a bit of a haul that
found that it takes about 20 minutes for all of the v's center services to start up and i'm able to fully log into the web client but overall I'm very impressed and I'm seriously considering using this as my primary lab versus getting a new VMware Workstation rate i look forward to posting future updates and letting you guys know how my experiment and in moving my lap to Ravello goals thanks
