Take the tour ×  At this moment, my server is a plain 64-bit
amd, running windows 2003. I wanted to run another virtualized
OS on top of it using virtualbox.  Then I saw that vmware ESXi
is free! I always ignored that because I thought it would be
extremely expensive.  So, now in my mind I have this vision of
the "as-fast-as-native" virtualization  Since I have to migrate
to new hardware next week, do you think that reinstalling
Windows 2003 on ESXi server would be a good idea?  What is
better?    1. Windows 2003 => vmware server => my other guest OS
2. ESXi server => windows 2003 + other guest OS share|improve
this question also, a reason to why go with ESXi server is,
that, i was thinking, what if something of the network settings
of windows 2003 will go wrong, or the machine will be
unbootable? Since i don't have physical access to the server, i
would have to call and rent a KVM over ip for $$$ (and wait a
lot of days for them install it). Maybe ESXi server would be
more "safe" –  Magnetic_dud Jun 30 '09