Depends on your shop and requirements. I had 200+ PCs and Macs. 6 Physical servers several more virtual, 2 AD domains, used altiris for most of the PC management and imaging and we did it with 2 part time people. In our case it was an education environment and 160 of the machines were lab machines so they were essentially identical.

More fixed Corporate Intranets with old applications that are no longer being updated and no money to replace keep IE6 alive

I understand where your coming from but I figure thats probably less than a quarter of users of these products or doing it to run game. I just run a second windows partition for that so I get the full performance.

I havent tried it since 3. I will be looking at it when I build a new server here in a couple weeks. Thanks

Cool Thanks I will have to look into that on the VM server Im getting ready to build.

Now thats a good trick. I did not know that and yes it appears to work great. Thanks

yes but just because it has server in the name doesnt mean it doesnt work just fine on a desktop machine.

as im sure you know ESXi has very strict hardware requirements and I could be wrong but I believe you still need the VMware infrastructure server for it to work correctly right?

I guess it depends on how you use it. For my purposes it is the entire point of my system. Im usually trying to cram a minimum of 16 VMs on each one and it does just fine for what I need it to do.

I agree and that was my point. IF cost is an issue it should be included. If your just looking for the best product it shouldnt even be mentioned. We use the free VMware server in our patch test environment as its a free and it performs pretty well. I have some complaints about the UI as the guy does above but its functional 95% of the time with limited headache. Production side we use ESX but the costs of that just didnt make sense for a test environment for workstation patches.

If cost is an issue why do these reviews forget the free VMWare Server it does most everything most users would need at no cost vs workstation

Agreed. I would love to migrate our 10,000 machines to IE8 but we have several apps that they have no plans on upgrading to support it. Its now part of our Windows 7 project plan that they have to be updated or tough because we cant go back to 6. Its the only way it will ever happen.

its called EVE online and theyve been making it better for over 6 years. I just dont know how much room there is in the MMO world for additional ultra geek space games.

There is just something wrong with the D4X series dells we experienced the same thing with the 420s and 30s slow regardless of SSD or the original 1.8s. Lots of 1.8 inch drive failures. We are probably going to start buying Lenovo X61s they blow away the 4 series on performance use faster procs and have 2.5 inch drives.